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  • 09/05/11--21:00: The Feelies with Real Estate and Times New Viking (chan 1666645)

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    July 23, 2011
    7:00 PM
    The influence of New Jersey’s The Feelies, “a garage band reimagined by mathematicians, a psychedelic band with no illusions, a folk-rock band hypnotized by repetition, a punk band for introverts,”(The New York Times) cannot be overstated: they represent a direct link between the Velvet Underground and just about all of current indie rock.  After a 19-year break, the band is back with a new album, Here Before, produced by Feelies’ founders Glenn Mercer and Bill and..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: The Heavy with The London Souls and Superhuman Happiness (chan 1666645)

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    June 25, 2011
    7:00 PM
    Childhood friends hailing from the UK, The Heavy’s guitarist Dan Taylor and vocalist Kelvin Swaby have been blending a mix of neo-soul, rock, folk and blues and playing together since the early 1990s.  Drummer Chris Ellul and bassist Spencer Page round out The Heavy; a famed request for an encore on the David Letterman show brought the group early recognition in the US.  Bringing a “menacing mix of Funkadelic, James Brown and maxi-fuzzed psychedelic garage” (Time to..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: Court Yard Hounds with The Abrams Brothers (chan 1666645)

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    July 7, 2011
    7:30 PM
    Time Warner Cable SeriesCourt Yard Hounds is the new “harmony-laden, pop-country hybrid” project of Dixie Chicks sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robinson.  After triumphant 2007 Grammy wins for album, record, and song of the year for Taking the Long Way and its flagship single Not Ready to Make Nice, the Chicks took an indefinite hiatus and the sisters embarked on a new side project.  In Texas roots circles, the sisters have been well known since they were pre-teen on by..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: Sufjan Stevens Benefit Concert at Celebrate Brooklyn! (chan 1666645)

    • CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! @ Prospect Park Bandshell
    August 3, 2011
    6:00 PM
    AEG Live PresentsSufjan Stevenswith Special Guest Diamond RingsSecond show added by overwhelming demand on August 3rd!Gates open at 6pm, show at 7pm.Sufjan Stevens Concert Trailer: Age of Adz / Prospect Park from Asthmatic Kitty on Vimeo.

  • 09/05/11--21:00: Ra Ra Riot with Delicate Steve and Buke & Gass (chan 1666645)

    • CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! @ Prospect Park Bandshell
    August 5, 2011
    7:00 PM
    Time Warner Cable SeriesHailing from Syracuse, New York, Ra Ra Riot’s high-speed chamber pop is an addictive mix that combines, “Arcade Fire’s orchestral reveries with Vampire Weekend’s pop sensibility.” (Rolling Stone)  The band got their start playing in houses and venues around the Syracuse university campus in 2006.  They’ve gone on to headline at festivals from South by Southwest to CMJ, and have toured with the likes of Tokyo Police Club, Art..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: Lyricist Lounge featuring Raekwon with Smif-n-Wessun, Joell Ortiz & more (chan 1666645)

    • CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! @ Prospect Park Bandshell
    July 9, 2011
    7:30 PM
    Bud Light Music SeriesRaekwonFounded in 1991 by hip-hop aficionados Danny Castro and Anthony Marshall, the Lyricist Lounge brings a showcase of rappers, emcees, and DJs to the Celebrate Brooklyn! this summer. Riding high on the most recent release of his album Shaolin vs Wu-Tang, Raekwon is one of the original members of seminal rap clique the Wu-Tang Clan.  A unique conglomerate of nine lyricists hailing from Staten Island, Wu-Tang Clan set trends in the early 1990s at a time when 4..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: Oumou Sangare with Bassam Saba (chan 1666645)

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    July 29, 2011
    7:30 PM
    Known as the Songbird of Wassoulou, Oumou Sangare is one of the great ambassadors of Malian music. In 1989, at the young age of 21, Sangare recorded her first album, Moussoulou (Women), and has been performing internationally ever since. The messages on all five of her albums are powerful – encouraging women to seek personal freedom to be themselves, warning against the wrongs of polygamy, and covering taboo subjects like female sensuality in a fundamentally conservative society.  A..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: Ailey II: Revelations (chan 1666645)

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    August 6, 2011
    8:00 PM
    Echoes (Ailey II) from AlvinAileyAmericanDanceTheater on Vimeo.Program:EchoesDoscongioProximityRevelations(Program subject to change)Alvin Ailey’s signature work Revelations, one of the great masterpieces of American dance, is revived by Ailey II in a special 50th anniversary celebration of its premier.  Revelations is a tribute to the cultural heritage of the African-American – and to Ailey’s genius – that uses spirituals, song-sermons, gospel, and holy blues to a..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: Steel Pulse with Natural Rhythm Band (chan 1666645)

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    July 1, 2011
    7:30 PM
    Bud Light Music Series Fusing authentic roots reggae with touches of jazz and Latin music, Steel Pulse is one of Britain’s great reggae bands.  Hailing originally from Burmingham, UK, Steel Pulse got their start opening for punk and new wave bands like The Clash and The Police in the 1970s.  By the late 1980s, the group had won a Grammy and successfully broken out of the British Reggae scene to receive international recognition.  Three-plus decades later, the group is to a..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: Shirley Caesar with Vy Higginsen's Gospel for Teens Choir (chan 1666645)

    • CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! @ Prospect Park Bandshell
    July 15, 2011
    7:30 PM
    Eleven-time Grammy-winner Shirley Caesar, dubbed The First Lady of Gospel, has been giving soul-stirring performances for over 60 years.  Raised in Durham, North Carolina, Caesar began singing as a young girl in church and went on to perform as a member of the Caravans, a leading female Gospel group of the 1960s.  Caesar has been honored everywhere from Oprah Winfrey’s Legend’s Ball to Broadway to The White House; she gave a now infamous speech on the evolution of Gospel..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: Dan Zanes with The Brooklyn Youth Orchestra & Bed Stuy Veterans (chan 1666645)

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    July 16, 2011
    4:00 PM
    Ezra Jack Keats Family Concert Brooklyn-based musician and long-time Celebrate Brooklyn! alum Dan Zanes is on a mission to introduce his musical friends to his neighborhood friends and encourage new feel-good musical collaborations.  Headlining everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Melbourne International Arts Festival, “Zanes’ kids music works because it is not kids music; it’s just music – music that’s unsanitized, unpasteurized, that’s organic (The of..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: West Side Story Dance- & Sing-Along (chan 1666645)

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    July 21, 2011
    8:00 PM
    Music & MoviesOriginally conceived as a Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreography by Jerome Robbins, West Side Story is the award-winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet.  The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs – the Jets and the Sharks—and a rumble under the highway unfolds as a young Tony and Maria fall in love despite racial tensions. In 1962, the musical was made into..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: Mark Morris Dance Group with The Brooklyn Philharmonic & The Brooklyn Interdenominational Choir (chan 1666645)

    • CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! @ Prospect Park Bandshell
    July 28, 2011
    8:00 PM
    A long-time Celebrate Brooklyn! alum, The Mark Morris Dance Group gave its first concert in New York City in 1980, and subsequently toured across the United States and Europe.  In 1988, MMDG was invited to become the national dance company of Belgium, spending three years in residence at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. Perhaps best noted for its commitment to live music, in 2001 the group opened the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn; providing a new home for a..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: Roy Hargrove with The Badwagon (chan 1666645)

    • CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! @ Prospect Park Bandshell
    June 24, 2011
    7:30 PM
     Celebrate Brooklyn! & American Express Present Discovered by Wynton Marsalis, who heard him perform at his high school Booker T. Washington School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Roy Hargrove is among the premiere Jazz trumpeters of his generation.  Known for his collaborations with R&B singers like D’Angelo and Erykah Badu, Hargrove has recorded several top-tier albums, including the Grammy Award-winning Habana with his Afro-Cuban band, Crisol.  His..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: Justin Townes Earle | Punch Brothers | Hackensaw Boys (chan 1666645)

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    June 30, 2011
    7:00 PM
     Time Warner Cable SeriesTall as the day is long, Justin Townes Earle “sings like a honky-tonk hero and thinks like a 21st century man.” (Guitar Aficionado)  Earle is Nashville North all set up in lower Manhattan like his hero Woody Guthrie, with twang and charm intact.  His 2009 album, Midnight at the Movies, earned him the Best New and Emerging Artist title at the 2009 Americana Music Awards as well as one of the best records of the year by Amazon, and in 2010 GQ a..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 with Faaji Agba (chan 1666645)

    • CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! @ Prospect Park Bandshell
    July 22, 2011
    7:00 PM
    Born in 1983, Seun Kuti first began performing with Fela’s legendary band Egypt 80 at the age of 9, warming up audiences with renditions of his father’s songs.  After Fela’s death in 1997, Seun stepped up as the band’s frontman, leading the celebrated combo as both lead vocalist and saxophonist.  Though heavily influenced by his father’s legacy, Kuti was determined to cut his own distinctive musical path, incorporating contemporary influences into the an..

  • 09/05/11--21:00: Los Lobos with Hello Seahorse! and Zigmat (chan 1666645)

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    July 8, 2011
    7:00 PM
     Bud Light Latin Music SeriesPresented by Celebrate Brooklyn! & LAMC Known for their “unpredictable mix of traditional Latin, earthy rhythm & blues, roiling funk, and rock & roll wallup” (LA Weekly), Los Lobos began playing together while still attending their East L.A high school back in the early 1970s.   The group built an early audience within L.A’s punk and roots-rock music scene, opening for hometown rock heroes the Blasters at the Sunset..

  • 02/16/12--20:00: Burning Spear with Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens (chan 1666645)

    • CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! @ Prospect Park Bandshell
    July 30, 2009
    7:30 PM
    FREE
    Roots reggae legend Burning Spear will return to Celebrate Brooklyn! for another epic performance. Last year’s vital Jah Is Real featured contributions from Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrel and found Spear at the top of his game. PopMatters said, “Four decades and still dropping knowledge: no other artist, with the possible exception of Toots Hibbert, can lay claim to being reggae’s true elder statesman.” The evening will begin with the harmonies and church-inflected of..

  • 02/16/12--20:00: Dean & Britta: 13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests with Crystal Stilts (chan 1666645)

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    August 1, 2009
    7:00 PM
    FREE
    Dean & Britta, who are beloved as one of the sexiest duo’s in rock, in addition to being alumni of the groundbreaking alt-rock band Luna, perform original scores to Warhol's rarely seen short silent film portraits, which captured Factory superstars, celebrities, and anonymous teenagers in mesmerizing four-minute shots. The New York Times says, “The music unabashedly translates the ominous drone of early Velvet Underground songs like I’m Waiting for the Man and Venus in a..

  • 02/16/12--20:00: Purple Rain Sing-A-Long with Escort (chan 1666645)

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    August 6, 2009
    7:00 PM
    FREE
    To celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of history’s greatest pop albums, and the extravagantly, hilariously whacky and over the top film it inspired (the apotheosis of both the purple one’s genius and self caricature), we invite you to  don something lacey and ruffled and come get your Prince on. We'll have lyric subtitles, but you know the words already. Joy Dragland of Brooklyn's live disco orchestra Escort certainly does; Purple Rain was the first cassette she ever owned...