BROOKLYN BUZZ: Summer of music
Music has long been a part of Brooklyn’s lifeblood, from theclassical pianists and operatic voices that filled the BrooklynAcademy of Music in the 1930s to the 1960s jazz scene and the popculture juggernaut Saturday Night Fever that turned 1970sBensonhurst into the disco capital of the world.
Paying tribute to these wide-ranging eras has been the missionof various community music festivals, particularly in southernBrooklyn. These include the decade-old Siren Music Festival inConey Island – which this year moved to lower Manhattan – as wellas the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series at Wingate Field, fromJuly 11 to August 22, and the Seaside Summer Concert Series fromJuly 14 to August 18, hosted by Borough President Marty Markowitzin Coney Island.
Another option is a series of 15 evening concerts in parksthroughout Brooklyn, hosted by State Senator Marty Golden.Beginning in Shore Road Park near the 79th Street entrance with50s to 70s oldies band New York Exceptions on Tuesday, July 12,and ending on Wednesday, August 24, with a family day of rides,games and karaoke at McKinley Park in Dyker Heights, the summerseries will give Brooklynites a chance to enjoy the here-and-nowwhile basking in the music of everyone’s childhood.