Celebrate Brooklyn! in Brooklyn Bridge Park dance parties and Prospect Park concerts

May 9, 2013 Heather Chin
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Tonight marks the start of Celebrate Brooklyn! dance parties in Brooklyn Bridge Park, with the first showcase being a New Orleans Dance Party that features Big Sam’s Funky Nation & The Freedom Party NYC.

The fun starts at 7 p.m. every Thursday on Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park — a giant green space filled with food concessions, rent-a-bikes, boat launches and more, accessible via East River Ferry or subway. Celebrate Brooklyn! dance parties run from Thursday, May 9 through Thursday, May 23 and are part of a performing arts program of BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn.

  • Thursday, May 9 — New Orleans Dance Party feat. Big Sam’s Funky Nation & The Freedom Party NYC
  • Thursday, May 16 — Afro-Cuban Dance Party feat. Pedrito Martinez & DJ Nickodemus
  • Thursday, May 23 — Old School Funk and Hip-Hop Dance Party feat. Zapp Band & D-Nice

All of the dance parties include some dance lessons for the uninitiated or the shake-happy. So that makes for three Thursdays of getting your groove on before parking your butt in the grass in July for the return of SyFy Movies With A View.

However, the dance parties are just the appetizer to Prospect Park’s main summer course of concerts at the Prospect Park Bandshell, which run from June 5 through August 10 at various times during the day.

Concert prices vary, but most are free with a $3 suggested donation.

  • Wednesday, June 5 — 8:15 p.m. — Opening night concert with Patty Griffin 
  • Saturday, June 8 — 4 p.m. — Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (for kids) with Wynton Marsalis
  • Thursday, June 13 — 7:30 p.m. — Grouplove / Alpine
  • Friday, June 14 — 7:30 p.m. – Mavis Staples / Cody ChesnuTT
  • Saturday, June 15 — 7 p.m. — Calexico / Susana Baca / Radio Jarocho & Akoko Nante Ensemble 
  • Tuesday, June 18 — 7 p.m. — BENEFIT CONCERT: The Roots & Jim James 
  • Thursday, June 20 — 7:30 p.m. – Big Boi / Phony Ppl / D-Nice 
  • Friday, June 21 — 7:30 p.m. — Amadou & Mariam / Bombino
  • Thursday, June 27 — 8 p.m. — Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 
  • Friday, June 28 — 7:30 p.m. — Ladysmith Black Mambazo / Aurelio Martinez 
  • Saturday, June 29 — 7 p.m. — Os Mutantes / Javelin / Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang 
  • Saturday, July 6 — 7 p.m. — Theophilius London / Les Nubians / Aabaraki
  • Thursday, July 11 — 7 p.m. — BENEFIT CONCERT: Belle and Sebastian 
  • Friday, July 12 — 7 p.m. — Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich & Fussible / Mexican Institute of Sound / Mariachi Flor de Toloache 
  • Saturday, July 13 — 7:30 p.m. — Dracula with the Philip Glass Ensemble / Kishi Bashi
  • Thursday, July 18 — 7:30 p.m. — The Tiger Lillies: Rime of the Ancient Mariner / Cynthia Hopkins 
  • Friday, July 19 — 7:30 p.m. — The Waterboys / Alasdair Roberts 
  • Saturday, July 20 — 7 p.m. — The Lone Bellow / The Low Anthem / Joe Purdy 
  • Thursday, July 25 — 7:30 p.m. — BeBe Winans / Alicia Olatuja
  • Friday, July 26 — 7 p.m. — Trampled by Turtles / The Devil Makes Three / Brown Bird 
  • Saturday, July 27 — 7 p.m. — BENEFIT CONCERT: Robert Plant presents The Sensational Space Shifters 
  • Tuesday, July 30 — 6:30 p.m. — BENEFIT CONCERT: Barenaked Ladies / Ben Folds Five / Guster 
  • Thursday, August 1 — 8 p.m. — Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal 
  • Friday, August 2 — 7:30 p.m. — Jamie Lidell / Dan Deacon / The Stepkids 
  • Saturday, August 3 — 7:30 p.m. — Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra / Banda Magda
  • Sunday, August 4 — 7 p.m. — BENEFIT CONCERT: Beck 
  • Thursday, August 8 — 8 p.m. — Live score to “Beasts of the Southern Wild” by Dan Romer, Benh Zeitlin, & The Wordless Music Orchestra / Slavic Soul Party 
  • Friday, August 9 — 7:30 p.m. — Shaggy / TK Wonder 
  • Saturday, August 10 — 7:30 p.m. — They Might Be Giants / Moon Hooch  

 

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