Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings to kick off 38th annual BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival
Free Concert June 8
BRIC has announced that renowned Brooklyn-based soul act Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings will open the 38th annual and newly renamed BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival with a free concert on June 8 at the Prospect Park Bandshell (8 p.m. at Prospect Park West and Ninth Street).
Just as the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival has grown over the past 38 seasons to become what Time Out New York calls “NYC’s quintessential warm-weather concert experience,” Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings have spent their 14-year career crafting an electrifying live show, earning adoration.
Prior to the free concert, BRIC will host the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival Opening Night Gala, honoring independent music and film entrepreneur Peter Shapiro. Shapiro is known for such celebrated endeavors as Brooklyn Bowl (Brooklyn, Las Vegas and London), The Capitol Theatre, Wetlands Preserve, the U2 3-D film and the Grateful Dead Fare Thee Well concerts in Chicago’s Soldier Field. Shapiro is also founder of Lockn’, a four-day camping and music festival in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, as well as Jazz & Colors, an experiential music event encompassing the 843 acres of Central Park. He is a longtime supporter of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Festival and his commitment to the New York City music community is an inspiration.