Prospect Park West (at 9th St)
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
(718) 855-7882
Subway: F to 15th St–Prospect Park; 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza
Friday, August 6, 7:30pm
Gates open at 6:30pm
Music & Movies
Cult B-movie auteur Roger Corman’s 1960 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s masterpiece of death, madness, and familial decrepitude stars a wild eyed Vincent Price (cue ghoulish laughter) and is a study in creeping, diabolical menace. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, BRIC has commissioned organ virtuoso and indie jazz crossover phenom Marco Benevento to write a new original score, which he’ll perform live here as the film looms up on our 50’ screen.
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Saturday, August 7, 7pm
Gates open at 6pm
American Express Roots Music Series
Daptone Revue: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings with Budos Band and more!
Cost: Free
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Subway: F to 15th St–Prospect Park; 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza
Friday, August 6, 7:30pm
Gates open at 6:30pm
Music & Movies
House of Usher: Marco Benevento with White Magic
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
For teens & adults
Cult B-movie auteur Roger Corman’s 1960 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s masterpiece of death, madness, and familial decrepitude stars a wild eyed Vincent Price (cue ghoulish laughter) and is a study in creeping, diabolical menace. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, BRIC has commissioned organ virtuoso and indie jazz crossover phenom Marco Benevento to write a new original score, which he’ll perform live here as the film looms up on our 50’ screen.
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Saturday, August 7, 7pm
Gates open at 6pm
American Express Roots Music Series
Daptone Revue: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings with Budos Band and more!
Cost: Free
For all ages
The Bushwick label Daptone Records, long committed to bringing you the finest soul, funk, gospel and afrobeat sounds to be found on analog tape, trots out the family. With the unstoppable Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings headlining. Backed by the Bushwick Phil, which started as a growing string section that recorded on all of the SJDK albums and was only a Duo on ‘Dap-Dippin’, a Trio on ‘Naturally’, a Quartet on ‘100 Days’ and a Sextet on ‘I Learned the Hard Way’. For this epochal moment in the great Brooklyn soul revival, the line-up will expand to include Timpani, Vibes, the String Quartet and Victor Axelrod (Ticklah, Antibalas) on Piano.
The Bushwick label Daptone Records, long committed to bringing you the finest soul, funk, gospel and afrobeat sounds to be found on analog tape, trots out the family. With the unstoppable Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings headlining. Backed by the Bushwick Phil, which started as a growing string section that recorded on all of the SJDK albums and was only a Duo on ‘Dap-Dippin’, a Trio on ‘Naturally’, a Quartet on ‘100 Days’ and a Sextet on ‘I Learned the Hard Way’. For this epochal moment in the great Brooklyn soul revival, the line-up will expand to include Timpani, Vibes, the String Quartet and Victor Axelrod (Ticklah, Antibalas) on Piano.
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Sunday, August 8, 4pm
Gates open at 3pm
Gates open at 3pm
Time Warner Cable Series
Ezra Jack Keats Family Concert
Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could with Elizabeth Mitchell
Cost: Free
The 32nd Celebrate Brooklyn! season closes with a day of family friendly American roots and folk music to honor the legacy of the progressive children’s book author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. Brady Rymer’s down home, foot stomping Little Band That Could “might just be the best-sounding band in children’s music.” (NPR’s All Things Considered) Elizabeth Mitchell’s sweet, perfect renditions of Woody Guthrie classics and other folk gems made her the first modern children’s artist to be signed to the venerable American Folkways label; her gleeful covers of the Velvet Underground and Bob Marley speak to the child in all of us. Dominic Colón, who plays Manny Spamboni on the hit PBS kids show The Electric Company, will share a reading.
Ezra Jack Keats Family Concert
Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could with Elizabeth Mitchell
Cost: Free
For all ages
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