Celebrate Brooklyn! 2009

Celebrate Brooklyn! is performed at the bandshell in Prospect Park ~ in the evenings ~ throughout the summer. There is a suggested donation of $3 and here is an abbreviated sked of the shows that are not to be missed.

~Opening Night ~
JUNE 8th : David Byrne (check out his blog)

JUNE 25th : Femi Kuti & Positive Force

JUNE 26th : Blonde Redhead - myspace'd - video'd

JUNE 27th : Dr. Dog

JULY 1st : MGMT (Benefit Show ~ sold out)

JULY 9th : STREB (a Brooklyn dance troupe)

JULY 11th : They Might Be Giants For Kids! (It's a family show)


They Might Be Giants - Instanbul (Not Constantinople)
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JULY 21st : Jackson Browne [Benefit Show, get tix]

JULY 23rd : Stephen Petrino Co. (dance, score by Nico Muhly)

August 1st : Dean & Britta; 13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol Screen Tests

~ NY Times "The music unabashedly translates the ominous drone of early Velvet Underground songs like I’m Waiting for the Man and Venus in Furs into a more modern electronic mode reminiscent of Giorgio Moroder’s chic torture-chamber disco." Uh, cool.

Britta sang the opening sequence to Jem! Truly outrageous.



August 6th : Purple Rain ( screening and sing-a-long)

August 7th : Deer Tick

August 11th : TV on the Radio [Benefit Show, get tix]

August 12th : Bonnie Rait & Taj Mahal [Benefit Show, get tix]

August 14th : Animal Collective [Benefit Show, sold out ~ second date below]

Still obsessed with this song/vid:



August 15th : Animal Collective [Benefit Show, get tix]

~ ~ You can find the complete lineup here. Celebrate! bitches.