Friday ~ June 23 ~ 7:30
Heineken Envivo Latin Music Series
BAMBOLEO / BARBARITO TORRES
Bamboleo has young Cubans dancing to timba, Havana's hottest new world-conscious music. Barbarito Torres remains true to musica guajira (the Cuban blues), was featured on the 1998 Grammy winning Buena Vista Social Club album, and is considered Havana's ultimate Laúd or lute player.
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Saturday ~ June 24 ~ 7:30
KENNY BANKS & THE RHYTHM MAKERS / CHOCOLATE GENIUS
Drummer, co-writer and collaborator of Cool & the Gang's Celebration, Ladies Night and Summer Madness, Kenny Banks is out front with a new band and record full of funky 70's grooves and timeless melodies. Centered on Marc Anthony Thompson's hangover-toned voice and cool, ravaged narratives, Chocolate Genius bares all with his heart-sick soul music.
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Friday ~ June 30 ~ 7:30
TOSHI REAGON & BIG LOVELY / THE LAURA LOVE BAND
Brooklyn's own Toshi Reagon is riding the tide of her hottest record. Explosive, emotional, "fierce and uncompromising."- THE NEW YORKER. Laura Love's Afro/Celtic/Appalachian music transcends folk, funk & blues with an original sound played straight from the heart.
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Saturday ~ July 1 ~ 7:30
D.D. JACKSON / ANDY MILNE'S COSMIC DAPP THEORY / AUSTIN CLARKE / CANADA DAY CELEBRATION
Two Canadian pianists with a very different take on jazz. Jackson premieres a CB commission for 15-piece jazz Orchestra that fuses his classical and jazz training – "the most innovative musician of his generation." – VILLAGE VOICE. Milne mixes rock, soul and hip-hop into "…the most creative improvisatory music of any genre in recent years."- KEYBOARD MAGAZINE.
Austin Clarke reads from his book Pigtails 'n' Fruitbread.
D.D Jackson's work was commissioned with public funds from the Individual Artists program of the New York Council on the Arts. This event is supported by the Canadian Consul General New York.
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Friday ~ July 7 ~ 7:30
Heineken Envivo Latin Music Series
JOHNNY PACHECO / BRYAN VARGAS & YA ESTA!
Legendary Dominican Johnny Pacheco, who is synonymous with charanga, sparked the NY Latin music scene of the 60's & 70's. He co-founded the Fania All-Stars and was musical director of the films Our Latin Thing, Salsa, and The Mambo Kings. Brooklynite guitarist & composer Bryan Vargas defies musical boundaries playing screaming jazz, fusion, blues, salsa & more!
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Saturday ~ July 8 ~ 7:30
BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC
Popular and engaging classics for the whole family from Brooklyn's world-class symphony orchestra with special guest conductor Bridget Reischl.
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Friday ~ July 14 ~ 7:30
JOHN SCOFIELD BAND / ANTIBALAS
A trailblazer of jazz, master guitar improviser/composer Scofield performs his alternative groove and trippy mood pieces in an all-out jam. 13 piece Afro-beat soul band fueled by bugaloo beats and a mission, Antibalas is an inspired danceable experience.
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Saturday ~ July 15 ~ 7:30
Heineken Envivo Latin Music Series
PASTILLA / LOS SKARNALES
L.A.'s alterna-rockeros Pastilla has a refreshing sound, raw power and stage show that has earned them a reputation as "…one of the brightest bands in the future of Rock Latino." – PULSE MAGAZINE. The nine-piece Houston-based Mexican vatos rudos Los Skarnales blend ska, Texas style guitar, delirious enthusiasm and quality musicianship into a great live show.
This performance is supported by The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.
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Thursday ~ July 20 ~ 7:30
Time Warner Cable Film Series
MASTERS OF SLAPSTICK W/ ALLOY ORCHESTRA / BLUE MAN GROUP
Junk metal new music innovators perform their score for three hilarious silent films by master comedians Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel & Hardy (60 mins @ 8:15). Straight from their 10-year run at the Astor Place Theatre, Blue Man Group's bald and blue characters perform selections from their bizarre and exuberant show "...an absolutely ecstatic experience." - USA TODAY
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Friday ~ July 21 ~ 7:30
MACHEL MONTANO & XTATIK FEATURING DRUPATEE / SONS OF STEEL
With the runaway soca-chutney hit Unity at Trinidad & Tobagos' 2000 Carnival season, young Soca superstar Machel Montano arrives for a wild Calypso dance party with singer Drupatee Ramgoonai! A summer camp project with four young boys has become Sons of Steel - a steel pan sensation!
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Saturday ~ July 22 ~ 7:30
THIRD WORLD / CARL HANCOCK RUX
After a quarter-century of hit songs and sold-out tours, Third World is one of the top reggae bands of all time, holding firm to its ancestral roots while pushing its music to the edge. A major new voice on the scene, The New York Times selected Hancock Rux as "One of the 30 artists under the age 30 most likely to influence culture over the next 30 years."
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Thursday ~ July 27 ~ 7:30
Time Warner Cable Film Series
WEST SIDE STORY / URBAN ACAPELLA
Rare outdoor screening of the 1962 Academy Award winning classic musical with choreography by Jerome Robbins, score by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and starring Natalie Wood. (151 mins @ 8:15). Urban Acapella is jazz, trip-hop and R&B in amazingly improvised vocal music.

Friday ~ July 28 ~ 7:30
SUSAN MCKEOWN & THE CHANTING HOUSE / LÚNASA
Vocal adventuress and expat Dubliner, Susan McKeown creates haunting acoustic jazz/ rock/Celtic fusion. An all-star Irish Quintet with inventive arrangements, bass-driven grooves and electrifying improvisational music, Lunasa "...is the hottest Irish acoustic group on the planet"- IRISH VOICE.
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Saturday ~ July 29 ~ 6:30
THE TEA PARTY W/ TRACIE MORRIS
The Tea Party kicks off with a DJ set...it's not an act, it's a creative vibe laboratory that blurs the line between performance and dance party with musicians, dancers and DJs - as griots, preachers and MCs! Performance artist Tracie Morris joins the fray as she creates multi-layered emotional soundscapes as her words mix the rhythms of blues, jazz, rock, and experimental music.

Sunday ~ July 30 ~ 1:00 – 7:00
BAYETE / RICARDO LEMVO & MAKINA LOCA / ZAIKO LANGA LANGA / MAMADOU DAHOUÉ / AFRERICA
CB's annual celebration of the diaspora features the Pan-African music of South African superstars Jabu Khanyile & Bayete. Congo's Lemvo goes to the African roots of Latin music with his trademark blend of soukous and rumba. Singer Nyoka Longo and his legendary band Zaiko Langa Langa strips down and revs up African rumba circa 60's Zaire. Mamadou Dahoué & the Ancestral Messengers delight with colorful dancers, drummers, masks and costumes from Côte d'Ivoire.

Wednesday ~ August 2 ~ 7:30
CHOREOGRAPHERS-IN-RESIDENCE
Sarah East Johnson and Hope Clark hold an open rehearsal/workshop at the Prospect Park Picnic House to share their methods and techniques.

Saturday ~ August 5 ~ 7:30
THE NEW YORK POPS
Our 3rd annual New York Pops Summermusic concert celebrates America's rich musical heritage with the legendary 77 piece symphonic orchestra conducted by Skitch Henderson and a special guest appearance by vibraphonist Peter Appleyard.
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Sunday ~ August 6 ~ Noon
Heineken Envivo Latin Music Series
WILLIE COLON / BORICUA! FESTIVAL
Master salsero singer/trombonist Willie Colon headlines a day-long festival of music, food & crafts in a celebration of Puerto Rican cultural heritage.
Presented in collaboration with the Prospect Park Alliance and the Boricua Festival Committee.
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Thursday ~ August 10 ~ 7:30
Time Warner Cable Film Series
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN W/ PARADOX TRIO
The 1905 riot on the battleship Potemkin comes alive in this stark, tension-filled story directed by the Great Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein (72 mins @ 8:15). Matt Darriau [of the Klezmatics] and his Paradox Trio perform their original score to this classic silent film and play an opening set of high energy Balkan jazz.
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Friday ~ August 11 ~ 7:30
BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO / THE PERSUASIONS / FAMILY CONCERT!
Louisiana's best accordion powered dance band and four-time Grammy nominee, Buckwheat performs favorites from his children's album Choo Choo Boogaloo. Brooklyn's favorite a cappella soul group, The Persuasions sing an eclectic mix of doo-wop, R & B and classic children's tunes from their 1999 album On the Good Ship Lollipop.
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Saturday ~ August 12 ~ 8:00
HOPE CLARK / SARAH EAST JOHNSON
Wildly inventive choreographer/dancers perform multimedia world premieres commissioned by Celebrate Brooklyn!. Clark debuts Raw; Seeds; Need which entwines voice, video, aerial movement and digital effects. In Johnson's Timberline, her all-female group utilizes acrobatic feats, trapeze and even wrestling in an "...exhilarating mix of circus and dance" - Newsweek.

Thursday ~ August 17 ~ 8:00
Time Warner Cable Film Series
5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T
Dr Seuss' world is rendered in all its glory in this delightful musical fantasy live-action film in which young Bart Collins has to stop Dr Terwilliker's mad plan to force 500 boys to practice at his magnificent piano 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! (88 mins).

Friday ~ August 18 ~ 8:00
DONALD BYRD/THE GROUP
Renowned African-American choreographer and his Brooklyn-based dance company confront social issues and culture through powerfully theatrical dance that is universally praised as brilliant, unrelenting and meticulous.

Saturday ~ August 19 ~ 7:30
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS / DOUGHTY
Flansberg, Linnell and the rest of the Williamsburg gang return for an evening of pure fun - quirky tunes, unpredictable lyrics, classic favorites and tons of dancing! Former Soul Coughing frontman M. Doughty performs a solo acoustic set.

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