Brooklyn, NY - August 5, 2010: -- Celebrate Brooklyn Festival Ends This WeekendWith Free ConcertsBrooklyn’s Prospect Park is the place to be this weekend for several outdoor concerts and a movie highlighting the finale of Celebrate Brooklyn’s 32nd year! All events are at the band shell in Prospect Park.
On Friday, August 6, at 7:30 p.m., Cult B-movie auteur Roger Corman’s 1960 adaption of Edgar Allen Poe’s “House of Usher” will play. In celebration of its 50th anniversary, organ virtuoso Marco Benevento has written a new original score, which he will perform live as the film plays on Celebrate Brooklyn’s 50-foot screen.
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings join together to perform an unforgettable night of Brooklyn soul on Saturday, August 7, at 7:00 p.m.
The season concludes with a day of family-friendly American roots and folk music honoring the legacy of the children’s book author Ezra Jack Keats. Brady Rymer’s down-home, foot-stomping Little Band That Could performs. Musician Elizabeth Mitchell plays renditions of Woody Guthrie classics and other folk gems. Festivities begin at 4 p.m. on Sunday.
For more information and directions to Prospect Park, go to http://www.bricartsmedia.org/.
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