Tag: concert

BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! announces 47th season lineup featuring Grace Jones, Janelle Monáe and More

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Jun. 2, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann Music lovers, rejoice. With warmer weather settling in, one of the borough’s most beloved summer traditions, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, is just around the corner. BRIC has announced the lineup for New York City’s longest-running free, summer-long outdoor concert and performance series, which has entertained generations of New Yorkers…

‘Our biggest swing yet’: The Wonder Years gear up to get intimate and inventive at Greenpoint’s iconic Warsaw

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May. 14, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil The Wonder Years frontman Dan Campbell doesn’t consider the band’s acoustic “Burst & Decay” series just stripped-down versions of their catalog. To him, it’s a full reimagining — a way to “highlight the emotion behind the songs” and let the lyrics breathe in a new, intimate space.…

After 50 years on the river, Bargemusic comes ashore in Brooklyn Bridge Park

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Apr. 22, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen After half a century on the water, Bargemusic has come ashore. On April 5, the org christened its terrestrial new home, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse, with some classical music — arrangements by Felix Mendelssohn and Beethoven, played by Bargemusic artistic director and violinist Mark Peskanov, cellist Edward…

Harvesting hope: Busta Rhymes headlines Thanksgiving celebration in Brooklyn

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Nov. 25, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann East Flatbush residents gathered at P.S. 135 Sheldon A. Brookner High School on Nov. 23 for a Thanksgiving celebration that blended wellness workshops, community support and holiday cheer. Hosted by LinkNYC, Assembly Member Monique Chandler-Waterman, IAmWonda Woman, and East Flatbush Village Inc. the event — “Harvesting Health &…

After Taylor Swift concert debacle, Kings Theatre dumps Ticketmaster

Mar. 28, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer

After the recent botched rollout of tickets to Taylor Swift’s concert tour, famed Flatbush performance venue Kings Theatre has severed ties with Ticketmaster — the online seller responsible for the fiasco.