Built in 1939, and renovated in 1983, the Prospect Park Bandshell is one of New York City’s best concert venues, with room for 2,000 people seated and 8,000 on the lawn. The Bandshell is best known for hosting the Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival, a series of music, dance, film, and spoken word performances held each summer from June through August, showcasing an extraordinary diversity of artists. A program of BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn, the festival attracts nearly a quarter million concertgoers per season. Wordless Music is proud to partner with Celebrate Brooklyn in presenting a free concert at the Prospect Park Bandshell on July 18, 2008, with a performance by San Francisco’s Deerhoof, and a new arrangement, for local chamber orchestra the Metropolis Ensemble, of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.”
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Past shows:
July 18, 2008
Deerhoof
Metropolis Ensemble: “The Rite Remixed”