Saturday July 18 1:00 PM
Celebrate Brooklyn!
Propsect Park Bandshell
9th Ave at 10th St Brooklyn, NY 11215
Celebrate Brooklyn!’s annual all-day festival of music, food and crafts features a lineup of music selected to keep dancers moving into the night. This year’s headliner is the great King Sunny Adé of Nigeria. The bill also includes a rare U.S. appearance by South Africa’s Freshly Ground; The Mandingo Ambassadors, from NYC by way of Guinea, whose music “has been structured to make you feel good” (The New York Times); the wild Senegalese drum troupe Cheikh M’Baye & Sing Sing; the powerful Brooklyn-born, Ghanaian vocalist Abena Koomson; and whirling traditional Egyptian dancer, Yasser Darwish.
The African Festival is presented with major support from The South African Consulate General and the Consul General of Nigeria. Additional support provided by the Museum for African Art.
2:00 – Cheikh M’Baye & Sing Sing
3:00 – Yasser Darwish
3:40 – Abena Koomsom
4:40 – The Mandingo Ambassadors
6:00 – Freshly Ground
7:30 – King Sunny Ade