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Rhiannon Giddens Headlines a Free Concert at the Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival

Photo credit Dan Winters (5)*BRIC is pleased to announce that celebrated Americana singer Rhiannon Giddens will headline a free concert at the Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival (Prospect Park Bandshell, 9thSt. & Prospect Park West), which is presented by Squarespace, on Saturday, July 18.

The concert, free to the public (with a suggested $3 contribution at the gate), begins at 7:30 P.M. with an opening performance by GRAMMY® Award-winning producer and singer-songwriter Joe Henry.

With her T-Bone Burnett-produced Nonesuch solo debut, Tomorrow Is My Turn, Rhiannon Giddens –already among the brightest stars of Americana as the leader of the Carolina Chocolate Drops –has hit the stride of her already impressive career. “She can summon the power of a field holler, Celtic quavers, girlish innocence, bluesy sensuality, gospel exaltation or the pain of slavery… For all her technical control, her voice is a perpetually soulful marvel,” exclaims The New York Times.

The evening begins with GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter Joe Henry, who has a long history of working with Rhiannon and even produced Genuine Negro Jig. He has the air of an ancient storyteller, “coupling gloom with streaming daylight and gilding his saddest observations with joy and awe” (NPR).

Celebrate Brooklyn! sponsors include Squarespace (Presenting Sponsor), Bud Light and American Express (Series Title Sponsors), and Verb Products, IKEA Brooklyn, KIND Healthy Snacks and WorldStage (Co-Sponsors).Long-time Season Media Partners are The Village Voice, WABC-7 and WNYC 93.9 FM/820 AM. Promotional partners on select performances include WBGO 88.3 FM and WFUV 90.7 FM.

For more information on the artists:

Rhiannon Giddens: www.rhiannongiddens.com

Joe Henry: www.joehenrylovesyoumadly.com

The Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival is BRIC’s flagship performing arts program. Launched by BRIC in 1979 as a catalyst for a burgeoning Brooklyn performing arts scene, and to bring people back into Prospect Park after years of neglect, Celebrate Brooklyn! was an early anchor in the park’s revitalization and has become Brooklyn’s foremost summer cultural attraction. Over its history, the festival has presented over 2,000 artists, from emerging innovators to internationally established performers. Since 2011, BRIC has also produced a lively series of Celebrate Brooklyn! dance parties in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Celebrate Brooklyn’s Executive Producer is Jack Walsh. The Festival’s Artistic Director is Rachel Chanoff. Leslie Schultz is the President of BRIC.

For more information, please visitwww.BRICartsmedia.org

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