Femi Kuti LIVE FREE MUSIC
Celebrate Brooklyn! Femi Kuti & Melvin Gibbs
@ Prospect Park
Date: 6/25/09
Time: 7:00 PM
Admission: Free
The Afrobeat pioneer Femi Kuti, backed by his band The Positive Force, will return to Celebrate Brooklyn to turn the Bandshell into a giant Nigerian dance party. The New York Times has championed as the group’s music as “thick, musky Afro-funk—a polyrhythmic elaboration on James Brown’s late-1960s sound—with lyrics that focus on government oppression and the problems of modern Africans.”
The evening will begin with a performance by Brooklyn-born Melvin Gibbs, whom Time Out NY has deemed “the best bassist in the world.” Gibbs will showcase his Elevated Entity project, which is something of a downtown NYC supergroup and continues Gibbs’ exploration of African diaspora music with a fusion of Afro-Brazilian rhythms, funk and rap.
PROSPECT PARK
The Bandshell
Brooklyn, NYC
For more information: www.briconline.org/celebrate/
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