Location
Prospect Park Bandshell
9th Street and Prospect Park West
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Event is FREE / Gates open at 6:00 pm
Hal Willner's Freedom Riders Project
Music of the Civil Rights Movement
Featuring
Rosanne Cash, Geri Allen, Art Baron, Steve Bernstein, Steve Cardenas, James Carter, Carla Cook, Helga Davis, Curtis Fowlkes, Brad Jones, Briggan Krauss, Eric Mingus, JD Parran, Toshi Reagon, Lou Reed, Todd Rundgren, Tao Seeger, James Staten, Jason Walker, Kenny Wollesen
The maverick music producer HAL WILLNER brings his golden Rolodex and singular genius for curating multi-artist concept shows to the music of the Civil Rights Movement. Commissioned for Celebrate Brooklyn!, this concert celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, which integrated the interstate bus system and helped bring America's and the world's attention to the deprivations of the segregated South. In what promises to be an unforgettable event, Willner will convene his usual surprising and eclectic array of musicians, actors, and other artists -- established and emerging, famous and infamous -- to perform songs that inspired, illuminated, and sprang from the tumultuous aftermath of the Movement. The evening begins with a pre-performance artists discussion. Performers subject to change.
