This summer is coming up Aces!
A new Friday night concert series starting on May 20 will bring music fans to Aces Patio at the Aviator Sports and Events Center. For nine select Fridays this summer, some of Brooklyn’s most popular bands will take the stage of the newly renovated outdoor bar and grill in Floyd Bennett Field. The music series celebrates Aviator’s 10th anniversary, said its organizer, and she hopes everyone will make it to the party.
“This year, we’re excited to offer this to the community. We want all our neighbors to get wind of what’s going on,” said Katrina Doell. “It’s going to be a really fun summer.”
The venue will host seven different bands from varying genres, including funk group Jetstream Band and Irish-American folk-rockers Shilelagh Law. The first band to christen the brand new Aces Patio stage, on May 20, will be Breezy Grass, an Americana and bluegrass band, who will fiddle their way onto the stage again on Aug. 26.
The only other group to double-dip will be U2 tribute band Unforgettable Fire, who will rattle and hum their way to the Patio on July 15 and Sept. 9.
The four-piece is excited to come together to play for Brooklynites, and are confident that whether people are U2 fans or not, everyone will have a great time, said the band’s drummer.
“You’ve got your real U2 fans and they enjoy it, and then those who they think they don’t know it, but when we start playing, all of a sudden they just became fans and we win a lot of people over,” said George Levesanos. “We’re just psyched to come back and play in Brooklyn.”
Levesanos cannot promise that the real U2 will show up, but it is a distinct possibility. Last summer, The Edge and Adam Clayton, U2’s guitarist and bassist, made an appearance at one of Unforgettable Fire’s shows, said Levesanos.
“Two guys from U2 came and actually played with us, we didn’t even know, they just showed up at one of our shows. It was insane, it was really, really insane,” he said. “I don’t think they will be around Brooklyn this summer — but you never know, right?”
“Aviator Summer Music Series” at Aviator Sports and Events Center [3159 Flatbush Ave. in Floyd Bennett Field in Marine Park, (718) 758–7500, www.aviat
