Funk yeah!
Kings County’s own Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings will open this year’s Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival with a free show in Prospect Park on June 8.
This year will mark the 38th incarnation of the warm-weather tradition, which brings out throngs of summer lovin’ crowds for a series of free and ticketed shows to the park’s bandshell.
The fest often taps a big out-of-town act to kick off the gala — Chaka Khan rocked the stage last year, and Janelle Monae the year before that — but this year’s choice will really celebrate Brooklyn, as Jones is a Bedford-Stuyvesant native and the band’s label is based right here in the Borough of Kings.
Festival organizer Bric says it will release the rest of the program of free shows later this spring, but Aussie psych-rock band Tame Impala, singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne, and Balkan folk quintet Beirut are already slated to play ticketed concerts in the park this summer.
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings at the Prospect Park Bandshell (Nine Street and Prospect Park West in Park Slope, www.brica
