Yacouba Sissoko

Youssou N'Dour & Yacouba Sissoko played the 2017 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! finale (pics)

The 2017 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival came to a close last weekend with a free show on Saturday (8/12) with Senegalese singer and world music icon Youssou N’Dour and acclaimed kora player Yacouba Sissoko…

Celebrate Brooklyn at Prospect Park 2017 free shows (Yeasayer, Andrew Bird, Whitney, Amadou & Mariam, more)

This year’s free BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival shows in Prospect Park also include Youssou N’Dour, Polica, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Weyes Blood, Moses Sumney, Esperanza Spalding, Lisa Loeb, The Soul Rebels with Talib Kweli, and more.

What's going on Saturday?

Major Lazer @ SXSW 2010 (more by Andrew Frisicano) tonight in NYC * Wilco @ Welmont Theatre * Bare Wires, others @ Bruar Falls * John Zorn’s Improv Night @ The Stone * Rubblebucket, Woodhands @ Brooklyn Bowl * Megafaun, Sharon Van Etten @ Union Pool * Ash, The Jaguar Club @ Santos Party House * Girls, Dum Dum Girls, Leisure @ Webster Hall * Dog Eat Dog, Homicidal @ Studio at Webster Hall * Frank Sidebottom, The Sons & Heirs @ Glasslands * Eclectic Method, B…