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Check out all the free summer concerts coming to Brooklyn parks

Chairlift playing Treefort fest earlier this year. via Treefort on Flickr
Chairlift playing Treefort fest earlier this year. via Treefort on Flickr

Happy 4/20, everyone. Well hey, you’re probably already greening out to chillwave anthems in Prospect Park and ducking behind trees and/or dogs to avoid cops and/or aliens, but we have some exciting news! You can be high while we tell you about it, we’re not judging.

This morning SummerStage announced its 2016 programming, and it includes a glorious month-long music festival spanning Brooklyn’s parks top to bottom. It may be “presented” by a big bank (coming soon to replace an everything near you!) but the lineup says nothing about the corporate goons that are funding it. In fact, the SummerStage series is jam-packed with diverse voices and musical styles, and shows are decently spread across the borough. And there are pleeeenty big names to get excited about — Public Enemy, Angie Stone, Chairlift, Lisa Simone and Blonde Redhead, just to name a few. Not to mention the GrandWizzard Theodore, who to this day I maintain spun the best DJ set that I have ever experienced.

This schedule isn’t even the half of it; Summerstage has a whole season of events that includes dance, theater, film and family-friendly affairs. We just wanted to pack all the Brooklyn music into one post, because we know how you kids like to party. So you know the drill: mark down your favorites from the dates below, and let the summer countdown continue.

Hands up for Talib Kweli at the 2011 Red Hook Park Summerstage. Matt J Carbone / Flickr
Hands up for Talib Kweli at the 2011 Red Hook Park Summerstage. Matt J Carbone / Flickr

Coffey Park
85 Richards Street, Red Hook
All shows 7pm

June 14: Chairlift

June 15: Just Blaze and Friends

June 16: Blonde Redhead

Saratoga Park
Halsey St. & Howard Ave., Bed-Stuy
All shows 7pm

June 13: DJ Hard Hittin’ Harry / Afripedia screening

June 27: Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue / 20 Feet from Stardom screening

Betsy Head Park
Livonia Ave. & Strauss St., Brownsville
All shows 7pm

June 21: Public Enemy / DJ Tedsmooth

June 22: Angie Stone / DJ Chuck Chillout

June 23: Duck Down BBQ

June 26: DJ Gringo / Queen Nanny screening

Brooklyn Bridge Park
334 Furman St., DUMBO
All shows 7pm

June 24: Metropolitan Opera Recital series (Angel Blue, Ben Bliss, Alexey Lavrov, Dan Saunders)

July 20: PitchBlak Brass Band and Maurice Brown (details here)

July 27: Larry Harlow (details here)

Herbert Von King Park
670 Lafayette Ave., Bed-Stuy
All shows 7pm

June 28: Lisa Simone / What Happened Miss Simone? screening

June 29: Soul in the Horn ft. Theo Croker, Maurice Mobetta Brown, Marcus Machado / Kendra Foster / DJ Natasha Diggs / hosted by DProsper

June 30: Vivian Green / GrandWizzard Theodore

July 2: Everyday People

July 3: Trouble Funk / Operator Emz 

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