The Photo Pit Finds a Familiar Home at Celebrate Brooklyn!

Brooklyn Roads’ Contributing Photographer Al Pereira shares some thoughts and masterful images from Celebrate Brooklyn! 

With summer fast approaching and the stay-indoors order continuing to give us all the nudge inside, I started thinking about Brooklyn Roads Magazine and, specifically, what this fine space might actually call its “home.”  It kept bringing me back to the one place synonymous with our summer coverage and that would be the storied Prospect Park Bandshell and the fabulous Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival.

Much like the lyrics in the Madness song, “Our House,” Celebrate adheres to the concept of “There’s always something happening, and it’s usually quite loud!”  This approach, of course, delights the throngs of music, dance and movie fans from our borough, myself included, as well as from those other four (whatever their names are) and even Jersey and the Island who travel in for the events. Painting in broad strokes with a wildly colorful array of genres and styles every season, the annual Festival’s penchant for mixing the hip with the important, the timely with the timeless, and the local with the intergalactic seldom disappoints.

And while the lights might be off on Celebrate Brooklyn! for this summer, it’s sure to return with the usual flair when we all get to kick the pause button off for good. And I, for one, can’t wait. In the meantime, I’d like to share a few of my favorite moments taken at some recent summer jams, in their own curved photo pit. Whenever Celebrate opens for business again, be assured that Brooklyn Roads Magazine will be there to help bring it to you.