Brooklyn’s summer series of free outdoor concerts and dance parties have wrapped for 2026: BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, the Downtown Brooklyn plaza series and Domino Square’s September performances are done for the year. The notes below say where to watch for next season, and our Outdoor Festivals and Street Fairs guide has the fall block parties and festivals still to come.
Prospect Park
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! at the Lena Horne Bandshell
Free season ended August 29 | Lena Horne Bandshell, 141 Prospect Park West | the 2026 season is now fully closed
Brooklyn’s free outdoor concert festival closed its 47th free season with Dominican Night on August 29, and the ticketed Liz Phair and Sleater-Kinney benefit that followed on September 19 has now been and gone. Next summer’s lineup usually lands in spring — watch BRIC’s page.
Downtown Brooklyn
Downtown Brooklyn plaza concerts
Sounds of the Americas at 300 Ashland and Lunchtime Jazz at Columbus Park both ended their 2026 seasons at the end of September. Watch the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership’s events page for next year.
Fort Greene & Clinton Hill
Fort Greene Park’s free music season is done for 2026 — the Jazz Festival closed it on September 12, after Soul Summit on August 9 and Spike Lee’s BK Loves MJ block party on August 29; the Conservancy’s calendar is where next summer’s dates will land. And Clinton Hill’s St. James Place block party, thrown by father-and-son DJs Saint James Joy, held its 2026 edition on July 25 and closed the summer at Domino Park’s Labor of Love on September 6; their schedule is the place to watch for a fall party.
Bed Stuy
Bed Stuy’s summer street parties have wrapped for 2026: STooPS’ Summer Festival on Decatur Street ran August 8, the Hancock Street Block Party August 15, and the Billie’s Summer Music Series on Restoration’s plaza ran through the summer. For next year’s dates watch STooPS and the Billie Holiday Theatre.
Williamsburg Domino Park
Salsa by the Water closed its season at Domino Square on September 23 with Orquesta de Nieves. Domino Park announces the next run on its own events calendar, usually in the spring.
Sunset Sessions with James Ezra, which had moved to October 1, has since come off Domino Park’s events calendar — check Domino Park’s calendar before heading over.
Domino Square performances
Domino Square’s September performances, “Assembly” and Maho Ogawa’s “Nothing to Watch,” ran on September 29 and 30. Fall programming, including a Fall Festival with contra dancing on Sunday, October 18, is on Domino Park’s events calendar.
Bay Ridge
Summer Stroll on Third Avenue and the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra’s parking-lot concert wrapped in August. The Merchants of Third Avenue’s next street day is the Third Avenue Festival, postponed from September 27 to Sunday, October 4, 10am–6pm, with stages the length of the avenue — it is in our festivals guide, and their event page has the details.
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Updated: October 6, 2026.
