FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:
Steve Chesler, Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park
(917) 804-1313
info@bushwickinletpark.org
BREAKING NEWS:
The Summer Music Series at BIP returns for its fifth year!
Brooklyn, New York – July, 2025 – 4 weekly evening concerts featuring jazz, Caribbean, and Latin music will take place on the 86 Kent Avenue waterfront plaza of Bushwick Inlet Park. Performances will be held on Thursdays at 6:30 pm from July 10th through July 31st, and are free.
This year’s music slate includes: George Gray Jazz Coalition, Ed Martinez y Conjunto Sabor, Bombayo, and the Carol Sudhalter Quintet. Refer to our website event listings for details.
We welcome again our partner and neighbor, Southside cultural organization, El Puente/ CADRE. El Puente’s mission is to fight for environmental justice and they were key partners in our historic fight for Bushwick Inlet Park. We are also in partnership again with the Jazz Foundation of America to curate and program the series.
This 5 acre portion of Bushwick Inlet Park at 86 Kent Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, sits along the riparian shoreline of the East River. Access to the waterfront via the “Accidental Beach”, which was conceived by park design firm Starr Whitehouse, has become a beloved spot for New Yorkers to sit and view the sunset, have a family picnic in the fresh waterfront breeze or explore the natural shoreline at low tide. The concert series takes place adjacent to this spot, just outside on the paved plaza at the river’s edge under a grove of trees.
The 5th Annual Summer Music Series at BIP is curated in partnership with the following organizations:
El Puente, located on Williamsburg Brooklyn’s Southside, bridges the worlds of health, education, and the arts with activism and community empowerment and has been a long standing advocacy partner in the fight for Bushwick Inlet Park. We work with CADRE (Community Artists’ Development and Resource Exchange) which is their network of primarily Latino community artists, artisans and cultural workers of color rooted in North Brooklyn.
The Jazz Foundation of America supports musicians through a Jazz & Blues Gig Fund which provides free public performances in parks while supporting employment and providing emergency and medical assistance.
Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park Summer Music Series 2025 is generously supported by:
Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.
1 Northside Piers
2 Northside Piers
25 Kent
El Puente/ CADRE
Greenpoint/Williamsburg Youth Soccer League
Jazz Foundation of American
NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
New York State Council on the Arts
