The Roots Are Bringing the Beats to Prospect Park

This Thursday night, Prospect Park is the place to be with the legendary Roots Crew lighting up the bandshell.

The Roots, which have become one of the best known and most respected hip-hop acts in the business, will be playing a benefit concert at 7:00pm on Thursday, Aug 12.

The GRAMMY winning group has been named one of the greatest live bands around by Rolling Stone and serves as the official house band on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Recently, Black Thought and Questlove have been the executive producers of the acclaimed documentary series "Hip-Hop: The Songs That Shook America" on AMC. 

Felicia Temple will join as an opening act.

The concert is part of BRIC's Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, which is running through September bringing a number of live performances to the borough. All of the acts are free, aside from a small number of ticketed benefit concerts — which includes The Roots show. For show tickets, click here.

The lineup for the remainder of the festival includes:

• The Roots 
  Thursday, August 12^th **Benefit concert
• Skip Marley / Ivy Sole 
  Friday, August 13^th
• Vijay Iyer with special guests Moor Mother, Arooj Aftab, Ambrose Akinmusire, Tyshawn Sorey, and Daryl Johns / Joel Ross / Melanie Charlies / Mahogany L. Browne 
  Saturday, August 14^th *Doors 6:00pm/Show 7:00pm
• "Celebrate Biggie" with performances by Busta Rhymes / Lil Kim / The Lox / DJ Stephcakes and more [21+]
  Thursday, August 19^th 
• Junglepussy / Tygapaw / Mari World 
  Friday, August 20^th
• Lido Pimienta / Rita Indiana / YENDRY 
  Saturday, August 21^st *Doors 6:00pm/Show 7:00pm
• Movie Night: In The Heights *Show 8:00pm
• Yaeji / KeiyaA / Nappy Nina 
  Friday, August 27^th *Doors 6:00pm/Show 7:00pm
• San Fermin / Attacca Quartet / Son Little 
  Saturday, August 28^th *Doors 6:00pm/Show 7:00pm
• Elsie Fest 
  Sunday, August 29^th **Benefit concert
• Glass Animals 
  Tuesday, August 31^st **Benefit concert; Tickets via AXS.com 
• Club Quarantine Live: D-Nice with Special Guests 
  Thursday, September 2^nd **Benefit concert
• Passion Fruit Dance Company / Saadiq Bolden / Soul Summit Dance Party / St James Joy 
  Friday, September 10^th
• Wizkid 
  Saturday, September 11^th **Benefit concert
• Mr. Eazi / Bembona / AJO 
  Friday, September 17^th *Doors 6:00pm/Show 7:00pm
• Trombone Shorty with Orleans Avenue / MICHELLE 
  Saturday, September 18^th