C’est Incredible: And it’s all on Saturday July 15th in front of Barbes. The festivities start at 2 p.m. On Ninth Street off of Sixth Avenue. Barbes new neighbor Patisserie Colson is part of the fun, too. Photo of Barbes by Joseph Holmes

TAKE IT TO THE STREET! AN OUTDOOR AFTERNOON BASTILLE DAY CELEBRATION
A street festival celebrating the French uprising and ensuing revolution
In association with our good neighbors Patisserie Colson, who be providing the cakes.
With music, screening and special guests

2:00pm –
LES CHAUDS LAPINS, Kurt Hoffman and Meg Reichardt cover Charles Trenet songs and other jewels from the French 30’s and 40’s musical traditions accompanying themselves on banjo-ukes.

3:30pm
STEPHANE WREMBEL’S HOT CLUB OF NY. French virtuoso Guitarist Stephane Wrembel studied for years with the manouche (the French Gypsies) and has perfected his own take on Django Reinhardt’s Gypsy Swing.

6:00pm –
POLKA FREAK OUT – Mexican conjunto music meets Eastern European Polka and Gypsy music – featuring Brave Combo’s Bubba Hernandez on bass, and Polka accordionist Alex Meixner.

9:00pm
POLKA FREAKOUT. More Polka – indoors this time.

Ongoing screenings by various video artists including Lauren Petty and Shaun Irons
Barbès and Patisserie Colson will offer a common menu, cementing the long overdue Franco/Belgian friendship and enlightening brooklynites with the correct way to eat waffles in the process.

Patisserie Colson is the New York branch of the renowned Belgian Patisserie of the same name.