Surfing around the The Celebrate Brooklyn website I discovered that the Opening Event and Gala Whoopdeedo will be on Thursday, June 14th at 8 p.m. with THE NEVILLE BROTHERS.

The concert is free but
Gala tickets start at $300. and Gala packages from $5000. Neither are
in my league. But hey. The concert is FREE: it’s the party that costs ya
(and is a great fundraiser for a great summer event series if you can afford to participate…what goes around comes around.

The Celebrate Brooklyn website is a great case study for putting the year on calendar events. Last year’s schedule is still up but the year isn’t. It’s hard to tell that these events already happened. They should revise their site a little — because people are going to start checking about this summer. Not to be a whiner…

For info
on gala: sgiannelli@briconline.org