Just this past summer, the Brooklyn Information & Culture (BRIC) Celebrate Brooklyn! music festival held its annual event that ran all summer long from June to August in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. BRIC is a unique festival that promotes free cultural experiences and recognizes the diversity around the city. BRIC also supports developing artists by gathering audiences from all around the city. BRIC offers a variety of types of artists including jazz, indie, pop, alternative rock, hip hop, classic and world music. BRIC’s main venue is the BRIC Arts/Media House which offers a variety of outlets and work spaces for young artists including a public media center, a major contemporary art exhibition space, two performance spaces, a glass-walled TV studio and artist work spaces. However, the BRIC’s Prospect Park Celebrate Brooklyn! festival is the most popular summer event.

Many artists came together in duos and trios to perform at this summer cultural fest. Indie pop artist, Alvvays, alternative artist, Ducktails, and alternative rock artist, Big Thief, came together for an amazing indie-pop/alt-rock performance. Also Egyptian singer, Hakim, and London-based musical group, Krar Collective, came together for a cultural world music experience. The more popular band, upcoming alternative rock artist Kevin Parker’s, Tame Impala, performed two back-to-back benefit concerts on Tuesday, June 14, and Wednesday, June 15, 2016.

Tame Impala’s shows consisted of electric chords, hypnotizing melodies, trippy backdrops and colorful lights as Parker (main guitarist and singer), and band composed of Jay Watson (guitarist), Dominic Simper (guitarist), Cam Avery (Bass), Julien Barbagallo (Drums) and Nick Allbrook (Bass), performed their usual psychedelic routine. Opening with “Nangs,” a one minute and forty-five second intro with smooth hypnotic beats, Parker grabbed the audience’s attention and prepared them for his next big hit, “Let it Happen,” from his 2015 album, “Currents,” which originally gained the band popularity. Parker continued with songs from “Currents” and his 2012 album “Lonerism,” including songs, “Nangs,” “Let it Happen,” “Mind Mischief,” “Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind?,” “Why Won’t They Talk to Me?,” “The Moment,” “Elephant,” “The Less I Know the Better,” “Daffodils,” “Eventually,” Yes I’m Changing,” “Alter Ego,” “Oscilly,” “It is Not Meant to Be” and “Apocalypse Dreams.”

Art and music were joined in perfect unity at this performance as the trippy backdrops continually changed colors and shapes, matching Parker’s every melody. Despite his reputation of being “mouse-like” and “sheepish” on stage in the past, Parker really came alive at this performance. Parker closed the show with his much anticipated hits, “Feels Like We’re Only Going Backwards” and “New Person, Same Old Mistakes.” The whole festival was an amazing cultural program, but it was Tame Impala’s performance that made the festival an unforgettable art and music experience.