Eventbrite’s Music Division Announces Partnership With Iconic BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival Held at Prospect Park Bandshell

Eventbrite’s Music Division Announces Partnership With Iconic BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival Held at Prospect Park Bandshell

Summer-long performing arts festival, now in its 40th year, signs exclusive multi-year ticketing deal with Ticketfly to provide a better fan experience

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — January 12, 2017 — Ticketfly, as part of Eventbrite’s music division, will be the official ticketing technology and services provider for the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival—New York City’s longest-running outdoor performance festival. The multi-year deal marks the first significant client announcement since Ticketfly and Eventbrite joined forces in September, 2017.

Held every summer since 1979 at the 9,000-capacity Prospect Park Bandshell amphitheater in the heart of Brooklyn, the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival is a summer-long nonprofit concert series that is host to one of the most diverse lineups in the festival space today. The festival runs June through August and attracts artists from around the world for approximately 25 free shows and seven paid, ticketed, “benefit concerts,” the proceeds of which go towards supporting the free programming. Past benefit concert performers include The Shins, Wilco, Robert Plant, Sigur Ros, Bob Dylan, Bon Iver, The National, Willie Nelson and Beck. Ticketing for all benefit shows will now be processed through Ticketfly.

“Bringing ticketing in-house is a huge win for us, the artists, and the fans,” said Jack Walsh, Executive Producer of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival. “By moving to one integrated ticketing and digital marketing platform, we can establish a consistently high-quality ticketing experience, build a stronger relationship with our audience, and ultimately get more tickets into the hands of fans.”

“As a long-time New Yorker, it is a dream come true to be working with the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival and the Prospect Park Bandshell. I’ve seen so many shows there over the years I’ve lost count. It’s one of my favorite places to see a show,” said Andrew Dreskin, President of Eventbrite’s music division and Co-Founder of Ticketfly. “Year after year the creative and diverse programming at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival really adds to the cultural fabric of New York City. I’m excited to welcome BRIC to the Eventbrite family, and look forward to being in business with them for many years to come.”

A growing list of marquee partners like the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, Bowery Ballroom, Le Poisson Rouge, Mercury Lounge, and PopGun Presents’ Elsewhere make Eventbrite’s music division, the new home of Ticketfly, a strong force in New York City’s live events and independent music scene. In addition, the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival’s host venue, Prospect Park Bandshell, joins a group of nearly 30 amphitheaters around the country ticketed by Ticketfly, which has increased its momentum in the amphitheater space over the last few years. Eventbrite, together with Ticketfly, expects to process more than 200 million tickets globally in 2017.

Tickets for the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival are expected to go on sale in January at www.ticketfly.com.

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About Eventbrite

Eventbrite is the world’s largest ticketing and event technology platform. The company has processed more than $8 billion in gross ticket sales since inception and powers nearly three million events around the world each year. Hundreds of thousands of event creators use the Eventbrite platform to bring a variety of live experiences to life for more than 50 million fans and attendees in 180 countries. The company has acquired seven companies, including music ticketing powerhouses, Ticketfly and ticketscript, to further solidify a fierce commitment to the independent live music scene. Customers include Tribeca Film Festival, Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals, Pitchfork Music Festival, and Wanderlust, in addition to top venues and promoters that include Bowery Ballroom, the Brooklyn Bowl, Merriweather Post Pavilion, and The Troubadour. Eventbrite was founded in 2006 by Julia Hartz, Kevin Hartz, and Renaud Visage. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global and T. Rowe Price. Learn more at www.eventbrite.com.

About BRIC and the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival

BRIC is the leading presenter of free cultural programming in Brooklyn, and one of the largest in New York City. The organization presents and incubates work by artists and media-makers that reflects the diversity of New York. BRIC programs reach hundreds of thousands of people each year. BRIC’s main venue, BRIC Arts | Media House, offers a public media center, a major contemporary art exhibition space, two performance spaces, a glass-walled TV studio and artist work spaces. Some of BRIC’s most acclaimed programs include the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival in Prospect Park, several path-breaking public access media initiatives, including BRIC TV, and a renowned contemporary art exhibition series. BRIC also offers education and other vital programs at BRIC House and throughout Brooklyn.

The BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival is BRIC’s flagship performing arts program, a free, summer-long performance festival at the Prospect park Bandshell.. During its nearly 40-year run, the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival has become one of the city’s foremost cultural attractions and a beloved summer tradition. The Wall Street Journal writes, “Nearly four decades on, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! remains one of the city’s finest concert series.” Named best concert series by the Village Voice reader’s and critics polls, and one of the best venues in the city by New York magazine and Time Out New York, the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival is New York City’s longest-running summer outdoor performance festival. When it began in 1979 as a catalyst for a burgeoning Brooklyn performing arts scene, and to bring people back into Prospect Park after years of neglect, the Festival was an early anchor in Brooklyn’s renaissance. Since then, the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival has presented celebrated global music icons, legendary jazz artists, chart-topping indie bands, gravity-defying dance troupes, large-scale film projects and even a virtual reality performance, becoming one of the city’s foremost cultural attractions and a beloved summer tradition that draws a diverse audience upwards of 200,000 each season. The New York Times says, “Prospect Park is never more inviting than when provided a soundtrack by this mostly free arts series, a seasonal staple.”

For more festival information, please visit www.BRICartsmedia.org.