For a July 7:00 PM show at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! at the Lena Horne Bandshell, the sun sits 14° up in the west at the start, so shade means getting under the grandstand roof or the deck above you. Sunset is 8:25 PM local, so an evening show gets real shade as the sun drops. By 7:05 PM the sun is only 13° up in the west, 81 minutes from setting.
Check the sun for YOUR show →We haven't verified which way BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! at the Lena Horne Bandshell faces yet, so we won't pretend to name the shady sections. A seating map pointed the wrong way is worse than no map. What's above is real: the sun's exact position for this park's coordinates and timezone. On the interactive page you get the live sun compass, sunset against your game's real start time, and the hour-by-hour forecast.
Sun & sunset check for BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! at the Lena Horne Bandshell · Satellite shadow view
Brooklyn summers reward patience. Show up for a BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! event at the Lena Horne Bandshell in the late afternoon and you'll stand in real July sun; wait for a typical 7 PM start and the worst is already over. By that hour the sun sits only about 14 degrees above the horizon, off to the west-northwest, and it sets at 8:25 PM, so an evening show here trades maybe an hour of low golden light for a night of open-air shade.
This is an open-air venue with no roof over the audience, so the shade you get comes from geometry: the bandshell itself, trees, and the falling sun. In the early evening the light comes in long and low from the west-northwest, which flatters everything and blinds anyone facing straight into it. If you're staking out ground early, the classic move for a popular outdoor show, the spot that's sunny at 5 PM will not be the same spot that's sunny at 7:30, because the shadows swing east and stretch as the evening goes on.
Daytime events in Brooklyn's humid mid-summer deserve more caution: open lawn, high sun, no cover you can count on. Bring water and sunscreen and plan to move with the shade.
We haven't verified which way the Lena Horne Bandshell faces, so we won't make claims about which side of the crowd catches the last of the sun. The honest tool for that is the satellite shadow view, which draws actual building and tree shadows over satellite imagery for any date and time. Set it to your show's start hour and you can pick your patch of ground before you ever leave the apartment.
Upcoming events at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! at the Lena Horne Bandshell are ticketed on TixBit.