FORT GREENE — Afropunk Fest is headed to the "City of Lights."
The alternative music festival that was founded in Fort Greene a decade ago is going global this month with concert dates set for May 23 and 24 at Le Trianon theater in Paris.
Bands like NYC-based Lion Babe, blues band The Bots and British band Youth Man will play alongside Willow and Jaden Smith and folk singer, and Afropunk veteran, Lianne La Havas.
Brooklyn-based bands Twin Shadow and Lolawolf will also be part of the set along with Sierra Leone native Patrice and modern soul singer Keziah Jones.
And there will be more than just music at the two-day show.
"In true AFROPUNK form the festival will also serve as a cultural experience with food, live paintings by local artists, an acoustic stage and more," the organizers wrote on the event's website.
Paris is just the latest expansion city for the concert that will be hosted in Atlanta this fall and play smaller show in Washington D.C. and Oakland later this year, according to Brooklyn Paper.
The first Afropunk Fest debuted in 2005 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene with approximately 250 attendees and a slew of obscure bands.
Over the last 10 years artists like D’Angelo, Questlove, Erykah Badu and Mos Def have headlined the two-day event at Commodore Barry Park.
The festival will return to the park in August with festival dates and performers still to be determined.
Afropunk Fest organizers Jocelyn Cooper and Matthew Morgan could not be reached for comment.
