The best acts at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival 2016

Louisiana pianist-singer Jon Batiste has an extensive resume: a master's degree from Julliard, he's served as artistic director at Harlem's National Jazz Museum and even acted in HBO's Emmy-nominated Treme. Add to that list, "Late Night" stardom, as he recently started a new role as the bandleader for Late Night With Stephen Colbert. Here, he leads his band Stay Human through their catchy, easygoing blend of NOLA jazz, modern funk and retro soul. Free.

Son of the late, great Fela, Afrobeat standard-bearer Femi Kuti rode the world-music wave that swept our shores in the early part of the aughts, collaborating with neosoul singers and Native Tongues rappers. Expect a dancetastic celebration at this Prospect Park show. Free.

This supergroup features three phenomenal voices: avant-rock icon Neko Case, musical nomad k.d. lang and indie folk star Laura Veirs. Fans of each will find something to enjoy here, though Case's powerful vocals often carry the Americana-soaked songs. $44–$110.

California soul-jazz singer Gregory Porter always promises a toe-tapping, finger-snapping good time. Here he's joined by tenor saxophonist Marcus Strickland, a widely admired interpreter of old-school postbop who serves up hip-hop-infused funk with his hard-hitting crew Twi-Life. Free.

Considered a one-hit wonder by some, thanks to its briefly inescapable 1992 jazz-rap smash, “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat),” this trio’s commercially underperforming 1994 follow-up, Blowout Comb,has belatedly but deservedly become part of the canon of rap’s golden age. Free.

Beirut band chief Zach Condon, a multitasker who performs vocals, trumpet and ukulele, mines sounds from foreign lands, giving color to his Morrissey-like vocals and Magnetic Fields–like songs. Expect to hear early-album classics ("Postcards from Italy," "Elephant Gun") and new tunes from the outfit's latest, 2015's No No No. $39.50.

The Denver-based Lumineers hit the road behind a second album, Cleopatra, of Mumfordesque, rootsy indie folk. On it, the band harmonizes through destiny-driven stilted chants, with Neyla Pekarek’s melancholy cello weeping alongside Wesley Schultz’s lovelorn lyrics. In its songs and trajectory, the young trio has melded assurance and catchiness to surge, ever so swiftly, to the top. $39.50.

Seasoned, silky Jamaican reggae crew Morgan Heritage slides onto the Celebrate Brooklyn stage behind its latest LP, Strictly Roots, an album that features Stephen Marley's son Jo Mersa Marley—that's right, the Marley grandsons are stepping up to the reggae throne. Feel old yet? Free.

For more than two decades, protean saxist and composer Donny McCaslin has relentlessly expanded his musical purview in a variety of ensemble settings: as a sideman, as the pilot of his own diverse groups and, more recently, as a collaborator on the late Bowie's final album, Blackstar. That newfound investment in genres outside of jazz is visible on the tenorist’s 2015 album, Fast Future, as well, which draws from electronica composers like Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada and Venetian Snares. Here, McCaslin and the bandmembers on that disc—pianist Jason Lindner, drummer Mark Guiliana and bassist Tim Lefebvre—perform with a screening of the film Labyrinth. Free.

Few jazz pianists have had as wide an impact on American popular culture as Herbie Hancock. He scored hits with songs such as "Watermelon Man" and "Chameleon" in the ’70s, blew up MTV with "Rockit" in the ’80s, and provided fodder for hip-hop heads to bite into with "Cantaloupe Island" and "Maiden Voyage"—and that's not even taking into account his epochal playing with Miles Davis. He's joined by two jazz–hip-hop crossover stars: Glasper, whose playing was recently featured on Kendrick Lamar's gritty masterpiece, To Pimp A Butterfly, and young Toronto electrojazzers BADBADNOTGOOD, known for their groove-based collabs with cutting-edge hip-hop stars. $49.50–$97.50.

Oddball Philly psych-pop faves Dr. Dog recently came out with their ninth studio album, The Psychedelic Swamp, a typically jangly collection of earnest and upbeat songs that will seamlessly carry over to the group's joyful live shows. Free.