Barclays Center releases September 2024 event calendar: 19 ticketed events, including 13 concerts, plus a monster truck for 3 days on Ticketmaster Plaza (updated)

Update: see Sept. 16 concert added (link), for a total of 19 ticketed events and 13 concerts.

The Barclays Center this week circulated its September 2024 event calendar, which includes 18 ticketed events: twelve concerts, four WNBA New York Liberty games, and two Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Glow Parties.

That's a considerable bump from the six concerts and ten ticketed events in September 2023, again perhaps attributable to the switch back to Ticketmaster from SeatGeek, plus the fact that there are four Usher concerts.

Unlike with last year, the monster truck events will be advertised, according to the community notice, by the arrival Tuesday, Sept. 3, of a monster truck on Ticketmaster Plaza, where it will stay three days, with amplified sound. In other words, that "public" space is valuable as a promotional device.

Non-ticketed events

The calendar also lists several non-ticketed events, starting with the free plaza party, Angela Yee Day, form noon to 6 pm on Sunday, Sept. 1, with amplified sound.

On Tuesday Sept. 3, the arena will host BK-XL Demo Day, with six startups sponsored by the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation's Social Justice Fund.

Wednesday Sept. 5 is BSE Global Give Back Day. Last year, for example, more than 40 employees of the arena's parent company volunteered with the girls' youth sports organization PowerPlay, one of 13 community organizations in Brooklyn where employees volunteered.

Does the listing on the calendar imply some activity at the arena?

September 2023

As i wrote, the September 2023 calendar initially included eleven ticketed events: six concerts, three WNBA New York Liberty games, and two Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Glow Parties.

Then the Trippie Redd concert scheduled for Sept. 12 was canceled.

Later, an updated September 2023 community notice disclosed two events scheduled for Ticketmaster Plaza Monday, Sept. 18: the Just Brooklyn Prize Awards, the first of an annual series, followed by a free concert with works by modern classical composer Steve Reich, the pilot performance of an outdoor arts series at the plaza.

Both were sponsored by the Social Justice Fund of the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation, the philanthropic venture of the couple who own the Brooklyn Nets, New York Liberty and the arena operating company.

Rain later moved those events inside.