Juneteenth Jubilee Organizers Announce Full Musical Lineup and Location

Downtown Festival to Feature Music, Artists, Vendors and Food Trucks

Promotional Images: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ti5xdcrflk00par/AABc8Q95-ViqQs8vA3LuRtgla?dl=0

Full Release: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2stag6wd5o3dmko/CSDD%20J19%20Location%20Release-05.31.22.pdf?dl=0 

Fayetteville, N.C. – Organizers are pleased to announce the full performance schedule for the 2022 Juneteenth Jubilee, held on Saturday, June 18 from 12:00PM – 9:30PM in Festival Park (335 Ray Avenue). In addition to Grammy Award-nominated artists Amythyst Kiah and hometown rapper, Morray, the Jubilee stage will come alive with performances from Diali Cissokho and Kaira Ba, The Fatback Band, and Reggie Codrington. Diali Cissokho follows in the tradition of Senegalese musicians and storytellers known as griots. Together with his band, Kaira Ba – composed of Tarheel natives John Westmoreland, Jonathan Henderson, Austin McCall, and Will Ridenour – Cissokho weaves the traditions and rhythms of West African music with subtle notes of blues and folk sounds from the American South. NPR’s Frank Stasio described their sound as “at once unique and universal.”

Originally founded in 1966 by musician, Bill “Fatback” Curtis, The Fatback Band have been getting audiences on the dance floor for 50 years with their influential upbeat, orchestral soul music.  Disco pioneers with a sound that merged jazz and funky beats with a touch of West Indies & Caribbean style, the Fatback Band has released more than 35 albums of original material infused with every imaginable genre of music, from jazz, funk, R&B, disco, rap, and all eras of soul.

Fayetteville native, Reggie Codrington, has been performing and recording jazz music for over a decade. Throughout his career as a notable soprano saxophone player, Codrington has opened for numerous music legends, including Ramsey Lewis, Frankie Beverly & Maze, and Charlie Wilson. Codrington was even invited to perform at the 2012 Inaugural Ball. A brilliant blend of smooth jazz, old school soul, and elements of contemporary funk, Codrington’s musicianship makes him one of the most masterful and highly requested jazz artists on the scene today. 

In addition to the stage performances, attendees will be able to partake of the delicious offerings from over 15 different local food trucks. Artists, artisans, and other local vendors be on hand to entice visitors with wares for every whim. Non-profit organizations, such as The Frederick Douglass Foundation of NC, will be on hand to offer history, information on cultural activities, health resources, and educational interactions for festival-goers of all ages. Families with children can enjoy crafting a Juneteenth art project, led by the Cumberland County Public Library, or get the wiggles out at our unicorn bounce house and ring toss. With over 60 vendors, the inaugural Juneteenth Jubilee guarantees something for everyone as we gather to celebrate freedom and unity.

Schedule of Performances:

1:00: Reggie Codrington  

3:00: Diali Cissokho and Kaira Ba

5:00: Fatback Band

7:00: Amythyst Kiah

8:45: Morray

With high energy interludes provided by DJ TommyGeeMixx

In addition to the Jubilee collaboration with CSDD, organizing partners Circa 1865 will be hosting a variety of events for their Juneteenth Freedom Festival celebration at multiple venues in multiple cities in the area, kicking off on June 16, 2022. Learn more about all their festivities here.

Closing out the weekend’s Juneteenth celebrations, Cumulus Media will host their inaugural Praise in the Park on Sunday, June 19 at noon in Festival Park, featuring three-time Grammy award-winning gospel artist, Donnie McClurkin. Learn more here.

For more information on headlining performers:

Amythyst Kiah: https://www.amythystkiah.com/

Morray: https://everybodyisfamily.com/collections/all

Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba: http://www.kairabamusic.com/

The Fatback Band: http://www.fatbackband.com/

Reggie Codrington: https://www.reggiecodrington.com/

PAY VENDOR FEE HERE:

Venue: Studio215
(215 Williams Street, Fayetteville 28301)

Time: 10:00-12:30;
Doors open at 9:45 for check-in

Keynote Speaker: Jaki Shelton Green, NC Poet Laureate

• Load-In
• Breakdown
• Floaters during event 
• Beer/Wine Attendants (*Must be 21 and over) 
• Historian Floaters 

Show us your creative side by downloading and coloring the Juneteenth Jubilee coloring pages for the kids.

You can also pick up these coloring pages at the Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center located at 300 Maiden Lane in Downtown Fayetteville.

Make sure to bring your artwork to the Juneteenth Jubilee so that we can display your work of art.

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Juneteenth Jubilee Organizers Announce Full Musical Lineup and Location

Downtown Festival to Feature Music, Artists, Vendors and Food Trucks

Promotional Images: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ti5xdcrflk00par/AABc8Q95-ViqQs8vA3LuRtgla?dl=0

Full Release: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2stag6wd5o3dmko/CSDD%20J19%20Location%20Release-05.31.22.pdf?dl=0 

Fayetteville, N.C. – Organizers are pleased to announce the full performance schedule for the 2022 Juneteenth Jubilee, held on Saturday, June 18 from 12:00PM – 9:30PM in Festival Park (335 Ray Avenue). In addition to Grammy Award-nominated artists Amythyst Kiah and hometown rapper, Morray, the Jubilee stage will come alive with performances from Diali Cissokho and Kaira Ba, The Fatback Band, and Reggie Codrington. Diali Cissokho follows in the tradition of Senegalese musicians and storytellers known as griots. Together with his band, Kaira Ba – composed of Tarheel natives John Westmoreland, Jonathan Henderson, Austin McCall, and Will Ridenour – Cissokho weaves the traditions and rhythms of West African music with subtle notes of blues and folk sounds from the American South. NPR’s Frank Stasio described their sound as “at once unique and universal.”

Originally founded in 1966 by musician, Bill “Fatback” Curtis, The Fatback Band have been getting audiences on the dance floor for 50 years with their influential upbeat, orchestral soul music.  Disco pioneers with a sound that merged jazz and funky beats with a touch of West Indies & Caribbean style, the Fatback Band has released more than 35 albums of original material infused with every imaginable genre of music, from jazz, funk, R&B, disco, rap, and all eras of soul.

Fayetteville native, Reggie Codrington, has been performing and recording jazz music for over a decade. Throughout his career as a notable soprano saxophone player, Codrington has opened for numerous music legends, including Ramsey Lewis, Frankie Beverly & Maze, and Charlie Wilson. Codrington was even invited to perform at the 2012 Inaugural Ball. A brilliant blend of smooth jazz, old school soul, and elements of contemporary funk, Codrington’s musicianship makes him one of the most masterful and highly requested jazz artists on the scene today. 

In addition to the stage performances, attendees will be able to partake of the delicious offerings from over 15 different local food trucks. Artists, artisans, and other local vendors be on hand to entice visitors with wares for every whim. Non-profit organizations, such as The Frederick Douglass Foundation of NC, will be on hand to offer history, information on cultural activities, health resources, and educational interactions for festival-goers of all ages. Families with children can enjoy crafting a Juneteenth art project, led by the Cumberland County Public Library, or get the wiggles out at our unicorn bounce house and ring toss. With over 60 vendors, the inaugural Juneteenth Jubilee guarantees something for everyone as we gather to celebrate freedom and unity.

Schedule of Performances:

1:00: Reggie Codrington  

3:00: Diali Cissokho and Kaira Ba

5:00: Fatback Band

7:00: Amythyst Kiah

8:45: Morray

With high energy interludes provided by DJ TommyGeeMixx

In addition to the Jubilee collaboration with CSDD, organizing partners Circa 1865 will be hosting a variety of events for their Juneteenth Freedom Festival celebration at multiple venues in multiple cities in the area, kicking off on June 16, 2022. Learn more about all their festivities here.

Closing out the weekend’s Juneteenth celebrations, Cumulus Media will host their inaugural Praise in the Park on Sunday, June 19 at noon in Festival Park, featuring three-time Grammy award-winning gospel artist, Donnie McClurkin. Learn more here.

For more information on headlining performers:

Amythyst Kiah: https://www.amythystkiah.com/

Morray: https://everybodyisfamily.com/collections/all

Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba: http://www.kairabamusic.com/

The Fatback Band: http://www.fatbackband.com/

Reggie Codrington: https://www.reggiecodrington.com/

COOL SPRING DOWNTOWN DISTRICT ANNOUNCES

KEYNOTE SPEAKER FOR JUNETEENTH JUBILEE HERITAGE BRUNCH

On behalf of the City of Fayetteville, Cool Spring Downtown District – in partnership with Juneteenth Freedom Festival (www.juneteenthfreedomfestival.com) is thrilled to announce North Carolina Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green, as the keynote speaker for the Jubilee Heritage Brunch. The ticketed brunch will be held on Sunday, June 19, 2022 from 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM at Studio 215 (215 Williams Street, Fayetteville NC 28301). The event will feature a full brunch menu catered by The Friends Table, light musical entertainment from the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra’s Jazz Trio. Tickets include a lite brunch or full brunch option and are available for purchase by visiting: bit.ly/JuneteenthJubileeHeritageBrunch

Jaki Shelton Green was appointed as the ninth poet laureate in 2018 and was reappointed in 2021 for a second term by Governor Roy Cooper. She is the first African American and third woman to be appointed to the role. Ms. Green is a 2019 Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellow, 2014 NC Literary Hall of Fame Inductee, 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, and 2003 recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature. In 2022, Ms. Green was appointed Poet Laureate in Residence at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Ms. Green teaches Documentary Poetry at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and was the 2021 Frank B. Hanes Writer in Residence at UNC Chapel Hill. Her publications include: Dead on Arrival, Masks, Dead on Arrival and New Poems, Conjure Blues, singing a tree into dance, breath of the song, Feeding the Light, and i want to undie you.  In June 2020, she released her first LP, poetry album, The River Speaks of Thirst, produced by Soul City Sounds and Clearly Records. As well, Jaki Shelton Green is the owner of SistaWRITE, providing writing retreats for women writers in Sedona Arizona, Martha’s Vineyard, Ocracoke North Carolina, Northern Morocco, and Tullamore Ireland. She anticipates the potential coordination of a writers retreat in Fayetteville with partner organizations in spring 2023.  

The Juneteenth Jubilee is sponsored by ABC-11, The Arts Council of Fayetteville-Cumberland County, The Capitol Encore Academy, Healy Wholesale, MetroNet, Methodist University, and Duke Energy.For more information regarding the Jubilee Heritage Brunch and other Juneteenth celebrations, please visit our website at: www.visitdowntownfayetteville.com/juneteenth-jubilee. For all media inquiries and sponsorship information, contact Chief Executive Officer Bianca Shoneman at bianca@coolspringfay.org or (910) 223-1089.

On behalf of the City of Fayetteville, Cool Spring Downtown District – in partnership with Juneteenth Freedom Festival (www.juneteenthfreedomfestival.com) is excited to announce Grammy Award – nominated artist, Amythyst Kiah. This Tennessee-bred singer/songwriter was a member of Our Native Daughters—an all-women-of-color supergroup whose standout “Black Myself”, written by Kiah, earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best American Roots Song and won Song of the Year at the 2019 Folk Alliance International Awards.

In 2013, Amythyst Kiah self-released her debut album, Dig; she immediate garnered acclaim from leading outlets like NPR and The New York Times, who remarked that Kiah’s “razor-sharp guitar picking alone guarantees her a place among blues masters, but it’s her deep-hued voice that can change on a dime from brushed steel to melted toffee that commands attention.” Kiah’s Rounder Records debut album Wary + Strange offers a deeply immersive body of work, endlessly redefining the limits of roots music in its inventive rhythms and textures.  “A lot of these songs come from a moment in my 20s when I was grappling with trauma while also trying to navigate the experience of being a Black and LGBT woman in a white suburban area in a Bible Belt town,” says Kiah.

Kiah will be a part of a main stage lineup that includes fellow Grammy Award nominee, Morray; West African funk and jazz band, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba; funk and disco group, The Fatback Band; and renowned jazz saxophonist, Reggie Codrington. The Juneteenth Jubilee will be held on Saturday, June 18 2022 from 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM. The festival will be followed by a ticketed Jubilee Heritage Brunch on Sunday, June 19, 2022 at Studio 215 from 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM. Tickets are on sale now.

For more information regarding the Juneteenth Jubilee and other celebrations or volunteer opportunities, please visit our website: visitdowntownfayetteville.com. For all media inquiries and sponsorship information, contact Chief Executive Officer Bianca Shoneman at bianca@coolspringfay.org or (910) 223-1089.

For more on Amythyst Kiah:
Website: https://www.amythystkiah.com/home
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amythystkiah/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amythystkiah/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amythystkiah
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmythystKiah
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@amythystkiah

For more on Juneteenth Main Stage Artists: 
Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba: http://www.kairabamusic.com/
The Fatback Band: http://www.fatbackband.com/
Reggie Codrington: https://www.reggiecodrington.com/

Cool Spring Downtown District Organizing Inaugural Juneteenth Jubilee

Juneteenth Freedom Festival to Include Two-Day Downtown Celebration 

Graphics for Promotional Use 

Fayetteville, N.C. – Cool Spring Downtown District (CSDD), Circa 1865, and Cumulus Media have partnered to organize and curate the inaugural Juneteenth Jubilee and Praise Party in the Park – A Juneteenth Celebration, on behalf of the City of Fayetteville.

The Juneteenth Jubilee will kick off in the heart of downtown on Sat., June 18, 2022, with a full-day street festival featuring multiple nationally touring headliners, local musical acts, other performances, food trucks, small-business and corporate vendors, artists and artisans, and more.

CSDD and Circa 1865 will host the Juneteenth Jubilee Heritage Brunch, a ticketed event, on Sun., June 19, 2022. The event will showcase Black chefs and culinary students serving a brunch menu that features heritage-worthy, southern Black cuisine while light entertainment plays in the background.

The featured keynote speaker at the brunch is Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina’s ninth Poet Laureate. Green is known to be the first Black Poet Laureate in the state and the third woman to ever hold the role.

While the nationally touring headliners for the street festival will be announced later this month, CSDD’s Director of Special Projects, Ashanti Bennett, describes the uniqueness of this event: “From the beginning, we at Cool Spring have been focused on creating a joyful, respectful, and inclusive celebration to uplift this most American of holidays.”

Elaborating on the significance of this holiday, Bennett shares, “The imperative to honor the story of endurance and resilience of Black Americans, from Emancipation to Reclamation, is clear. We aspire to do so by focusing on the joy of Black culture and sharing that with our entire community in jubilee fashion. It is an honor to be able to play a role in preserving and advancing Juneteenth traditions, new and old, for our city.”

This will be the fourth year the Juneteenth Freedom Festival has been held in Cumberland County, and this year’s festival will take place over the course of four days at multiple venues around the county, including the Town of Spring Lake. Learn more about all the festivities here.

One of Circa 1865’s board members, Tyrrel Walker, serves as the executive coordinator of the Juneteenth Freedom Festival, and along with other Circa board members, he has been assisting Cool Spring in planning and curating downtown’s own two-day event.

“Along with Cool Spring Downtown District, Circa 1865 has worked long and hard to put together a historic celebration that our community can be proud of,” Walker shares. “Expect a bunch of family fun, laughter, friendship, great music, good times, and an amazing opportunity to create some memories while we celebrate freedom as a unified community.”

Immediately following the Juneteenth Heritage Brunch, Magic 106.9 Radio Station and the City of Fayetteville kick off Praise Party in the Park – A Juneteenth Celebration on June 19, 2022, at Festival Park from 12 pm to 6 pm as the final event of the countywide Juneteenth Freedom Festival. Praise Party, a free event, will be hosted by Magic 106.9’s Alysse Stewart, with headliner, three-time Grammy-award winner gospel singer Donnie McClurkin ending the evening.

CSDD is now accepting applications from interested parties to become an event vendor, performer, or volunteer. To learn more about a variety of sponsorship opportunities, email info@coolspringfay.org.

Visitors to and residents of Cumberland County may follow CSDD’s efforts and announcements on their website at visitdowntownfayetteville.com, on Facebook at @CoolSpringFAY.org or @downtownfayetteville, or on Instagram at @coolspringdowntowndistrict or @downtownfay.

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The Cool Spring Downtown District, Inc. is a charitable, nonprofit corporation formed in 2017 to create and sustain an arts and entertainment district located in downtown Fayetteville, North Carolina, as a vibrant center of artistic, cultural, civic and commercial activity. Learn more at visitdowntownfayetteville.com.

Circa 1865 exists to promote unity within the African American diaspora; a love for our culture, and respect for our heritage through African American centered-entertainment and education. Circa 1865 hosts city-wide celebrations for African American holidays. (https://wearecirca1865.com/).

WMGU-FM, Magic 106.9 is a leader in the radio broadcasting industry and the #1 Urban AC station in Fayetteville. Fayetteville’s Best Mix Of R & B, Magic 106.9 combines high-quality local programming with iconic, nationally syndicated show’s like the Steve Harvey Morning Show from 6 am to 10 am, locally produced The Alysse Stewart show from 10 am – 3 pm with DJ Cass “In the Mix” at noon, The DL Hughley Show in the afternoon from 3pm – 7pm and The Sweat Hotel featuring Keith Sweat from 7 pm – midnight.

For all media inquiries and more information contact Chief Executive Officer Bianca Shoneman at bianca@coolspringfay.org or (910) 223-1089.

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