Chicago Gospel Music Festival | Chicago, IL
Billed as the world’s largest free outdoor gospel festivals, the Chicago Gospel Music Festival (at Millennium Park) features three days of entertainment and more than 90 live performances on three stages from some of the top gospel acts in the world. See the festival’s offical website for schedule of events and other information.
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African American Heritage Festival (Afr’Am), Norfolk, VA
May 25, 2008 by lindsey
Filed under Norfolk-Virginia Beach
Sponsored by the Southeastern Virginia Arts Association, the annual African American Heritage Festival (Afr’Am) is a family celebration of the rich traditions, history and culture of African Americans and others peoples of the African Diaspora. Held along the waterfront of Norfolk, Virginia’s Town Point Park, the three-day festival attracts a local and national audience of more than a 200,0000 visitors. Afr’Am features something for everyone including a children’s village, arts and crafts exhibits on all things Africana, a health awareness fair, live entertainment on multiple stages, and, last but not least, culinary delights, ranging from soul food to Caribbean. For more information on the Afr’Am , please visit the festival’s official website.
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Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities | Eatonville, FL
Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960), was born in Eatonville , Florida , the first incorporated black city in the United States . She was a noted novelist and folklorist who traveled throughout Florida collecting and writing stories of rural people. She was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s and was part of the Federal Writers’ Project in Florida in 1938. Her most prominent works include Mules and Men, Dust Tracks in the Road, and Their Eyes Were Watching God. Her work, revived by feminists in the 1970s, has gained her considerable recognition as one of the most important black writers in American history. Eatonville annually holds the Zora Neale Hurston Festival, a tribute to Hurston’s lasting literary accomplishments.
Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities
Address: 227 E. Kennedy Blvd, Eatonville, FL 32751 USA
Phone: (407) 647-3307 or (407) 647-4436
Website: www.zoranealehurstonfestival.com.com
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