Designed to promote cultural sensitivity and highlight diversity, the Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival embarks on its 12th Anniversary January 12 – 21, 2012. The 10-day family friendly event typically begins the week before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and features a unique blend of African and African American art, culture and history. This [...]
Caribana Festival | Toronto, Canada
What started out in 1967 as a just a small and quaint heritage event marking Canada’s centennial year, has grown into the largest cultural festival in North America. Caribana 2010 will start at 12:00 pm on Tuesday, July 13th in the heart of downtown Toronto at Yonge and Dundas Square. Well over a million tourists [...]
Dance Africa | New York, NY
Created in 1977 as the nation’s first festival devoted to the rich legacy of African dance, DanceAfrica has evolved into a highly-anticipated and high-spirited Memorial Day Weekend tradition that brings together the entire community. Brooklyn Academy of Music’s (BAM) week-long celebration, which is centered around the dance performances in the Gilman Opera House, also includes [...]
26th Annual Gullah Festival | Beaufort, SC
Beaufort’s Gullah Festival showcases the African history and heritage of South Carolina’s Low Country Gullah culture, a blend of West African, European and Native American cultures, which became a way of life for West African slaves living on the Sea Islands off the coast of the South Carolina mainland. The annul event attracts talent from [...]
French Quarter Festival, New Orleans, LA
The South’s largest free music festival, the French Quarter Festival, features 13 stages, hundreds of musicians, and a number of musical genres – international, blues, rock, swing and, of course, jazz. All other events (from the art show to the children’s activities) are free, and festival-goers can enjoy the Crescent City’s fine food during the [...]
Montreal Jazz Festival | Montreal, Canada
With well over 500 concerts spread over 10-days attended by 2 million people or more, the Montreal International Jazz Festival is billed as the world’s largest, attracting some of the world’s most famous and popular artists. Not a jazz fan? No worries. Featured musical genres span from Jazz to African to ‘50s-60s R&B to Folk [...]
