National Musical Highlights for WPA Juneteenth & Pittsburgh Black Music Fest

 

2021 marks the first year that Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh declared Juneteenth a County and City holiday.

 

Juneteenth celebrates passage of the 13th Amendment and the end of chattel slavery in American while the month of June is Black Music Month in America.

 

In honor of Juneteenth and Black Music Month in America Stop the Violence Pittsburgh and WPA Juneteenth presents the Pittsburgh-Alllegheny County Juneteenth Freedom Days and Black Music Fest at Point State Park, daily.

 

Musical genres for the Festival will include Funk, Reggae, Soul, RnB, Gospel, Jazz, Blues and Neo-Soul.

 

 

National Highlights for the WPA Juneteenth include:

 

June 18th: 

1. neo-soulrecording artist Raheem Devaughn

2. Legendary Funk & Soul Band The Ohio Players

 

 

1. legendary Hip Hop artist Big Daddy Kane

2. legendary Hip Hop artist RAKIM

 

 

1. Chicago’s Motor City Revue Band- Motown Tribute Band performing Songs by the Four Tops, The Supremes, Mary Wells, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Martha & the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell and the Temptations

2. WHO’S Bad– Michael Jackson Tribute Band

3. Shining Star– Earth Wind & Fire Tribute Band

 

 

National Highlights for the Black Music Fest are:

 

1. Jazz Flutist/Composer Nicole Mitchell of Pitt

2. Jazz legend Roy Ayers

3. Jazz Great Roger Humphreys

4. Legendary Jazz Saxophonist Gerald Albright

 

 

1. Gospel Phenom Koryn Hawthorne

2. Gospel Legend LaShun Pace

3. Gospel Great Tye Tribbett

 

 

1. Legendary Female Funk Band KYLMAXX

2. RnB & Soul Band Rose Royce

3. R&B Group Ruff Endz

4. R&B Group BlackStreet

 

 

1. Kevin Howard Jazz

2. The BB King Experience-Original BB King Blues Band

3. Neo-soul artist DWELE

5. Legendary Hip Hop DJ Kid Capri

 

 

For more information visit: wpajuneteenth.com