Five Points, Welton Street, from 24th to 29th streetsJuneteenth commemorates a day in 1865 when a group of enslaved African Americans finally got the news that they had been freed. And it only took the United States...156 years to make it a federal holiday. Come celebrate with a big lineup, including Dave East, Twista, Kayla Rae, Sammy Mayfield, Checktet, Conjunto Colores, the Gregory Goodloe Quartet, Kayla Marque, Danae Simone, DJ Musa and Milky.Wav.Kool Keith is probably best known as Dr.
He's probably one of the weirder rappers to ever grace the mic, and his staggered rhymes are like no other.If you mix equal parts folk rock and alternative country, but sprinkle in a liberal dash of the synthesizer from a mid-’70s Ohio Players album, you've got Blitzen Trapper. Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Laney Jones opens the show.Finally, a TED talk and a burlesque show all under one roof.