The San Diego Black Arts and Cultural District Festival will be filled with music, creativity and tradition on Saturday.
lyrical groove Kendrick Dale will be part of the show, which he calls “Spoken Soul,” which he said is “the spoken word, the soul of it, the jazz of it, the hip-hop of it — it’s all these elements of what we historically call black music. So it There is a sense of gospel, there is a foundation of the message.
The festival takes place just outside the Black Arts and Cultural District in San Diego’s Encanto neighborhood.
This is a Kamau Kenyattaa Grammy Award-winning producer who teaches music at UC San Diego.
“This is all Santiago genius,” Kenyatta said of the musical performances on stage.
In addition to Kendrick Dial and Lyrical Groove, other local artists including Daneen Wilburn, Geminelle and Rebecca Jade will perform live.
“We’re going to hear neo-soul, spoken word, R&B,” Kenyatta said. “The denim came from the church – St. Stephen’s, just up the hill – and Rebecca was a world traveler, bringing her original music that had many, many influences.”
There will also be local food vendors, visual arts exhibits and cultural exhibits.
“It’s really a tribute to Black Music Month in June. So we’re taking advantage of that to have this event,” said Gaidi Finney, executive director of the San Diego African American Art Museum, which oversees funding for the area. Finnie said.
He said this is the first-ever Black Arts and Cultural District Festival and he hopes it becomes an annual event.
Dale hopes the festival will uplift and inspire the local community and provide a safe haven through a sense of family.
“The whole purpose of what we’re doing is to bring economic independence, artistic expression and a sense of community back to this space in a real way,” Dyer said of the Black Arts and Culture District.
The festival is a free public event taking place at Martin Luther King Community Park on Saturday, June 29, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
