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Juneteenth Jubilee this weekend June 17-18

By Staff Report, posted 2 years ago
Image courtesy of Cool Spring Downtown District

The 2023 Juneteenth Jubilee is this weekend, June 17-18 in downtown Fayetteville in Festival Park. 

This event is brought to the community by the City of Fayetteville and hosted by Cool Spring Downtown District and will be keeping with a 1970s theme. 

Featured on Saturday: an old school skate jam, over 90 vendors and food trucks, headliners Rose Royce and the FatBack Band, and more from 3 - 9 p.m. Sunday kicks off at 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. and features multiple GRAMMY award-winning and Soul Train Music Motown gospel recording artist Tye Tribbett. 

In addition to the festivities in the park, the Can-Do Coldwell Trolley will morph into the “Can You Dig It” Trolley, for a history tour focused on Black Fayetteville in the 1970s, curated in partnership with local historian and archivist, Nicholle Young St. Leone. 

The trolley will run at 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. with each run lasting about 30-45 minutes. Admission to the trolley tour is free, though donations are accepted and appreciated.

The weekend will also include a Juneteenth Jubilee Costume Contest, a Juneteenth Celebration 5K and  the Cool Spring Downtown District is also excited to bring an outdoor skating rink to the Jubilee.

You can learn more about the full schedule of events online here: 

https://visitdowntownfayetteville.com/juneteenth-jubilee-downtown-fayetteville-2023/

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