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Celebrating African American legacy through food, music and art, Oakland’s Ninth Annual Black-Eyed Pea Festival will be bigger and better at its new location at Marston Campbell Park in West Oakland on Sept. 14.
Appealing to all ages, the free festival will feature African American traditional music from several genres including straight-ahead jazz, New Orleans-style second-line and Zydeco. Our full line-up includes headliner Andre Thierry Accordion Soul Music (Zydeco); MJ’s Brass Boppers (second-line); Valerie Troutt’s MoonCandy, and Dimensions Dance Theatre.
The festival will begin with sacred acknowledgment of the land by Wakan-Wiya Two-Spirit Drum and Awon Ohun Omnira’s drumming homage to African ancestors.
All ages are welcome to this Free community festival Children will enjoy creative activities Arts and Crafts and vendors selling hand made items by people of color African decent and mouth watering soul food.
Omnira institutes mission is to preserve and extend the threads of scared knowledge music and practices from west Africa to the Americas
