Juneteenth Musical Celebrations This Weekend

People around the country will be celebrating Juneteenth this weekend, many with music! Check out some of this weekend's festivities:

JUNETEENTH: A Global Celebration of Freedom

Hollywood, California

San Francisco Jazz Fest

San Francisco, California

Juneteenth Music Festival

Denver, Colorado

I AM JUNETEENTH Festival

Fort Worth, Texas

Tulsa Juneteenth

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Juneteenth Festival

Montgomery, Alabama

Festival of Black Arts & Ideas: Juneteenth

Chattanooga, Tennessee

JuneteenthKC Cultural Parade

Kansas City, Missouri

Something In the Water Music Festival

Washington D.C.

AFRAM Festival

Baltimore, Maryland

Juneteenth & 2nd Annual Historic Harlem Parks Festival

Harlem, New York

Juneteenth is a federally recognized holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States. The date marks the anniversary of when the news reached soldiers in Texas nearly two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation on June 19, 1865. Learn more about Juneteenth here.