*Atlanta, GA – Saturday, August 10, 2019, FunkJazz Kafé Arts & Music Festival will host their 25th year celebration at The Tabernacle, (152 Luckie St NW, Atlanta, GA 30303) – 8pm.
After receiving national acclaim for their multi-award-winning documentary film, “FunkJazz Kafé : Diary Of A Decade,” which explores Black music and the rise of Atlanta’s music scene of the early 90’s, FunkJazz Kafé Arts & Music Festival rolls into their twenty-fifth year with great anticipation.
FJK will continue with what has made it a legendary cultural arts event staple. There will be six separate interactive art areas along with exclusive surprise music performances. Highly anticipated and nationally acclaimed, don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to engage within Atlanta’s premiere festival platform for creative freedom.
Advance tickets can be purchased online at FunkJazzKafe.com as well as Ticketmaster.com. Tickets can also be purchased at the Tabernacle box office.
INDUSTRY QUOTES
“A Movement… Crossing All Barriers of Race, Culture, and Music!” ~ The Source Magazine
“One Hot Ticket!” ~ Billboard Magazine
“Best Performance Arts Festival” ~VIBE Magazine
“A Legendary Carnival of Art & Music!” ~VIBE Magazine
“Best Multimedia Event” ~ Creative Loafing.
“The FunkJazz Kafé owes its success not just to making lasting impressions and the consistent surprise of quality performance artists, but to the movement created by unapologetically blending intellectual, physical and even political expression under one banner of entertainment.”
Creative Loafing Atlanta
BEST OF ATLANTA
FunkJazz Kafé Arts & Music Festival producer, Jason Orr says, “This will be as monumental as our other 49 FunkJazz Kafé Arts & Music Festivals as we celebrate our 25th year to extend our gratitude to those who’ve supported our festival and award-winning film nationally and internationally for over two decades. With your dedicated support for cultural preservation, free expression and creativity, we’ve maintained a long history of setting the stage for what’s soulful, authentic, funky, next and cool in multiple artistic disciplines.”
Over the last twenty-five years, FunkJazz Kafé Community Solutions has donated clothes and over 937,000 plates of food for the homeless benefiting several local and national charities including Hosea Williams’ Feed the Hungry & Homeless Program, The Shelter for Atlanta’s Battered Women & Children, Focus Hope (Detroit), Food & Friends (DC), Atlanta Alliance on Developmental Disabilities and National Aids Education & Services for Minorities.
ABOUT
FunkJazz Kafé Arts & Music Festival
Established in 1994, FunkJazz Kafé Arts & Music Festival is an authentic cultural arts lifestyle brand dedicated to preserving, educating and evolving Soul, Jazz, Funk, R&B, Blues/Rock & Hip-Hop music and social cultures. FunkJazz Kafé has, since then, set the bar as a music and arts discovery festival, changing the face of cultural arts and multi-media events throughout the country. Rolling Stone Magazine calls FunkJazz Kafé Arts & Music Festival “A Creative Paradise” and is one of the most anticipated, original multimedia cultural arts festivals in North America. Justly earning the accolade “A Legendary Carnival of Art & Music!” by Vibe Magazine and voted “Best Performance Arts Festival” & “Best Multimedia Event” by Creative Loafing Atlanta, performers have included an array of pioneers like Outkast, Jill Scott, Cee Lo Green, Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae, India Arie, Jamie Foxx, Omar, Bilal, Meshell Ndegeocello, Caron Wheeler (Soul II Soul), Van Hunt and hip-hop legends Public Enemy, Doug E. Fresh, Pharoahe Monch, MC Lyte, Talib Kweli, Too Short and Common, to name a few.
FJK HASHTAGS
#FunkJazzKafe, #FJK25, #DiaryOfADecade, #CelebrateSoul, #CuratorsOfCool
Web: FunkJazzKafe.com
Instagram: @FunkJazzKafe
Facebook: @FunkJazzKafeMovement
YouTube: /FunkJazzKafeChannel
Twitter: @FunkJazzKafe
source:
FunkJazz Kafé
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