The 14th Annual Malcom X Jazz Festival will take place Saturday, May 17th, 2014. This year's festival will pay tribute to Amiri Baraka. Amiri was a great friend and key advisor to the ESAA who over the past two decades performed, led forums, taught workshops, collaborated with musicians and other artists, and even produced and directed a jazz opera at EastSide Cultural Center.
External Link
MAIN STAGE:
*The Last Poets
*Ms. Faye Carol (in a tribute to Abbey Lincoln)
*Howard Wiley & Excerpts from Amiri Baraka's The Sisyphus Syndrome
*Unity Grooves: EastSide Youth Jazz Workshop
*Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement
KATHERINE DUNHAM DANCE STAGE:
*Starchild Dance Lindy Hop Project
*Kendra Kimbrough Dance Ensemble
*Sister Linda Johnson
Also featuring:
local crafts vendors & community organizations, The Javad Jahi Soapbox stage, The Mike Dream Courts, Kid's Court for family fun, Dance Battles, Cyphers and our Food Court featuring international flavors!
*For more information and ANY inquiries regarding the festival, please contact EastSide Cultural Center directly.
eastsideculturalcenter@gmail.com*
The 13th Annual Malcolm X Jazz Festival, hosted by the Eastside Arts Alliance, took place in San Antonio Park on May 18, 2013.
Who was There
Social Justice Organizations
- Arab Resource Organizing Center
- Beats Rhymes and Life
- Black Organizing Project/ Center for Third World Organizing
- Critical Resistance
- OneLife Institute for Spirituality and Social Transformation
Political Parties
Artists
- Samba Ngo
- Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids
- Howard Wiley Trio
- The Pre Integration Jazz Band ft. the Magnificent 7
- Faye Carol
- Freddie Hughes
- Johnny Tolbert
- John Turk
- Jules Broussard
- Danny Armstrong
- Chester Thompson
- Nu Dekades
- Dimensions Dance Company
- Mighty High Dreamers
- The Clique
- Queens D. Light & Themhellas
- The Turf Feinz
- MoonCandy
- Mix'd Ingrdnts Dance Crew
- Alien Art Gang
- DJ Wonway & The Latin Soul Brothers
- Dr. Albirda Rose's Village Dancers & IFDTC
- Stemela and Baba Achebe's South African Boot Dance
- Diamano Coura West African Dance Company
- Omiiroo
- Marvin X