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When:
Saturday, November 16, 2024, from 12:00pm – 4:00pm
Venue:
Barber Park (Get Directions)
Admission:
FREE
Event Details:
This festival is designed to celebrate love, peace, and unity in our communities, Greensboro, Winston Salem, High Point and the surrounding areas. This FREE event will bring together local leaders, law enforcement, churches, local organizations and our community on a day of awareness, joy, and fun in hopes of bringing positive change for us all. We believe that bringing the community together in the spirit of peace & love will help decrease violence, bring awareness to mental health and increase access to the resources we all need in the triad and beyond. Triad Strong Headliner: Ricco Barrino Triad Strong line up is crazy. We will feature national & local talent including bands, hip hop artist, singers, choirs, poets, step teams, cheerleaders and so much more! We will also have vendors, food trucks, fun & games for the whole family, resource vendors & more Abigail Dowd is a singer/songwriter/guitarist with a gift for telling stories. She grew up under the longleaf pines in the Sandhills region of North Carolina; land that could only be tamed by Scotch-Irish settlers. Dowd brings this heritage of storytelling and determination to her music and weaves together hints of Celtic melodies with the soulful gospel of the south. There are also strands of something haunting and mysterious, as unique as the journey she took to get to where she is now. Dowd comes from a long line of musicians and always knew music was her destination, and it shows. Every song is like an ethnography of the places she’s been and the people she's met along the way. Dowd's playing has been described by PopMatters as "Robust acoustic guitar and subtle tones of instrumentation that offer themselves well to the songs' feelings of reflection, carried forward most ebulliently by [her] warm, sonorous vocals." She combines her classical fingerpicking style with the edgy bass and percussion of Jason Duff to create a sound that dances between folk, rock and blues.