Oakland’s Black-Eyed Peas Festival is celebrating its fifth year.
Assistant Director Paula Marie Parker told KRON 4’s Marty Gonzalez about the celebration.
The Black-Eyed Peas Festival is free to attend.
It runs from 11:00am-6:00pm on the front lawn at Oakland Tech High School.
The festival celebrates black-eyed peas, an historic staple food for African Americans, and create opportunity for cultural upliftment through traditional African and African American music(drums, dance, jazz, blues, gospel) and sales of handmade crafts and art by black artists.
This year’s festival features veterans MJ’s Brass Boppers, Dimensions Dance Theatre, Awon Ohun Omnira, and Tory Teasley and the Teasers, doing protest anthems, Shavon Moore handling classic jazz, the Jamming Nachos eclectic rock and their headliner, the Fabulous Miss Faye Carol.