Juneteenth Celebration: Songs of Liberation, Freedom and Disability Awareness

    The People’s Music Network will honor and celebrate Juneteenth with our fourth online community art performance event on Thursday, June 12, 2025.  In this Zoom event, members of the People's Music Network and artists from around the world will share poetry and songs of Liberation, Freedom and Disability Awareness in honor of Juneteenth.  We are curating songs that speak to the struggles of people fighting for a better world, free from war, poverty, racism, and all forms of oppression.  We're prioritizing inclusion of artists with disabilities who are physically unable to attend the many in-person Juneteenth events taking place later in the month.

FREE LIVESTREAM: Thursday, June 12, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00 PM (ET)

on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuHME9FNe4U

*** Once event ends, the livestream will be archived at this same link.

Join us via Zoom

To be part of the audience on Zoom, press the "Register" button.  As a member of PMN, you may register for free.

Non-members can register for a donation of $5 or more.   Non-Members wanting to register without payment can do so using the registration code: "juneteenth". 

PERFORMER LIST:   

1. 7:00 PM Joanie and Angie , Intro and welcome – disability awareness and oppression (live)

2. 7:05 PM Angie Whitehurst, Poem (live)

3. 7:10 PM Susan Kelly, guided meditation (live)

4. 7:15 PM Gary Allard, (live)

5. 7:20 PM Lindsey Wilson, (live)

6. 7:25 PM Carl Adams, poster blurb about the Nance park in Illinois (live)

7. 7:30 PM Nikki Nesbary, presents SongRise video - "Stand Up" (from the movie Harriet) (video)

8. 7:35 PM STORM , poem/song TBA (live)

9. 7:40 PM Tristan Lion, presents video - "Malcolm X" (video)

10. 7:45 PM Charlie King, "But Just Don’t Tell the Children" (live)

11. 7:50 PM Dilson Hernandez, "Freedom Time" (video)

12. 7:55 PM Aaron Thompson, HTP Homes - VR and the right to work for incarcerated people (live)

13. 8:00 PM Nisey Hall, presents video - "Close the Gap" (video)

14. 8:05 PM Steve Suffet, "On My Long Journey Home" (live)

15. 8:10 PM Michael Frisch, The 198 String Band, Buffalo NY: "Year of Jubilo" ()

16. 8:15 PM Freddy Greene, presents video – "A Change Is Gonna Come" (video)

17. 8:20 PM Irwin Peterson, "If I Can Help Somebody."....then my living shall not be in vain." (video)

18. 8:25 PM Ryc Ward, "Land of the Free!" (live)

19. 8:30 PM Jendog Lonewolf, "Black People" (video)

20. 8:35 PM Nancy Hirschorn , presents Coro Carlos Chavez - "Cancion Mixteca" (video)

21. 8:40 PM Vernon and Percy Suggs , (video)

22. 8:45 PM Jenny Bonham-Carter , presents What the World Needs Now: Interfaith Coalition Singers "Keep your eyes on the prize medley" (video)

23. 8:55 PM Dr. Karen Wilson Eshefu , (video)

24. 9:00 PM Al McCray , Bob Marley's "One Love" (video)

25. 9:05 PM "Cleo" Carol Knopf, "A Hot Cup of Genocide" (live)

26. 9:10 PM Agnes Powers , Poem (video)

27. 9:15 PM Joanie/Lindsey/Angie , Closing (live)

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