Family Village Stage

Live Performance Lineup

Saturday

11:00 am:             2023 AACF Processional - Lineup and start the procession from the Wake County Courthouse

11:45 am:             Dasan Ahanu 2023 Piedmont Poet Laureate

12:00 pm:            Dignitaries Introduced and Speak

12:15 pm:             Deep River Singers

12:35 pm:             Right Moves Dance Company

1:00 pm:             Arts Spotlight: Wendell Tabb/Triangle Performance Ensemble

1:55 pm:             Walltown Children’s Theatre

2:00 pm:             Community Music School

2:25 pm:              The Gifted Arts

2:45 pm:             Arts Spotlight: Theatre Raleigh

3:10 pm:              Arts Spotlight: Artspace/Carly Jones

3:15 pm:             Cypher University

3:40 pm:             Emotion Dance Company Southeast Raleigh High School

4:05 pm:              Special Spotlight on Young Adult Kayla Williams, National NAACP ActSo finalist, and NC Gold Medalist Kayla Williams will share about how the NAACP ActSo is open to all teens/young adults.

4:15 pm:             Arts Spotlight: Pure Life Theatre Company: August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

5:00 pm:             Mo Jazz

Sunday

1:00 pm:             Christian Comedian Carlos Massey

1:30 pm:             Essi Sings

1:55 pm:             Arts Spotlight - Agape Theatre: A Night of One Acts with Artistic Director Kenneth Hinton

2:00 pm:             United Strings of Color

2:35 pm:             NC Association of Black Storytellers (NCABS)

3:05 pm:             Arts Spotlight (North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre: Chick’n Biscuits and Mahalia)

4:00 pm:             Deep River Singers