Schedule - (Tentative)

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Saturday, February 25, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

 MC - To Be Added
   
12:45 -1:00 Kickoff: Reagan High School Drum Line (from Chapel down to festival grounds)
   
1:00 - 1:15 Drumming & Dance: Texas Empowerment Academy
(elementary students)
   
1:15 -1:30 Storytelling: Elizabeth Kahura
   
1:30 -1:55 Featured Music: TBA
   
2:00 – 2:30 FESTIVAL PROGRAM:
  • Presentation of Colors: Texas Buffalo Soldiers
  • Negro National Anthem: The Isaac Sisters
  • America the Beautiful: Perfect Peace (Women’s a cappella group)
  • Invocation: Reverend Charles Stephens Sr, Simpson United Methodist Church
  • Festival Welcome: TBA
  • Introduction of Representative Dukes: MC
  • Introduction of Huston-Tillotson University President, Dr. Roderick L. Smothers, Vice President of Institutional Advancement & Scholarship Check Presentation, TBA
   
2:30 - 2:45 Poetry
   
3:00 - 3:20 Tap and Jazz dance: Flava Dance Company
   
3:25 – 3:40 Performance: Capoeira Angola
   
4:00 - 4:45 Featured Music: TBA
   
5:00 Strike
 

 

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Schedule