featuring Jay Williams and Total Praise Gospel Choir, and Marques Jerrell Ruff, Baritone
A FREE performance honoring Freedom’s Eve and Florida’s Emancipation Day.
This concert was planned in partnership with the Florida Department of State, the John G. Riley Center & Museum, and Soul of Southside, Visit Tallahassee, and the City of Tallahassee.
Food trucks, performances by local organizations, and information booths will open at 6pm. The orchestra concert begins at 8pm.
SEATING
This event is free and open to the public. Anyone can use the seats in the amphitheater, as well as the green space.
PARKING
For general parking locations, please view the map linked HERE
Accessible parking is available in the Cascades Garage on South Calhoun Street across from the AC Marriott Hotel. The City of Tallahassee is providing free shuttle service to the amphitheater area for patrons who have parked in the Cascades Garage and request assistance. Please note, there is an hourly fee to park in this garage.
FOOD and BEVERAGE
We will announce food vendors closer to the event
Additional support provided by:
Procession | Capital Battery Line | |
Reinactment Reading | The Declaration of Independence | |
Verdi | La Forza del Destino | |
Traditional arr by Morton Gould | Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child | |
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | Danse Nègre, No. 4 from African Suite, Op. 35 | |
Traditional | Ride on King Jesus | Marques Jerrell Ruff |
Traditional | Deep River | Marques Jerrell Ruff |
Aaron Copland | "The Promise of Living" from The Tender Land Suite | |
William Grant Still | Afro-American Symphony, mvmt 3 | |
Duke Ellington arr. Jeff Tyzik | Ellington Portrait | |
Michael W. Smith | Total Praise | Jay Williams and Total Praise Gospel Choir |
Various | Song Selections with Jay Williams and Total Praise Gospel Choir | |
J. Rosamond Johnson arr. Roland Carter | Left Every Voice and Sing | all |
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