25/07/2025
JOIN US for a FREE music and arts festival in Kansas City! Making Movies, The Salvation Choir, and Grammy award-winning artist La Lulu will rock the main stage.
📅SATURDAY 7/26/25, from 12 p.m. - 8 p.m., enjoy local multicultural food😋 and drink while you browse our MERCADO, open-air makers market! Tap in and celebrate our vibrant international community in Kansas City’s Historic Northeast neighborhood on July 26th.
ACTIVITIES FOR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY!!!
🎥Main Stage headliners including Making Movies, Latin Grammy winner La Lulu, The Salvation Choir, Beau Bledsoe, a local Columbian Folkloric ensemble, Kansas City Poet Laureate Melissa Ferrer-Civil, and more special guests TBA!
🔥Youth performers take the Main Stage for the first time, performing a set of famous songs co-created by Kansas City artists...
Community Stage performers include Mr. Stinky Feet, youth performers from BAM and Harmony Project, dance groups, poetry, and more multicultural and multimedia performances
🔥 Food trucks and tents including multicultural food options and 100% compostable packaging
🍹VIP Lounge including air conditioning, networking, free merch, a poster, and free adult beverages for attendees 21 and up
👕Limited edition merch from the Immigrants Are Beautiful line, in collaboration with Seen Merch, Made Mobb, and Oddities. T-shirt Tie Dye Station to decorate white festival shirts
🎨Artmaking tents for all ages--Physical activities including yard games, a bouncy house, and soccer with Rygoku Soccer and Global FC
Free popsicles starting at 12PM at the Community Stage (while supplies last)
Interactive experiences including a bring-your-own-instrument parade with Sass-a-Brass (5:45PM), drum circles with Drum Safari, Zen Den yoga and meditation, water toys, & MORE!
MERCADO international open-air marketplace offering global goods, crafts, and cuisine
Community Health and Social Support Groups
AND MUCH MORE!
Now in its fourth year, Celebrate AMERI’KANA is a celebration of the myriad backgrounds, cultures, languages, and sounds that have shaped American music, bringing Grammy-winning artists to Kansas City to perform at the FREE festival alongside youth performers from the organization’s year-round mentorship programs.
🔥👍SEE YOU THERE!
Ticket and Info Link: https://celebrateamerikana.com
