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Family Area

This special interactive area features hands-on crafts, quiet games and active games, and other creative learning activities for young audiences and their families. The Family Area will also feature a variety of performances sure to delight festivalgoers of all ages.

Family Area Performers

Acme Miniature Flea Circus

flea circus 

Providence, Rhode Island via Barcelona, Spain

Trained by renowned psycho-entomologist Professor A.G. Gertsacov, the diminutive stars of this Victorian-style flea circus—Midge and Madge—perform death-defying circus stunts and stunning sideshow antics.

Chief Shaka Zulu

New Orleans Black masking craftsmen and stilt dancer

New Orleans, Louisiana

This master of Black masking suit design and revered stilt dancer is deeply rooted in New Orleans’s Carnival tradition as well as its interwoven history of Black and Indigenous culture.

Leaving Legacies

krump dance

Jackson, Mississippi

Led by two of Jackson’s standout dancers and instructors, this group mesmerizes audiences with a highly energetic and explosive style of hip hop dance, embracing its capacity for healing through movement.

Vasti Jackson: The Soul of Jimmie Rodgers

country and blues

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Multitalented Mississippi guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer presents a program exploring the underappreciated cultural exchange between blues and country music as exemplified by an American music legend.

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