Saturday, June 27, 2026
1:00 pm
Sugar Hill Luminaries Lawn
Edgecombe Avenue and 155th Street
Harlem, NY
Great music and good vibrations up on Sugar Hill...
While We Are Still Here is honored to present the 9th Annual Sugar Hill Music Festival. We are pleased to announce that seven-time Grammy® Award nominee Nnenna Freelon will headline this year’s festival.
Freelon launched her recording career in 1992 with Columbia Records and has since built an internationally celebrated body of work with acclaimed albums such as Tales of Wonder (2002) and Blueprint of a Lady: Sketches of Billie Holiday (2005).
Featuring:
- Nnenna Freelon
- Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra
- Jenn Jade Ledesna
- Lavender Light, The Black and People of All Colors Lesbian and Gay Gospel Choir, with Eric Williamson, Artistic Director.
- Pauline Jean
Nnenna will be reading from her book, Beneath the Skin of Sorrow, and presenting her soulful, inimitable vocal stylings.
FREE/Suggested Contribution: $25, $50 (includes signed book)
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