At this free Kansas City festival, you can enjoy Making Movies and more
Local performers will show out in Northeast Kansas City on Saturday, July 26, for an entertainment event with a purpose.
Colombian vocalist and violinist La Lulu will be a featured performer at the fourth annual Ameri’kana Music and Arts Festival at Concourse Park. The popular Kansas City band Making Movies also will play.
Making Movies created the free festival as a benefit for its Art as Mentorship program, which it also founded. It brings in professional musicians to mentor young Black, Indigenous, immigrant and Latino artists, many of whom will perform on the festival’s Community Stage.
The 2025 festival goes on despite a $20,000 funding cut earlier this year that endangered the event as part of federal cuts to National Endowment for the Arts grants.
In addition to La Lulu and Making Movies, the Main Stage lineup includes The Salvation Choir, Beau Bledsoe and Kansas City poet laureate Melissa Ferrer Civil.
Here’s what you need to know about the festival.
Ameri’kana Music & Arts Festival
When: noon-8 p.m. July 26.
Where: Concourse Park, 200 Benton Blvd., in northeast Kansas City.
What: two stages for live performances, art making, yoga and meditation, children’s activities, open-air market, food trucks and more.
Cost: free; VIP tickets $100.
More information: amerikana.tv
