Fort Worth Festival Underscores That 'Black Music Is American Music'

Arlington TX

15 March, 2022

7:01 PM

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By Marcheta Fornoff, Fort Worth Report March 15, 2022 The Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival is back for its second year — and this time ticket holders can experience live music in person. COVID-19 forced last year's event online, but this year's attendees can expect a day of musical performances, live podcast recordings and some dancing at the Southside Preservation Hall. Brandi Waller-Pace is the founder and executive director of Decolonizing the Music Room, the nonprofit hosting the festival. Waller-Pace spent 10 years in Fort Worth ISD classrooms as an elementary music teacher. But even as a music educator and someone who graduated from Howard University, a historically Black institution, she felt that discussions of Black artists who shaped American music were incomplete. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.