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afropunk bk: where legends meet future legends
The thing about being a long-running community festival is you get to watch people grow — on both sides of the stage. There are audience members who showed up as kids and now bring theirs. Artists once looking to be put on, who now headlines. The legends are forever mixing with legends in-the-making — real recognizing real, in the timeless manner of progress. Knowing the importance of spotlighting both the stars and the ones who will be, is one of the things you learn from producing the AFROPUNK festival. It’s part of the joy. The looks on people’s faces when they are in the presence of historic greatness (performing historically profound material) are not markedly different from what they look like when discovering a favorite new singer/band/DJ. “Oh, sheeeeeiiit!” When it happens for real, the glow does not fade away quickly, and the stories remain timeless. (“Do you remember when we saw them back in the day?”)
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