Join the St. Augustine Music Festival (SAMF) on Monday, June 19, 2023 at 7:30pm for the 2023 Juneteenth Celebration.  Doors open at 7:00pm.

In collaboration with Ritz Chamber Players, the featured artist is Ann Marie McPhail. The concert will feature works by Samuel Coleridge Taylor.

Held at the Cathedral Basilica, the event celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.

Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day – June 19, 1865 – when federal troops arrived in Galveston Texas to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people were now free. The troops’ arrival came two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln.

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