One yr after Teyana Taylor’s farewell tour, the Harlem native will return to the stage for the inaugural Harlem Competition of Tradition .

The final weekend of July, Teyana will function a hometown hero alongside Cam’ron, Doug E. Recent, and MA$E who’re Harlem natives set to carry out for his or her metropolis’s first-ever music pageant. Becoming a member of the Harlemites are Grammy award-winning musician Wyclef Jean, rising star Coco Jones, Adam Blackstone, Bell Biv DeVoe, Eric Bellinger, Fats Joe, Jozzy, MAJOR., Muni Lengthy, Remy Ma, Ro James, Tink and extra!

Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Estelle is curating a particular Dancehall LinkUp that may embrace particular appearances by Lumidee, Max Glazer, Mr. Killa, Nadine Sutherland, Nina Sky, Rupee, Serani, and Wayne Surprise. To prime off the long-lasting occasion, hip Hop legend MC Lyte will function host for your entire Competition weekend.

“As a local New Yorker, I’m honored to host the very first Harlem Competition of Tradition,” MC Lyte mentioned in a press release.

“Harlem Competition of Tradition has deliberate one thing particular that I believe everybody – whether or not they’re from across the nook, throughout the nation or around the globe – will take pleasure in.”

The pageant will run for 3 days from July 28– July 30 on New York Metropolis’s Randall’s Island – an island positioned between Queens and East Harlem and beneath the jurisdiction of East Harlem’s Group Board 11. The rebooted pageant was impressed by the groundbreaking Harlem Cultural Competition of 1969 that served as the main focus of Questlove’s Oscar-winning 2021 documentary “Summer season of Soul.”

The newly rebooted HFC will embrace interactive artwork installations, a curated culinary courtroom, and a reimagined Mart 125 market named and modeled after Harlem’s famed financial hub and incubator that when housed plenty of small, Black-owned companies on the legendary a hundred and twenty fifth Road.

Festivalgoers also can participate in additional intimate live performance occasions on the famed Apollo Theater in addition to different activations that shall be happening all through Harlem.

Get your tickets for the Harlem Competition of Tradition HERE.

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