Denver’s Juneteenth Music Festival takes over Five Points neighborhood Sunday

Denver’s popular Juneteenth Music Festival is ready for the historic Five Points neighborhood Sunday.

Five Points, nicknamed the “Harlem of the West,” boasts a long history in the music world of jazz and African American culture.

Between the 1930s and 1960s, Five Points was the first predominantly African American neighborhood in Denver, offering dozens of bars once graced by Black jazz legends like Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and others, according to the RiNo Art District history page…

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