“Scat To Rap” Music Festival

After years of being shuffled from foster home to foster home an estimated 5,000 California youth are emancipated or “age out” of the foster care system every year. Within six months of being released from the system 50% of them will be living under highway overpasses, in abandon cars, and in tent cities, not knowing when or where their next meal will come from.

The West East Community Access Network Foundation (WE CAN Foundation) in association with other California community groups are having the Allensworth “Scat To Rap” Family Music Festival to raise funds to assist the emancipated youth of Los Angeles, Tulare, and Kern counties.

 

Festival entertainment will include Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Reggae, Spoken Word, and oral history narratives. The “Allensworth Trading Post” will have food, arts & crafts, vendors, exhibitors, and children’s activities.

 

The general admission ticket price is $15.00 (provide your own transportation), $30.00 (vanpool), or $45.00 (charter bus). Vanpools and Charter buses in Los Angeles will be leaving the Leimert Park parking lot adjacent to 4329 Degnan promptly at 8:30 AM. For attendees from Northern California, Amtrak has a direct stop at Allensworth. Call the We Can office for further details at (323) 293-9845.

 

Purchase tickets at:

•  www.brownpapertickets.com/event/162407
• Bless-Ed Love at 1404 W. Vernon Ave., Los Angeles 90062
• Ackee Bamboo Jamaican Cuisine, 4305 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles 90008

For vendor or volunteer information or overnight camping call WE CAN Foundation at (323) 293-9845 or Kimberly and Robert Garcia at (323) 292-5214. http://doo-wop2hiphop.com/

 

 
What: Allensworth “Scat To Rap” Music Festival

 

When: Saturday, September 10, 2011

 

Time: 11:00 am to 6:00 pm

 

Where: Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park

 

Cost: $15.00 general admission
          $30.00 vanpool
          $45.00 charter bus