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Louisville shows this week: Ali Summit, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Ben Sollee & more


Louisville shows this week: Ali Summit, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Ben Sollee & more
Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal
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Louisville musician Ben Sollee will perform at the new Old Forester s Paristown Hall music venue on July 23.
This arts and entertainment calendar updates weekly and lists events taking place in and around Louisville, from concerts to comedy shows, theater productions, musical performances and more. If you d like to have an arts and entertainment performance event listed, please send a note to Gege Reed at greed@courier-journal.com.
SATURDAY, June 12
“Ali Summit.” Part of Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival of New Plays. In 1967, world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali met with a group of the top black athletes in the country, who questioned him about his conscientious objection to serving in the Vietnam War. This virtual project is a collaboration between playwright Idris Goo ....

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Here are 10+ ways to celebrate, things to do for Juneteenth this year in Louisville


Here are 10+ ways to celebrate, things to do for Juneteenth this year in Louisville
Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal
USA TODAY staff reads the Emancipation Proclamation for Juneteenth
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Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, is a nationwide celebration to commemorate the emancipation from slavery. 
Juneteenth, is a combination of June and  nineteenth, in honor of June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger came to Galveston, Texas, to inform a reluctant community that President Abraham Lincoln two years earlier had freed the slaves and to press locals to comply with his directive.  ....

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Juneteenth 2021: Events, things to do to celebrate in Louisville


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Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, is a nationwide celebration to commemorate the emancipation from slavery. 
Juneteenth, is a combination of June and  nineteenth, in honor of June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger came to Galveston, Texas, to inform a reluctant community that President Abraham Lincoln two years earlier had freed the slaves and to press locals to comply with his directive. 
There is no one reason why there was a 2-plus-year delay in letting Texas know about the abolition of slavery in the United States, according to Juneteenth.com. The historical site said some accounts place the delay on a messenger who was murdered on his way to Texas with the news, while others say the news was deliberately withheld. ....

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