Saturday, June 20, 2026 | 2pm-6pm | Mill Bridge Nature Park
Join us at Mill Bridge Nature Park to celebrate Juneteenth with live performances, educational information, family activities, great food, and local businesses!
Performers
| ARTIST |
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| Eugene Taylor Jashaun Peele Somethin 4 Da People Trevel Allen Tish Birdsong |
Vendors
| VENDOR NAME |
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| The Naked Empanada Sunshine Slushies Fancy Fay's House of Sticks Cigar Lounge Wildberry Pediatric Dentistry Gwendolyn Totes Devoted Man for Him & HER Royalty Designs Home Clean Heroes of Central Raleigh 17th & 3rd Studio River + Rain Candle Co. |
Vendor Application
We are seeking food vendors and local businesses. If you are interested in being a vendor at the 2026 Rolesville Freedom At The Park Juneteenth Celebration, please complete the vendor application below.
The Vendor Application will be open from March 23, 2026, to May 22, 2026
If you have any questions, please contact the Special Events Coordinator at 919-554-6582.
Juneteenth History
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. A combination of the words “June” and “nineteenth,” Juneteenth commemorates Union Major General Gordon Granger’s reading of the ‘General Order Number 3’ in the City of Galveston, Texas freeing enslaved people on June 19, 1865. The reading of ‘General Order Number 3’ came 2 and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.
Today, Juneteenth celebrates African American freedom and achievement, while encouraging continuous self-development and respect for all cultures.
General Granger’s 'General Order Number 3' began with:
"The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired laborer."