LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

Joe Baes is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has always enjoyed music, and loved learning how to play instruments. Had dreams of playing in a rock band as a teen, but decided to join the Marine Corps after high school. He continued to play and write music while in the Marines, performing with bands throughout the years; the Sweater Kittenz, BoZko, Y25 and a couple others along the way. He's played in Japan, Iraq, Kuwait and in the United States.

Margaret Fletcher Dance Studio teaches tap, ballet, ballroom, and jazz, Ages 3 to 93. They offer combination classes for Little Ones. They will make a performing arts demonstration during the festival at 9:45AM.

Post 12 Band is a family band that plays contemporary Christian, gospel covers, 60’s-today covers, and some originals. They serve Craven, Carteret, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico and Pitt counties.

Dazzling Dancers offers our youth opportunities in our community by participating in 1 ½ hour dance classes twice a week and a “Sparkle Pop” performance once a month. There are many life skills taught both in and outside of dance class. Dazzling Dancers motivates our youth to be strong leaders as well as good followers! The vision is to volunteer for Black history month events, holidays, celebrations, birthday parties, parade and back to school events for the community.

The Dust Parade is a genre-bending original music group born from the sandy beaches and river towns of Eastern North Carolina. Hank Barbee leads the 'The Parade', his sultry and mellow baritone voice engages the lyrical conversation, while just underneath, his bluesy electric guitar passages marry with Jim Durham's saxophone. Since forming in 2017, they play a unique brand of surfy/jazz-rock and bluesy/soul rhythms set to life over incisive and socially conscious songwriting.