It will be held at The Broadside, the outdoor venue at 600 North Broad Street.  This year’s honorees include the late Big Chief Ray “Hatchet” Blazio of the Wild Apache, Keelian “Dump” Boyd of the Young Maasai Hunters, Big Chief Allison “Tootie” Montana of the Yellow Pocahontas and Deborah “Big Red” Cotton.

Performances by the Treme Brass Band and the Lil’ Rascals Brass Band, featuring Grand Marshal Oswald “Bo Monkey” Jones, and Big Chief Kevin Goodman of the Flaming Arrows will be interspersed with video interviews with such notables as Big Chief Darryl Montana of the Yellow Pocahontas, Fred Johnson of the Black Men of Labor, Louis Charbonnet of Charbonnet Family Services and many more.

Under the leadership of the Backstreet Cultural Museum’s executive director Dominique Dilling, who in 2020 took over the position following the death of her father Sylvester Francis, this year’s program commemorating All Saints Day is different than those in the past. Its purpose of celebrating the ancestors remains the same, but the event is being held in loving memory of the Francis, museum’s founder. Merchandise and museum membership applications will be available on site.