Where to celebrate Juneteenth in Rochester

This weekend packs a powerful local events lineup, with both the 2026 Juneteenth Festival (June 19-20) presented by the Greater Rochester Martin Luther King Jr. Commission and Rochester Area Community Foundation and the opening of the 23rd annual Rochester International Jazz Festival (June 19-27).Juneteenth is a federal holiday and known as the nation’s second independence day: on June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, Texas (more than t