On Saturday, Oct. 21, hundreds gathered at Camp North End on Statesville Avenue for Charlotte’s first black alternative music festival. We captured some of the bands in action on stage, but mostly we surveyed the grounds as fans, families, vendors and more lounged around the sprawling, colorful Camp North End site. It was a great day of music, food, fun, and sweet, autumn sunshine. (Photos by Mark Kemp)

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Mark Kemp is Creative Loafing's former editor-in-chief, and the author of Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South. He is currently the senior editor of Our State magazine....