Music Festival season is about to get into high gear all over the world in the next few weeks, including the second annual Broccoli City Music Festival in Washington, D.C.

This great daylong event is going to be held from noon - 9 PM on Saturday, April 25, 2015, rain or shine, over at the Gateway D.C. Pavilion (located at 1100 Alabama Ave, SE) featuring a pretty solid and eclectic lineup of Hip-Hop, Soul, EDM acts and more from the indie and major label ends, including headliners Erykah Badu, Joey Bada$$, Tink, Kaytranada, Willow & Jaden Smith (YES, the music making children of Will & Jada Pinkett-Smith), Tiara Thomas, Lightshow, Carlitta Durand and more!

The Broccoli City Festival will also have fresh food demos led by Whole Foods Market, a pop-up market featuring eco-friendly vendors, fully stocked bars, live art installations, fitness, a full-service organic juice bar, an acupuncture and massage center and various food trucks offering the city's best mobile cuisine for the audience to engage in and enjoy.

For more detailed information on all of the performing acts, how to get tickets (which are selling fast as of this writeup from general admission to VIP tickets), directions and more, go to http://www.BCFestival.com.

Also check out more information about the Broccoli City Lifestyle Group's various community based events for living healthier and more sustainable lifestyles all over the nation, go to http://www.BroccoliCity.com.

Check out our BlackRadioIsBack.com and FuseBox Radio Broadcast's coverage and pictures from last year's event here.

Partners and exhibitors of the 2015 Broccoli City Festival include the Toyota Green Initiative, Whole Foods Market, DC Department of Parks and Recreation, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, DC Sustainable Energy Utility, WPGC/CBS Local, Square and Mass Appeal.

Good Sunday Evening FuseBox Radio Broadcast & BlackRadioIsBack.com peoples! 

Just wanted to share some pictures that were taken during this year's second annual Broccoli City Festival in Washington, DC at Gateway Pavilion on Earth Day, Saturday, April 19, 2014. 

For those not familiar with the festival or organization, the Broccoli City Lifestyle Group's mission since 2009 has been to develop strategies & programming to educate and empower multicultural communities to live more healthier and more sustainable lifestyles through media outreach, partnerships with other organizations and more.  

Throughout the day, there were a lot of great music acts from all over the U.S. representing independent & mainstream Hip-Hop, Soul, Electro, DC Go-Go and more from all over the U.S. that kept the crowd happily bouncing (literally and otherwise) along with local & national vendors selling all sorts of cool items & food, various organizations giving out information and exercise sessions along with other types of action on the Pavilion.

Overall, the Broccoli City Festival was a great inclusive (& REALLY inexpensive) enjoyable community event that was safe & fun for everyone that pulled off the rare combination of entertainment and education that wasn't on the extremes of being overly preachy or just a bunch of slick surface talk.  I hope they'll have more events like this in the D.C. Metro for years to come.

Hope that you enjoy all of the great performers, scenery and crowd on display! :)
 - DJ Fusion (FuseBox Radio Broadcast) 

 ** All pictures taken by Mary Nichols (DJ Fusion/FuseBox Radio Broadcast) under a "Creative Commons Attribution - No Derivatives" license. Please feel free to use & share them if you wish with attribution/credit to the photographer...thank you! **

Cam'ron

Kelela

Just Blaze

Reesa Renee

Chaz French (368 Music Group)

Live Graffiti Action During The Broccoli City Festival

Audience Shot during the Broccoli City Festival

Sango (Soulection)

Alison Carney of Butterfly Tree

Melker Project

Rock Creek Social Club

Me & This Army

Future Band

K. Eye D.

Folks Copping Eats At The Food Trucks During The Broccoli City Festival

Some of the Art Vendors at the Broccoli City Festival

Future Band's Horn Section

DJ Money

A Fella Who Got A Tad Too Turnt Up Throughout The Day To Do...This.

Goldlink

Audience Shot

Cool Jewelry on Sale via the folks at Woodville

Audience Shot During A Break In the Music...

Folks Hit The Ground To Get Turnt Up 

(literally...after jumping off of the stage during Chaz French's set...making me happy I didn't get hit in the photo pit)

Broccoli City Vendor Giving Folks A Pose

More Audience Folks On Pose...

Riding on the Graff Bus

Here is a slideshow of all of the pictures taken via the official FuseBox Radio Broadcast's Flickr page for the event to view/download as hi-definition images: