The Soul Food Festival is an inviting event that highlights the aroma of traditional soul food cooking in the air while bringing together families & friends in an outdoor social setting for a day of reunion, fellowship and live national award winning entertainment. The festival is presented by The Kinfolks Foundation, Inc. a nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization whose objective is to support learning environments and career development for under privileged youth and young adults. The organization provide a positive and safe environment where these young people can come and get the additional tutoring and career education they need in order to stay competitive in today's society. The nature of the organization is to conduct educational classes for those deficient in basic English techniques, conduct career development classes in basic job acquisition, provide musical instruments & travel cost for students and to serve as a information center in the arts for the general community.

The benefits of the festival are as follow:

• Employment – The festival employs over 200 people, within each city, in the areas of staging, sound, lighting, event staffing, transportation, street promotions, security, EMS, clean up, etc.
• Marketing Opportunity – The festival exposes your brand through the power of radio, TV, and print promotion to over 6 million consumers
• Website Visibility – The official website of the Soul Food Festival is www.ilovesoulfood.com, which averages over 3 million hits per year
• Festival on-site visibility – effectively reaching a captive audience of approximately 10,000 affluent consumers in one event
• Information Booths - Promoting awareness in the field of education, nutrition, housing, health and professional career building
• Economic Impact – The festival brings revenue to City Businesses such as grocery stores, hotels, gas stations, beauty and barber shops, department stores, car rental agencies and the city itself as it relates to all the above paying taxes.
• Grammy award winning entertainment - Artist consist of top 40 classic R&B and Jazz, catering to an audience between the ages of 30-65
• Affordable ticket prices - $0 - $50
• Community Connection – The festival supports various Community Resource Agencies through complimentary tickets and/or financial contributions.
• Musical therapy for the mind, body and soul - Music is the universal language and plays such an important and meaningful role in the lives of many people. Experts on health and welfare suggest that music entertainment could be prescribed as a treatment because of the enormous positive impact it has on mental health and well-being. According to Music and Health: Current Developments in Research and Practice, music has been used to support those suffering from Dementia and/or brain injuries by mental health service providers around the world. In the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Dr.'s Choi, Lee and Lim, conducted a pilot study to determine whether group music therapy is effective in improving depression, anxiety and relationships in psychiatric patients. They found that both active involvement (participating in playing of the instruments) and passive involvement (attending a music concert) provided a calming effect and invited the patients to visualize reassuring thoughts producing a state of mental relaxation. Numerous scholarly journal articles highlight the positive effects of music therapy. Used in various settings with different patient types, entertainment has been shown to reduce anxiety, relieve tension, alleviate stress and enhance one's mood.

The Kinfolks Foundation is a subsidiary of Kinfolks Records who creates, produces, distributes and sells music for the purpose of funding The Kinfolks Foundation, Inc. The Soul Food Festival concept was created to use as a platform to introduce this new music. The method of the promotion is to present National Award Winning Entertainment at low ticket pricing in order to reach the capacity of the venue which in turn guarantees an audience for which we can sell music. With expenses in excess of $250,000 per event, the success of The Soul Food Festival has always been contingent on Sponsors, Media Partners and Donations. Such Participation brings the Kinfolks Foundation closer to their goal of breaking even, while introducing and selling music to the audience.

Your participation in this stellar event will provide a wholesome, recreational & cultural experience while motivating the mind, body and soul with music, food & positive dialogue. The Soul Food Festival is sure to evoke a spirit of love, unity and memories that will resonate within the souls of all those who attend thus transferring inspirational enhancement back to the COMMUNITY.