The Riverside Press-Enterprise
DISNEYLAND RESORT MARKS Black History Month
Celebrate Soulfully offers choirs, bands and specialty menus
A gospel tradition featuring Southern California choirs that goes back more than a decade at Disneyland returns as the Anaheim theme park celebrates Black History Month with a music and food festival.
The Celebrate Soulfully event honoring Black culture will run throughout the month at Disneyland and the Disneyland Hotel.
The fest’s musical element returns to the Fantasyland Theatre on Feb. 17 and 24 with a pair of headliners and a host of community choirs.
The Feb. 17 show will be led by Marvin Sapp, and the Feb. 24 show will feature Tasha Cobbs. Local musical groups will include the Sacred Groove a cappella vocalists and the Singers of Soul gospel choir.
The Downtown Disney Live stage features music every night in February, ranging from gospel to soul to doo-wop. The lineup of bands includes Singers of Soul, LALA Brass, Del Atkins and the Lyfe, Denean’s Soul Foundation, Doo-wah Riders, Apollo Bebop, Forward Motion and the Honeydrops.
The Disneyland Hotel Lobby Lounge will host live jazz and contemporary music by Standard Mel and Kirk Andres on Fridays and Sundays in February.
Catch live jazz and contemporary music by Dedrick’s Dynamic Duo, Carmel Helene and Roderick Chambers on Thursdays and Saturdays in February in the Hearthstone Lounge at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel.
Chalk artist Marcella Swett will create Black heritage chalk murals at Downtown Disney on Feb. 21-23.
Various restaurants in Disneyland and at the Disneyland Hotel will offer Black History Month menu items throughout this month.
Cafe Orleans
Deviled eggs and pickled vegetables with bread and butter pickles, teardrop peppers and Brussels sprout leaves.
Prix fixe dinner with gumbo or Caesar salad and cornmeal-fried fish, hush puppies, steamed rice, succotash with housemade cocktail sauce and hot sauce, and turtle cheesecake.
River Belle Terrace
Brunch platter with pancakes, scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy, and house slaw.
Dinner platter with barbecue brisket, fried chicken, buttery mashed potatoes, and biscuits and gravy.
Troubadour Tavern
Spicy honey-glazed fried chicken bowl, four-cheese mac and cheese, smoked turkey collard greens and sweet potato cornbread.
Sweet potato pie casserole with sweet potato-pecan pie.
Disneyland Hotel lobby lounge
Barrel-aged, smoked Old Fashioned with Uncle Nearest 1884 Bourbon, peach, turbinado sugar, angostura bitters, Peychaud’s bitters and a luxury ice cube.
Mcbride Sisters sparkling rose. Crowns & Hops Pilsner. Shrimp and grits.
Sweet potato fries poutine with gravy and cheese curds.