FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Downtown Fayetteville will soon be filled with crowds celebrating pride weekend. “This is the 20th year, and it has only grown to massive proportions,” Cpl.
Natalie Eucce with the Fayetteville Police Department said. Eucce says law enforcement will be around in yellow traffic vests. “So, if you have a problem, find us, find a firefighter, find a paramedic, everyone will be there,” Eucce said.
The Trans March will kick off the pride events on Friday at 7 p.m. on Dickson Street and the Northwest Arkansas Pride Festival will be on Dickson Street on Saturday from 11 a.
m to 5 p.m. “Get there on time if you’re trying to make it by a certain time.
Allow yourself time to walk because you might have to park quite a bit a ways,” Eucce said. This year, New Orleans’ very own ‘Queen of Bounce’ Big Freedia will take the Tyson Main Stage by storm. After performing, Big Freedia will head over to Her Set Her Sound’s event at Nomad’s West End in Fayetteville, where people will have the chance to meet her starting at 7:30 p.
m. “I hope that they recognize an iconic person, an iconic artist like them. And see what their presence represents to people like me.
I hope that meeting Big Freedia excites people, inspires them, empowers their own connection to their identities, and that people can appreciate Bounce music and culture that’s from New Orleans. Culture that has touched New Orleans and beyond, I want people to embrace that,” Rob.