Bridge Crossing Jubilee officials announced Tuesday the lineup for the 2011 festival, set to begin March 3.

During a Tuesday press conference at the Voting Rights Museum, Jubilee Coordinator Sam Walker said the five-day event will feature a number of special guests and musical acts.

“We’ll have two stages, the gospel stage and the non-gospel stage,” he said. “The non-gospel stage will have hip hop acts and the gospel stage will have acts like Paul Porter.”

Other gospel acts will include Keith “Wonder Boy” Johnson and the Freedom Singers. Hip-hop artists include Rich Kids, V.I.C. and the blues stage will include Lenny Williams and Big Robb.

The Jubilee, National Voting Rights Museum interim executive director Olimatta Taal said, is a huge financial boost to the local economy.

“This is the biggest annual event in Selma,” she said. “It’s an opportunity for everyone to have some kind of financial benefit. It’s an opportunity for the entire community to come together and it’s an opportunity to celebrate the foot soldiers who worked diligently.”

The Jubilee is an annual commemoration of Bloody Sunday and the Selma-to-Montgomery march. It is the largest event in America that commemorates the struggles and successes of the civil rights movement.

The event, which is held in downtown Selma near the Edmund Pettus Bridge, often attracts more than 25,000 people. This year, Taal said they have even higher expectations.

“We are expecting to draw around 30,000 people,” she said. “But we don’t want to stop there. Let’s try to draw 60,000.”

The weekend will include a golf tournament, the Freedom Flame Awards Banquet, a Unity Breakfast, and an all day music festival on Water Avenue March 5.

Other events include a film festival and the mock trial.

‘We are still working with a celebrity judge,” Walker said. “We haven’t confirmed them yet, but we are talking to someone.”

Guest presenters throughout the weekend include U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, activist Dick Gregory, author Tom Burrell and Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, daughter of Viola Liuzzo and Bernard Lafayette.

Throughout the weekend, Taal said, there will be a number of fun and excitement for people of all ages and backgrounds.

“We’ll have something for everyone,’ he said.

A complete schedule is available at www.selmajubilee.com. For more information, contact the Jubilee Office at (334) 526-2626 or the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute at (334) 418-0800.