Free Black! live at the Happy Dog on Friday, January 19th, 2024. Support acts: JT’s Electrik Blackout & Bethany Joy. Tickets on sale now for $10!

Floco Torres will be live at Musica on Friday, April 19th at 7pm. FT will be local support along with Lilac Heart for KillVongard, TomCantSleep & A Place Called Hell. Tickets can be found on the Musica website.

Free Black!, TobyRaps, & The Woovs performing live at CODA in Cleveland on Saturday, April 13th, 2024. Grab those tickets here!

Dave Rich & His Enablers will be at the Buzzbin in Kenmore OH on Saturday, February 24th, 2024. Support acts will be Floco Torres & another act TBA.

Free Black! will be live at the inaugural “Hooks & Phonics Festival” in Pittsburgh PA on Sunday, January 21st, 2024. Free Black! will be a part of the ‘Rap Roulette’ segment of six emcees split between two different stages w/ 20 min sets. Official set time TBA, tickets on sale now!

Free Black! will be live in Akron for Essential Tremors, an experimental music and arts series. Essential Tremors will be on Saturday, December 2nd with a lineup of music spread across three venues (Musica, BLU Jazz, & Baxters Speakeasy). The show will be free and open to the public. Full lineup below, set times TBA.

DYKENYTE / GOLD DIME / FEJ / EATERS / FREE BLACK! / OTAY : ONII / LISA BELLA DONNA / BABYBAY EXPLORES / MOURNING [A] BLKSTAR / FIA FIELL ‘ FATBOI SHARIF

Floco Torres & Angie Haze will be performing a joint set at The Rialto Theater in Akron on Friday, November 3rd. Both artists will be on stage playing songs back to back with some collaborative songs in between. They also will be making a big announcement about their collaborative efforts going for.

Free Black! will be performing live in the Special Collections room at the Cleveland Public Library (Main branch, Downtown) on Saturday October 21st, 2023. The performance will be from 2-3pm. The show is free & open to the public.

Floco Torres will be supporting Red Rose Panic & Leon Rosen at The Rialto Theatre on Thursday, October 12th. Show support also includes Rent For Cheryl. Tickets are on sale now here.

Leon Rosen will be touring from San Francisco beginning September 21st.

Free Black! will be opening up for Jul Big Green in US Bank Plaza on Wednesday, October 4th at 5:30pm. The show is free & all ages. This show is a reschedule from the postponed Downtown Summer Concert Series back in June.

Angie Haze & Floco Torres will be playing an hour joint set live for an invite only house show happening on Sunday, September 17th in Akron. The two will perform solo songs from their catalogs as well as songs they have together.

If you’d like an invite to the show, or if you’d like to know more about hiring Angie & Floco for a private gig, please email flocotorres@gmail.com

On Saturday, September 9th, Free Black! will be performing at the Superior Block Party in the Superior Arts District in Downtown Cleveland. The block party will be from 2-11pm, Free Black set time at 7:30pm on the CrossCountry Mortgage stage.

Glass Bones is releasing a new project & will be playing a release show at Musica on Saturday, August 12th. Support acts will be Free Black! & 1402. Tickets on sale now.

Floco Torres performing live at the Last Call Festival for Ohio Brew Week in Athens Ohio. FT set time at 5:30pm, stage location TBA.

After the clinic during the day, Free Black! will be back at C3 performing an hour set. Tickets are available on the C3 site here.

In this clinic, Free Black! will share their journey, individually & collectively, They will give an overview of various entry points into the music industry, songwriting, photography, and more. The session will include hands-on equipment demonstrations.

This experience will encourage students to be curious and explore all the possibilities of being an artist, and the importance of building a community of support among friends and fellow artists. You never know who you're sitting next to in class.

inCOPnegro: Aftermath explores the lives of four Black male characters after police violence has torn apart their community. This 60-minute work combines live jazz and hip hop music with Moore-Dunson’s choreographic style of “Urban Midwest Storytelling”. Seated in the round, the audience gets an intimate view of the healing process needed in Akron today.

The creation of inCOPnegro: Aftermath was shaped by one-on-one interviews between Moore-Dunson and Akron community stakeholders, police officers, and criminal justice workers, as well as those outside the region. Attendees are encouraged to listen to the podcast inCOPnegro: Black & Blue before seeing the show as it offers context for the choreography, music, and spoken word. 

Dates: 

June 22 & 23, 2023 and June 30 & July 1, 2023 at 7PM ET

July 1 Performance: inCOPnegro: Aftermath & After Moments - Performance and concluding community discussion lead by LoveAkron Executive Director Kemp Boyd. Topic of conversation surrounding community healing after the grand jury decision not to indict the police officers who shot Jayland Walker. 

Tickets:

Preview Performances: General Admission. June 22 & 23 - $10/ticket.

Performances: June 30 & July 1 - $20/ticket. Online ticket sales only, no walk ups. 

inCOPnegro: Aftermath explores the lives of four Black male characters after police violence has torn apart their community. This 60-minute work combines live jazz and hip hop music with Moore-Dunson’s choreographic style of “Urban Midwest Storytelling”. Seated in the round, the audience gets an intimate view of the healing process needed in Akron today.

The creation of inCOPnegro: Aftermath was shaped by one-on-one interviews between Moore-Dunson and Akron community stakeholders, police officers, and criminal justice workers, as well as those outside the region. Attendees are encouraged to listen to the podcast inCOPnegro: Black & Blue before seeing the show as it offers context for the choreography, music, and spoken word. 

Dates: 

June 22 & 23, 2023 and June 30 & July 1, 2023 at 7PM ET

July 1 Performance: inCOPnegro: Aftermath & After Moments - Performance and concluding community discussion lead by LoveAkron Executive Director Kemp Boyd. Topic of conversation surrounding community healing after the grand jury decision not to indict the police officers who shot Jayland Walker. 

Tickets:

Preview Performances: General Admission. June 22 & 23 - $10/ticket.

Performances: June 30 & July 1 - $20/ticket. Online ticket sales only, no walk ups. 

On Wednesday, June 28th, Free Black! will be performing for the Downtown CLE Summer Concert Series at Public Square! They’ll be opening for Jul Big Green at 5:30pm. Show is free, all ages & open to the public.

inCOPnegro: Aftermath explores the lives of four Black male characters after police violence has torn apart their community. This 60-minute work combines live jazz and hip hop music with Moore-Dunson’s choreographic style of “Urban Midwest Storytelling”. Seated in the round, the audience gets an intimate view of the healing process needed in Akron today.

The creation of inCOPnegro: Aftermath was shaped by one-on-one interviews between Moore-Dunson and Akron community stakeholders, police officers, and criminal justice workers, as well as those outside the region. Attendees are encouraged to listen to the podcast inCOPnegro: Black & Blue before seeing the show as it offers context for the choreography, music, and spoken word. 

Dates: 

June 22 & 23, 2023 and June 30 & July 1, 2023 at 7PM ET

July 1 Performance: inCOPnegro: Aftermath & After Moments - Performance and concluding community discussion lead by LoveAkron Executive Director Kemp Boyd. Topic of conversation surrounding community healing after the grand jury decision not to indict the police officers who shot Jayland Walker. 

Tickets:

Preview Performances: General Admission. June 22 & 23 - $10/ticket.

Performances: June 30 & July 1 - $20/ticket. Online ticket sales only, no walk ups. 

inCOPnegro: Aftermath explores the lives of four Black male characters after police violence has torn apart their community. This 60-minute work combines live jazz and hip hop music with Moore-Dunson’s choreographic style of “Urban Midwest Storytelling”. Seated in the round, the audience gets an intimate view of the healing process needed in Akron today.

The creation of inCOPnegro: Aftermath was shaped by one-on-one interviews between Moore-Dunson and Akron community stakeholders, police officers, and criminal justice workers, as well as those outside the region. Attendees are encouraged to listen to the podcast inCOPnegro: Black & Blue before seeing the show as it offers context for the choreography, music, and spoken word. 

Dates: 

June 22 & 23, 2023 and June 30 & July 1, 2023 at 7PM ET

July 1 Performance: inCOPnegro: Aftermath & After Moments - Performance and concluding community discussion lead by LoveAkron Executive Director Kemp Boyd. Topic of conversation surrounding community healing after the grand jury decision not to indict the police officers who shot Jayland Walker. 

Tickets:

Preview Performances: General Admission. June 22 & 23 - $10/ticket.

Performances: June 30 & July 1 - $20/ticket. Online ticket sales only, no walk ups. 

Friday, June 16th, 2023 ARC will celebrate our five year anniversary with a party at our studio, located at 243 Furnace St., Akron, OH 44304. There will be live music, food and drinks, and a raffle starting at 7:00 PM. Admission price is a $10 suggested donation for the bands.

Free Black! live at Crobar with MOSSOM & Will Cherry on Friday, June 2nd!

This is Free Black!'s first time on the Crobar stage. Free Black! bridges conversations between the past & future through a warm vintage sound, historical examination & songwriting that highlights contrasts/similarities in innovative ways. “The Free Black! name was created on the mantra that ‘There isn't one way to be black.’

MOSSOM is a high energy indie rock duo made in Cleveland.

Will Cherry is an artist and producer hailing from Cleveland, Ohio. His eclectic influences range from Marvin Gaye to Kanye West and everything in between, and while his music is rooted in hip-hop, he often dips into the sounds he was primarily raised on: Gospel and R&B

Jean P The MC is headlining his first show in Akron at Musica on Saturday, May 27th w/ Floco Torres. Supporting acts include OG Vern, Marcus Waine, DJ Vinnie G & Soop. $10 presale tickets, $15 at the door.

Free Black! will be performing at the Highland Square Film Festival on Saturday, May 13th, 2023 at 5pm. The performance will be at the Highland Square Theater. Tickets are on sale right now here.

Free Black! w/ Family Junket & more acts TBA at Zephyr Pub on Thursday, May 4th, 2023. Show at 8:30pm.

Community Show, Free Black! & Big Pop will be performing at Musica on Saturday, April 29th. Doors at 7:30pm, $10.

Free Black! / Beyonderers / Tiny the Dream at Cave Akron on March 31 at 8pm. $10 cover charge / All ages. / BYOB 21+; we ID.

Street parking is available on the same side of the street as the venue.
Overflow parking is available in the Ardmore Inc. parking lot, located at 981 E. Market St.

Masks are STRONGLY encouraged and KN95s & hand sanitizer will be provided.
Please stay home if you are not feeling well. 

CAVE is a safe(r) space. Questions? Email caveakron@gmail.com

Free Black! is returning to the Brite Winter Festival for 2023! Set time TBA, make sure you grab your tickets here.

Angie Haze will be joined by Free Black! as they perform together on the Knight Stage in Akron OH on February 10th, 2023. Start planning your 2023 concert schedule & grab your tickets early!