Juneteenth Entertainment
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Sunday, Jun 1, 2025 12pm - 6pm
Location
Lock 3
200 S Main St
Details
2025 Downtown Akron Juneteenth Entertainment Schedule
Lock 3 • Maynard Performance Pavilion
12:00 pm • Beverly Lloyd: Cleveland Association of Black Storytellers
12:20 pm • Welcome remarks
12:45 pm • DJ Vinny G
1:00 pm • Xposyur (spoken word performance)
1:20 pm • Resolve (live music)
2:15 pm • Drum Call with Embracing Ur Journey (drum and dance performance)
2:30 pm • DJ Vinny G
3:00 pm • ElAnee Barclay Jones: Cleveland Association of Black Storytellers
3:50 pm • DJ Vinny G
4:30 - 5:10 pm • The Tyrone G Experience (live music)
5:20 - 6:00 pm • The Tyrone G Experience (live music)
About the Cleveland Association of Black Storytellers
The Cleveland Association of Black Storytellers, Inc. is a non-profit cultural organization dedicated to the preservation and proliferation of the African Oral Tradition. As such we serve a broad community base as performance artists, workshop facilitators, artists-in-residence, teaching artists and educators, with the African Oral Tradition always as the platform.
Our mission has called us to audiences from preschool-aged to senior citizens, and we provide valuable cultural, artistic and educational supports to schools, colleges and universities, nursing and adult daycare facilities, corporate businesses, as well as other arts and cultural organizations.
We share our love of the African Oral Tradition and our understanding that it is at the root of Black storytelling throughout the diaspora.
About DJ Vinnie G
DJ Vinnie G is one of the most in-demand DJ’s in Ohio. With over 20 years of experience dj’ing, recording, producing, and performing music, he specializes in curating custom musical soundscapes to make your event completely unique and totally special! An avid record collector and recording artist, DJ Vinnie G’s extraordinary passion for music carries over into each DJ set and he is guaranteed to set the dance floor on fire!
About Xposyur
Xposyur is a poet, wordsmith, workshop facilitator, artist, musician, and etymologist in Akron, Ohio.
