June 17–19, 2027 · Three nights · Three San Francisco venues · 35 artists · Juneteenth

Festival 2027

Machines Create Freedom / Networks Create Language / Bodies Create Memory.

Explore the three nights Lineup & Tickets

The three nights

Chapters

Three nights as chapters across San Francisco — each room a sentence in the arc.

Thursday, June 17, 2027 · Monarch · San Francisco

Machines create freedom. Night one opens on the machine floor — drum machines as instruments, code as composition, the DJ as composer. At Monarch, the festival begins where the lineage begins: raw signal, hard edges, Black electronic invention taught through sound.

Lineup

  • RCA
  • Romii
  • Bay B Sol
  • Charles Hawthorne
  • Mysty Moon
  • KNGDM
  • Saire
  • KNXS
  • WATTS
  • Padre Bless
  • Phoon
  • Chanelley

Friday, June 18, 2027 · 620 Jones · San Francisco

Networks create language. Night two opens the system — transmission, conversation, the rooms that hold a community’s vocabulary. At 620 Jones, where Ruben Navarro’s documentation already maps the tradition, Black code travels as shared language across the floor.

Lineup

  • Black Panda
  • Sage
  • David Harness
  • Patrick Wilson
  • Nina Sol
  • John Glass
  • Darling Cool
  • Audrey
  • Cee Dwats
  • DJ BlackWoman
  • Techno Tupac
  • Chocolate Sushi

Saturday, June 19, 2027 · Audio · San Francisco

Bodies create memory. Night three closes the arc on the dance floor as listening room — soul circuits, Black dance ecstasy, the proof that the music lives in motion. At Audio, Juneteenth weekend culminates as presence: what the machines started, the network named, the body keeps.

Lineup

  • SKNIBLK
  • J.Jaxx
  • Jamhalaya
  • Fibonanci
  • Lady Ryan
  • Algin
  • Five
  • Gomorrah Dawn
  • Zuri Alexa
  • TieDyeTrippin
  • Phendrana

Why this festival

Documented tradition, not a first attempt

Rhythm of Resilience corrects the persistent underrecognition of Black electronic composition — presenting it with concert-series rigor, never as nightlife commodity.

The DJ is a composer. The drum machine is an instrument. The dance floor is a listening room. Festival 2027 is that thesis at festival scale: three nights, three San Francisco venues, thirty-five artists — a Juneteenth celebration built on two decades of nights already held.

Juneteenth 2025 → 2026 → 2027. Founded 2002 · 30+ events. The archive is the proof.

Cultural steward — never a vendor or event company.

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Access & community

The door stays open

Equity is programmed into the night — not added as an afterthought.

Youth scholarship

Free tickets for Black youth 18–25

A scholarship path into the rooms — so the next generation hears the lineage live, not only in the archive.

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Sliding scale

Tickets priced for the community

Pay what you can within the scale. Access over gatekeeping — the floor is a listening room for everyone who shows up ready to hear.

Charity partners

Calma · The Inneract Project

Partnership that serves the mission — community care and creative pathways for Black youth, credited as first-class collaborators, not footnotes.

Support the festival

The Wallet door

Sponsorship and gifts that keep the tradition public — fiscal-sponsorship / tax-deductible framing where applicable.

Community

Community Partner

Entry-level support that underwrites access: sliding-scale inventory, scholarship tickets, and night-of hospitality.

Program

Program Sponsor

Named support for a chapter night — curation, documentation, and the artists who carry the lineage into the room.

Presenting

Presenting Partner

Flagship partnership across all three nights — brand presence with curatorial integrity, credits-first, never vendor cosplay.

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Ready to open the Wallet door? Partnership and sponsorship inquiries route through Contact — produced by Acknowledgements.

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Lineup & tickets

Full roster

Announced

Thirty-five artists across three nights. Tickets not yet on sale — join the list and we will reach you first.

Night 1 — Raw Code / Machine Floor Monarch · June 17

  1. RCA

  2. Romii

  3. Bay B Sol

  4. Charles Hawthorne

  5. Mysty Moon

  6. KNGDM

  7. Saire

  8. KNXS

  9. WATTS

  10. Padre Bless

  11. Phoon

  12. Chanelley

Night 2 — Black Code / Open Systems 620 Jones · June 18

  1. Black Panda

  2. Sage

  3. David Harness

  4. Patrick Wilson

  5. Nina Sol

  6. John Glass

  7. Darling Cool

  8. Audrey

  9. Cee Dwats

  10. DJ BlackWoman

  11. Techno Tupac

  12. Chocolate Sushi

Night 3 — Soul Circuits / Black Dance Ecstasy Audio · June 19

  1. SKNIBLK

  2. J.Jaxx

  3. Jamhalaya

  4. Fibonanci

  5. Lady Ryan

  6. Algin

  7. Five

  8. Gomorrah Dawn

  9. Zuri Alexa

  10. TieDyeTrippin

  11. Phendrana

Announced On sale date TBD

Tickets are not on sale yet. Get the next lineup first — or inquire about youth scholarship and partnership.

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A Rhythm of Resilience production by Acknowledgements Partners: Calma · The Inneract Project