2026 Concert Lineup Announced for City Stages

CLEVELAND (April 28, 2026)—The best of global music returns with City Stages, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) FREE summer concert series, on Wednesdays July 22 and 29 in Ohio City’s Hingetown neighborhood. The concerts take place outside Transformer Station, and all are welcome to attend. This year’s concerts feature West African group Kaleta & Super Yamba Band and South Korean group Insun Park & Generals.  

Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m., and visitors are encouraged to arrive early and grab dinner and a drink at one of Ohio City’s bars or restaurants or visit one of the local shops (opens in a new tab). Seating is limited—bring camp chairs and enjoy an evening of music and dancing in the street. Come for the music and stay for the party. 

Wednesday, July 22, 7:30 p.m. 

Kaleta & Super Yamba Band 

Kaleta & Super Yamba Band are fronted by Afrobeat and juju veteran Leon Ligan-Majek, aka Kaleta. The singer-guitarist from Benin in West Africa lived his adolescent life in Lagos, Nigeria, where Afrobeat was born. Kaleta’s guitar chops earned him decades of touring and recording with Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Lauryn Hill, and more. Afropop Worldwide fell in love with Kaleta, saying, “His James Brown grunts have got to be some of the best in the business!” The members of Super Yamba Band have honed their craft performing with a diverse range of artists, such as David Byrne, Rubblebucket, Yeasayer, and Between the Buried and Me, to name a few. 

Wednesday, July 29, 7:30 p.m. 

Insun Park & Generals 

Experience a groundbreaking fusion of rock, Korean traditional music, and mask-dance rhythms with Insun Park & Generals. A master of the Gangnyeong Mask Dance, designated as Korea’s National Intangible Cultural Heritage, Park leads the band, blending her dynamic vocal and dance performances alongside the talents of Donghyuk Heo (composer/guitar), Hyunmo Yang (drums), Johyun Kim (taepyeongso/flute), and Hahyungki Baek (bass guitar). Park stands out as one of the few female masters of the Gangnyeong Mask Dance, a tradition historically dominated by men. With her band, she creates a dynamic blend of ancestral art and contemporary sound, seamlessly merging traditional rhythms with modern rock influences. 

Free parking is available in the Lutheran Hospital lot at West 28th Street and Franklin Boulevard. The CMA is proud to partner with Ohio City Inc. to produce City Stages.  

Transformer Station is located at 1460 West 29th Street (at the corner of Church Avenue), Cleveland, OH 44113. Transformer Station will be open until 9:00 p.m. on both July 22 and July 29. For more information on Transformer Station, visit www.clevelandart.org/transformer-station. 

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About the Cleveland Museum of Art 

The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is renowned for the quality and breadth of its collection, which includes more than 66,500 artworks and spans 6,000 years of achievement in the arts. The museum is a significant international forum for exhibitions, scholarship, and performing arts and is a leader in digital innovation. One of the leading encyclopedic art museums in the United States, the CMA is recognized for its award-winning open access program—which provides free digital access to images and information about works in the museum’s collection—and free of charge to all. The museum is located in the University Circle neighborhood with two satellite locations on Cleveland’s west side: the Community Arts Center and Transformer Station. 

The museum is supported in part by residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture and made possible in part by the Ohio Arts Council (OAC), which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts. The OAC is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally, and economically. For more information about the museum and its holdings, programs, and events, call 888-CMA-0033 or visit cma.org.