Oakland Announces “Tunes from the Tombs” Lineup for 2025 Sunday in the Park Festival
September 2025 marks the 47th year of Historic Oakland Foundation’s Sunday in the Park festival. The long-running event invites families, history enthusiasts, and community members to enjoy a day of live entertainment, warm weather, and the scenic beauty of Oakland Cemetery.
The Sunday in the Park celebration has merged with Oakland’s popular “Tunes from the Tombs” music festival to create a lively, one-day celebration of live music, history, and community.
The 2025 festival will feature four musical sets showcasing six artists, with performances spanning country, rock, R&B, and jazz fusion.
Keep reading to learn more about the artists slated to perform!
Hailing from the heart of railroad country in Opelika, Alabama, cosmic country outfit B.B. Palmer have made a name for themselves over the past several years, honing a sound steeped in the traditions of American country music. Learn more and listen.
Electric Blue Yonder researches the human condition and reports its findings through harmonious song. Exploring what it means to be human while discovering the mysteries of the universe, the intrepid band of Space Folk seeks to find others of their kind. Human. Kind. Described as “Real American Space Folk,” the band draws its inspiration from the psychedelic folk, surf, and cosmic country rock of the 60s and the Space Age prog/art rock explorations of David Bowie and Pink Floyd, all while shifting time to the early roots and parlour style guitar of the 20th century. Learn more and listen.
BOOM! Trio formed in 2022 when three of Atlanta’s busiest musicians discovered they shared a common vocabulary acquired through growing up on the same music. Their musical alignment allowed them to flow seamlessly through an eclectic range of genres, writing and arranging a handful of new tunes at each rehearsal. Learn more and listen.
LAVAHI is a scholar-artist on a mission to better society from the inside out. Through her music, scholarship, and performance, LAVAHI is building a platform to nourish the heart and mind, empathize our human experiences, and vibe together. As a daughter of jazz, the culture heavily informs her ideology and influences her sound. Acrobatic scatting, compelling chords, and the art of improvisation evoke that classic traditional aesthetic and set her contemporary sound apart from the norm of mainstream neo-soul, hip hop, and R&B. And with her satisfying blend of analog and digital sounds, LAVAHI shows that the lineage of Black sound is not linear but ever folding and stretching. Learn more and listen.
The dynamic Acid Jazz duo with their signature Diamond-Cut Sound is from Atlanta, GA is called Arkose. They are made up of multi-instrumentalists, Tad Adams & Noah Sills. This duo has quickly became a household name in the music scene. From their weekly jazz jam residency at Smiths Olde Bar to them working with some of the best up and coming artists such as: Jai’Len Josey, SWAVAY, Ben Reilly, Chase Shakur, Kennedy Ryon, Gus Glasser, Eddie 9V and many more. Learn more and listen.
There is a ferocious Southern engine inside of Billy Allen + The Pollies’ debut album Black Noise. It thrums to life atop a classic rock chassis and expertly weaves in and out of gospel, grunge, funk, and soul along its eleven-song journey. From the explosive top of the album (a liberating anthem of self-worth called “All of Me”) to the spiritually haunting final track (the wurlitzer fueled “Go on Without Them”) Black Noise is a genre-defiant haymaker that lands. The band is a hybrid of four piece rock outfit The Pollies and fellow Alabamian and frontman, Billy Allen. Learn more and listen.
Main Stage Performance Schedule
1:30 PM - BB Palmer with Electric Blue Yonder
2:45 PM - Boom! Trio Ft. Lavahi
4:00 PM - Arkose
5:30 PM - Billy Allen + The Pollies
