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The historical record

The nights that came before.

A readable collection of recovered First Night Akron pages, original documents, photographs and button artwork.

Explore 379 restored website pages, nine source-based participant records and 24 original PDF paths. The public collection contains only material identified as belonging to First Night Akron. Later unrelated spam, parking and demo templates are excluded.

Read a page from the original site

Captures are dated. The text is preserved as history; old forms and purchases are inactive. Links to recovered records stay within the collection. An unrecovered historical link may lead to the Wayback Machine.

388 records shown

2013: schedules and recovered entries

Two complete venue schedules and eight records recovered from their listings. These records confirm historical names, venues and times; they are not a new line-up.

Artist descriptions and complete rosters

Browse the original collections from 2012, 2015 and 2016. Descriptions belong to the edition named on each page. A separate source records the surviving SCPH listing from a contemporary family guide.

How to read the dates

A capture date tells you when an archive saved a page. It is not automatically the year of the event. For example, First Night Akron 2017 was held December 31, 2016. Check the year and wording inside each historical record.

The archive is still being collected. A failed request does not establish that a resource never existed. We do not replace missing original documents with invented reconstructions.