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Orquesta Akokán at The Freight

by Roy Strassman
August 28, 2026

Orquesta Akokán The Freight & Salvage Live performance Berkeley, CAAugust 7, 2026 Orquesta Akokán had just flown in from its European tour and was playing the first of its Bay Area weekend performances at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage, currently called “The Freight." They hit the ground running with “Con Altura," (With Altitude), a seeming oxymoron, were it not that the band simply took off again, filling the dance floor until the final “adios" some ...