Nostalgia Trip Through Time
This is the archived version of www.hangfree.org as compiled on September 23, 2024 after our domain expired on September 13, 2024. I've tried to fix most dead links, but some still exist and show our many hosting switches over the decades. Photo galleries should still be here, but all all linked DJ MP3 sets have been removed. Our contact form has been disabled, and you can gripe to the new host about this ancient but freely hosted content.
The party promoters (me?) posted a lot on our domain www.hangfree.org each year we had an event. In order to archive them, they have been packaged up into yearly updates, which you can browse for dead image embeds galore... Jump back to see: 2021, (No Events in 2020 due to Covid-19), 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, or our earliest posts we could dig up from 1998. Yes, our first event was in 1995, but it was haphazardly throw together at the last minute and we'd never think of promoting it on the internet then anyway. We've been around for so long, we pre-date most blog engines, and it shows with our hand-written web pages with updates from that year's events.
About Hang Free
Hang Free is a free, bi-annual outdoor party that occurs in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. Initially thrown as an Sunday afternoon alternative, the first Hang free happened in October of 1995 on a warm sunday day, thrown by Andrew Davidson of Under Design, as well as a whole host of supporters, friends, and DJ's. In 2015, long-time supporter and resident DJ Linda Leigh along with her good friend DJ D.R.E.O. took on the responsibility of running the Hang Free events.
We provide DJ's spinning music in an outdoor, casual atmosphere, where there is no cost to hang and listen. Therefore, Hang Free.
While this event acts occasionally as a venue for new, up and coming DJ talent, but it is also an alternative to the typical nightclub scene, offering local jocks opportunities to spin new, experimental sounds. Past guests have included: Mark Farina (San Francisco), Jojo Flores (Canada), The Upbeats (New Zealand), Schoolly D, Nigel Richards, Big Daddy Blake, DJ Dozia, Lee Jones, Rob Paine, Hollis P. Monroe, Maggy's Rooftop Aerial, and plenty more!
When was the last time you were outside listening to a live DJ?
This is also a perfect opportunity to see the same familiar faces you see each week at the same clubs & parties in a daylight setting. Each Hang Free guarantees some sport & fun (such as touch football or frisbee or volleyball) with friends and soon-to-be friends.
Bring Good Friends, Blankets, a Picnic, Good Attitudes, Frisbees & Hackysacks - Don't worry about the Cost - Just Hang Free!
In the Press
Returning to our story after their first coverage 13 years ago, Philadelphia Weekly writer Brenda Hillegas penned another lovely summary of Hang Free in 2011.
In 2010, our good friend (and long time attendee) Hadas Kuznits did a few radio stories for local talk radio KYW 1060 AM. They'll be playing all weekend on KYW, bringing lots of new friends out to Hang Free! You can listen to the full interview at the KYW News Podcast Page, or listen to the two short 45 second news pieces as they ran on KYW 1060 AM all Memorial Day Weekend 2010. Click the play arrow to hear the stories right in the browser.
In 2009, NBC 10 News' Bryan Scott did a small news piece bumper about our Labor Day event where they got our name wrong...! We're featured in the last 15 seconds of this 2 minute video.
The Philadelphia Weekly wrote a little piece on the Hang Free events back in 1998, written by good friend and frequent attendee Peter Wilson.
