♪ I remember all the ♪
♪ times that they told me ♪
♪ that I was different. ♪♪
[CODY CHOI] Like, even though Seattle is
predominantly white,
I feel like its art music scene is not.
And so it's frustrating
to see that not represented enough. ♪ Dark Smith singing ♪
So I was like, well,
I guess we could just
start our own music fest.
We were like, what should we call the festival?
We're like, something about like,
how magical it is
or like how communal it is.
And then we're like, Oh well it's
kind of like our dream line up.
And we're like, "it's sooooo dreamy."
And that's just kind of
how it came about.
♪ Music and singing by Black Ends ♪♪
It's going to be like
a bunch of different genres.
We have like Black Ends,
which is going to be more like
gunk pop punk.
And then we also have like SuperCoze, is
like a more like surf punk, kind of like
Indie band.
♪ Singing by SuperCose ♪♪
We're also going
to have deejays,
we're going to have a ballroom section
even.
We're going to have some techno,
we're going to have
some just regular like indie music.
It's pretty much full genre.
I don't think we're going
have any country, but maybe next fest.
♪ Singing by SuperCose ♪♪
I think sometimes
like people will take it for granted
when they see,
like certain things on screen,
they'll be like,
Oh, that's just how the way things are.
And it's like,
but that's not how things have to be
just because you see
a certain
demographic represented over
and over again
doesn't mean that has to be the only one.
And so I feel like
when it comes
to queer musicians and BIPOC musicians,
like we're constantly seeing people
that don't look like us
on screen on the stage,
and it creates this
like idea like, oh, that's not for me,
but it is for us.
We just have to make that space sometimes.
♪ Singing by SuperCose ♪♪
It could bring other career
opportunities for people
that otherwise
would have been looked over.
I feel like it
all encompasses
like a really big goal of like,
we want to uplift people
that have not been like heard
a lot.
♪ Singing by SuperCose ♪♪
And now I feel like,
like banging on the door is being like,
we don't even want like a seat
at the table, like,
we want to make our own table.
And that's been really great for me.
It's like really like a confidence boost.
♪ Singing by SuperCose ♪♪