Acclaimed indie acts Audrey Nuna, The Knocks, Faye Webster, Jawny, Sudan Archives, The Beths, Kooze, Brasstracks and a minimum of 100 extra will play the twenty second Underground Music Showcase, organizers introduced this week.
The July 29-31 competition returns to a number of venues alongside the South Broadway hall close to downtown, within the historic Baker neighborhood, with outstanding nationwide and native punk, indie, hip hop, people, digital and R&B acts. Based in 2001 by Denver Submit music writers John Moore and Ricardo Baca, it’s grown from a single-day, single-venue occasion into the biggest indie-music fest within the area.
A newly numerous listing of Colorado-based artists enjoying this years’ occasion contains The Nonetheless Tide, N3PTUNE, Holdfast., Companion, The Milk Blossoms, Large Dopes, Joseph Lamar, Los Mocochetes, Pink Hawks, Flaural, Rarebyrd$, Schama Noel and Wes Watkins. The occasion will function greater than 150 acts whole.
The competition will this 12 months additionally embrace a renewed emphasis on youthful, all-ages and sober artists and followers because of its new possession stake by Youth on the Report, the longtime Denver music group educating music to underserved youth communities within the metro space, and its partnership with current homeowners Two Elements.
The social justice-based Youth on Report has lengthy been a UMS beneficiary — and a contributor to its lineup of native and nationwide indie artists — and helped make the occasion extra equitable and numerous. Two Elements purchased The UMS from the Denver Submit Neighborhood Basis in 2018 for an undisclosed sum. The cash for Youth on Report’s stake is being taken out of a $1 million, unrestricted reward from philanthropists MacKenzie Scott and husband Dan Jewett in June, Denverite’s Kyle Harris reported in March.
The thought got here into focus when Duffy met with Casey Berry, the founding father of Two Elements, final 12 months. They shortly bonded over “the challenges of main forward-looking organizations through the pandemic, a time of uncertainty for each the nonprofit and music industries,” Duffy mentioned in a press assertion.
Festival passes for The UMS are $100, with single-day and particular person tickets out there at a later date. Go to theums.com for extra and see the complete lineup beneath, and stayed tuned for the complete listing of venues and an hour-to-hour schedule.
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