This event is free/all ages located in Washington Park, at site #5. There will be some seating on picnic tables, but feel free to bring a picnic blanket/lawn chairs, and snacks/drinks. There will not be any vendors present.
It will feature the following performers:
Kelli Frances Corrado (Seattle) - Kelli Frances Corrado is an experimental singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, a quilt of memories and mystical practice. Growing up in Chicago, she would sneak out during school nights to see shows and spend Sundays learning prayer rituals taught by a Bohemian Czech grandmother. This set a unique musical foundation leading her to pursue opera training, string arranger, beat making and classical poetry. Starting in the musical project Arkade before becoming a full developed solo vision. Giving voice to her spiritual beliefs, she has lived many lives before putting her heart in song; social worker, student, tap dancer, teacher, wanderer. Living in the Black Forest, London and by the sea, These patches of experience and experimentation bring together a musical broth of magical realism and urban life ripe of lucid dreams and superstition.
Using weird and wonderful places to record: a field of swans, seaplane port, boat house, tunnels with 12 second natural delay, and a haunted school from the 1900s. She has worked with a talented carousel of musicians and engineers: Jeffery McNulty, Shawn Hatfield, Bobby Wane, Lori Goldston, Brian Deck and more. Her music has been featured in The Wire , Bandcamp Daily, Astral Noize and White Light//White Heat and radio stations; NPR’s Radio One, BBC6, Dublab and The Wire presents Joseph Stannard Adventures in Sound playlist on Resonance FM. Receiving grants from The Grammy Foundation, Rauschenburg Foundation and the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. Her latest full length album, Tuff Feathers on Grimalkin Record made ‘Top 7 Essential releases of November’ 2021 on Bandcamp Daily. Having tracks featured on compilations for Shoutyourabortion and Women of Noise For Palestine.
Adam Ossers - Adam White Ossers (oh-sirs) (b. 1993) is a multimedia artist. He has spent the last nine years making and exhibiting works inspired by transness, home, body, technology, and community.
Adam also serves on the board at Walker's Point Center for the Arts where he co-leads their Marketing Committee. From 2021 to 2024, Adam was the Creative Content Manager at the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network. In 2016 Adam launched docMyArt.
*aya - *aya is a Milwaukee based, Palestinian singer/songwriter whose styling ranges from hyperpop to indie to neo-soul. their relatability is communicated with their jazzy voice. Their songs talk about themes like self-reflection, love, loss, mental health, and growing. Their musical inspiration comes from artists like Jill Scott, Ari Lennox, Faye Webster, and even Outkast. Check out their latest “slow burn,” here.
Victor Buell IV - Victor Buell IV is a Milwaukee musician who crafts hazy retro-future soundscapes with his own solo/studio project, VBIV. Buell released his debut EP, Control, way back in 2015; now, following 2021’s Fallen Angels, he’s back with the stellar Material Vessel.
Material Vessel has got it all: neon-drenched synth, soaring guitars, reverb-heavy vocals, and at least one Blade Runner reference (“Tears In The Rain”). “Mercury Eyes” is an instant Summer Playlist contender, and that subtle acoustic-electronic blend on “Fun Boy” hits just right. Material Vessel is being released by Milwaukee electronic imprint Formed By Glaciers. (via Milwaukee Record)
