Seattle’s The Crocodile Presents Belltown Bloom 2024 With Aluna, TOKiMONSTA & Many More
The annual event founded in 2019 returns on May 4 – 5.
By Team JamBase Apr 30, 2024 • 2:04 pm PDT
Seattle’s Belltown Bloom festival is back for its fourth year, offering a two-day experience across three stages at The Crocodile on May 4 – 5. This fest champions music discovery, community building, and elevating marginalized voices with a totally unique lineup.
This year’s edition features global stars Aluna and DJ TOKiMONSTA headlining the festival, along with Kara Jackson, BbyMutha, Snow Strippers, Gustaf, Cat Clyde, Rochelle Jordan, La Fonda and more. Belltown Bloom is also hosting Lobby Sessions to take place at The Crocodile Hotel as part of an intimate VIP experience during the festival.
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Founded by sisters Veronica and Valerie Topacio in 2019 –– who also lead and front the band La Fonda –– Belltown Bloom was created with the intention of spotlighting underrepresented voices and the independent artist community in and around Seattle.
The idea of Belltown Bloom came to the sisters after attending music festivals and a year or so after starting their own band in their hometown of Seattle. At the 2016 Sasquatch, the sisters were perusing the informational vendor section of the festival, and came across a tent that was educating concert-goers of the representation percentages of women and people of color at 9 major U.S music festivals. Pulling data from the 2015 lineup year, they shared statistics collected from Sasquatch to Austin City Limits to Coachella to Bonnaroo. Out of the 678 bands that were playing these festivals — 72 of those bands were all female and 102 of those had one woman in the band, and even less — 26% of those bands included representation from women of color.
“These findings really resonated with us,” the sisters said. As two filipino women fronting an indie band in grunge culture turned tech in Seattle, they describe sometimes feeling out of place on bills and shows they were playing regionally.
“We saw ourselves in these thin margins and we felt compelled to create a music space such as a festival that amplified the voices of women, women of color and our queer community.” The sisters shared recently with BookMoreWomen.com that their guiding principle has been the thought of running into those two passionate women sharing facts at that Sasquatch vendor booth back in 2016. “Would love to tell them how much they inspired us.”
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