Black and Loud Fest returns to Seattle and Portland on Sept 13 and Sept 14, 2025 after a successful Black and Loud New Orleans April 10 and April 12, 2025. We need your support to assure that BIPOC young people 21 and up can come to the fest throughout Ticket Scholarship Fund! You can donate here if you not in Seattle or Portland and help us grow Black and Loud nationally

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Your donation supports the Black & Loud Ticket Scholarship Fund — a tax-deductible initiative created in partnership with festival supporters, sponsors, and fans. The fund helps Black and all BIPOC individuals, independent artists, and emerging music industry professionals who may not have the means to attend, ensuring they can experience the cultural impact of Black & Loud across the USA as we expand into 2026.

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE ENDS MEET HERE !

Seattle’s “Black and Loud Fest” makes history once again with headliner Living Colour and a special West Coast Appearance of the Uptown Ruler himself - Cyril Neville from the Mighty Neville Brothers with Omari Neville and the Fuel. Also performing King Youngblood, Nikki D and the Sisters of Thunder, Parisalexa, Blackends, Waterseed, Year of the Dragon and many more. Be part of the movement. Celebrate the music, the message, and the moment.

ABOUT BLACK AND LOUD:

Black and Loud Fest and Tour is a Music Fest focused on celebrating the art and culture of black front bands playing music in genres outside the expected norms of traditional hip hop and R’n’B. Explains project founder Cameron Lavi-Jones who is the frontman of his own black fronted band King Youngblood, “ Our vision is to create space for black fronted bands and artists playing everything from Afro-Punk to Rock to Alternative Soul, Alternative Pop, to Spoken Word to pretty much anything but what the main stream music industry expects from black artists. Black and Loud Fest and the touring we are also creating with the brand are a great beautiful for black people and really everyone to celebrate the rainbow of creativity that is Black artists. Donating helps us make it so more people that look like me are seen and heard.

This is important not just for Black people but for everyone. Diversity is the core of culture. Black and Loud is a key part of the cultural mosaic we must elevate especially so that we are putting our money where our mouth is when we say Black Lives Matter." Black and Loud Fest and Tour is a fiscally sponsored project of the Allied Arts Foundation.

If you'd prefer to donate by check, please make check payable to "Allied Arts Foundation" and indicate "Black and Loud Fest and Tour" in the memo line.

Checks can be mailed to:
Allied Arts Foundation Care of Media Law Group Inc.
999 N Northlake Way, Suite 207
Seattle, WA 98103