UP West FEst
Get Ready for Up West Fest: January 17-18, 2025
Blake Lewis & The Staxx Brothers introduce Up West Fest featuring Joe Doria and Danny Godinez w/ host Marco Collins. The show opens with a showcase featuring licensed Pike Place Buskers presented by BUSKARAMA.
The Royal Room hosts Blake Lewis and The Staxx Brothers on Friday, January 17th, 2025, for the first of a two-night run of shows in Seattle, as they introduce the very first Up West Fest. The second night of the festival takes place Saturday, January 18, 2025, at Ballard's historic Tractor Tavern.
Up West Fest is the latest project by local Rainier Valley 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Veterans of The Arts. The purpose of this mid-winter soiree is to develop a platform to help community-based festivals, including Northwest Folk Life, to continue to succeed.
Blake Lewis will be backed by special guests Joe Doria and Danny Godinez. Additionally, BUSKARAMA will present a showcase of buskers currently licensed by Pike Place Market. Stay tuned for more news as the full lineup is announced in the coming weeks.
What's Up West?
What's Up West?
What's Up West?
Up West Fest is a mid-winter festival with a very special purpose. We are helping small festivals we love launch their line ups and early bird tickets with zero risk.
Our vendors, volunteers, sponsors, and friends join forces with the little festivals that have all the quality but struggle with the quantity.
Our team helped Summer Meltdown, Brodie Nation, and Conscious Culture Fest reach their full potential, and we have also worked behind the scenes at Sasquatch, Bass Canyon, Labor Dave, and so many major events.
Mission
What's Up West?
What's Up West?
We encourage our friends to start festivals and we have always helped them turn a profit, despite of a lack of capital and corporate sponsors.
It's no secret the best coffee shops are the smallest businesses. At Pike Place Market where we launched our festival BUSKARAMA, Starbucks store #1 has a very hard time making a cup of coffee as fine as the literal hole in the wall, Ghost Alley Espresso. But one company makes millions a day and the other might make a couple grand.
We are here to protect the Ghost Alleys of the festie world at all costs.
