Break Free Fest 2023

Scout Eleana is organizing this fundraiser.

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Break Free Fest, a POC hardcore/punk festival

June 16-18, 2023

Ukie Club/Foto Club, Philadelphia, PA

This is for the punk and hardcore kids who were told they were listening to "white music".

This is for the bands who speak their native tongue and are told no one will understand them.

This is for those who constantly find themselves shoved to the back.

This is for the misrepresented in a music scene that they feel so passionate about.

This is for us.

For years punk and hardcore have been deemed white genres of music, pushing aside and ignoring people of color who have been shaping it since the beginning. This fest wants to bring those people together and to the front to represent the many different groups who make this music the most diverse genre many claim it to be.

2023 will be Break Free Fest's fifth year, because of your past support!

The money will be used for:

Equipment (so bands traveling don't have to lug every single part of their system to PA)
Paying bands
Venue rental
And hopefully, portions of this can also be donated at the event to charities dear to the artist's hearts.

Hope to see y'all there this year!

Photos by Farrah Skeiky