Sound and Screen Denver
A NIGHT OF MUSIC VIDEOS & LIVE PERFORMANCES
Sound & Screen Denver is a music video showcase and live performance event celebrating Denver’s thriving independent music and creative communities.
Presented by Black Sparrow Media, the evening will bring together local musicians, filmmakers, and businesses for a curated night of music video screenings followed by live performances from the featured artists.
The event highlights the collaboration between Denver’s film industry and music scene, while also elevating local businesses and organizations that help sustain the city's creative culture.
Each band will premiere a music video created with Black Sparrow Media and follow it with a live performance, creating an immersive experience that blends film and live music into a single event.
MEET THE BANDS
Long-standing friendships and diverse artistic endeavors brought Hannah, Kate, and Madi together to form May Be Fern. Drawing from their eclectic musical backgrounds, the trio crafts a distinctive sound that fuses funk and rock.
From Southern California, Foreign Suns formed in 2014 as a duo of guitar and drums. These boys are in it for the long haul. They released their first album “Transients” in 2015 followed by the second album “Shadow Music” in 2018. Now with years of experience under their belt writing and producing their songs in garages and mixing in bedrooms while pushing their creative boundaries. They have recently added a bassist to their roster that adds all new depth to the live performance sound. New Album is expected before the end of the year with singles being released from now until record release. At a live show you’ll hear layered rhythmic guitar, groovy bass lines, backed by foot stomping drum beats and topped with gritty vocals, Foreign Suns feels more like a five piece band than a three man show. With fast tempo, energetic dance/punk tracks and a post-punk (the Cure and Depeche Mode) vibes, they can turn any crowd of strangers into vibrating fans.
The son of Samiel and Elsa, Eritrean immigrants who fled war, walked across the Sudanese desert for nine days, conceived him in Rome and birthed him in Denver, Yonnas Abraham is a confluence of miracles. Spending twelve of the past twenty years making indie rap in The Pirate Signal and BLKHRTS respectively, and 8 in his bedroom conceiving this: Dream Pop For Black People. Nick Bassett’s (Whirr, Nothing, Deafheaven) guitar and production acumen mix with Yonnas’s skillful sampling, soulful yet spectral singing and hard-ass beats to form a heady stew of Dream Bops. Dreamy Soul For Black Liberation. De-Colonized Rock music. The bright, shiny Black future.
Majona, grounded and feeling, reaches you through intimate songwriting and trace-like harmonic movement. Music made to make you feel.
If you're a fan of sonic wizardry and tearing open the fabric of reality with six-string spells, Totem Pocket is the band for you.