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Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie performs during the 2020 Innings Festival at Tempe Beach Park on March 1, 2020 in Tempe, Arizona.
Livestream event will include Ben Gibbard, Perfume Genius, Foo Fighters, TV on the Radio, Jeff Rosenstock, No Age, Tacocat, Mike Park and more.
The Vera Project is celebrating its 20th anniversary with Viva Vera 20, an online event honoring the Seattle nonprofit’s 20 years as a youth-led, community-oriented music and arts space that has come to serve as a blueprint for the national all-ages DIY community.
Starting Wednesday (Jan. 27), on the 20th anniversary of The Vera Project s first-ever show, programmers will curate a livestream program featuring Ben Gibbard, Perfume Genius, Foo Fighters, TV on the Radio, Tacocat, Mike Park and more. The anniversary show will feature former Vera Project board and member alumni and all-ages DIY activists from different parts of the U.S. and will kick off a series of special ev
Perfume Genius, Foo Fighters, and Benjamin Gibbard are set to appear on Viva Vera 20!, a livestream special celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first show at Seattle’s Vera Project. The show will be broadcast on VeraTV.org on Wednesday, January 27, at 7 p.m. Pacific and feature additional performances and birthday wishes from TV on the Radio, Jeff Rosenstock, No Age, Tacocat, Mike Park, and more.
Activists Shannon Stewart, James Keblas, and Kate Becker founded VERA in Seattle in 2001 in response to the city’s Teen Dance Ordinance, a piece of legislation from 1985 that made all-ages concerts prohibitively expensive and difficult to produce. (The City Council repealed the ordinance a year later under community pressure.) The venue hosted early shows from independent acts that would go on to achieve international success, including Perfume Genius, TV on the Radio, and Macklemore.