THE MISSION
To stimulate interest and gain a wider audience for underground music and global culture through DIY artforms, live performances, touring support and relationship development for International and emerging artists.
HISTORY
2013
A few friends decide to throw an epic music-fueled party in the midst of winter, known as the Psychedelic Holiday Freakout. The first iteration was held in Capitol Hill, then Ballard, then back to the Hill for a few years…
2016
Independent label, Freakout Records forms, later to release records in all formats, Freakout partners, such as Smokey Brights, Acid Tongue, Shaina Shepherd, My Goodness, The Grizzled Mighty and more.
2017
Freakout waves goodbye to the Psychedelic Holiday Freakout and officially transitions to Freakout Festival ahead of year 5. At this point, Freakout moved to its new home of Ballard and develops partnerships with the Tractor Tavern, the Sunset, Conor Byrne & other Ballard venues.
2020
With in-person events struck down by the pandemic, Freakout transitions online with Freakout Live!, releasing streamed and recorded performances by King Khan, Carrion Kids, Smokey Brights, Los Honey Rockets and more, delivered straight to quarantined fans stuck at home.
2022
Freakout hosts its first Spring festival – the Freakout Weekender – and celebrates its 10th annual fall festival with time-honored headliners like Os Mutantes, No Age, Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds and Los Dug Dugs combined with emerging acts Automatic, Margaritas Podridas & Mala Suerte.
2023
Freakout begins to transition to a non-profit organization. A board of directors is established and a page is turned in the next chapter of Freakout.
