Festival Season

Upstream 2018 Photo Recap

Artists big and small convened in Pioneer Square for the festival's second year.

Photography by Victoria Holt Edited by Stefan Milne June 5, 2018

So Pitted at Embassy Suites Ballroom.

So Pitted at Embassy Suites Ballroom.

Brackets at J&M Cafe.

Grace Love at 13 Coins.

Feral Folk busking in Occidental Square.

Colleen Green at Embassy Suites Ballroom.

Mirah at Axis.

Parisalexa at Axis.

Photography by Victoria Holt

Kyle Craft at Embassy Suites Ballroom.

Gold Casio on the Starbucks Stage at the Ninety.

SassyBlack at Zocalo

Occidental Park.

Helio Sequence at Embassy Suites.

Seiho on Stage Seattle.

Cell Phones on Stage Seattle.

Tacocat on the Sound Lot: Amazon Stage.

Tacocat on the Sound Lot: Amazon Stage.

Cynthia Alexander busking.

Zola Jesus on the Sound Lot: KEXP Stage.

Strawberry Mountain at Axis.

Hot Snakes on the Sound Lot: KEXP Stage.

MotherOfPearl on the Starbucks Stage at Ninety.

Great Grandpa at Axis.

Y La Bamba at Elysian Fields.

Jawbreaker on the Sound Lot: Amazon Stage.

Silver Torches on the Starbucks Stage at Ninety.

Otieno Terry at 13 Coins.

Ural Thomas and the Pain at Elysian Fields.

Pezzner at Stage Seattle.

Valerie June at Little London Plane.

The Sound Lot on Sunday.

Daniel Pak on the Sound Lot: Amazon Stage.

Black Belt Eagle Scout at Pioneer Square Saloon.

The True Loves on the Sound Lot: KEXP Stage.

Valerie June on the Sound Lot: Amazon Stage.

Red Ribbon at the Central Saloon.

Red Ribbon at the Central Saloon.

Cut Copy on the Sound Lot: KEXP Stage.

Cut Copy on the Sound Lot: KEXP Stage.

Casio Gold during Cut Copy's set.

The Flaming Lips's Wayne Coyne wields a lamp on the Sound Lot: Amazon Stage.

The Flaming Lips's Wayne Coyne holds up his "Fuck Yeah Seattle" balloon sign.

The Flaming Lips's Wayne Coyne stands in front of his inflatable robot.

A child and a balloon at the Flaming Lips show.

Wayne Coyne rides a unicorn through the audience.

Wayne Coyne crowd surfs in an inflatable ball.

Murder City Devils at Axis.

The crowd during the Murder City Devils set.

DJ Nu-Mark and Supreme La Rock close out the weekend at Trinity Nightclub.

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The second annual Upstream Music Fest and Summit ran June 1–3, and we were there to catch it all, from the Flaming Lips's psychedelic extravaganza to buskers in Occidental Park.

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