Rock Lottery, a Benefit for The Creative Advantage, Coming to The Crocodile on February 7th

10:00AM – 25 Musicians… 10:00PM – 5 Bands.

The Crocodile (2118 2nd Ave, Belltown)

Saturday, February 7, 2015

A Benefit for The Creative Advantage

Doors open at 9pm, show starts promptly at 10pm

$10 advance / $15 at door (21+)

Seattle, WA (January 21, 2015) – The Rock Lottery is simple, but effective. Twenty-five hand-picked musicians meet at 10:00AM at the evening’s performance venue. These volunteers are organized into five bands through a lottery-based chance selection. The five groups are released to practice at different locations. The musicians have twelve hours to agree upon a band name and create three to five songs (with a one cover song limit). The bands then return to the venue and perform what they have created in front of a waiting audience.

Confirmed participants include:

Erin Austin, OK Sweetheart

Adra Boo, Fly Moon Royalty

Lace Cadence, The Flavr Blue

Kate Finn, Katie Kate

Robert Gomez, Ormonde

Nikolay Grachev, Juliana & PAVA

Gretta Harley, These Streets, We Are Golden

Andrew Joslyn, Passenger String Quartet

Stormi King, Skates!, Jen Wood

Greg Kramer, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Kore Ionz

Whitney Lyman, Pollens, Seattle Rock Orchestra

Josh McClung, PICO BLVD

Arran McInnis, LESBIAN, Fungal Abyss

Terri Moeller, The Walkabouts, Transmissionary Six

Tomo Nakayama, Grand Hallway

John Ramberg, The Tripwires, The Model Rockets

Kelton Sears, Kithkin

Adrian Van Batenburg, Gems, Ganges River Band

Anna Vo, Anna Vo

Selena Whitaker-Paquiet, NighTraiN, Chocolate Fruit

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The twenty-five musicians included in this experiment are carefully selected in an attempt to represent a wide variety of musical styles. This event will bring together many facets of the music community that may seem incompatible, as well as musicians whose interests may conflict. The challenge for these participants is to go beyond their personal and musical differences and work together to create a unified group project that still contains the personal styles of each of its members.

The musicians chosen to participate are unpaid volunteers. The participants are chosen by the Rock Lottery participant committee with suggestions from past Rock Lottery participants and other members of Seattle’s music community.

Additional information can be found on the Facebook Event page and tickets can be purchased from Ticketfly