Music fills the air during Saturday Block Fest

Saturday’s Block Festival lineup was an all-day affair, with an energy and list of events that sustained festival goers.

The parking lot area that straddles between The Waffle Iron and Great Harvest Bread was home to an array of food trucks as well as the Block’s main music stage. It was as the afternoon began to turn over into evening that psychedelic jazz fusion band Earthestra took the stage and the attention of those passing by.

“I see everyone down here enjoying themselves,” said keyboardist Ryan Conger to the crowd, “it’s good to see everyone taking over the streets.”

As the night continued, there was no lightening up in events. Over on Federal Avenue, the beloved and rebirthed WhySound was slowly filling up seats for an intimate set with Kaya Brown. Brown, who has been performing locally for roughly a year and a half and won KSM Music’s songwriting competition last year, accompanied herself on piano and used beats to provide a fuller sound to back her solo performance.

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Nora Barlow peforming at The Waffle Iron Friday night during The Block Festival.

After Brown’s set, the floor was stripped of chairs and replaced with an eclectic crowd, bouncing and nodding along to the pop-punk stylings of Good Call.

Walking further down main street and down the stairs to The Factory Pizzeria lead to brick exposed walls, worn and etched wooden tables and Utah State’s Vera playing various indie rock tunes. Their set brought originals and covers, played over the top of friendly chatter. The hi-hat snapped the band from one song to the next and their grooves and rhythm swelled with frontman Aaron Vera’s vocals.

Moving next door to Logan’s newer music venue, The Cache, brought electronica band Telepathiq, their set including synth and colored smoke. A few songs in, the band played a cover of “Imagine,” drawing an elderly couple to the floor, followed by a younger couple, and lastly a mother and daughter.

“We make everyone feel comfortable here. It doesn’t matter what genre you play, you can fit in no matter what,” said Brown early in the evening before her set. “(The Logan music scene) just has a way to bring different people together and we can all accept differences … We can all just get together and communicate and get along.”

— lydia.velazquez@aggiemail.usu.edu

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