📆 Thursday, July 4th
🕓 3 pm – 11 pm
🎟 Tickets start at $35
📍 Monkey Loft: 2915 1st Ave S, Seattle
The sun setting over Seattle’s glittery skyline. House music blasting from high-quality speakers. Bubbles squirting out of a bubble gun and landing delicately on your friends’ shoulders. Sweat dripping down your back.
The outside deck at Monkey Loft in SoDo promises all those things and more this summer, a welcome reprieve from getting down to techno and house music in dank, sweaty club basements. Every Thursday this season, the three-level venue has teamed up with Shameless Productions for Deck’d Out, a weekday evening event centered around dancing on Monkey Loft’s sick upper deck. Mixing national acts like Dee Diggs with local talent like Wax Witch, Deck’d Out is the way to welcome the summer.
Since July 4th lands on a Thursday this year, there’s no better way to acknowledge our country’s founding than with house music, one of America’s greatest, most positive contributions to the world. And who better to lead us through the multitudinous genre than Chicago’s very own Derrick Carter? Behind the decks as a kid in the late ‘70s and a part of the ‘90s house wave, Carter is one of our foremost respected DJ-scholars of house music. His sets are equal parts a mastery of form and killer track selection, taking dancers through deep house cuts with side quests through disco, jazz, and Cardi B remixes. And, most importantly, Carter’s sets are fun.
Opening for him on Monkey Loft’s upper deck will be Seattle’s much beloved DJ Riz Rollins, Portland’s Krista Basis, and Ramiro and Recess doing a b2b. Downstairs at the loft, Michelle Kestrel, Miss Min.D, Jen Woolfe, and Kaviera will be spinning records. This special IndepenDANCE Day Party is going long—3 to 11 pm—so wear tons of sunscreen and stay hydrated.
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