Across three stages, Bazaar Urbana brings together a wide range of sounds, styles and creativity. Some of the artists and DJs have deep roots in Urbana, with early origins and long histories tied to the local music scene, while others are newer friends helping shape its sound today.
Earth Stage
Angel Davanport + Bionik
Born in Chicago?s Cabrini-Green neighborhood, Angel Davanport?s path to recording artist is a story of perseverance and transformation. With Free Angel, she showcases her fearless ability to shift between styles and emotions, blending energy with vulnerability in a way that feels raw, fresh and relatable.
Water Stage
Stacey Robinson; Christopher Kinson
Darker Than Blue is an emerging DJ collective based in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois consisting of: Joe ?E^squared? Blanks, Kamau ?KamauMau? Grantham, Chris ?CK? Kinson, and Stacey ?BLACKSTAR? Robinson. We bring a unique set of talents to the twin cities combining music, movement, art, and culture for the greater good.
Earth Stage
Chris, Jake, Derrin, Austin
EDNA For the last 10 years, Edna has been making music, playing shows, and sticking it to the man with as much volume as possible. Influenced by a wide variety of sub-genres including sludge, thrash, doom, crust punk, death metal, and more, their live shows are a pummeling experience of headbang-inducing riffs and gut-wrenching feedback.
Water Stage
Bozak (Adam Boskey) is a DJ, producer, and vinyl archivist tracing a line from 11 years of classical piano to turntablism and open-format DJing with a heavy dose of disco. Raised in Champaign, IL on a musical diet ranging from Parliament to Silver Apples, his path flipped when golden-era hip-hop pioneers began sampling the same records found in his family?s living room.
Water Stage
Dj Wesjile has been a mainstay of Champaign-Urbana nightlife for decades. The founding member of THE IDEAL DJs and Something Funky Dj crew, making his impact producing events and holding residencies at many key venues. His musical range incompasses many different genres including Hiphop, Funk, Reggae, Dance, Pop and an expert knowledge of the many styles of Latin music. He keeps it Ideal!
Cloud Stage
Patrick Murphy, Noah Larson, Tyler Wood, Mark White, Nico Pazos
Castle Finn is a psych rock band in Urbana-Champaign, IL. Retro vibes in spades. Their culmination of zealous bass grooves, electro-pop keys, and riffy guitar motifs create a matrix that defines their psychedelic sound.
Earth Stage
PSALM ONE (CRISTALLE BOWEN)
Cristalle Bowen, pka Psalm One, has been consistently recognized as one of independent hip hop?s most forward thinkers. A prolific author, educator and recording artist, Psalm has been featured in esteemed publications like Rolling Stone and Forbes.
Cloud Stage
Kamau Grantham
Kamau Grantham, better known as Kamau Mau, is an Urbana-based DJ known for his eclectic sets blending house, disco, broken beats, and world music. He plays music that sparks good memories, songs he would dance to if he wasn?t DJing, & music that simply feels good.
Earth Stage
Chase Scott, Dontiel Allison
Trouble Chasin' is a hip-hop/rap duo consisting of emcees Sandman Slimm and Chase Baby. Typically joined by Dj Belly. We've opened for tons of national acts, on numerous stages. Be sure to check us out on all streaming platforms.
Water Stage
House music dj. Some techno, progressive, and electic electronic sounds. Twice monthly radio shows (1st & 3rd FRIDAYS 10p - Midnight CST) on WEFT 90.1 Champaign community radio. Two hours of live and/or pre-recorded dj mixed house & electronic music.
Earth Stage
Holly Curia, Charlie Harris, Cody Jensen, Frank Kurtz
Urbana?s Merry Travelers weave vintage soul, classic rock, and psychedelic folk into a warm, groovy, and deeply enlivening experience.
Cloud Stage
Aaron Scott, Miles Alan, Shay Tolliver, Morgan Mueller, Heesun Chung, Angelo Babtista, Andrew Levy
Water Stage
Eero Dunham
Foobar is Eero Dunham's solo electronic music project, based in both Chicago and Urbana-Champaign. Inspired by 1990s electronica and post-rock, Foobar builds visual, textural songs through samples and field recordings.
