Seventh Stanine Festival DC 2022

Seventh Stanine is a gathering of artists who, against all promise of financial gain, notoriety, or any of the usual tropes associated with playing music, continue to make art because they have to; they can’t imagine their lives without it. Originating in 2016 with an idea by DC band The Caribbean to bring together friends, accomplices, and acquaintances, the first installation of the festival was held at the The Dew Drop Inn DC in NE on Saturday June 3, 2017. Quoted in the Washington City Paper at the time, founder Matthew Byars said, “'I had long thought about having a festival in the smallest venue possible—literally like a tiny room,‘” says Byars of The Caribbean, a quietly beloved D.C. experimental-pop band. His daydream is now an actual thing. It’s called Seventh Stanine, a free all-day event planned for the Dew Drop Inn in Northeast D.C. The lineup is a roll call of artists The Caribbean knows well or at least admires, including (a number of) edgy-but-amiable acts.“ Now in its fifth year, this description is still apt, and the festival has featured over 40 different musical artists, growing in scope and scale each year.

Host or Publisher Presented by Essential Tremors (WYPR) and DC band The Caribbean.