Three stages on the Pike/Pine corridor will pulse with alternative music Saturday night when Black & Loud Fest takes over Neumos, Barboza and The Runaway for its fifth year.

The festival, co-founded in 2022 by King Youngblood frontman Cameron Lavi-Jones and Down North's Anthony Briscoe, moved to Capitol Hill for 2026 after previous editions elsewhere in Seattle. Doors open at 6 p.m. Aug. 29. The show is 21+.

"There hasn't been a year of this festival that folks haven't said to me, 'I didn't know how much I needed this,'" Lavi-Jones wrote in a Seattle magazine op-ed published Aug. 24. "I hear it from both the artists experiencing a level of seenness and acceptance for the first time and the diverse audience we invite to celebrate with us, experiencing the breadth of what Black artists can sound like."

The lineup stretches across genres. Brooklyn singer-songwriter Iniko, whose single "Jericho" debuted at No. 11 on Billboard's R&B Digital Song Sales chart, headlines. Grammy-winning New Orleans percussionist Cyril Neville, 77, performs with his son Omari Neville and The Fuel. King Youngblood will debut tracks from their upcoming album Outrun Your Shadow, co-produced by Eric Lilavois of London Bridge Studios and slated for release this fall.

Regional acts fill out the bill: Down North, Toxic Tears, Reji Marcs and the Black Smoke Project, a hip-hop cypher led by i//u. An all-femme DJ lineup takes over The Runaway stage.

The festival's guiding principle is "Black Art Is Resistance." Lavi-Jones, a University of Washington communications graduate, wrote that artists like Iniko are "often overlooked for Black events because they don't fit into the stereotypes of what most people think Black music is supposed to sound like."

Booking Neville, he added, is about "giving folks their flowers now rather than waiting till they're gone."

Black & Loud Fest is fiscally sponsored as a 501(c)(3) project by the Northwest Film Forum, with Jack Daniel's as title sponsor.

A Ticket Scholarship Fund provides free admission to Black and BIPOC community members, independent musicians and emerging industry professionals. Donations go through blackandloudfest.com/ticketscholarshipfund.

Tickets are available at blackandloudfest.com. The festival heads to Portland's The Den on Sunday, Aug. 30.