Live concert photography from Elsewhere Festival's first day feat, Killer Mike, Snow Tha Product, A Place to Bury Strangers, TOKiMonsta, D. Smoke and Zuzu's Petals.

Live Concert Photography: Elsewhere Music Festival: Day 1: 6/21/24 feat. Killer Mike, A Place to Bury Strangers, Snow Tha Product, TOKiMONSTA, D. Smoke and Zuzu’s Petals

Created and produced by Midtopia, a Wichita, KS-based nonprofit artist and music-worker collective striving to build new models for the music industry, Elsewhere Festival and Conference is a not-for-profit event created to facilitate the building of community around artistic and musical endeavors. The inaugural festival and conference took place in Downtown, Wichita’s Old Town section last month.

The festival component was specifically crafted to be a multi-disciplinary showcase of national, regional and local artists featuring an eclectic, genre-defying collection of artists including Grammy Award-winning emcee, entrepreneur and activist Killer Mike, who not only headlined the festival’s first night, Friday June 21, but also spoke in a keynote one-on-one conversation with Rudy Love and the Encore‘s Rudy Love, Jr. earlier that day. Crowd-pleasing electronic music producer Steve Aoki, JOVM mainstays A Place to Bury Strangers, TOKiMONSTA, Sunflower Bean, funk outfit The Motet, and a curated collection of local and regional acts rounded out the festival’s first day.

Elsewhere Festival Lineup

Friday, June 21, 2024

Wave Outdoor:
Killer Mike
Snow Tha Product
D Smoke
Josue Estrada Presents: Volcan ICT feat: Angelo Tomas, June.MP3, Jai37, F.Y.I, Marrice Anthony, Shvkxir, Rail G, James Porter Jr, Jet Lattimore, Shocker Sound Machine

Wave Indoor:
Rudy Love & The Encore
Marcey Yates
Soothsayerz
Paris Jane

WherElse:
Steve Aoki
TOKiMONSTA
NOTD
Massane
Goaty the Kid

Norton’s:
A Place To Bury Strangers
Jesus Christ Taxi Driver
Kiss The Tiger
Yae

The Phoenix:
Zach Crow

Barleycorn’s:
Mambo Sauce
TF Bundy
Vehicles
Flake
Unknown Venus
The Macks
Breeding Brainbow
Mx Vx Railroad industry
Phantom Black
Los Narwhals

Naftzger Park (Free):
Blu DeTiger
Sunflower Bean
The Motet
French Cassettes
DJ Carbon

Although I’ve included the first day’s full lineup below, specifically for the fellow olds, who complain about the small print of festival posters, I wasn’t able to see as much as I would have liked because of scheduling conflicts and obligations. But, for the festival’s first day I bounced around several Wichita venues including John Barleycorn‘s, Nortons Brewing Company and the headlining stage at Wave ICT for an eclectic array of sets.

Funnily enough, I had fully intended to write detailed notes about each of the festival sets I intended to catch. But I wound up having so much fun with locals and colleagues that I completely forgot about it after catching the first set of my festival set. Ooops! That’s a good problem to have on occasion. But hey, there are photos. Lots of them. Check it out.