PrideFest 2024 Artists
HEADLINERS 2024
American drag queen, television personality, and recording artist best known for competing on the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race and for winning the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, shared with Monét X Change.
Trinity The Tuck
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Main Stage
Drawing inspiration from 80s and 90s cinema and pop culture, Bright Light Bright Light has won fans of icons Cher and Elton John who have taken him on tour, and worked with Scissor Sisters, Erasure, Justin Vivian Bond and many more powerhouse LGBTQ+ artists. Most recent album 'Enjoy Youth' also features a duet with dance music legend Ultra Naté and is hailed as his most joyful yet. Expect high energy, camp, uplifting pop music.
Bright Light Bright Light
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Main Stage
Travvy Trav went from being a completely unknown artist to a regular performer at some popular clubs in Chicago, Seattle, Milwaukee, Debuque, and Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. In addition to exhilarating large crowds, he even found even more success being the resident DJ of Trixie Mattel’s club in Milwaukee - This Is It!
Travvy Trav
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Fountain Stage
Rapper | Singer | Songwriter from Portland, OR USA
Roulette Delgato aka Big Burr
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Mural Stage
SUPPORTING ARTISTS: PrideFest Seattle Center
Social activist by day, socialite by night. Aleksa Manila is a celebrated and respected drag personality. Aleksa is a favorite emcee/host, speaker/panelist, performer/model at many events in the region because of her smart and sassy presence onstage and her ease of engaging her audience. She's a staple in Seattle's landscape from ICON - a celebration of drag, art & life!, LEO Party, University of Washington's Lavender Graduation, Seattle Pride Parade, Seattle Pridefest, Seattle Pridefest Capitol Hill,Lifelong's Gay Bingo to Seattle Symphony's Celebrate Asia among many.
Aleksa Manila
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Main Stage (ALL DAY HOST)
Man Plus is a Seattle original; music for the sexy, the dangerous, and the strange.
Man Plus
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Mural Stage
SailorHank started performing in drag at 10 years old and grew her career in Seattle. Later in life moved to New Orleans and started DJing, she loves spinning 80s disco hi-nrg music, 90s dance, with other genres sprinkled in. Wanting to create a safe fun dance floor for everyone too twirl on.
SailorHank
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Fountain Stage
The orgasmic king of the Pacific Northwest known for unexpected and high energy performances. You can find him lurking around Seattle entertaining mortals throughout the year.
Jack King Off
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Mural Stage (with Bruno Baewatch)
Born from ashes of fire and brimstone in an alternate dimension is none other than the bender of gender, The Latine Goth Prince of The Emerald City, and Seattle Queer Monarch 2023 is Sherwood Ryder. They are the Founder of House of Beloved and the co-founder of The Emerald City Kings Ball. They’re not a woman, they’re not a man, they’re Sherwood Ryder.
Sherwood Ryder
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Mural Stage (with Bruno Baewatch)
Amelia Day is a queer folk rock powerhouse entering the conversation with mainstays like Brandi Carlile, the Indigo Girls, and Tracy Chapman. Underscoring her carefree melodies with gritty, confessional lyricism and raw, heartfelt delivery, Amelia performs with an intimacy that makes even new listeners feel familiar. She mixes elements of her adolescent Washington mixtapes of folk, rock, and jazz in music that plays freely with genre. Amelia has independently sold out venues like Seattle’s The Triple Door, been featured on KEXP, and amassed over 2M streams and 85K monthly listeners on Spotify.
Amelia Day
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Mural Stage
David has been writing and recording music since 2003, performing since 2012, and he formed a duo with Christopher Gray in 2014. Christopher plays both electric and upright bass. His intuitive melodies add stories of their own to David's material. Heartfelt, offbeat and occasionally visceral, David's music lays his heart bare. His style has been likened to Nick Drake, Joan Baez, Elliot Smith, etc. With material that brings light to his own experiences while leaving room for listeners to draw parallels of their own, hearing his music is a unique experience.
David Johnson
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Main Stage
Choreographer Julia Hart is the the Seattle Managing Director of ZTHEORY. She truly understands & believes in ZTHEORY's mission of empowerment, technical training, & top tier artistry. She grew up dancing in all styles, & is always striving to push herself as a creator, instructor, & dancer.
ZTheory
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Fountain Stage
Bruno Baewatch is Seattle’s hunky lifeguard on duty with the juicy booty. As part of BeautyBoiz he’s been the local eye candy in many shows across the city at venues like Unicorn, GAC Tukwilla, Queer/Bar and Kremwerk. From fun and fast dances to slow and sexy burlesque, Bruno knows exactly how to get your heart racing!.
Bruno Baewatch
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Mural Stage
Slutashia is Oregon’s Drag Raptress. She possesses a modern-day hip-hop aura and delivers her original rhymes with strong power & confidence. She has had the pleasure of opening up for queer artists such as God Des, Wreckno & Big Freedia.
Slutashia
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Mural Stage
I’m a dj from Portland Oregon, I’m so excited about performing at Seattle Pride for the first time!
Chelsea Starr (PDX)
Appearing: 6/30 Seattle Center Fountain Stage
SUPPORTING ARTISTS: PrideFest Capitol Hill
Bacon Strip Seattle has been an independently produced drag variety show since 2005. check them out every first Saturday in Georgetown at Jules Maes Saloon. More info and tickets at baconstripseattle.org
Bacon Strip
Appearing: 6/29 Capitol Hill Main Stage
Tinashea Monét is a Local Legend in the Seattle LGBTQ+ community, known for being one of the first black transwomen to compete in Miss Washington USA reigning as Miss Capitol Hill USA 2024. With over 5 years of experience as an entertainer in the Seattle Drag and nightlife scene. She is also the Overall Founding Mother of the Kiki House of Moschino in the PNW, making her mark in the Kiki ballroom scene snatching trophies since 2019.
Tinashea Monét / House of Moschino
Appearing: 6/29 Capitol Hill Main Stage
DonnaTella Howe is moving and shaking all over Seattle. From Bacon Strip to Rainbow Bingo and playing hostess for House of Glitterati at the Tractor Tavern, the Seattle Pride parade and Capitol Hill PrideFest. She has expanded her appearances and is working the freelance circuit. Her hosting ability came about while working as assistant for MoM, running her Mothers Day and birthday tribute shows and the occasional WET night at RPlace.
DonnaTella Howe
Appearing: 6/29 Capitol Hill Main Stage (Host and Curator)
EmpeROAR Fabulous!!! is a multi-award winning singer-songwriter, burlesque performer, and emcee from Seattle known for his whip-smart wordplay, expansive vocal range, inventive costuming, blue humor, unhinged covers, and cartoonish flambouyance. He has competed as a soloist at The Burlesque Hall Of Fame Weekender in Las Vegas and danced, sang, or emceed at over 30 festivals, 3 of which he headlined. With multiple series and solo shows under his belt, his current quarterly solo cabaret show, “EmpeROAR’s Pretty Ridiculous...”, can be seen at Lush Bar on June 1st, Sept 7th, and Dec 7th.
EmpeROAR Fabulous!!!
Appearing: 6/29 Capitol Hill Main Stage
Elsian, also known as "LCN!", is a Filipino indie / bedroom pop artist from Seattle, Washington. He began releasing music in 2023 and since then, has surpassed over 3 million streams across various music platforms. Elsian made his debut performance at The Crocodile venue in Seattle and following this, served as the opening act for Car, the garden on his North American tour. With each note and lyric crafted in the comfort of his own bedroom studio, Elsian invites listeners into his world, leaving an unforgettable mark on the music scene.
LCN!
Appearing: 6/29 Capitol Hill Main Stage
Champagne Honeybee is singer/songwriter Rani Weatherby, her trusty ukuleles, and talented backing band. She has performed her unique blend of jazz, blues, funk, and ukulele soul across the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, East Coast, and in her birth city of Kolkata, India. Rani is an endorsed artist through Lanikai Ukuleles, and she is currently recording a full length album of original music.
Champagne Honeybee
Appearing: 6/29 Capitol Hill Main Stage