The 2024 SLAM Music Festival is a FREE first-ever, young artists music festival created specifically for emerging original music artists of all genres, ages 20 and younger at Pioneer Park in Downtown Salt Lake City staged on the soccer field during the Downtown Farmer’s Market, an event attended by 8,000 – 10,000 people on Saturday, September 7 from 10 am – 2 pm. FESTIVAL LINEUP: 30 Utah original music artists: bands, rappers, singer-songwriters, and others applied in 2024 and the following six original music artists ages 20 and younger will be performing 30-minute sets and be paid $500 per performance: 10:00 AM – UNSEEN Four piece Rock/alternative band: Mia Clark 19, – Abby Harding 19, – Trinity Tran 19, Gray Tran 19 10:40 AM – SCARLET KATHRYN 18-year-old Folk/Americana singer-songwriter who plays solo with a guitar and a piano/keyboard. The first-place singer-songwriter in the 2024 Statewide PTA Battle of the Bands. 11:15 AM – MANUEL! 19-year-old Indie, Rap, and Pop artist 12:00 PM – RIFF WOOD A 4-piece pop-punk band of 15-year-olds who were first-place in the Statewide PTA Battle of the Bands: Carson Groves, Hyrum Russon, Asher Winegar, and Jaxon Williams. 12:45 PM – CALICO A 5-piece Indie Folk band: Kylie Franz: 18, Lachlan Stapley: 17, Justus Brown: 16, Kaleb Curtis: 17, John Thomas: 16 1:30 PM – TEDDY P A 6-piece Jazz/Jazz fusion band of U of u students: Derek Coombs- 20, Henry Pollei – 20, Ester Judd – 19, Sean Wilson – 19, Ethan Summerhayes – 20. Best of all: SLAM Music Festival is FREE! https://slamslc.org/festival https://www.facebook.com/events/955241089652659 The SLAM Music Festival is a partnership between The Blocks Arts District, SLAM: Salt Lake Academy of Music, Salt Lake City Weekly, and The Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office ACE Fund.