This week on Live and Local, Aaron was joined by four of the many musicians who will come together Saturday, August 26, for the Be Loud ’23 Festival at Cats Cradle.

Be Loud ’23 is an evening of live music to raise funds for the Be Loud! Sophie Foundation, which supports teen and young-adult cancer patients at UNC Hospitals. Founded by Niklaus and Lucy Steiner in honor of their late daughter Sophie, the foundation has raised millions of dollars in the last decade; the AYA Cancer Program they helped launch in 2015 is now a nationwide model.

Click here to learn more about the foundation, at BeLoudSophie.org.

For the last 10 years, the foundation’s signature fundraiser event has been the Be Loud Festival, bringing local musicians together for a superconcert at Cats Cradle. This year’s festival will be the last for now – they’re planning new fundraising efforts in the future – but they’re going out with a bang, uniting dozens of iconic local artists for an unforgettable performance.

On Saturday, August 26, two supergroups will take the stage. First up is Preeesh!, featuring Rob Ladd, John Plymale, and Robert Sledge – who represent bands from the Pressure Boys to the Sex Police and Ben Folds Five. (Ladd has played at every Be Loud festival since its inception.) Preeesh! will cover Echo and the Bunnymen to get the evening started – and then they’ll turn over the stage to a performance of REM covers by the Maxell 90, an ultimate supergroup comprised of two dozen artists from bands like the Connells, Dillon Fence, Collapsis, the Veldt, the Old Ceremony, Superchunk, Dante High, and many, many more.

Click here to purchase tickets to the show, on CatsCradle.com.

The show gets under way at 8:00 on August 26, with doors opening at 7:30.

To preview the show, Aaron was joined by Niklaus and Lucy Steiner of the Be Loud! Sophie Foundation – and musicians George Huntley, Scott Carle, Lance Westerlund, and Adriana LaPuerta. They covered a trio of REM songs (“Gardening at Night,” “7 Chinese Brothers,” and “Finest Worksong”) while the Steiners shared the latest about the foundation’s work.

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