Black Fret’s 2022 Grantees Should Make You Hopeful for the Future of Seattle Music

Ben London doesn’t want Seattle to turn into a “music desert.” The image conjured is grim, one of a barren wasteland devoid of culture, a once-fertile artistic landscape withered beneath the beating sun of a spiraling cost of living. Here, people wander crazed with a thirst for beauty that will never be slaked, as what little this sterile land has to offer is tossed to the snapping jaws of industry to fuel an ever-expanding tech empire. Wait. Am I just describing South Lake Union? 

Jokes and apocalyptic imagery aside, this turn of phrase is hardly hyperbole. London is the executive director of the Seattle arm of

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