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Join us Saturday, September 27th from 7:00-9:00pm, at the outdoor Riverworks Stage for King of the Moon with a special guest opening performance by Youth in Government.About King of the Moon:
King of the Moon is the retrofuturist psych-folk project of veteran DC-area multi-instrumentalists and producers Sam Cooper and Michael Stettes. Combining saturated ambience, heart-aching songcraft, and mystic grooves, King of the Moon seeks to manipulate consciousness through sonic sorcery and infectious hooks.
Their first album, The Demolished Man (released September 27th, 2025 on all major streaming platforms), was created on a haunted vintage reel-to-reel recorder and polished inside the arcane silicon labyrinths of digital machines. It juxtaposes fingerpicked acoustic guitar and blurred atmospheres with retro drum machine sounds and psychospiritual lyrical explorations.
Cooper and Stettes are longtime creative partners and have previously performed in Sam Cooper & The Sleepwalkers and the David Bowie tribute band The Nobody People, scored several theater productions for the DC Fringe Festival, and operate a recording space, Ramblewood Studio, in the Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve.
Their album release show on September 27th will bring multi-media production and high-art sensibilities to the Riverworks Art Center's outdoor stage. Also vibes. Come with your third eye open (or shut; we can work with that too!), your heart chakra ready to expand, and, of course, your dancing shoes.
About Youth in Government:
Youth in Government is a Space Rock project hailing from Washington DC, lead by Christopher Mathews-Larsen. Inspired by shoegaze, post-rock, and post-punk acts, Mathews-Larsen founded Youth in Government as a vehicle to write his own music within those genres peppered with additional folk and classical touches. Lyrically he primarily touches on themes of isolation, mindfulness, mortality and imperfection, Christopher Mathews-Larsen has been active in the DC music scene for 9 years, playing in bands such as 'Distant Creatures’ and ‘Sam Cooper and the Sleepwalkers’, and also writing cinematic ambient music under the name Grave Nature.
*This is a family-friendly event, with discounted tickets for children ages 6-12, and free for kids 5 and under!
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17617 W Willard Rd, Poolesville, MD 20837, United States
