8 p.m., Atrium Stage
Local DJs and catalysts on the Cleveland music scene, Stout XTC and Homework Guy kick off the festivities in the museum’s atrium.
Over 15 years Darrell Stout aka "DJ Stout XTC" has continued to evolve from your average listener and avid clubgoer to a local radio show host on Beatmatrix. Known as a prolific underground events planner and coordinator, Stout is a quintessential DJ for house music, gaining knowledge and experience with every musical endeavor that he is a part of and his styles blend from the very deep and soulful to a banging groove that just demands you to dance.
Since 2005, Andreas aka “Homework Guy” was reading school books and studying to looking thru back catalogs of record labels, while listening to one of his favorite shows on WRUW Beatmatrix, which he currently co-hosts. He is known for following the evolved sounds of Drum & Bass and formed a profound standing in Cleveland's Drum & Bass family.