This is a few days too late for anyone to actually make it to the show, but Seattle’s own The Stranger ran a story about collaboration between two Bahá’í hip-hop artists, RA Scion and DJ Sabzi (of Blue Scholars), into a group they call Common Market. The story focuses mostly on the music, but does mention their mutual connection through the Faith:

You could say the duo connected through a higher power. “We’re both Baha’i; that’s how I heard of Sabzi in the first place,” explains Scion. “So being involved with the Baha’i community and doing music, people kept asking me, ‘Do you know Saba?’”

“Yeah, people would just be like, there’s another Baha’i in town that ‘does hiphop,’” Sabzi laughs. Once connected, Sabzi spun records at the release party for RA’s debut EP Apostrophe—and the pair found that musically, they were on the same page.

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