The producers of the Capitol Hill Block Party are also pulling back on their other big summer Seattle music festival.

Block Party’s Daydream State production company has announced its 2025 Day In Day Out festival has been canceled.

“We want to thank our community of music lovers who made DIDO such a great experience over the last 4 years,” the company said in the announcement. “We’re taking 2025 off to regroup and refocus our efforts to other endeavors as we reimagine the fest and site to come back even better in the future.”

CHS reported here in 2021 as Daydream State, the production company formed by Jason Lajeunesse behind Pike/Pine institutions including the Neumos and Barboza family, Lost Lake Cafe, the Comet, and Big Mario’s, launched the first Day In Day Out, creating the new multi-day music event at the Seattle Center to fill in that year on Labor Day weekend as the city’s traditional Bumbershoot festival recovered from impacts of the pandemic.

“Daydream State owns and operates some of Seattle’s favorite bars, restaurants and independent venues,” the company says. “We simultaneously produce a myriad of year-round live events and festivals that celebrate the city’s vibrant music and arts culture. We believe that hospitality, music and entertainment are intrinsically connected and help anchor an ever-changing city like Seattle, to its history and roots.”

As Bumbershoot regained its footing under another group with Capitol Hill connections, Day In Day Out transitioned to become part of Seattle’s mid-summer music offerings. The 2024 event took place July 12th through 14th.

The cancellation follows a major pullback on the long-running Capitol Hill Block Party for Daydream State and the Block Party as the festival will drop a full day from its schedule this summer.

There will also be a big change in attendance as organizers have decided to make Block Party a 21+ only event amid growing challenges and costs around security and the festival’s unique footprint on the fenced-off, city street core of Pike/Pine.

Last year’s festival was highlighted by nearly impossibly packed crowds inside and outside the festival’s fences as Chappell Roan’s popularity exploded in the lead-up to her Friday night set.

The 2025 CHBP and a lineup led by Thundercat, Porter Robinson, DJ Pee.Wee, The Dare, Dora Jar, and Fcukers will take place Saturday and Sunday July 19th and 20th.

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