Some of Sub Pop Records finest will take the stage Saturday night (Dec. 4) to honor the life of a fallen member of the local music community.
The concert, which will feature performances by Shabazz Palaces, Vetiver, Fruit Bats, Wolf Eyes, Pissed Jeans, Mudhoney, A-Frames/AFCGT, and Michael Yonkers, is the latest in a series benefit efforts to celebrate the life of Andy Kotowicz, the seminal Seattle label’s former vice president of sales and marketing. On Oct. 21 Kotowicz was taking his 3-year-old daughter home from daycare when a speeding vehicle collided with his car which was stopped at a traffic light on 15th Avenue in Ballard. Remarkably his daughter survived the crash thanks to an amazingly heroic act but Kotowicz, 37, died three days later from injuries suffered in the collision. He worked for 10 years as a talent scout at Sub Pop and as a sales and marketing executive.
The amount of support that has been shown for Kotowicz’s family since his death by local and national music icons shows how much he was loved and how much those who knew him will miss his presence. There was a public memorial service for Kotowicz at Town Hall, Pearl Jam auction off an autographed guitar to benefit Kotowicz’s family which sold for $12,500 and several of pieces of rare music and pop culture memorabilia are currently being auctioned off at the website charitybuzz.com. Auction items range from a guitars signed by the Foo Fighters and Muse to a limited edition Simpsons animation cell and an autographed Conan O’Brien album. A full list items for the auction, which ends Dec. 14, can be viewed here.
All proceeds from the auction as well as Saturday’s show will go directly to the Andy Kotowicz Family Foundation which was established to help support Kotowicz’s wife and daughter.
A Concert for The Andy Kotowicz Family Foundation begins at 7 p.m. at Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Avenue. Tickets cost $20.
