DARSOMBRA announces Transmission, a two-day festival celebrating the life and art of Ann Everton, taking place February 28 and March 1 at Baltimore’s Ottobar. The gathering honors Everton, who tragically passed away in a vehicle accident in early October when the band was beginning their latest tour. Brian Daniloski, Everton’s husband and founding DARSOMBRA member, worked directly with Ottobar staff and several artists to organize the event, bringing together almost thirty acts who are friends of the band to perform in Everton’s memory. Two full days of performances will take place on both upstairs and downstairs stages, featuring a large contingent of Baltimore area friends including Acoustic War On Women, Curse Consumer Culture, Moth Broth, 50′ & The Worms, Quattracenta, Holy Fingers, and Celebration, alongside acts from beyond the local scene like Cultic and Stinking Lizaveta from Pennsylvania, Ala Muerte and Gridfailure from New York, and more.
DARSOMBRA also unveils a new video for “Mellow Knees” from their sprawling 2xLP ‘Dumesday Book’, one of the final pieces of visual art Ann Everton completed before her passing. The video captures a wide array of nature footage and more she filmed over various tours supporting the album during the past few years. “This video was completed in 2024,” Daniloski reveals. “It is the ending sequence of what was supposed to be the Dumesday Book video album. Ann wanted to create a video for every song on the 75-minute album and have them all connect its pandemic-tymes storyline, from when we were all told to shelter in place in Spring 2020, to its conclusion about a year or so later, which, for DARSOMBRA and this video, meant being able to leave our home to go back out on the road and tour again. She had completed videos for over half of the album, including this one, before her passing in October 2025.”