The archive · Year one
SilverVox 2026.
Where it
all started.
June 18–21, 2026. The first SilverVox Film + Music Festival filled thirteen venues across historic downtown Frederick with independent film, live music, big ideas and a lot of late nights. Filmmakers called it one of the best festivals they’d ever attended. The local paper wrote a column just to say thank you.
The Frederick News-Post
“For four days, the city felt like a carnival of delights for the arts community.”
June 18–21, 2026
Four days,
one reel.
Different voices. Unexpected connections. One city that showed up. Here’s what year one looked like.
● Now showing · Year one
Reel 02 · Frederick, MD
Four days
Thursday to Sunday,
block by block.
Screenings, sets, talks and parties every day, all within a few walkable blocks.
Thursday · June 18
Opening night
Red carpets + premieres
Year one opened with red carpets, premieres and a downtown full of people who were all at their very first SilverVox.
Friday · June 19
Homecomings
Rae Boyd + stages all over town
Maryland’s Rae Boyd played a homecoming show, while the MET Key Stage, JoJo’s and 7th Sister filled up for the night.
Saturday · June 20
The big night
Cults, DIIV + Kishi Bashi
Three headliners at the historic Weinberg Center, with DIIV weaving film into its set, plus Sky Stage, 7th Sister and the Blue Elephant all day.
Sunday · June 21
The last word
Final screenings + Sky Stage
One more day of films, an afternoon on Sky Stage and the conversations nobody wanted to end.
Year one, by the numbers
Frederick
showed up.
3,581
Tickets + passes
161
Films screened
40+
Musicians, bands + DJs
13
Downtown venues
The rest of the story
Bigger than
a first year.
Audience
49%
Traveled in from outside Frederick County, from 29 states and 272 ZIP codes.
Submissions
407
Films submitted from 29 countries. 81 filmmakers came to town.
Ideas
13
Talks and panels, plus workshops, with 1,000+ people at free programming.
Students
32
High School Showcase entries. A third of all submissions came from students.
Community
100+
Volunteers who made it run.
Impact
$403K
In local economic activity for downtown Frederick. Estimated using the Americans for the Arts AEP6 model.
The whole program
Everything that played year one, from cartoons to cult classics.
What they said
Hard to believe
it was year one.
I have attended hundreds of film festivals over the course of my 27 years in the film and television industry and SilverVox Film and Music Festival rates at the top of the list.
Rick Kain
Filmmaker · FilmFreeway review
If you are a filmmaker selected for this fest, you are treated like royalty by the team.
Ian Scott Pullens
Filmmaker · FilmFreeway review
A stroke of luck — or genius — for an inaugural film fest.
The Frederick News-Post
On DIIV’s film-and-music set at the Weinberg
Dig deeper
Explore
year one.
Film
161 films
From Rocky Horror to the High School Showcase, with trailers for our favorites.
Music
The lineup
Cults, DIIV, Kishi Bashi, Rae Boyd and dozens of touring, regional and Frederick artists.
Ideas
Talks + panels
Emmy winners, Broadway originals, music supervisors and the SAG-AFTRA workshop.
From the news desk
How year one
came together.
Cults to headline Saturday night, June 20 →
Kishi Bashi joins Saturday night →
DIIV rounds out Saturday night →
First round of talks + panels announced →
Broadway’s Andrea Macasaet joins the talks lineup →
Beyond the headliners: the local and regional sound of SilverVox →
Year two · May 6–9, 2027
Year one proved it.
Year two turns it up.
Same walkable downtown. Sharper festival. Film submissions are open now, and music and talks open November 1.