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Organizers of a recent music festival in Hoquiam are hoping they can develop the concert into an annual event to honor the late Kurt Cobain.

Cobain's musical angst, derived partially from his turbulent childhood in the economically depressed former logging towns of Aberdeen and Hoquiam, became the voice of a generation.

His raw and unique style launched the Northwest's grunge rock movement in the early 1990s and made Seattle the epicenter of youth culture.

Cobain's band, Nirvana, broke through to the mainstream market with its gritty lyrics and appeal to troubled teens. Flannel and heavy boots quickly become fashionable, an ironic nod to Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic's hometown with its logging industry.

Bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains joined the ranks of Seattle grunge icons as Nirvana rose to fame, becoming a platinum-selling success.

No band was bigger. And no band seemed to care…

There is a very well-written wrap-up of the Kurt Cobain Memorial Committee's concert held in Aberdeen Saturday in the Aberdeen Daily World.

You can learn more about the committee and what it does here. The concert Saturday was a fundraiser to help build a memorial park and teen center in Aberdeen in Kurt's name.

You can read the article about the show here. You can also read it below.

Inaugural Cobain event draws about 600

By Steven Friederich
Daily World Writer

Kurt Cobain was there.

At least it felt like it to some of those at a benefit concert in his
memory Saturday night at the 7th Street Theatre.

About an hour before the concert in Hoquiam was set to begin,
everything was quiet under the Young Street Bridge in Aberdeen, where
the grunge rock icon is said to have hung out as a young man,
seemingly with no place else to…

Aug, 10, 2007

ABERDEEN, Wash. -- A concert with seven bands is scheduled next month to raise money for a memorial to Kurt Cobain who grew up in Aberdeen.

Proceeds from the "Lounge Acts 2007" concert on September 15th at a Hoquiam theater will help build the Kurt Cobain Memorial Park in Aberdeen.

The Nirvana singer who committed suicide in Seattle in 1994 would now be 40 years old.