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LOGAN — A party and dance has been organized to help young people of high school age in northern Utah find a sense of belonging and purpose.
It’s called Neon New Year’s Dance and is sponsored by Seize the Night Records, and will be held Saturday night beginning at 9p.m. at the Cache County Events Center, 490 S 500 W, in Logan.
On KVNU’s For the People program on Wednesday, founder Steve Tracy talked about what inspired him to form the record company and this party.
“Yes, it is something that’s really personal to me, it’s impacted me for a long portion of my life. My first experience with it was when I was a freshman actually at South Cache Junior High, a friend there took his life. I didn’t realize then though like how much it was going to impact me long-term,” he explained.
So, Tracy started hosting events and DJ-ing in Cache Valley when he was a junior in High School with a goal of bringing people together and give people a safe place plus a good time.
But more tragedy would come into his life
“But in 2017, one of my closest friends, I had known her close to 10 years and she was one of my best friends and impacted me, kind of created and shaped who I was personality-wise, she took her life. And that was when I think everything…I wouldn’t say came together, it was more kind of… it broke me and made me start searching for a reason behind what I was doing.”
Through Seize the Night Records he has raised money for state and national suicide prevention programs. Tracy said music has been his main coping mechanism to get him through dark times.
He explained that once you get enough people together listening to music he feels it changes the entire energy and perspective of yourself, because you are not just one person anymore listening to a song.
Tracy talked about the inspiration for Carpe Noctem or Seize the Night.
“I’m kind of a night owl, and when I’m alone though at night my brain kind of goes rampant and it’s one of the things…if you have depression you go into this kind of a cycle, just over-thinking and you just get lower and lower, everything around you seems darker and darker. So Carpe Noctem, it was the first time I ever heard it happened after my friend in 2017 passed away. I don’t think I ever hurt more than that, but then it also, when I heard that phrase, it gave me a little bit of strength to start doing something more.”
There will be a DJ with Live music, blacklights, prizes, a photobooth, a resolution wall and balloon drop.
15 % of all profits go to suicide prevention programs, including the SafeUT app and the National Suicide Hotline.
You can get pre-sale tickets and find more information at SeizetheNightRecords.com