Stepping Into Sound: Lucy Kafanov DJing Meow Wolf Denver for Bicycle Day

I’ve been quiet on here lately.

Life has asked me to go inward these past few months — to feel, to shed, to heal, to reimagine. What’s emerging on the other side feels like a remembering… and I’m finally ready to share a piece of that.

On April 19, I’ll be DJing at Meow Wolf Denver for Bicycle Day 2025 — a full-venue psychedelic art and music celebration hosted by the nonprofit PORTAL, an organization I deeply believe in.

Bicycle Day Meow Wolf flyer for psychedelic music event hosted by PORTAL nonprofit Lucy Kafanov DJ

Bicycle Day honors the first intentional LSD journey taken by Albert Hofmann in 1943 — a mind-altering bike ride that helped spark the modern psychedelic movement. This event is more than a party. It’s a ritual of remembrance. A celebration of how psychedelics, music, and art can expand creativity, support healing, and reconnect us to our humanity.

The entire Convergence Station — 90,000 square feet of immersive art — will be alive with sound and light and portals. I’ll be playing at 10PM in the C-Street section, offering a set that blends psychedelic tribal rhythms, ceremonial beats, and acid 303 basslines… music designed to move energy, open hearts, and deepen presence.

I’m so humbled and grateful to be part of a lineup filled with brilliant artists, thinkers, and creators — including Reggie Watts, Duncan Trussell, LP Giobbi, Hamilton Morris, Leonard Pickard, David Satori, Bloomurian, Que and loads of other musicians and consciousness explorers who have inspired me for years. Check out the event page for more details.

I have come to deeply respect the work of PORTAL (Partnership of Responsible Trippers Advocating for Legalization) — a nonprofit working to destigmatize psychedelics, provide education around their use, and advocate for safe, responsible, and equitable access. Their mission lives at the intersection of celebration and activism — and that’s a space I’m proud to contribute to.

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📍 Meow Wolf Denver – Convergence Station
🗓 April 19 | Doors at 10PM | I play at 10PM in C-Street

If you’re just finding out about me as a DJ through this event, welcome. I am a multidisciplinary artist who is passionate about using music as medicine to create healing and transformative movement journeys on the dancefloor. My sound blends tribal Afro rhythms with deep organic house, interwoven with psychedelic acid basslines. I also incorporate elements of medicine music and ceremonial sounds, drawing from my experience in plant medicine work and sacred healing spaces. For me, a DJ set is both a ceremony and an offering — a transmission of energy and spirit shaped by a lifetime of storytelling, world travel, and deep inner Work. I discovered electronic music on the dancefloors of New York City’s 1990s underground rave scene, and over the years, sound has become both my medicine and my mission. You can listen to some of my recent mixes and live sets here.

If you’re feeling the call… come step through with us.
I’d love to dance it open together.

With gratitude,
Lucy

Lucy Kafanov will DJ at Meow Wolf Denver for Bicycle Day 2025 — a celebration of psychedelic art, music, and healing hosted by PORTAL