“I wanted to create an intimate hip-hop house party. Along with co-producer Eryk Fisher and a packed roster of artists and sponsors, O’Sullivan is hosting the Knock’s second event on Saturday, January 8th at Get Busy Living Studios. The Nebraska native, who moved to Colorado thirteen years ago, used that time off to conceptualize the Knock. When COVID first hit, O’Sullivan was working as a tour manager for a DJ in Denver. Because the passion is there, and that changes everything.” “The Knock caught me off guard when everything came together, but I’ve never felt more comfortable in the chaos and uncertainty. Any opportunity that I had, I said yes to,” she says. Live music is where I really wanted to work, so I took an internship here in Denver, and that’s what I’ve been doing for about the past four years. “At about three years sober, I decided I had a second chance at life and really wanted to figure out what I actually wanted to do. For O’Sullivan, producing the Knock through her LLC, HappyMess Productions, was the culmination of years of working hard and dreaming big.

On a Saturday night at River Bar and Gallery, big names in Denver’s hip-hop scene rubbed elbows with up-and-coming artists, audience members and performers mingled in a couch-filled lounge, and Denver’s hip-hop community came together in an unprecedented way. In November of 2021, Kelsey O’Sullivan brought a new kind of party to Denver: a hip-hop showcase with a house party vibe called the Knock.

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