The broadcast ended before sunset, but the live music rocked on long into Friday night during KEXP Radio‘s Hood-to-Hood Challenge victory party for West Seattle (the result of this neighborhood donating more than any other during last year’s pledge drive). Top photo, Caspar Babypants (West Seattleite Chris Ballew) delighted the family crowd late this afternoon at Cupcake Royale (WSB sponsor), where kids got to create art while not jumping with the beat to performers that also included The Board of Education and The Not-Its (see our video clip from their set in our midday report).

(P.S. You’ll get to see Caspar Babypants and The BOE on a West Seattle double bill August 19 during Summer Concerts at Hiawatha, co-sponsored by WSB.) Then early Friday night, before the 21+ venues geared up bigtime, an art-and-music showcase at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in North Delridge brought people in from the rain:

That’s Militant Child, with “Dance With Me,” one of the tracks you can hear in its entirety on her MySpace site. Speaking of audio – if you missed any of the live broadcast that ran from 6 am till early evening, it’s archived here – for example, you can try 10:30 am Friday, May 21, to look for the segment featuring Chief Sealth International High School Marching Band performance (we had video in our first report – here’s one more photo):

Want to try to win Hood-to-Hood again? According to KEXP’s website, its pledge drive is coming up again June 4-11.