Cranking up the feedback, three bands and their fans squeezed together on the stage at Wolf Creek Brewery to get their groove on and support the SCV Child and Family Center.

“I think music heals the soul,” said Joey Voge, lead singer and guitarist for Full Safari, one of the featured bands. “But through the togetherness we create, we should be able to heal others at the same time.”

The bands, Submediocre, Full Safari and Kingblue gathered to jam for charity with their original songs, after an idea from two of the Submediocre musicians’ parents.

“The kids were doing a lot of practicing,” said Aaron Emery, the father of Evan Emery a multi-instrumentalist for Submediocre. “and we just enjoyed their music so much, we thought how cool would it be at the end of the (school) year to put a concert together.”

“It started as something we wanted to do for the kids, but the more we talked about it,” said Emery, “it became a charity event.”

The proceeds are going to the Child and Family Center, organizers said, a regional Santa Clarita Valley nonprofit that provides mental health, behavioral and education services to children, adults and families, according to the center’s website.

“The whole idea was to give these kids an avenue to show their art,” said the elder Emery, “but also to be able to give back.”

Tate Dickens, a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter for Submediocre, held the charity at heart.

“I grew up poor in Albuquerque, New Mexico,” said Dickens. “I grew up next to crackheads and gangsters, and they aren’t terrible people … but it was a stressful environment as a kid.

The hosts at the Wolf Creek Brewery agreed to donate part of the money gained from beer and wine sales to the SCV Child and Family Center, said Emery, and the organizers asked if the vendors from the food trucks could do the same.