Festivals
Downtown Everett Block Party: Fundraiser for Everett’s July 4 fireworks display, 3 to 11 p.m. July 3, Wetmore Avenue. Free, but donations asked. Bands include Cover Lovin’, Skablins, Rivertalk and Van Eps. There will be food and a beer garden.
Chinook Fest Summit: July 10 through 12, Summit at Snoqualmie. Headliners include Allen Stone and Austin Jenckes. For more information, visit chinookfest.com.
Timber! Outdoor Music Festival: July 16 through 18, Carnation. Headliners include The Dead Milkmen, Beat Connection and David Bazan. For more information, visit www.timbermusicfest.com.
Darrington Bluegrass Festival: July 17 through 19, Darrington Bluegrass Music Park. Headliners include the Gibson Brothers, Gentlemen of Bluegrass and Gold Heart. For more information, visit www.darringtonbluegrass.com.
Cascadia NW Arts &Music Festival: July 23 through 26, Masonic Family Park, Granite Falls. Performers include Tipper, Nordic Soul, Biolumigen and more. For more information, visit www.cascadianw.com.
Rock the Boat: The bands Mudhoney, Fauna Shade and Duke Evers will play for this small festival, sponsored by the Everett Music Initiative and Scuttlebutt Brewing, beginning at 5 p.m. Aug. 1 at the Port of Everett.
Summer Meltdown Festival: Aug. 6 through 9, at Whitehorse Mountain Amphitheater (AKA Darrington’s bluegrass park). Performers include STS9, Iration, Tycho, Greensky Bluegrass, Galactic, Sol, Nahko and Medicine for the People, Fruition, Flowmotion and Slow Magic. For more information, visit summermeltdownfest.com.
Stillaguamish Festival of the River: Aug. 8 and 9, River Meadows County Park near Arlington. Los Lobos on Aug. 8, Thompson Square on Aug. 9. More at www.facebook.com/stillyfest.
Evergreen State Fair: Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, Aug. 31; Casting Crowns, Sept. 1; Lee Brice, Sept. 2; Jerrod Niemann, Sept. 2; Vince Gill, Sept. 4. For more information, visit www.evergreenfair.org.
Bumbershoot: Sept. 5 through 7, Seattle Center. Seattle’s premiere celebration of the arts. Notable acts include Faith No More, Ellie Goulding, Flying Lotus, Hozier, Ben Harper, Bassnectar and Social Distortion. For more information, visit bumbershoot.org.
Summer series
Arlington’s Music on the Terraces: Free concerts are 6:30 p.m. Thursdays, Aug. 6 to 27, at Terrace Park, 809 E. Fifth St.
Chateau Ste. Michelle Summer Concert Series: Sheryl Crow, July 8; John Fogerty, July 24; Chateau St. Michelle Festival of Jazz, July 25; Wine Country Blues Fest, July 26; Jackson Browne, Aug. 1 and 2; Steve Miller Band, Aug. 7 and 8; Michael Franti &Spearhead, Aug. 22; Randy Newman, Aug. 29. For more information, visit www.ste-michelle.com.
Concerts at the Mural: Free concerts starting at 5:30 p.m. Fridays, Aug. 7 through 28 at the Mural Amphitheater at Seattle Center. Other Lives, The Shivas, Tangerine, Aug. 7; Decibel Fest Night with Natasho Kmeto, Shaprece, Manatee Commune, Aug. 14; The Coup, Pillar Point, Aug. 21; Country Lips, Evening Bell, Aug. 28.
Edmonds Summer Concerts: Free performances at 3 p.m. Sundays, July 12 to Aug. 23, at City Park, Third and Pine. Also noon most Tuesdays, July 21 to Aug. 25, and 5 p.m. most Thursdays, July 9 through Aug. 27, at Havel Miller Plaza, Fifth and Maple. For more information, visit www.edmondswa.gov/summer-concerts.
Everett’s Music at the Marina: Free concerts are 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 27 and Saturdays through Aug. 29, Port Gardner Landing, 1700 W. Marine View Drive. Most bands are local or regional. For more information, visit www.everettwa.gov. Next up: Randy McAllister, July 9; Mark DeFresne Band, July 11.
Everett’s Sets in the West: Free all-ages concerts are 5 p.m. Wednesdays, July 8 to Aug. 26, at Wetmore Theater Plaza, 2710 Wetmore Ave., Everett. For more info, visit everettwa.gov/809/Wednesday-Sets-in-the-West. July 8: Grace Love and the True Loves with Preacher’s Wife.
Lake Tye Music in the Park: Monroe’s free concert series is at 6:30 p.m. on Fridays, July 10 through 31, and Thursdays, Aug. 6 through 27, at Lake Tye. More information is at www.choosemonroe.com.
Marysville’s Sounds of Summer: Free concerts are 7 p.m. Fridays, July 10 to Aug. 14, at Jennings Memorial Park, 6915 Armar Road. For more info, visit www.marysvillewa.gov/concerts.
Marymoor Park Concert Series: The Decemberists, July 16; Third Eye Blind and Dashboard Confessional, July 22; Alabama Shakes, Aug. 8; Wilco, Aug. 11. For more information, visit www.marymoorconcerts.com.
Snohomish County’s Music on the Plaza: The series is 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesdays, July 8 through Aug. 26 in the county campus amphitheater at Rockefeller and Wall in Everett. Edmund Wayne, July 8; Jess Lambert, July 15.
South Whidbey’s Sounds of Summer series: Free concerts 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 19, Community Park, 5495 Maxwelton Road, Langley, or Bayview Cash Store, 5603 Bayview Road, Langley. Next up: The Winterlings, July 8 at the park.
Stanwood’s Summer Concerts: Free concerts are Saturday afternoons through Sept. 12, on 271st Street in east Stanwood.
Tulalip Summer Concert Series: Boz Scaggs and Aaron Neville, July 3; Hank Williams, Jr., July 8; Heart by Heart &Spike and the Impalers, July 17; Boyz II Men, Aug. 6; Huey Lewis and the News, Aug. 28; Sammy Hagar, Sept. 3. For more information, visit www.tulalipresortcasino.com/Entertainment/TulalipAmphitheatre
Woodland Park Zoo’s ZooTunes: Indigo Girls, July 12; Bruce Hornsby, July 22; Mavis Staples and Patty Griffin, July 26; Emmylou Harris, July 29; Trampled by Turtles, Aug. 16.
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