summer concerts

Festivals

Summer Meltdown Festival: Through Aug. 9 at Whitehorse Mountain Amphitheater. Performers include STS9, Iration, Tycho, Greensky Bluegrass, Galactic, Sol, Nahko and Medicine for the People, Fruition, Flowmotion and Slow Magic. For more information, including the schedule, 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.

Whidbey Island Fair: Through Aug. 9 at the fairgrounds in Langley. Performers include Dylan Jakobsen, 7 p.m. Aug. 7, Chance McKinney, 9 p.m. Aug. 8, and the Little Smokies bluegrass band, 5:30 pm. Aug. 9. More at www.whidbeyislandfair.com.

Taste of Edmonds: Aug. 14 through 16, Civic Playfield, 310 Sixth Ave. N. Entertainment schedule is at atoeedmonds.homestead.com/Main-Stage-Schedule.

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. Aug. 13: Stacy Jones Blues Band.

Chateau Ste. Michelle Summer Concert Series: Steve Miller Band, Aug. 7 and 8. 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. Aug. 7: Other Lives, The Shivas, Tangerine.

Edmonds Summer Concerts: Free performances at 3 p.m. Sundays through Aug. 23 at City Park, Third and Pine. Also noon most Tuesdays through Aug. 25, and 5 p.m. most Thursdays through Aug. 2 at Hazel Miller Plaza, Fifth and Maple. For more information, visit www.edmondswa.gov/summer-concerts. Sundays: Aug. 9, Bump Kitchen, soul and funk. Tuesdays: Aug. 11, Steel Drums with Obe Quarless. Thursdays: Aug. 13, Restless Vocal Band.

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. Saturdays: Aug. 8, Vaudeville Etiquette, indie. Thursdays: Aug. 13, The Paperboys, folk-Celtic-bluegrass.

Everett’s Sets in the West: Free all-ages concerts are 5 p.m. Wednesdays, through Aug. 26, at Wetmore Theater Plaza, 2710 Wetmore Ave., Everett. For more info, visit everettwa.gov/809/Wednesday-Sets-in-the-West. Aug. 12: Smokey Brights with Julia Massey.

Lake Tye Music in the Park: Monroe’s free concert series is at 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays through Aug. 27 at Lake Tye. More information is at www.choosemonroe.com. Aug. 13: Chance McKinney.

Marysville’s Sounds of Summer: Free concerts are 7 p.m. Fridays through Aug. 14, at Jennings Memorial Park, 6915 Armar Road. For more info, visit www.marysvillewa.gov/concerts. Aug. 7: Mealfrog, roots rock.

Marymoor Park Concert Series: Aug. 8, Alabama Shakes. Aug. 9, Of Monsters and Men. Aug. 11, Wilco. 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 through Aug. 26 in the county campus amphitheater at Rockefeller and Wall in Everett. snohomishcountywa.gov/2579/Music-on-the-Plaza Aug. 12: Mealfrog.

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. Aug. 12: Ruzivo.

Stanwood’s Summer Concerts: Free concerts are Saturday afternoons through Sept. 12, on 270th or 271st streets in east Stanwood. www.ci.stanwood.wa.us/community/page/2015-summer-concert-series. Aug. 8: Mark DuFresne Band.

Tulalip Summer Concert Series: The Band Perry, Aug. 15; 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: Trampled by Turtles, Aug. 16.

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