Tickets said to be going fast for Everett music festival
Published 3:53 pm Wednesday, April 6, 2016
What would you pay to see 80 bands over three days in downtown Everett?
Last May, people shelled out $70 apiece for Fisherman’s Village Music Festival wrist bands.
This year, however, the festival offers a pay-what-you-can deal that gets you a full-weekend ticket for as little as $10 and only as much as $50. To buy a wrist band, go to www.thefishermansvillage.com.
The third annual Fisherman’s Village festival is May 20 through 22, and will attract thousands of music fans from the region that extends from Portland north to Vancouver, British Columbia.
The tickets are going fast, said volunteer organizer Ryan Crowther. More than a month ahead of the festival, nearly 1,000 people already have paid up.
“The pay-what-you-can wrist band allows people who haven’t been to the festival before to check out our emerging music scene. It broadens access because it makes it affordable,” said Crowther, a founder of the Everett Music Initiative, which produces the festival. “Once we hit 3,000 wrist bands, we’re getting close to capacity because some of our venues are fairly intimate. Even so, we could see 5,000 people.”
Crowther praised the city of Everett for its use of tourism tax dollars to help fund this year’s festival.
“Of course, we hope people will be generous when they pay for their wrist bands,” Crowther said. “It also is an opportunity to show your support for what Everett Music Initiative has done in our community.”
Steven Graham, another EMI founder, said it’s a no-brainer.
“No matter what pricing option you pick, you get the same three-day festival access as anybody else,” Graham said in his What Radio? blog on April 1. “There isn’t really an excuse to miss this one.”
And the diverse concert lineup is bigger than ever, Crowther said.
“We’re really excited about some of the bigger names, like Grace Love &the True Loves from Seattle and Bear Mountain from Vancouver. To have this caliber of artist coming to downtown Everett and be able to offer a festival to anyone who wants to come is a special thing,” he said. “But we are most excited about the fact that we have nearly 20 bands from Snohomish County on the schedule, and some of these bands will be performing in front of the biggest crowds they’ve ever had.”
Some of the local bands include Fauna Shade, Johnny Lee Ledford, I Will Keep Your Ghost and Tellers (formerly Preacher’s Wife).
“I think we will see big audiences for these bands, who have been working really hard, building a local following and creating the music scene we have been dreaming of for years,” Crowther said.
The festival also features family activities, food trucks and art events.
“We realized after two years of the festival that we needed to create key partnerships and offer a bit of something for everyone,” Crowther said.
To that end, the festival and the Imagine Children’s Museum are set to offer a kids concert featuring well-known children’s entertainer Tim Noah at the Historic Everett Theatre.
The festival schedule will be released soon along with venue details. More information is at www.thefishermansvillage.com.
Gale Fiege: 425-339-3427; gfiege@heraldnet.com.
Who’s playing
The Fisherman’s Village lineup includes:
Grace Love &The True Loves, The Last Internationale, Bear Mountain, SISTERS, The Grizzled Mighty, Magic Sword, Sassy Black, Pillar Point, Wampire, Manatee Commune, Weed, Iska Dhaaf, Bryan John Appleby, Smokey Brights, Fauna Shade, Soft Sleep, Star Anna, Chris Staples, So Pitted, Ashley Eriksson, The Ramblin’ Years, Young in the City, The Hollers, Battleme, Crater, Planes on Paper, Tango Alpha Tango, Draemhouse, Duke Evers, Rabbit Wilde, Scott Yoder, Evening Bell, Pig Snout, Silver Torches, I Will Keep Your Ghost, Bod, Jacob Miller &The Bridge City Crooners, Lonely Mountain Lovers, The Raven &The Writing Desk, Tim Noah, Great Spiders, Tellers, Radio Raheem, Spirit Award, Sundries, Greet The Sea, Trick Candles, Chrome Lakes, The Winterlings, Crystal Desert, Choir of Crickets, Leava, Johnny Lee Ledford, Jess Lambert, Sphyramid, The SkyeMonkey, Dead End Friend, Warsaw, Campion, Hedensk, Sleepwell Citizen, The Moon is Flat, Oliver Elf Army and Woodshed.
