Concerts and musical performances around Snohomish County and nearby
Published 1:30 am Friday, November 4, 2016
The Milk Carton Kids: Often compared to Simon &Garfunkel or the Everly Brothers, Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan deliver beautiful harmonies accompanied by steel-string guitars. They perform at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4 at the Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N. Tickets from $14. Call 425-275-9595. Opening is Tony Furtado, a soulful singer who plays banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele.
Rare Earth: The band that brought you tunes such as “Get Ready, Cuz Here I Come,” “On My Way,” “I Just Want To Celebrate Another Day Of Living” and “Hey, Big Brother” will perform at 8 p.m. Nov. 5 at the Historic Everett Theatre, 2911 Colby Ave. Tickets are priced from $35. Call 425-258-6766. Over the years, the band performed with Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, Ike and Tina Turner, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers.
Utah Red and Sky Russell: These Cowboy Conditions singers will perform at noon Nov. 5 at the Artisans Holiday Fair, Thomas Family Farm, 9010 Marsh Road, Snohomish.
Crazy about Patsy Cline: Ria Peth Vanderpool of Skagit County and her country band will perform Patsy Cline’s classics (“Your Cheating Heart,” Walking After Midnight,” “Crazy”) at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5 at the Marysville Opera House, 1225 Third St., Marysville. Tickets are $15. Refreshments available for purchase.
Mukilteo Community Orchestra: Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” will be performed at 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Nov. 6 at Rosehill Community Center, 304 Lincoln Ave., Mukilteo. More at www.mukilteoorchestra.org.
Un-Wine-d Wednesdays: Live music and tastes of local wines are offered by Marysville Rotary from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 with Soulevard at the city-run Marysville Opera House, 1225 Third St.; 360-363-8400. Tickets are $5. The next concerts are in January and feature the music of the Jud Sherwood Trio, Swing Nuts Jazz and the Joan Penney Trio.
Everett Chorale: The Everett Chorale and the Shoreline Concert Band will present “A Salute to America” patriotic concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10, Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N. Admission by donation. Information about the 2016-17 season is at everettchorale.org. The chorale’s Christmas concerts are Dec. 3-4 at Everett Performing Arts Center.
Veterans Day Concert: Everett First Presbyterian Church presents its fourth annual free patriotic concert at 7 p.m. Nov. 11 at the church, 2936 Rockefeller Ave. Everett High School JROTC will present the colors. Come ready to sing along and enjoy refreshments after the concert.
Voices Among Us: The Voices of the Village choir teams up with rock-jazz-blues-Celtic violinist Geoffrey Castle for a concert at 7 p.m. Nov. 12 at Northwest Music Hall behind Macy’s at the Everett Mall. Tickets are $20 at www.voicesamongusconcert2016.evenbrite.com. The Voices Among Us concert is funded in part by a grant from the Washington State Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Jazz at the Center: The series continues with Pearl Django performing at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. Call 360-387-0222.
Blues and Brews Thursdays: Marysville Kiwanis Club joins the city in offering blues music and brews from a local microbrewery from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17 with the Highway 9 Blues Band, both at the Marysville Opera House, 1225 Third St.; 360-363-8400. $5 at the door. The entertainment returns in January with Blues Dues, Margaret Wilder Band and Gin Joints.
Country Girls Sing the Blues: A fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, this concert at 8 p.m. Nov. 19 at the Red Curtain, 9315 State Ave., in Marysville features Marcia Kester, Bev Cloer and Britta Grass singing tunes by Bonnie Raitt, Susan Tedeschi, Ella Fitzgerald, Patsy Cline and Dusty Springfield. Tickets are $28 or $21 for students, seniors and military. Call 360-322-7402.
Legends of the Blues IV: Arlington Arts Council will load the stage with a stellar line-up of musicians including Ben Hunter, Joe Seamons and Randy Oxford’s All-Star Slam at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19, Byrnes Performing Arts Center, Arlington High School; 425-359-3755. Tickets are $15, but free for children. Tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com.
Gary Stroutsos: The flutist offers a free concert of Native American music from various tribes at 2 p.m. Nov. 19 in the Everett Public Library auditorium, 2702 Hoyt Ave., Everett. Originally trained as a jazz flutist, Stroutsos has worked with the likes of Navajo flute maker Paul Thompson. He has appeared on the soundtrack of Ken Burns’ “Lewis and Clark: Journey of the Corps of Discovery” and other radio and television programs.
North Cascades Concert Band: Fall concert is 6 p.m. Nov. 20 at Byrnes Performing Arts Center, Arlington High School. Tickets are $12 or $5 for students. More at www.nccband.org.
Everett Philharmonic Orchestra: “Music for the Imagination,” a family oriented concert, 3 p.m. Nov. 27, Everett Civic Auditorium. Tickets are $20, but a family of four gets in for $40. After the concert, get a closer look at the orchestra’s instruments.
Octava Chamber Orchestra: www.octavachamberorchestra.com.
Evergreen Community Orchestra: More about the Everett-based orchestra at www.evergreencommunityorchestra.org.
Monroe Concert Band: monroeconcertband.org.
Lynnwood Community Band: www.lynnwoodcommunityband.org.
Sno-King Community Chorale: Info about the 2016-17 season is at sno-kingchorale.org.
Mill Creek Chorale: www.facebook.com/MillCreekChorale.
Sonus Boreal women’s chorale: northernsoundchoirs@gmail.com.
Washington Old Time Fiddlers Jam: Join the acoustic jam or listen to the group that meets at 5 p.m., on second Fridays at the Sisco Heights Community Club, 13527 99th Ave NE, Arlington. Celtic jam is first, workshop 6 p.m., circle jam at 7 p.m. Call Noel Lareau at 360-691-5907.
To submit information for this calendar, email reporter Gale Fiege at gfiege@heraldnet.com.
