Festivals
Solstice Music Festival: June 19 and 20, Fremont. Headliners include Deltron 3030 and Presidents of the United States of America. For more information, visit fremontfair.org
The Spur Festival: June 26 through 28, Darrington Music Park. Whiskey Fever, Chance McKinney and other country music acts. For more information, visit www.thespurfestival.com.
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, along with North Country, Rural Delivery and the Darrington band the Combinations. 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.
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, just added, the cosmic-electronic act 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 Thursdays, Aug. 6 to 27, at Terrace Park, 809 E. Fifth St.
Chateau Ste. Michelle Summer Concert Series: Toad the Wet Sprocket, Smashmouth, Tonic, June 19; Chicago, June 20; Hey Marseille, June 28; 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 Amphitheatre at Seattle Center. Aug. 7: Other Lives, The Shivas, Tangerine. Aug. 14: Decibel Fest Night with Natasho Kmeto, Shaprece, Manatee Commune. Aug. 21: The Coup, Pillar Point. Aug. 28: Country Lips, Evening Bell.
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, June 25 through Aug. 27, and Saturdays, June 27 through Aug. 29, Port Gardner Landing, 1700 W. Marine View Drive. Most bands are local or regional. For more information, visit www.everettwa.gov. On June 25, see the Dusty 45s, and on June 27, hear the Wild Snohomians.
Marymoor Park Concert Series: Willie Nelson, June 27; 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.
Marysville’s Sounds of Summer: Free concerts are 7 p.m. Fridays, July 10 to Aug. 14, at Jennings Memorial Park, 6915 Armar Road.
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: The Doobie Brothers, June 19; 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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