Summer music festivals

Festivals

Rock the Boat: The bands Mudhoney, Fauna Shade and Duke Evers will play for this one-day 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. 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.

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. 6: Red Rock.

Chateau Ste. Michelle Summer Concert Series: Jackson Browne, Aug. 1 and 2; 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. 2: Clave Gringa. Tuesdays—Aug. 4: Eric Haines, one-man band. Thursday—Aug. 6: Los Flacos.

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. 1: Gary Evans Collective, jazz. Thursdays—Aug. 6: The Randy Oxford Blues Band.

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. 5: Tangerine with Ruler.

Lake Tye Music in the Park: Monroe’s free concert series is at 6:30 p.m. on Fridays through July 31, and Thursdays, Aug. 6 through 27, at Lake Tye. More information is at www.choosemonroe.com. July 31: Creme Tangerine.

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. July 31: Layered System, soul.

Marymoor Park Concert Series: 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. 5: Ian McFeron.

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. 5: Deja Blooze.

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: Boyz II Men, Aug. 6. For more information, visit www.tulalipresortcasino.com/Entertainment/TulalipAmphitheatre

Woodland Park Zoo’s ZooTunes: Trampled by Turtles, Aug. 16.

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