Listings 12/8-12/14

Issue #22

Mark your calendars for this local music showcase, coming up next week

This week’s live music events:

Wednesday 12/8

• Jared Hall Quartet, Sylvia Center, 7 pm: jazz

Thursday 12/9

• Tea Seas Trio, Twin Sisters, 6 pm

• Tad Kroening, Ivan Sandomire, John Swanke, Honeymoon, 8:30 pm: singer-songwriters

• Munch, Cat Valley, Foxy Apollo, Wild Buffalo, 9 pm: rock

Friday 12/10

• Latin Tinge Septet, Firehouse PAC, 7 pm: Latin jazz

• Penny Stinkers, Fireside, 7 pm: classic rock

• Jay Irwin and the GP Sunsets, Greene’s Corner, 7 pm: folk/ rock

• The Wandering Seas, Honeymoon, 7:30: traditional folk

• Will Byrne, Skylark’s, 8 pm: acoustic rock/ folk covers

• KENDOLL, ZOF, The Inturn, Sallymane, Wild Buffalo, 9 pm: electronic

• Vendovi, Pyrocene, Lazy Acres, Shakedown, 9 pm: rock

Saturday 12/11

• **Cheryl Hodge, Bob Paltrow, Andy Koch & Badd Dog Blues Society, Sunfellow, Tom Bourne & Paul Englesberg, Firehouse PAC, 4 pm: folk/ blues

• La Fever Dream, Paws for a Beer, 5 pm: acoustic covers

• Super Sonic Business Jets, Calaskan, Marie The Band, Kulshan K2, 5 pm: folk (part of a craft fair)

• **Simon Evans, Greene’s Corner, 6 pm: singer-songwriter

• **Hambone Wilson & Jan Peters, Havilah Rand, JP Falcon Grady, Stacy Jones Band, Nick Vigarino, Mount Baker Theater, 6 pm: blues/ folk/ rock

• Damien Jurado, Okkervil River (solo), Wild Buffalo, 7 pm: singer-songwriter

• YOB, Year of the Cobra, Aerial Ruin, Shakedown, 7 pm: metal

• East Coast Dave and the Midwest Swingers, Skylark’s, 8 pm: acoustic Americana

• **The McHughs, Honeymoon, 8 pm: folk/ rock

• Eda Lovelace, Naut-It, WVNDR, Count Vesper, Make.Shift, 8 pm: EDM, pop-punk, hip hop (youth suicide prevention benefit)

• **Jasmine Greene’s Popology, Boundary Bay, 9:30 pm: pop

**= part of the Whatcom Live Aid fundraiser event

Sunday 12/12

• Diego Romero Trio, Kulshan, 5 pm: blues/ rock

• MURS, Oswin Benjamin, Mostafa, Wild Buffalo, 9 pm: hip hop

Monday 12/13

• Sean Hall, Kulshan, 5 pm

• Mud Bottom Maddy, Menace, 5 pm

Tuesday 12/14

• Stillhouse Junkies, Countercurrent, Shakedown, 8 pm: bluegrass/ folk

Picks of the Week:
It’s great to see an all local bill happening Thursday at the Buffalo. The Latin Tinge Septet or Jay Irwin and the GP Sunsets would be great ways to start your Friday. Saturday night has a whole bunch of events happening as part of the fundraiser for everyone affected by the recent flooding. If you can’t make it to any of those, you can also donate directly. It’s also great to see some live music happening at Make.Shift again.

There’s all sorts of other stuff going on too. You’ve got touring jazz (Jared Hall), electronic (Kendoll), folk (Stillhouse Junkies), metal (YOB) and hip-hop (MURS) acts that are all going to be great for fans of those genres, not to mention Damien Jurado’s loyal following. What are you looking forward to this week?

Ongoing weekly events:

• Wednesday Aaron Guest on piano, Boundary, 6 pm

• Wednesday The Local Jam 102.3 7-8 pm: local music on the radio

• Wednesday Open Mic, Honeymoon, 8:30 pm

• Thursday Open Mic, KPop Chicken, 5-9 pm

• Thursday Irish Session, Uisce, 7-9:30

• Thursday Salsa classes, Love to Move Studio, 7:30 pm

• Friday live music, Lighthouse Grill, 5:30 pm: jazz/ lounge

• Friday Open Mic, Snowy River, 8 pm

• Saturday Singer’s Saturday, Fireside, 3:30-6:30

• Saturday live music, Lighthouse Grill, 5:30 pm: jazz/ lounge

• Saturday Otto’s Hour, local music on KZAX 94.9, 6-7 pm

• Monday Irish Session, Greene’s Corner, 6-8 pm

• Monday Miles Harris Boundary Bay 6-8

• Tuesday Lindy at the Leo, 6 pm: swing dancing

• Tuesday Paul Klein on piano, Boundary, 6 pm

News and Upcoming Events:

I’m very excited to be helping to organize some occasional local band showcases at the Wild Buffalo. The first one is coming up on Thursday the 16th, featuring Bob Fossil, Separatr, and Blood Capsules, and I hope to see some of you there. It should be a lot of fun!

I’ve been starting to hear questions about New Years Eve. So far the events I know of for that which are selling advance tickets are The Walrus at Twin Sisters, Daikaiju at Shakedown, and Petty or Not and Baby Cakes at the Wild Buffalo. I’m sure that list will grow considerably as we get closer to that night.

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