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Issue #26

Tuesday Magee at the Culture Cafe open mic. Photo by Leland Anderson.

Not a whole lot of gigs this week but lots of news. Also, last week’s flurry of cancellations reminded me to finally get a Twitter account running for this newsletter. Follow here to get updates when they happen.

This week’s live music events:

Wednesday 1/5

Thursday 1/6

Friday 1/7

• North Country Highway, Greene’s Corner, 6 pm: country/ rock

• Free Harmony, Wink Wink, 6 pm: classic rock and pop

• Nuages, Uisce, 7 pm: gypsy jazz

• Brittany Collins, Skylark’s, 8 pm: Americana

• Orange Comfort, Not You, Aardvarticus Zeus, Shakedown, 9 pm: rock

Saturday 1/8

• Crooked Constellation, Menace, 7 pm: bluegrass

• Zach Michaud, Skylark’s, 8 pm: folk/ blues/ country

• Asterhouse, Old Town Scouts, Roland Olayvar, Shakedown, 9 pm: rock

Sunday 1/9

• Kevin and Rick, Culture Cafe, 9 pm: acoustic Americana

Monday 1/10

• Derek Duffy, Kulshan, 6 pm: folk/ Irish

Tuesday 1/11

• Punch Brothers, Mount Baker Theater, 7 pm: bluegrass and then some

Picks of the Week:

I’m not going to single out any particular shows this week. I’m just going to say if you head out please take every possible precaution. Also, check with venues to make sure they are open, we have a lot of local bars and restaurants shutting down right now. Here’s hoping it’s true that the Omicron wave burns itself out quickly.

A scene from the open mic at Zeek’s Pizza. Photo by Kate Jung.

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

• Jazz Night, Aslan, 7 pm

News and Upcoming Events:

There’s a new weekly jazz night happening every Tuesday at Aslan, featuring Thomas Harris, Duncan Lang, Blake Angelos, Mark Hunter, and Julian Macdonough. Even cooler, it’s free! (Although whenever something like this is free, you should definitely tip well if you can.)

Foxy Apollo video released a cool new video, you can check out the premiere of that over at Breakout magazine.

The new Cold Sludge album is out! Bringing back memories of when “lo-fi” was a rock subgenre, it’s packed with 16 songs all 2 minutes or less.

Crooked Constellation have announced they are going on an indefinite hiatus. Before that they want to do a live album with a bunch of new songs, and they have an Indiegogo campaign to help raise the funds to make that the best it can be.

Local punkers Terminally Dumb just dropped a fun EP.

Mount Baker Theater’s upcoming lineup seems about as strong as can remember them ever having, especially for roots/ folk fans: Joan Osborne, Pink Martini, Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Thompson, Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange), and Jason Isbell are a few of the highlights.

We’ve also got a doubleheader with Hell’s Belles coming up at The Shakedown, get your AC/DC fix there.

With the double whammy of Omicron and a big snowstorm, a lot of big shows have been cancelled or postponed lately. So far for postponements we’ve got Daikaju at the Shakedown moved to February 13th, and Petty or Not and Baby Cakes at the Wild Buffalo moved to February 4th. The Willdabeast show scheduled for this weekend has also been postponed, not sure of the new date yet.

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Comment below with what music you are looking forward to this week. Musicians and venues: email bellinghammusicdigest@gmail.com if you’ve got news you want included next week!

Video of the week: Local guitar hero Sean Meyer (Spine Readers, Scary Monster and the Super Creeps, etc.) has been out touring with Seattle’s Supercrush, and sent along this great video. (Kids, learn from Sean: when you go on tour, it will always be a super cool move to represent your hometown by wearing the t-shirts of your favorite local bands.)