Listings for 7/14-7/20

Wednesday 7/14

• Scott Ranney, Firehouse Arts Center, 3-5 pm: jazz piano

• Bob Fossil, Kulshan Trackside, 7 pm: groovy original rock

Thursday 7/15

• Chris Eger Band, Hotel Bellwether, 5 pm: blues/ rock

• Robert Sarazin Blake, Boundary, 5 pm: singer-songwriter

• Free Harmony, Elizabeth Park, 6 pm: classic pop and rock covers

• Cayley Schmid and Aaron Guest, Hotel Leo, 6 pm: fiddle tunes

• The Wandering Seas/ Louis Ledford, Boundary, 8 pm: folk

Friday 7/16

• JP Falcon Grady, Skylarks, 5 pm: rock/ reggae/ blues

• Legendary Chucklenuts, Boundary, 6 pm: rock

• Triple Mood, Firehouse, 6-8 pm: jazzy originals

• Lefty and the Right Hand Band, 1000 Acres, 8 pm: rock and blues

• Calidore String Quartet, WWU PAC, 3 and 7:30 pm: classical ($50)

Saturday 7/17

• Shipwrecked Music Fest, Anacortes, 12-8 pm: Enduro, Karl Blau, Fanny Alger, etc. 

• Doran, Boundary, 1-4 pm: folk

• InStompTu, Sunnyland neighborhood, 3-8 pm: wild card 

• Ryan Sandholm, Skylarks, 5 pm

• Spaceband, Pioneer Park in Ferndale, 6 pm: r&b covers

• The Replayzmentz: Crossroads, 7 pm: rock/blues

• Yogoman Burning Band, Boundary, 7 pm: reggae/New Orleans/funk

• The Posies, Wild Buffalo (Sold out!)

Sunday 7/18

• Raveis Kole, Firehouse under the tree, 2pm: singer/songwriters

• Bellingham Festival of Music Orchestra, WWU PAC, 3 and 7:30 pm ($50)

• Also on Sunday is the Bellingham Arts and Music Scene COVID relief fundraiser

• Monday 7/19
  Calaskan, Kulshan on James St., 6 pm: fiddle tunes

Picks of the Week:
Yogoman at Boundary is a legendary party combination. The Wandering Seas’ recent album Pleasant Bay is one of my favorite local releases of the last year, so I would suggest checking them out if you enjoy instrumental folk music. InStompTu is basically a less organized version of the Sunnyland Stomp, which basically means you can spend the afternoon wandering that neighborhood discovering cool music and art. Blues fans are definitely going to want to head down to the Bellwether on Thursday for Chris Eger.

Weekly events:

• Thursdays Elizabeth Park concerts 6-8 pm

• Sunday Robert Sarazin Blake, 5 pm online show

• Sunday The Devilies, Kulshan on James St., 5 pm

• Monday Irish Session, Greene’s Corner, 6:30-8 pm

• Tuesday Lindy at the Leo, 6 pm

• Tuesday Open Mic, Honeymoon, 8:30 pm

• Tuesday Out of the Ashes, Boundary, 3:30- 5:30 pm

Upcoming:

The Posies sold out quick but it looks like there are still tickets for Built to Spill at the Wild Buffalo on the 30th. If you are planning on going to the Stringband Jamboree in August you should probably get tickets for that now since it is going to have limited capacity and no same-day tickets. Downtown Sounds is coming back in August but the lineup has not been announced yet. There aren’t really a lot of opportunities right now for louder original music, so it’s cool to see that Lipstitch have secured permission from the city to close down a block of Moore St. for an awesome rock party on the 31st. I haven’t seen any publicity for the fact that Wilco are coming to the Mt. Baker Theater in October and tickets are still available. This may be a case where uncertainty about the border gets us some shows that would otherwise go to bigger venues in Vancouver, so be sure to take advantage. The Milk Carton Kids and Loudon Wainwright III are also on the MBT calendar.

Finally a bit of sad news. There’s a new brewery going in to the old Firefly/ Green Frog space and they’ve already taken out the stage, dashing any hopes we might have had for a venue in there. It’s hard to blame anyone for not wanting to go into the live music business, which is tough at the best of times. But this is a reminder that we all need to get out and support the venues that do have live music or our stages will just keep disappearing. Here’s hoping someone out there already has plans for the next great venue!

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