Here’s this week’s round-up of FREE concerts being offered in the surrounding area. This is the final week for concerts in Burien and Des Moines, so enjoy the music before it’s too late!
| Tue, Aug 10 | 12:00PM | Caleb | Burien Town Square Park |
| Wed, Aug 11 | 7:00PM | African All Stars | Des Moines Beach Park |
| Thu, Aug 12 | 6:30PM | Locust Street Taxi | Lake Burien School Park |
| Fri, Aug 13 | 12:00PM | Nancy Stewart | Tukwila Community Center |
| Sun, Aug 15 | 5:00PM | Starlings | Marvista Park |
| Sun, Aug 15 | 5:00PM | Ranger and the Re-Arrangers | Angle Lake Park |
Here’s this week’s round-up of FREE concerts being offered in the surrounding area. There’s sure to be something here to please just about anyone!
| Tue, Aug 3 | 12:00PM | Sebastian Clark | Burien Town Square Park |
| Wed, Aug 4 | 7:00PM | Handful of Luvin’ | Des Moines Beach Park |
| Thu, Aug 5 | 6:30PM | Caela and the Dangerous Flares | Lake Burien School Park |
| Fri, Aug 6 | 12:00PM | Eric Herman | Tukwila Community Center |
| Sun, Aug 8 | 5:00PM | Woodrush | Marvista Park |
| Sun, Aug 8 | 5:00PM | Rod Cook | Angle Lake Park |
Summer is finally in full swing and with the warm weather and blue skies comes a plethora of free concert series offered by local cities. Why not take advantage of the weather and get outside for fresh air and FREE music?
Here’s this week’s upcoming concerts:
| Tuesday, July 27 | 12:00PM | Steve Olson | Burien Town Square Park |
| Wednesday, July 28 | 7:00PM | Lucas Cates Band | Des Moines Beach Park |
| Thursday, July 29 | 6:30PM | Jimmy Free’s Friends | Lake Burien School Park |
| Friday, July 30 | 12:00PM | The Not-Its! | Tukwila Community Center |
| Sunday, August 1 | 5:00PM | Recess Monkey Normandy Park Youth Orchestra |
Marvista Park |
| Sunday, August 1 | 5:00PM | Cold Boots & Bad Coffee | Angle Lake Park |
| Jun |
| 19 |
| 6:00 pm |
There will be a FREE “Night of Swing” this Saturday night, June 19th beginning at 6pm at Grace Church, located at 10323 28th Ave SW.
Along with live music from the West Seattle Big Band, there will also be free professional Swing Dance instruction from F.J. Abaya, internationally know ballroom champion.
There will be dancing, there will be music, there will be refreshments and prizes…all FREE!
WHAT: Night of Swing
WHEN: Saturday, June 19th:
- 6-7pm: Free professional Swing Dance instruction from F.J. Abaya.
- 7-8:30pm: West Seattle Big Band will play. People will dance.
WHERE: Grace Church, located at 10323 28th Ave SW.
| Feb |
| 20 |
| 2:00 pm |
Burien Arts is holding its second annual all-day Highline Vintage Jazz Festival with two sessions on Saturday, Feb. 20 at the Highline Performing Arts Center, located at 401 South 152nd Street in Burien.
The all-day music fest will feature two unique three-hour performances, the first from 2pm – 5pm and the second from 7pm – 10pm, with some of the region’s most well-known jazz musicians playing Dixieland, swing, solo stride piano, gypsy jazz and more.
Tickets to the event cost just $20 per show or $35 for a full-day pass, and are available through Brown Paper Tickets here.
Identical twin banjo pickers The Canote Brothers will MC.
Matinee performance musicians will include:
Identical twins The Canote Brothers will MC.
- The Canote Brothers as MCs
- Bulldog Brass Band (Garfield High School New Orleans style band)
- Pearl Django (Gypsy Jazz)
- The Jangles (Western Swing)
- Dina Blade (“A Tribute to Dorothy Fields”)
Evening performances boasts a seperate line-up of impressive jazz musicians including:
- Holotradband (Dixieland)
- Hot Club Sandwich
- Paul Asaro (Solo stride piano)
- Hot Club Sandwich (Gypsy Jazz)
- Casey MacGill & Blue 4 Trio (Jump Swing & vocals)
The Festival will also feature:
- Outdoor musical entertainment
- Dancers
- Great food
- Raffle prizes
- Free transportation to and from local restaurants and bars (which will likely be having specials for festival-goers)
- And more!
The Highline Vintage Jazz Festival is the brainchild of Burien Arts’ board member and fixture in the local music scene, Lance Haslund. Lance is a part-time musician and lifetime lover of all music, particularly jazz. He has been promoter of small concerts in the Burien area for several years and says:
“The Highline Vintage Jazz Festival will fill a void in the local festival scene.
To my knowledge, until now the Puget Sound area has not provided a showcase for multiple styles of early jazz in one event.
As Burien emerges as one of the new vital places for the arts in the region, we pay tribute to the people who moved here and grew the community during the Big Band era, and offer a faithful rendering of the music of their youth.”
Burien Arts is a local non-profit dedicated to enriching the community by providing engaging and innovative arts programming to the Highline region and beyond. Vitally active since 1965, Burien Arts maintains a crucial role in the artistic fabric of the community.
Tickets to the event are available online through Brown Paper Tickets (www.brownpapertickets.com) or by calling: 1-800-838-3006. Tickets will also be available at the door on the day of the festival.
Buy your tickets now by clicking here!
For more information, please check www.burienarts.org, call 206-244-7808 or email info@burienarts.org.
Here are some videos shot at last year’s fest featuring the Bulldog Brass Band:
| Jan |
| 30 |
| 7:00 pm |
White Center’s new Dubsea Coffee is hosting a FREE, live music show this Saturday night, featuring Brandon Decker & Lets Get Lost.
Brandon Decker is a musician/singer from Arizona with a degree in Philosophy who sings about “romance, personal relationships and coming to terms with his sometimes checkered past.” His influences include Tom Waits, Portishead, Neil Young and PJ Harvey and his music has been called “gritty, soulful, acoustic rock,” and has also been dubbed “grunge folk.”
“My songs are my catharsis of everything I’ve been through, coupled with my empathy experienced from the different profound relationships I’ve had.” Decker said on his website. “In every song, I’m taking a moment and trying to work through it honestly.”
The show starts at 7pm and goes until 10pm.
Here are the details:
WHAT: Live, FREE music at Dubsea Coffee, featuring Brandon Decker and Let’s Get Lost
WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 30th from 7pm-10pm
WHERE: Dubsea Coffee, located at 9910 8th Avenue SW in the Greenbridge ‘hood.
INFO: From Dubsea’s website:
This is going to be a great music show to come and check out at Dubsea Coffee, Free !! Live music by Brandon Decker & Lets Get Lost .
Brandon Decker “vocals, guitar,and producer ” is on his Long Days tour from Sedona, AZ. accompanied by Nanci Mcdonald ” Cello Vocals “. The duo will be playing his narrative work on redemption with poignant lyrics and resonating vocals. This folk rock duo is something to witness, supremely you will not be disappointed.Lets Get Lost is a local Seattle treat, Nick Shadel & Peter Kowalczyk frequent the cafe as they are White Center boys. If you come to the show you’ll get to experience a flood of the groups indie-pop-rock-carnival aesthetic. Their music is cotton candy for the ears, sweeter and bolder to the core the longer it resonates in your audible system.
Come to Dubsea Coffee and listen, witness this delectable feast for your temporal lobe. Let your internal audiometer get the frequencies and vibrations it deserves.
VIDEO: Here are two videos we found of Brandon Decker:
More info available at the bands’ websites:
| Dec ’09 |
| 4 |
| 7:30 pm |
The Burien/White Center Rotary Club is holding a Food Bank Benefit concert featuring the Boeing Employees Choir on Friday, Dec. 4th at 7:30pm at the Highline Performing Arts Center in Burien.
All proceeds from this show will benefit both the Highline and White Center Food Banks.
Here are the details:
WHAT: Burien/White Center Rotary fundraiser concert featuring the Boeing Employees Choir
WHEN: Friday, Dec. 4th beginning at 7:30pm
WHERE: Highline Performing Arts Center, located next to Highline High School at 401 S. 152nd Street in Burien.
COST: Please bring non-perishable food donations to help feed your hungry neighbors during the holidays!
INFO: From the Boeing Employees Choir website:
A good cause, and a great venue, the Burien/White Center Rotary Club has asked us to put on a concert for the Burien community in order to collect non-perishable food items for the local Food Banks.
Bring a food donation and bring a friend!
And forward this invite so we can pack the house and the food bank!
The Boeing Employees Choir is a concert choral group serving as The Boeing Company’s ambassador in song, sharing the gift of music with audiences in the Puget Sound Region of Washington State – as well as throughout the world. The choir has existed since the early 1940s. Today, we make about 25 appearances each year.
Composed primarily of Boeing employees, retirees and their families, our choir is a 501c(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization.
The Burien/White Center Rotary Club, founded in 1955, has a long and rich history of service to the community.
Over this 50+ year duration, club members have volunteered countless hours of service and generated hundreds of thousands of dollars which have been distributed back into the community.
For more information, visit their website here.
| Jun ’09 |
| 25 |
| 4:00 pm |
The Dub-C will be jammin’ with some free jazz this Thursday, June 25th from 4pm-6pm at the Greenbridge Plaza (in front of the Southwest Boys and Girls Club near 9800 8th SW) as well as other entertainment, prizes, vendors, activities for the whole family and free lightly used books and toys.
Sponsored by KCHA, WCCDA, Hope VI, Neighborhood House, YWCA, Southwest Boys and Girls Club and the Greenbridge Community.
For more information call (206) 574-1167.
| Dec ’08 |
| 15 |
| 7:00 pm |
The White Center/Burien Rotary Club is holding its annual Holiday Benefit Concert on Monday, Dec. 15th, starting at 7pm at the Highline Performing Arts Center in Burien (map below).
This benefit concert will feature the music of the Boeing Employees Choir. Here’s an audio taste of their talents, of them singing selections from Strauss’ ‘Die Fledermaus’ with the Bellevue Philharmonic Orchestra:
Admission is free with a non-perishable food item, and all proceeds go directly to both the White Center and Highline Food Banks.
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| Aug ’08 |
| 19 |
| 7:30 pm |
“Degenerate Art Ensemble” will be doing a FREE, very interesting and interactive live recording on Tues. Aug. 19th starting at 7:30pm at the Youngstown Art Center., located at 4408 Delridge Way SW.They’re inviting one and all to “come and stomp, bang, sing, march and chant on a live recording. The recordings created on this night will be integrated into the songs on the album and be made available to all participants. (Your name will appear on album credits!)”
Degenerate Art Ensemble’s last album “Cuckoo Crow” rose to #62 nationally on the college radio charts, so here’s your chance to “Be heard around the world!”
For more information about DAE, visit:
Oh yeah, one other note: “Please bring: sticks that can be broken; pots and pans; other noise makers.”
Here are a few video samples of these artists in action, which we liken to a mashup of Kraftwerk meets Blue Man Group while getting Stomped on acid – fun stuff:
For more info, contact info@degenerateartensemble.com.
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