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2026-07-19 Hardly Raining The Centrum Jazz Port Townsend festival will take place at Fort Worden State Park this week, July 20-26, 2026. The annual event features a multi-day jazz workshop, jazz in the “clubs” on Wednesday and Thursday, and mainstage concerts on Friday and Saturday. For schedule, ticketing, and other information, visit the event website. Below are […]
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2025-07-05 Hardly Raining The fifth annual THING Festival will return to Remlinger Farms in Carnation, WA. Instead of its previous three-day format, the festival will be held as three single-day events on Saturdays in August. The lineup includes over 30 acts across genres, with groove and Latin theme days. Headliners include Americana artist Father John
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2024-08-08 Hardly Raining The fourth annual THING Festival returns to western Washington on August 9-11, 2024. Headliners will be St. Vincent, Toro y Moi, and Black Pumas, supported by Spoon, Killer Mike, Stephen Sanchez, Ethel Cain, and Earl Sweatshirt. The lineup includes 30 bands at multiple stages. Presented by the nonprofit Seattle Theatre Group, this
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2024-04-21 Hardly Raining Belltown Bloom returns to Seattle’s Crocodile complex on May 4-5, 2024. Now in its fourth year, the weekend festival features a diverse lineup of women and nonbinary artists. Last year’s bill featured classic punk group L7 and Russian performance-artist activists Pussy Riot. (See a gallery below.) Some major acts are headlining this
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2024-01-26 Hardly Raining The Freakout Weekender returns to Belltown on March 2-3, 2024. The two-day psychedelic mini-festival will feature 20 bands across four stages at The Crocodile building. Headliners include Ty Segall’s San Francisco hard-rock project Fuzz, Chicago indie-rock trio Dehd, Jamaican British vocalist Derv Gordon (of The Equals), Brazilian psych-pop group Boogerins, Los Angeles
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2023-11-12 Hardly Raining Punk band The Linda Lindas held an in-store show and album signing at Easy Street Records on November 12, 2023. The group includes Bela Salazar (guitar, vocals), Eloise Wong (bass, vocals), Lucia de la Garza (guitar, vocals), and Mila de la Garza (drums, vocals). The Linda Lindas rose to fame in 2021
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2023-11-01 Hardly Raining Seattle’s beloved Freakout Festival XI returns to Ballard November 2-5, 2023. The four-day event emphasizes live psychedelic music and DJ sets. Mad Alchemy Analog Liquid Light Show will again provide trippy live projections. This year’s headliners include Allah Las, The Gories, The Spits, Son Rompe Pera, Sextile, and Jonathan Bree. Many Seattle
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2023-10-04 Hardly Raining The 35th annual Earshot Jazz Festival begins on Friday, October 6, 2023. The nearly month-long festival will offer live performances across the jazz spectrum. Concerts will take place in venues throughout Seattle, and some will also be live-streamed. Headliners include Hiromi’s Sonicwonder, The Bad Plus & Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, säje, Sona Jobarteh,
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2023-08-25–27 Hardly Raining The third THING Festival takes place in Port Townsend on August 25-27, 2023. Based at Fort Worden, the three-day event features “music & arts & other things.” (For an overview, read last year’s festival review.) Headliners include indie-folk Seattle natives Fleet Foxes, Atlanta hip-hop artist Lil Yachty, electropop duo Sylvan Esso, R&B
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2023-03-04 Hardly Raining The Freakout Weekender mini-festival returns to Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood on March 4-5, 2023. This year’s event takes place at three stages within the recently relocated Crocodile complex. The largely punk-focused lineup features several Seattle artists on the Freakout Records label, along with bands from around the world. The 28 acts include Stockholm
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