Bellingham Alive

The Unknowns
2024-08-15 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-08-16 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-08-30 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
The Unknowns are a five-piece band whose music combines the sound of vintage jazz, blues and soul with a contemporary pop twist to create an upbeat and unforgettable sound. Featuring three-part vocal harmony backed by keyboard, guitar, ukulele, acoustic bass and drums, they approach original songs and timeless jazz standards with the same contemporary polish. Inspired by their love of R&B, motown, Broadway ballads and swing, their live performances showcase the band’s exceptional musicianship and fun, irreverent attitude that wins over audiences.
The Unknowns are Kim Bowman (vocals and piano), Caitie Bowell (vocals and guitars), Allison Bowman (vocals and ukulele), Sarah Yates (acoustic bass) and Melanie Sehman (drums).

Lacey Rashae & The Young Guns at Station 49
2024-08-23 19:00 - 2024-08-24 22:00
Who doesn’t love some Female Country Music?! You better be ready to dance at this high energy show! The drinks are cold, the food is delicious, the cornhole is out, and the fires can be lit!
Tickets: station49.yapsody.com
Lacey’s influences span generations, drawing inspiration from country legends like Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, and Waylon Jennings to rock icons like Led Zeppelin and Joan Jett. But it’s the emotion and storytelling within a song that truly ignite her passion. She aspires to not only entertain but also touch lives with her music, leaving a lasting impact.
This event is for all ages!

Jim Buk Tu concert
2024-08-25 16:00 - 19:00
Saturday August 25th from 4 – 7 pm
Straight out of Nooksack Valley! Amazing local band playing at Samson Estates Winery 1861 Van Dyk Rd Everson WA. That’s What I Like Island grill will have their Food Truck on site. $10 cover. Limited Seating in the pavilion, bring your lawn chairs and blankets. Please, no outside food or beverages.

BMC Matinee Program with organist Dongho Lee
2024-09-04 10:30 - 11:30
Under the theme “Music to Your Ears,” the Bellingham Music Club opens its 109th season with a program at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Bellingham.
Renowned organist Dongho Lee presents solo organ masterworks of Bach, Mendelssohn, and Buck, alongside a world-premiere adaptation of Manuel Ponce’s Sonata for Guitar and Harpsichord with guitarist Eli Schille-Hudson.
Join us on Wednesday, September 4 at 10:30am, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2117 Walnut St. in Bellingham (corner of Eldridge Ave.). Free and open to all. Family friendly. More about BMC on https://bellinghammusicclub.org/

BMC Night Beat presents organist Dongho Lee
2024-09-06 19:30 - 21:00
Bellingham Music Club’s season-opening program features renowned organist Dongho Lee, Director of Music at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Bellingham.
Dongho Lee presents solo organ masterworks of Bach, Mozart, Elgar, Buck, Mendelssohn, and Bovet alongside a world-premiere adaptation of Manuel Ponce’s Sonata for Guitar and Harpsichord with guitarist Eli Schille-Hudson.
Full-length BMC Night Beat is on Friday, September 6, 7:30pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2117 Walnut St. in Bellingham (corner of Eldridge Ave.). No ticket purchase is required for Night Beat (we suggest a $20 donation). All are welcome and students are always free!
Find out more about about Dongho Lee on https://www.dongholee-organist.com/ and BMC’s 109th season “Music to Your Ears” on https://bellinghammusicclub.org/

Cash'd Out at Station 49 - The Premier Johnny Cash Show
2024-09-06 20:00 - 2024-09-07 22:00
Who doesn’t love Johnny Cash?! The Premier Johnny Cash Show is back! They’re back in Birch Bay after and AMAZING performance last year! Get your tickets now!
Tickets: station49.yapsody.com
“Some people are impressionists. These guys leave an impression”. Says Bill Miller, owner of JohnnyCash.com about Cash’d Out, a Las Vegas based band that channels Johnny Cash in about as close a manner to the real thing as it gets.
After thirteen years, traveling hundreds of thousands of miles on the road and winning over as many fans, fans who still continually tell the group how grateful they are that Cash’d Out so righteously carries the torch of the Johnny Cash Show.
This event is for all ages!

Bellingham Chamber Music Society Opening Concert
2024-09-22 15:00 - 17:00
Join BCMS for our opening concert that will feature Ralph Vaughan William’s luscious “Six Studies in English Folk song for bassoon and strings”, Ruth Gipps’ “Quintet for oboe, clarinet and strings”, and Beethoven’s inspirational “String Quartet No. 10 in Eb major, The Harp”. We will also be displaying photography from the winners of our photo contest, Portraits in Sound.
Concert on Sunday September 22nd at 3pm. Doors open at 2:30pm. Come early and enjoy a drink or our signature cocktail, Widdy’s Sunrise, from Amendment 21’s cash bar.
Season and single tickets on sale today!
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Bellingham Chamber M music Society: Electric -
2024-11-17 15:00 - 17:00
Jesse Montgomery’s exciting string quartet Voodoo Dolls will open the show and get your feet tapping. The excitement continues with Florence Price and Tchaikovsky’s first string quartets and Andre Jolivet’s gorgeous “Pastorales de Noel” for flute, bassoon and harp.
Sunday November 17th at 3pm. Doors open at 2:30pm. Come early and enjoy a drink or our signature cocktail, the Voodoo Punch, from Amendment 21’s cash bar.
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Holiday Ukulele Concert
2024-12-08 15:00 - 16:00
Enjoy the splendor of Old City Hall, festooned in its holiday finest, while celebrating the songs of the season with the Community Ukulele Players (CUP).
Admission to Old City Hall is by donation through the month of December.

Winter Wonder
2024-12-13 19:00 - 21:00
Bellingham Community Chorus presents seasonal music, with some singalong selections, in a family-friendly concert. Tickets online at www.bellinghamcommunitychorus.org or at the door. $20 per person; ages 12 and under are free

Benefit Concert for the Children of Gaza
2024-12-19 18:30 - 21:00
Benefit Concert to help the Children of Gaza. Thursday December 19, 6:30 pm at the Firehouse Arts and Events Center, 1314 Harris Ave. Doors open at 5:30 pm. $10-whatever you can give, All proceeds to Middle East Children’s Alliance. Featuring: House Kat, Giants Causeway Due, JT and the Blue Impressions. With Michale Jacobsen, back from the West Bank A community gathering – listen, dance, give. Contact: jeanbham@gmail.com

Cyrus Nabipoor Quartet
2025-01-08 18:30 - 20:30
The Jazz Center of Bellingham presents Cyrus Nabipoor (trumpet); Jack Radsliff (guitar); Garrett Baxter (bass); Micah Hummel (drums). $20 general, $10 students, 6:30 pm. https://www.jazzcenterofbellingham.org/events

Brian Kirk Sextet: Tribute to Cal Tjader
2025-01-22 18:30 - 20:30
Brian Kirk presents a tribute to a master vibraphonist/multi-instrumentalist: Cal Tjader

Dirty Dozen Brass Band
2025-02-02 19:30 - 21:00
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The Lincoln Theatre is honored to host The Dirty Dozen Brass Band! Join us for a Mardi Gras celebration with this legendary New Orleans ensemble!
Celebrating over 45 years since their founding in 1977, the Grammy Award-winning New Orleans-based Dirty Dozen Brass Band has taken the traditional foundation of brass band music and incorporated it into a blend of genres, including bebop jazz, funk and R&B/soul. This unique sound, described by the band as a “musical gumbo,” has allowed the Dirty Dozen to tour across five continents and more than thirty countries, record twelve studio albums, and collaborate with a range of artists from Modest Mouse to Widespread Panic to Norah Jones. Forty-five plus years later, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a world-famous music machine whose name is synonymous with genre-bending romps and high-octane performances.
In 1977, the Dirty Dozen Social Aid and Pleasure Club in New Orleans began showcasing a traditional Crescent City brass band. It was a joining of two proud, but antiquated, traditions at the time: social aid and pleasure clubs dated back over a century to a time when black southerners could rarely afford life insurance, and the clubs would provide proper funeral arrangements. Brass bands — early predecessors of jazz as we know it — would often follow the funeral procession playing somber dirges, then once the family of the deceased was out of earshot, burst into jubilant dance tunes as casual onlookers danced in the streets. By the late ’70s, few of either existed. The Dirty Dozen Social Aid and Pleasure Club decided to assemble this group as a house band, and over the course of these early gigs, the seven-member ensemble adopted the venue’s name: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

BMC matinee program features music from Scandinavia
2025-02-05 10:30 - 11:30
Violinist Grant Donnellan offers the fourth installment of his popular musical travelogue series.
This year, he explores the rich musical heritage and his personal connection with Scandinavian culture. He and pianist Judith Widrig have curated a selection of works by well-known composers, as well as “discoveries” by women composers.
Join us on Wednesday, February 5, at 10:30am, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 119 Texas St. in Bellingham. Free, open to all, and family friendly. This is BMC’s gift to the community! More information on https://bellinghammusicclub.org/

Music and stories from Scandinavia with violinist Grant Donnellan and pianist Judith Widrig
2025-02-07 19:30 - 21:00
Violinist Grant Donnellan offers the fourth installment of his popular musical travelogue series. This year, he explores the rich musical heritage and his personal connection with Scandinavian culture.
He and pianist Judith Widrig have curated a selection of works by Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius, as well as “discoveries” by romantic Swedish composer Amanda Maier, and contemporary Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.
Full-length BMC Night Beat is on Friday, February 7, 7:30pm at First Congregational Church, 2401 Cornwall Ave. in Bellingham. No ticket purchase required; we suggest a $20 donation. All are welcome and students are always free!
Find out more about BMC’s season and endeavors on https://bellinghammusicclub.org/

Bad Posture Club: A Welcome Home Show
2025-02-09 18:00 - 21:00
Bad Posture Club: A Welcome Home Show
Sunday February 9th
1309 Cornwall Ave
Please join us for an intimate and acoustic listening event featuring songs and stories collected in their seven years since leaving Bellingham. Held in the city’s newest gorgeous and transformative space: The Ballroom at Chuckanut Bay Distillery.
Doors/Social Hour 6PM w/The Shadies
Bad Posture Club 7-8:30PM
Tickets available via:
https://events.humanitix.com/bpcbham
Early Bird $15 (January 6th to January 20th)
Advance $20 (January 21st to February 8th)
Day of Show $25 (cash/venmo @pacetrumpet)
21+
Cash bar
ADA accessible
* Bad Posture Club *
Bad Posture Club are a queer folk duo made up of Maren Day and Morgan Kavanagh. Originally from Northwestern Washington, they’ve toured nationally and spent formative years in the Midwest music scene. Together they craft intricate and experimental harmonies with their two voices, banjo, guitar, and a century-old pump organ. Bad Posture Club invites the listener in to offer warmth and reflection through their original therapeutic soundscape.
badpostureclub.net
* The Shadies *
Best be fashionably on time to meet and mingle before the main event as Bellingham’s own The Shadies help feed the community sentiment. Proud nerds of obscure fiddle tunes, forgotten songs from the early twentieth century, Hawaiian steel guitar melodies, and classic country favorites. Their old-time sound is an extension of late-night kitchen jams, impromptu square dances, festival pilgrimages, and compulsive woodshedding. Are they a band or just some pals that love to play tunes and sing songs? After almost 20 years, it’s hard to tell.

The Jazz Project
2025-02-16 16:00 - 18:00
The 2025 Spring Art of Jazz Series continues with Danned If We Do, with Jud Sherwood, drums/vocals; Cheryl Hodge, keyboard/vocals; Brian Cunningham, guitar/vocals; Jon Meyer, bass. Tickets and memberships are available in The Jazz Project store. Art of Jazz tickets are generic and admit to any concert in the series. The 2025 series is free to Jazz Project members.
Cost: Free for Members, $20 at the door
Purchase tickets in advance at https://jazzproject.org/product-category/tickets-art-of-jazz/
Website: jazzproject.org

Vox & Friends Uncorked!
2025-02-28 19:00 - 2025-03-01 20:00
On Feb 38 7 pm, March 1st 3 pm, directed by Wendy Bloom, Vox Pacifica women’s chorus presents an uplifting cabaret of Broadway tunes, Sinatra, ensemble and solos accompanied by professional pianist, bass and percussionist. At New Prospect Theater 207 Prospect St. your ticket includes appetizer buffet and choice of wine, beer or cider for an uplifting energetic musical experience!

Colin James
2025-03-08 19:30
From the prairies of Saskatchewan to sharing the stage with arguably the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time, Colin James embodies the essence of Canadian blues-rock. Inspired by the legendary Stevie Ray Vaughan’s advice “I’m opening doors for you … walk through them.” James has crafted a remarkable career spanning over three decades. With an impressive track record including 20 studio albums, eight Juno Awards, 30 Maple Blues Awards, Colin James continues to captivate audiences worldwide. His latest release, Open Road, earned him a 2022 Juno Award for Best Blues Album and a nomination for the Blues Foundation’s 2023 Best Blues Rock Album.
https://www.mountbakertheatre.com/events-tickets/colin-james/

Speaking Feather presents: Sacred Echos. Healing through song
2025-03-13 18:00 - 2025-03-14 20:00
Native American flute. Acoustic guitar. Piano. Cello. Singing.
Artist: Tsowmet(Andrew Johnson)
J.P. Falcon Grady
Marc Nicols
Ben Workman Smith

Asleep at the Wheel
2025-03-14 19:30 - 21:00
The Lincoln Theatre is proud to welcome Asleep at the Wheel back to our stage as part of their Happy Trails tour!
For over fifty years, Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson has been traversing the globe as an ambassador of Western swing music and introducing its irresistible sound to generation after generation. More than 100 musicians have passed through the Wheel, but Benson remains the front man and the keeper of the vision, in the process racking up more than 30 albums, ten Grammy awards and literally millions of miles on the road.
“I’m the reason it’s still together, but the reason it’s popular is because we’ve had the greatest singers and players,” Benson explains. “When someone joins the band, I say, ‘Learn everything that’s ever been done, then put your own stamp on it.’ I love to hear how they interpret what we do. I’m just a singer and a songwriter, and a pretty good guitar player, but my best talent is convincing people to jump on board and play this music.”
Asleep at the Wheel has collaborated on records with genre-spanning friends, including Willie Nelson on 2009’s Grammy-nominated Willie and the Wheel, and other critically acclaimed artists including Brad Paisley, Jamey Johnson, Merle Haggard, George Strait, the Avett Brothers, Amos Lee, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Lyle Lovett on Still the King, their 2015 critically acclaimed and Grammy-winning tribute to Bob Wills. On their latest release, Half A Hundred Years, Asleep At The Wheel continued their contributions to the American music landscape when three original members of Asleep at the Wheel — Chris O’Connell, Leroy Preston, and Lucky Oceans — returned after 40 years to lend their voices and musicianship to a number of tracks on the album along with Emmylou Harris, Lee Ann Womack, George Strait, Lyle Lovett, and Willie Nelson.
Asleep at the Wheel represents an important cornerstone of American roots music, even though some of its members and audiences represent a new generation. That far-reaching appeal remains a testament to Benson’s initial vision. “It took me 60 years, but I’m doing what I’m meant to do — singing and playing and writing better than I ever have. A bandleader is just someone who gathers people around them to play the best music they can play. I just try and make the best decisions possible and kick some ass every night onstage.”

Fritz & The Freeloaders- Live Music at Hotel Leo
2025-03-28 19:00 - 22:00
Enjoy a beverage, share a snack, or savor dinner as you listen to the melodies of Fritz and the Freeloaders at Amendment 21.
About the Band
All styles: Rock, Pop, Country, Ska, Blues, Funk. All eras: 60’s to present day. So many different artists: Beatles, Petty, Gorillaz, Everly Brothers.
But wait! Who is Fritz? He was our original bass player’s guide dog, the ever-lovable golden lab. When Dave left the name stuck, and Fritz evolved from a flesh-and-blood presence to a logo of mythological proportions.

Skagit Community Band Presents "Cinema Paradiso" Free Concert
2025-03-28 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-03-30 15:00 - 17:00
The Skagit Community Band Presents:
“Cinema Paradiso”
Music from the Silver Screen
Join the Skagit Community Band as we perform music from popular and obscure movies and shows. Soundtrack selections from the composers: Ennio Morricone (Cinema Paradiso, Moments From Morricone), John Williams (Cowboys, and Catch Me If You Can), Alan Menken (Disney’s Hercules Highlights) and Hiroshi Miyagawa (Space Battleship Yamato) , just to name a few. Concerts at Maple Hall in La Conner Friday March 28, at 7:30, and The Westminster Presbyterian Church in Anacortes (across from the Anacortes Public Library) Sunday March 30, at 3:00. Free Admission, donation gladly accepted. For more information please visit our website: Skagitcommunityband.org.

Rastrelli Cello Quartet comes back to Bellingham!
2025-04-06 15:00 - 17:00
BMC brings the world-famous Rastrelli Cello Quartet back to Bellingham for their exclusive West Coast engagement!
“The Best of…” celebrates 25 years of touring Europe and North America with a wide and exciting repertoire. Start with favorite works by Gluck, Tchaikovsky and Grieg, follow by Piazzolla’s tangos and film scores by Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, and Henry Mancini, and conclude with surprises from the popular song book. A show for the whole family!!!
Tickets are on sale at Village Books in Fairhaven, online on https://www.universe.com/events/rastrelli-cello-quartet-is-back-in-bellingham-tickets-40K1VS, and at the door if not sold out. Thanks to a grant from the Washington State Arts Commission, students are free.
Sunday, April 6, 3pm at WCC Heiner Center, 231 W. Kellogg Rd., Bellingham, WA 98226. More information on https://bellinghammusicclub.org/
