This week has a lot of music for Art Walk, two big celebrations on Saturday and some honest-to-goodness legends coming to town.
News
Bellingham Axe has started having occasional live music. They’ve even got a little stage.
Live music at the Kulshan Trackside stage will be on Wednesdays, starting next week.
I Love You Avalanche is taking over the Friday night residency at Honey Moon for the month of June.
Picks of the week
Thursday, June 2 features two great shows at once at the Mount Baker Theatre, with the Violent Femmes on the main stage and mother/daughter folk duo Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche on the side stage.
First Fridays are always big downtown with some extra live music to go along with Art Walk. Highlights on Friday, June 3 include danceable, horn-driven funk with Cozmic Sauce at Boundary, gypsy jazz with Nuages at Uisce, and Bird Senses Danger and Heroes at Wink Wink.
On Saturday, June 4, you don’t have to be a student to celebrate the end of the school year at Western Washington University’s Lawnstock. Headliners include Naked Giants and TeZATalks. Aslan is celebrating its eighth anniversary all day with a lineup that includes Chong the Nomad and The Whags. If you’re looking for something quieter that night, the folk duo Storyhill at the FireHouse might be the way to go.
Sunday is for rocking old school, with Seattle grunge pioneers Mudhoney at the Wild Buffalo and stoner metal veterans Bongzilla at the Shakedown.
To top it all off, Zach Keisinger brings his quietly beautiful originals to the Blue Room on Tuesday, June 7.
Live music calendar
Wednesday, June 1
Bar Cicotti: 6 p.m., Casolary/ Hunter/ Harris (jazz)
Blue Room: 8 p.m., Catnyp, Crooked Looks, Book of Shred (rock)
Boundary: 6 p.m., Aaron Guest on piano
Honey Moon: 8 p.m., Open Mic
Juxt: 8:30 p.m., Invitational Open Mic
Rockfish: 6 p.m., Heron and Crow (bluegrass/old time)
Thirsty Badger: 7 p.m., Open Mic
Thursday, June 2
Blue Room: 6 p.m., Open Mic
Boundary: 5 p.m., Robert Sarazin Blake, 8 p.m., Bryan Bowers (folk)
Firehouse: 7 p.m., Rob Hutchings & Adrian Clark (folk/rock)
Honey Moon: 8 p.m., Jazz Jam
Mount Baker Theatre Mainstage: 7 p.m., Violent Femmes, Deap Vally
MBT Walton Theatre: 7 p.m., Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche (folk)
Twin Sisters: 6 p.m., Tea Seas Trio (funk/jazz)
That’s What I Like: 6 p.m., J.P. Falcon and Friends (folk/rock)
Wild Buffalo: 8 p.m., Magenta Wave, Foxy Apollo, The Groovy Nobody (rock)
Zeeks Pizza: 9 p.m., Hip-Hop Showcase
Friday, June 3
Aslan: 8 p.m., BJ Block (jazz/funk)
Beach at Birch Bay: 6 p.m., Lost at Last (classic rock)
Big Rock Woolley Market: 7 p.m., Pretty Much Nothing
Boundary: 6 p.m., Cozmic Sauce (R&B/funk)
Culture Cafe: 6 p.m., Walker Van Wingerden (singer-songwriter)
Eagle Haven: 7 p.m., Austin Jenkes
Fireside: 7 p.m., Fritz and the Freeloaders (classic rock)
Honey Moon: 8 p.m., I Love You Avalanche (indie folk)
Kulshan: 6 p.m., Free Harmony (folk/rock)
Lighthouse: 7:30 p.m., TBA (jazz/lounge)
Paws for a Beer: 6 p.m., The Best Intentions
Shakedown: 9 p.m., Apology Wars, Weep Wave, Sweetwood (rock)
Skylark’s: 5 p.m., Rick Allyn (acoustic rock/blues)
Thirsty Badger: 8 p.m., Conrad Gruener (acoustic country)
Uisce: 7 p.m., Nuages (gypsy jazz)
Vault: 7 p.m., Tea Seas Trio
Wink Wink: 7 p.m., Bird Senses Danger, Heroes (rock)
Wild Buffalo: 9 p.m., Holy F*CK, Linqua Franqa (electronic rock)
WWU PAC: 7:30 p.m., WWU Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, June 4
Aslan: 3 p.m., Chong the Nomad, The Whags, ELK, Diego Romero Band
Beach at Birch Bay: 4 p.m., Blind Fate
Big Rock Woolley Market: 7 p.m., Mike Faast Band (swing)
Birdsview: 6 p.m., Toby Brady
Boundary: 1 p.m., Michael Dayvid (acoustic covers)
Conway Muse: 8 p.m., Moon Daddy & Gopher Broke (classic rock)
Firehouse: 7:30 p.m., Storyhill (folk)
Fireside: 3:30 p.m., Singers’ Saturday
Greene’s Corner: 6 p.m., Rick Allyn
Honey Moon: 8 p.m., Paige Woods, Stone Jones
Kulshan Trackside: 7 p.m., Paperheart, Pure Halcyon (rock)
Lighthouse: 7:30 p.m., TBA (jazz/lounge)
Main Street: 8 p.m., The Takers (hard rock covers)
Rockfish: 7:30 p.m., Cardova (funk/soul/R&B)
Skylark’s: 5 p.m., Penny Stinkers (classic rock)
Station 49: 5 p.m., Chill DeVille (classic rock)
Thirsty Badger: 8 p.m., Leo Bootes (blues)
Wild Buffalo: 9 p.m., 40 Oz. to Freedom (Sublime tribute)
WWU Comm Lawn: 4–10 p.m., Lawnstock featuring Naked Giants, TeZATalks, 49th Parallel, Beautiful Freaks, i///u, Hockey Teeth
Sunday, June 5
Beach at Birch Bay: 1 p.m., Jazmine Greene Band (blues)
Culture Cafe: 7 p.m., Open Mic
Kulshan: 5 p.m., The Harris Twins
Mount Baker Theatre: 3 p.m., Bellingham Symphony Orchestra with guest Daniel Bolshoy
Old Edison: 5:30 p.m., The Bow Diddlers (classic rock)
Shakedown: 8 p.m., Bongzilla, Lord Dying, Wet Temple (metal)
Skylark’s: 1 p.m., Will Byrne (acoustic covers)
Wild Buffalo: 8 p.m., Mudhoney, Machine Animal (rock)
Monday, June 6
Boundary: 6 p.m., Free Harmony
Kulshan: 6 p.m., Song Wranglers (acoustic Americana)
Tuesday, June 7
Aslan: 8 p.m., Jazz Night
Beach at Birch Bay: 6:30 p.m., Open Mic
Blue Room: 9 p.m., Zach Kleisinger, Izzy Jones (singer-songwriter)
Boundary: 6 p.m., Paul Klein on piano
Farmstrong: 6:30 p.m., Diego Romero Band (blues/funk)
Greene’s Corner: 6 p.m., Richard Widerkehr
Zeeks: 7:30 p.m., Walker Van Wingerden
Before heading out to listen to live music, check with individual venues to make sure the event is still taking place as scheduled.
Jesse Stanton’s music column, The Beat Goes On, runs Wednesdays. Email: jsbhammusic@gmail.com or Twitter: @JSBhamMusic.
