Oct 11 Sunday
The Dungeness Crab Festival is dedicated to celebrating the cultural heritage and maritime traditions of the Dungeness region. Our mission is to foster community engagement, support local businesses, and provide an enriching, educational, and enjoyable experience through our annual festival and related events. We strive to promote sustainability, economic growth, and a sense of unity within our community, honoring the legacy of the Dungeness crab and the natural beauty of our region.
CrabFest is a free, three day event held in downtown Port Angeles, Washington each October. Our festival is always held the same weekend as Canadian Thanksgiving, which falls on the second Monday of October. CrabFest hosts approximately 12,000 visitors each year, with about 4,000 coming across on the Black Ball Ferry Line from Victoria, British Columbia.
The event is a mostly outdoor festival, held rain or shine - and it can get a little damp on the Washington coast in October! It's a great weekend to pack your favorite rain boots. Festival activities include free live music, a vendor market showcasing 75+ amazing artisan and resale vendors, fun activities for the kids, a live Search and Rescue demonstration (Saturday afternoon, schedule permitting), free tours of a United States Coast Guard boat, beer and wine garden, and of course - food! We sell a festival crab dinner, which is the favorite for visitors, but also host many local restaurants with their best seafood specialties for sale as well as a few food trucks and other outdoor food vendors.
🎷 Jazz Jam at Butter Notes Café 🎷📍 Butter Notes Café – Everett, WA🗓️ Every 1st & 3rd Sunday @ 2 PM
☕ Come sip, snack, and swing!
Join us for an afternoon of live jazz and spontaneous creativity at Butter Notes Café! Whether you’re here to play or just enjoy the vibes, you’re welcome.
🧇 Fresh croffles and warm coffee served all afternoon🎶 Open to all instruments, all levels💛 Donations encouraged to support local musicians and future sessions
Bring your instrument, your friends, or just your love for music!
Album release concert. When these two take to the stage, you are in for a unique experience summoning spontaneous and fresh musical worlds. Sitarist Arjun K. Verma is both a tradition-bearer and innovator in the world of North Indian Classical music, growing up as an Indian Classical musician in the West and trained by the Maestro Ali Akbar Khan. New York-based, Danish pianist and composer Nikolaj Hess has a sound that spans Nordic jazz, post-bop, new-classical, and West African jazz traditions. Collaborations with artists including Fela and Femi Kuti have shaped his distinctive amalgam.
Winner of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Thornton Wilder’s masterpiece has stood as a timeless pillar of the American stage. Poetic, poignant, and profoundly human, this groundbreaking play invites us to slow down, look closer, and cherish the fleeting beauty of life.
Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok’s Sanctuary City asks the question: In a nation built on the promise of opportunity, how do we determine who benefits? Where once belonging was measured by front‑porch waves and neighborhood gatherings, today it hinges on paperwork and the threat of separation – or possibly far worse.
America has never had one sound.
It sings through anthem and blues, through jazz clubs and concert halls, through stride piano, spirituals, street songs, opera, celebration, and reinvention. LIFT opens Olympia Symphony’s 2026/27 season, Kaleidoscope, with a program where American sound rises from joy, memory, resilience, and hope.
Jessie Montgomery’s Banner asks what an anthem means in a country still becoming itself. Woven from The Star-Spangled Banner, Lift Every Voice and Sing, and other musical echoes, it turns a familiar symbol into something larger, more layered, and alive with many voices.
At the heart of the concert, guest artist Calder Failla joins the orchestra for Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, where smoky jazz, sweeping melody, and symphonic ambition meet in one of the most recognizable openings in American music. Gershwin returns in Porgy and Bess: Catfish Row, bringing the opera’s Charleston sound world into rich orchestral color. Gershwin’s insistence on an all-Black cast for Porgy and Bess helped create major operatic opportunities for Black singers at a time when blackface still appeared on American stages.Wynton Marsalis’s Blues Symphony expands the blues into a vast orchestral journey, while James P. Johnson’s Victory Stride closes the circle with the pulse and brilliance of Harlem stride piano.
Inspired by artists who moved across genres to make room for their fullest voices, LIFT celebrates music that refuses to stay in one lane. This is not one version of America. It is a kaleidoscope of voices, each one lifting the next.
Live Jazz and Jam Session!
A beautiful way to experience the upper Snoqualmie Valley. Join the Northwest Railway Museum for Wine Train excursions featuring Snoqualmie Valley wineries, food, and scenic views! Guests receive a complementary souvenir wine glass with each ticket and each glass comes with 8 tokens to exchange for 1-oz tasting pours. The 2.5-3 hour program includes wine tastings at the Snoqualmie Depot and the Train Shed Exhibit Hall.
Visitors will receive 8 tasting tokens to spend on the wine varieties as they please.Hors d'oeuvres will be provided by local Snoqualmie Valley businesses and the Museum encourages passengers to visit local restaurants after their excursion returns to the station.
Must be 21 or older. Ticket includes return passage to Snoqualmie.Ticket time is time of departure, please arrive 30 minutes prior to departure for check-in and the first tasting opportunity. That is a 4:30 PM check-in time.
August 21's Wineries will include Mt. Si Winery and Sparkman CellarsSeptember 18's Wineries are TBAOctober 30's Wineries are TBA
Train begins at Snoqualmie Depot: 38625 SE King St. Snoqualmie, WA 98065Check-in is at 4:30 PM and the first tasting opportunity is at Snoqualmie Depot.Ticket time, 5:00 PM, is the train's departure time.Check in at the Snoqualmie Depot ticket window to receive your wristband, wine glass, and tasting tokens.Ticket good for round trip passage.Ticket valid only for date and time listed.Must present valid ID at check-in.Train runs rain or shine.
We are delighted to offer a Danish Language Class in partnership with the Scandinavian Language Institute. This nine-week series will allow you to jump into the basics of Danish language and culture in a supportive, face-to-face classroom environment. Students will learn essential vocabulary, everyday phrases, pronunciation, and simple grammar structures through interactive activities, conversation practice, and cultural activities.
No prior foreign language experience is required; ages 16+.
What level is this class?DAN1A is for absolute beginners with little to no prior language experience.
Steve Oliver (www.steveolivermusic.com) is a multifaceted American guitarist, vocalist and producer celebrated for his vibrant fusion of contemporary jazz, pop, world music and electronic textures. Often described as a “sonic alchemist,” he is best known for blending acoustic, electric and nylon-string guitars with innovative guitar synths and his signature melodic vocalese – a wordless vocal style that adds a human element to his rich arrangements. Since his breakthrough in the late 1990s, Oliver has become a mainstay on smooth jazz radio, securing multiple #1 Billboard hits and over a dozen Top Ten singles, including fan favorites like “Global Kiss” and “Fun In The Sun.” As a touring musician, Steve has headlined iconic venues and festivals worldwide. In addition he has written for and produced an impressive roster of artists. Steve’s own recordings have featured notable musicians from the world of contemporary jazz and pop. His latest chapter is marked by the single “Dancing In The Sand,” a joyous Latin-tinged track featuring longtime friend and fellow guitar icon Peter White. This track hit #1 on the Billboard Jazz charts and serves as the lead single for his just-released 15th studio album, “Inner Fire.” Steve will be joined at Marine View by three in-demand regional musicians Osama Afifi on bass, Eugene Bien on keyboards and Brad Boal on drums. Don’t miss a fabulous evening of music in the beautiful confines of Marine View.
