Jun 20 Saturday
🎃👻 June-O-Ween with the Monroe Community Band!You’ve heard of Christmas in July…Now get ready for something that promises to be delightfully eerie—June-O-Ween!The Monroe Community Band believes spooky music shouldn’t be locked away until October,so we’re bringing the chills and thrills early with a concert full of haunting melodiesand just the right amount of musical mischief. 📅 Saturday, June 20, 2026 🕖 7:00 PM 📍 Wagner Performing Arts Center - 639 West Main Street - Monroe, WashingtonBring your friends and family for an evening that’s fun, festive,and just a little bit frightful.Whether you love goosebumps or just great music, this concert promises to be spook-tacular!Don’t miss it… if you dare! 🕸️🎵
Bill Anschell brings his Peru Reunion Trio to “Jazz on J Street”. This amazing trio performs Jazz arrangements of songs from Chile, Venezuela and Argentina along with Peruvian and Brazilian music. Bill Anschell-PianoChris Symer-BassJeff Busch-Drumset
This concert will be at KTAH, Radio Tacoma headquarters. Doors will open at 6:30, concert starts at 7pm. This is your chance to hear cutting-edge humor along with music that promises to be by the people and for the people of Tacoma. Admission is no charge at the door with donations welcome, all of which will be donated to KTAH. This seated event is open to the general public, all ages welcome and wheelchair accessible. Light complimentary refreshments will be available.Radio Tacoma is an all-volunteer, low-power FM community radio station developed to serve Tacoma and the surrounding area, providing the opportunity for participatory democracy as a venue for local voices, news, and talent that might otherwise not get heard.Americana artists, Steve and Kristi Nebel, have lived in Alaska, traveled Western Canada. toured across the US, and spent the better part of a year in the UK playing a blend of songs that exceeds the sum of their two parts for whoever they could get to listen. Kristi plays bass guitar, Steve plays guitar and both of them sing. In 2025 their most recent CD project, “Vignettes” was #2 on the US National Roots Music Contemporary Folk top 50, and #1 on the Washington state Contemporary Folk top 50 chart. Their many thematically tied songs are tied to their lives and stories of the State of Washington and far beyond, with some environmental and occasional political edginess. They play numerous venues and festivals yearly in the Tacoma area.Folksingers in Hell is also a Tacoma duo comprised of Heidi Fosner and David Fewster. He was in 2003 awarded a Tacoma Arts Commission Individual Artist Program grant for his book of poetry, “Diary of a Homeless Alcoholic Suicidal Maniac and Other Picture Postcards”. His creativity is known for local wry humor. He has since produced three more publications of poetry. He and his partner Heidi Fosner both play guitar and sing their own songs, together and separately on leads and harmonies. She has performed her Tacoma-centric Americana from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Venice Beach, California. She has appeared on KUOW’s The Beat and The Laureate Listening Project website funded by Tacoma Arts Commission, Walrus Productions E.P.I.C. Fest, and Music on Main in Vancouver, BC. This duo has been regularly invited to return with their music to Canada, wherein they’re well known and received with their music.
Polymarket is currently taking bets on what time Jeff "Bongo" Busch will first use his samba whistle. See it all unfold in real time!
Welcomed by KNKX. Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world’s top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, John Lewis, Tommy Emmanuel, Lionel Hampton, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his “Five Most Admired Guitarists List:” for the Wall Street Journal.
His dynamic genre-spanning music has brought him to 21 countries on three continents – and still growing – performing in some of the world’s most illustrious venues, including the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, New York’s Lincoln Center, The Blue Note, and the world’s oldest indoor concert hall, Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy.
Pasquale Grasso - It was the kind of endorsement most rising guitarists can only dream of, and then some. In his interview for Vintage Guitar magazine’s February 2016 cover story, Pat Metheny was asked to name some younger musicians who’d impressed him. “The best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life is floating around now, Pasquale Grasso,” said the jazz-guitar icon and NEA Jazz Master. “This guy is doing something so amazingly musical and so difficult. “Mostly what I hear now are guitar players who sound a little bit like me mixed with a little bit of [John Scofield] and a little bit of [Bill Frisell],” he continued. “What’s interesting about Pasquale is that he doesn’t sound anything like that at all. In a way, it is a little bit of a throwback, because his model—which is an incredible model to have—is Bud Powell. He has somehow captured the essence of that language from piano onto guitar in a way that almost nobody has ever addressed. He’s the most significant new guy I’ve heard in many, many years.”
Kick off the summer right with BlueStreet’s last show of the year at the Triple Door!
book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutruxoriginal concept and direction by Floyd Mutruxinspired by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkinsdirected by Emily A. Rollie
December 4, 1956. Sun Records. One legendary night. When a twist of fate brings Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins into the same Memphis recording studio, music history is made. Inspired by the true story of that once-in-a-lifetime jam session, Million Dollar Quartet is a Tony Award-nominated high-octane rock ’n’ roll musical packed with heart, history, and hit after iconic hit. From “Blue Suede Shoes” to “Great Balls of Fire,” this electrifying celebration of talent, fame, and raw sound takes you inside the night that changed music forever.
Jun 21 Sunday
Sponsored by KNKX. T-D Victoria International JazzFest, with 8 stages, 50 performers and over 200 musicians, including Pink Martini, Kokoroko, Miles Electric Band: M.E.B. – Celebrating 100 Years of Miles Davis, Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda & Antonio Sánchez: BEATrio, Brandon Woody’s Upendo and Sharan Blues Group etran de l’aÏr.
Full lineup at- https://jazzvictoria.ca/jazzfest-home/jazzfest-line-up/
Jazz Funk Soul began originally as a touring package idea formed in 2014 by GRAMMY nominated guitarist Chuck Loeb, along with GRAMMY nominated saxophonist Everette Harp, and GRAMMY winning keyboardist Jeff Lorber. JFS was signed immediately by Shanachie Records as the company realized something special was in the making. The result was their first release, GRAMMY nominated, Serious Business.
After Loeb’s untimely passing in 2017, GRAMMY nominated session guitar legend Paul Jackson Jr. agreed to join Jeff and Everette in continuing JFS’s vision creating a contemporary jazz sound that pushes the envelope. Along with Jackson Jr.’s celebrated sound and rhythm prowess, Harp’s sinuous emotionally charged playing, and Lorber’s ear bending and blistering fusion approach, these three certainly deliver on the expectations derived from the name of the group - Jazz Funk Soul.
Everette Harp has nine Billboard hit solo records and has toured or recorded with Anita Baker, Kenny Loggins, George Duke, Al Jarreau, Marcus Miller, Eros Ramazzotti, and Peter Maffay amongst others.
Jeff Lorber has been a vital musical force throughout a lengthy and successful career featuring multiple Billboard #1 hits.
Paul Jackson Jr. has multiple Billboard #1 solo hits and has been featured on recordings by Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Elton John, Luther Vandross, Barbra Streisand, The Weeknd, Zendaya, and Daft Punk.
A PREMIERE WEST COAST EXPERIENCE
The Vancouver International Jazz Festival is held in multiple locations across the beautiful city of Vancouver. Framed by mountains and the ocean, this idyllic location is the perfect place to get your musical fix.
Featuring- Tomoki Sanders Quartet with Todd Stewart Trio, The Ex with Grdina/Lillinger, Keyon Harrold “Foreverland and Songs For Miles,” Voodoo: The Music of D’Angelo, Isaiah Collier “Collier Plays Coltrane” and many others.
