If you’re not already at SappyFest tomorrow night, this is happening in our town: Olympia, Washington’s musical heavyweight Calvin “K Records, Beat Happening” Johnson performs with Katie + The Lichen, Dream Friends, Pedagogues, Family Video on Friday, August 3 at 7pm, 2539 Agricola, $5-$10 (sliding scale). Maybe he’ll play “Indian Summer”!
Calvin Johnson
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Live review: Rick White, Julie Doiron and friends at the North Street Church
As I climbed the Macdonald bridge earlier in the day (seriously, and yes, it was awesome), I found myself climbing a ladder in one of the cramped, sun heated-iron towers and that was suffocatingly hot. Last night, the North Street Church was even hotter. The church was like an iron lung: as soon as a […]
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Sappyfest Day Three
Sunday at Sappy had a slow start, we were pretty partied out after Saturday’s hijinx. I was pretty impressed when we spotted a group of musicians and volunteers playing baseball at 10:30; we thought about stopping by and hitting some dingers but we decided to skip out on the action and head to the performers’ brunch. No other festival treats musicians as well Sappy does, they pay well, they give performers a pass for the entire weekend and they also provide a musicians’ free brunch and dinner every day of the festival. The Sunday brunch took place in the university