Sequim Daily Photo

Summer means lots of good, free outdoor music concerts.  The best acoustics yet seem to be at the Sequim Band Shell, aka, James Center for the Performing Arts. Shown here is Abby Mae & the Homeschool Boys, a local group we have seen at many venues, indoors and out. Their music is described as a “young band mixing Appalachian folk with a little bit of Beatles and Led Zeppelin” and they are very good musicians.  This was a performance at the Sequim Lavender Farm Faire. In addition to music offered at the Lavender Farm Faire and Lavender Festival, the Friends of Sequim Library offer free concerts and other concerts are also held at the Band Shell through the summer months.

Click here for a fuller view of the Band Shell. And click here if you’d like to see Abby Mae & the Homeschool Boys on YouTube.

This is The Buzz in Sequim, a local hang out for sweets, arts and music.

A friend called…you want to go listen to some live jazz…I don’t know why she ask, she knows I love music. It was a fund raiser for Olympic Theatre Arts. The Brookhaven College School of the Arts was on a road trip and we were the beneficiaries of a wonderful toe tapping evening. My only complaint…it didn’t last long enough.

This was a musical weekend. The grandkids, my daughter, and I went to see the last concert of the Sequim City Band Sequim City Band until next April. A previous post shows where they perform during the summer months every Sunday afternoon.
As I took the picture, I was reminded of the local joke that Sequim is a town of retirees and their parents…all the white hair in the picture…but honestly, there are some pretty young ones in the back rows.

I had the pleasure of listening to Tracy Blume perform with her band, “Jazz in Blume” this past Monday. Tracy and her band provide a wonderful evening of listening pleasure to the tunes of the Big Band Era. Local viewers should check out the website for their schedule of performances. This coming weekend, Tracy will perform with the local highschool choir and jazz group.

In the Sequim area there are many opportunities to listen to and participate in musical events. At Carrie Blake Park we have a recently constructed band shelter. On Saturday afternoons during the summer you can listen to a variety of musical performances. Last weekend Sequim Marimba performed to a “packed’ lawn. The group has been together for about 10 years and performs mostly music from Zimbobwa (sp?)