Folk – Upcoming Concerts
UW Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Concert: Javanese Gamelan Music w/ Heri Purwanto
Tuesday, June 4, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
Master gamelan musician Heri Purwanto performs music from central Java, Indonesia, together with his students and special guests Jarrad Powell, Stephanie Shadbolt, and Jesse Snyder.
$20 ($10 students/seniors)
Bel Canto Chorus 2nd Annual Concert
Saturday, June 8, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Federal Way Performing Arts and Event Center, Federal Way, WA, United States
A diverse musical experience with world-renowned songs, an opera scene from Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, and Korean traditional music.
Free
Seattle Symphonic Band: Holst's 'Mars'
Sunday, June 9, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
North Seattle College, Seattle, WA, United States
Gustav Holst – "Mars" from The Planets
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story
Trad. – Shenandoah
Percy Grainger – Children's March
Gustav Holst – 1st Suite for Band
John Philip Sousa – Fairest of the Fair
Ralph Hultgren – Whirr, Whirr, Whirr!!!
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story
Trad. – Shenandoah
Percy Grainger – Children's March
Gustav Holst – 1st Suite for Band
John Philip Sousa – Fairest of the Fair
Ralph Hultgren – Whirr, Whirr, Whirr!!!
Free ($5 suggested donation)
American Iranian Friendship Council presents Sahba Motallebi & Rahim AlHaj
Friday, June 21, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Kirkland Performance Center, Kirkland, WA, United States
Two leading virtuosi of Iranian traditional and classical music collaborate for a special performance.
$47-$78
Northwest Boychoir Tour Kick-Off Concert
Friday, July 5, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, WA, United States
A performance of classical choral music, folk songs, and Americana from the highly acclaimed, 34-member Northwest Boychoir.
$16-$28
Orquesta Northwest's Ballard Civic Orchestra: El Grito
Orquesta Northwest,
Orquesta Northwest's Ballard Civic Orchestra, and
Mariachi Guadalajara de Seattle
Sunday, September 15, 2030 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
National Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA, United States
John Stafford Smith – The Star Spangled Banner
Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons
Lorenzo Barcelata – El Cascabel for orchestra and mariachi
Federico Chavez-Blanco – New work (world premiere)
Jean Sibelius – Finlandia, Op. 26
Carlos Islas Arias – Rapsodia Mexicana
Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons
Lorenzo Barcelata – El Cascabel for orchestra and mariachi
Federico Chavez-Blanco – New work (world premiere)
Jean Sibelius – Finlandia, Op. 26
Carlos Islas Arias – Rapsodia Mexicana
Free
Seattle Folklore Society presents John Whelan in Concert
Saturday, September 21, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Phinney Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Presenting several times all-Ireland champion accordionist John Whelan.
$20 / $10
Ladies Musical Club: Folk Song Settings, Solo Violin
Thursday, October 10, 2030 @ 1:00pm – 2:00pm (PDT)
Crossroads Community Center, Bellevue, WA, United States
Folk song settings followed by an unaccompanied violin solo.
Free (Free)
Ladies Musical Club: Folk Song Settings, Music for Violin
Friday, October 18, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Music Center of the Northwest, Seattle, WA, United States
Traditional – Various folk songs
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Duo in G major for violin and viola, K. 423
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Duo in B-flat major for violin and viola, K. 424
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Duo in G major for violin and viola, K. 423
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Duo in B-flat major for violin and viola, K. 424
Free (Free)
Seattle Chinese Orchestra & Pacifica Chamber Orchestra: Eastern Memories on the Western Wind
Saturday, October 19, 2030 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Combining Chinese and Western instruments to bring alive songs from vastly different cultures in powerful, moving ways – transporting you to an enchanting realm of verdant bamboo forests, rugged snow-capped peaks, and quiet flowing streams.
$25-$30
Radiance: The Golden Harvest
Saturday, October 26, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Trinity Parish Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Shaker arrangements by British and American composers: Kevin Siegfried, Elizabeth Poston, John Ireland, Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Rutter, and others.
$25 / $20 / $15
Corvid Ensemble presents: Quoth the Raven
Tuesday, October 29, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Fremont Abbey Arts Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Like the crows of Seattle, we're smart, we do what we want, and we like shiny things.
$21.50 ($11.50 student / senior)
SoundCity Social
Friday, November 15, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Do the Extraordinary, Seattle, WA, United States
Friday night drinks, socializing, and folk/Baroque chamber music.
2 for $30 or 1 for $20
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra: Home Turf
Saturday, November 16, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
First Free Methodist Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Györgi Ligeti – Concert Românesc: Allegro vivace
Leos Janácek – Suite for Strings
Reena Esmail – Teen Murti
Frederic Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Leos Janácek – Suite for Strings
Reena Esmail – Teen Murti
Frederic Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
$25 / $20 / $15
Una Ofrenda para el Mundo: a Celebration of South American Guitar Music
Sunday, November 17, 2030 @ 4:00pm – 5:30pm (PST)
Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church, Eastsound, WA, United States
South American music arranged for 8-string classical guitar and performed by Jeffry Steele, to benefit Amazon Watch, a protector of the rainforest and indigenous rights.
Donations welcome
Meany Center presents Gabriel Kahane
Saturday, November 23, 2030 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
Gabriel Kahane's performs his Book of Travelers – a diary of a cross-country journey and a portrait of America at a time of profound national turbulence.
$31-$39 ($24-$31 ages 5-17)
Early Music Seattle: La Nef – Sea Songs & Chanties
Sunday, November 24, 2030 @ 2:30pm – 4:30pm (PST)
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Early Music Seattle presents vocal ensemble La Nef as they perform capstand shanties, halyard shanties, laments, forecastle songs, short haul shanties, songs, and music to accompany work and play.
$45 ($30 students/under 35)
UW Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Concert Paco Díez: Music from Northern Spain
Tuesday, November 26, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
One of the most important musicians in Judeo-Spanish music is joined by his students in a performance of Sephardic folk music from the Iberian musical tradition.
Free (Free)
Dunava + Dave & the Dalmatians Winter Concert
Saturday, November 30, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Phinney Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Lush harmonies and strident dissonance, with lyrics that celebrate home, family, and love, and also lament hardship and loss.
$20 / $10
Radiance: An American Christmas
Saturday, December 7, 2030 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Trinity Parish Church, Seattle, WA, United States
Shapenote Carols from New England and Appalachia with music by William Billings, Isaac Watts, Daniel Read, and more.
$25 / $20 / $15