Wayward Music Series – Upcoming Concerts
30th Seattle Improvised Music Festival
Thursday, February 5, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Featuring the beginning points of Seattle’s creative improvised music.
$5-$15 donation
30th Seattle Improvised Music Festival
Friday, February 6, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Featuring the beginning points of Seattle’s creative improvised music.
$5-$15 donation
30th Seattle Improvised Music Festival
Saturday, February 7, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Featuring the beginning points of Seattle’s creative improvised music.
$5-$15 donation
Lori Goldston, cello
Thursday, February 12, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Lori Goldston plays solo cello, amplified and/or acoustic, improvised and not.
$5-$15 donation
Jason E Anderson + RM Francis
Friday, February 20, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Contemporary works by two Seattle artists.
$5-$15 donation
Gwenk
Saturday, February 21, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Gwenk is a collaborative quartet that focuses on original, creative compositions. This music challenges assumptions about stereotypical beauty by engaging with the unexpected and absurd.
$5-$15 donation
Tom Varner & Friends
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
French hornist/composer Tom Varner is joined by percussionist Paul Kikuchi, field recordists Steve Barsotti and Steve Peters (both members of the Seattle Phonographers Union), and a group of top Seattle brass players who will be moving about the beautiful space of the chapel, “Gabrieli style.”
$5-$15 donation
Joshua Medina & Paurl Walsh + guests
Thursday, February 26, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Explore the intersection between folk, traditional spirituals, drone, noise, glitch and electroacoustic elements.
$5-$15 donation
Coo, Chirp, Flap, Flutter: Birds in Song
Friday, February 27, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Join soprano Sarah Davis and friends for an intimate evening of art, song and chamber music inspired by nature’s beautiful song makers – from the whimsical musings of the cuckoo to the chirp of the lark, the cooing of the turtledove and the wistful, melancholic song of the nightingale.
$15 donation
TORCH
Friday, March 13, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Poised between progressive jazz, post-rock and contemporary classical music, the quartet’s original compositions are a playful juxtaposition amidst our heady intellects and our groove-craving souls.
$5-$15 suggested donation
COPPICE | Ruhlmann + Clément | John Teske
Saturday, March 14, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of exploring the subtleties of sound.
$5-$15 suggested donation
ZE BIB!, Greg Kelley, Wally Shoup Sax Trio + 1
Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of contemporary sound.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Zero-G presents The DeJoie Project
Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Seattle native/woodwind virtuoso James DeJoie celebrates 25 years of writing, playing and living music.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Great Bliss + Bad Luck
Saturday, March 21, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of contemporary music with local artists.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Jakob Pek
Thursday, March 26, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Jakob seeks to recontextualize and redefine musics that our ears know all too well while liberating our traditional musical instruments by presenting them in tandem with pure sound, free form expressionism, and conscious silence.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Concert Imaginaire: Another Day in Suck City
Friday, March 27, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
The program will include a setting of Emily Dickinson’s Massacre of Suns, a eulogy for an elderly dog, an exploration of God as a virus, and the premiere of JUST A KISS AWAY, a very short opera about love and war and peace.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Vibratory Empathy
Saturday, March 28, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of Butoh/sound improvisation with noisepoetnobody (modular analog synth) and Vanessa Skantze (Butoh) + special guests Thunder Grey Pilgrim.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Oliver Groenewald NewNet
Friday, April 10, 2026 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A live recording of the NewNet, a nine-piece ensemble of superb jazz musicians performing the marvelous compositions of Oliver Groenewald.
$5-$15 suggested donation
R. Andrew Lee, piano: Randy Gibson
Saturday, April 18, 2026 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Pianist R. Andrew Lee returns to Seattle to present two evenings of newly commissioned music presented by Nonsequitur.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Nick Norton + Nat Evans + John Teske
Thursday, April 23, 2026 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Graphic scores for small ensemble and composed works for piano by John Teske and Nick Norton. A site-specific listening and tea event by Nat Evans precedes the performance.
$5-$15 suggested donation
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