Wayward Music Series – Upcoming Concerts
Popstronauts + Clifford Kimbrel-Dunn
Saturday, September 12, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Popstronauts performs non-apologetic free improvisation taking influence from free jazz, Carribbean and African rhythmic forms, electronic noise, and popular music. Clifford Kimbrel-Dunn pushes the limits of the flute’s capabilities.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Wayward Music Series: Chris Brokaw + Lori Goldston + Greg Kelley
Thursday, September 17, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Guitarist Chris Brokaw meets with cellist Lori Goldston and trumpet player Greg Kelley for a first-time meeting. Expect everything from quiet beginnings to savage conclusions.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Zero-G: Ask the Ages + Spite House Band
Friday, September 18, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
With a focus on forward-thinking instrumental music, Zero-G Concerts spotlights a multifarious selection of the region’s most adventurous instrumentalists from diverse scenes, from accomplished scene veterans to head-turning emerging artists.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Post-Haste Reed Duo
Saturday, September 19, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Washington Composers Forum presents the Post-Haste Reed Duo performing music by Jacob Ter Veldhuis, Michael Johanson, Simon Hutchinson, Edward J. Hines, Ryan Hare, Ethan Wickman, and music chosen from a call for scores.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Steve Peters: Canções Profundas (Deep Songs)
Friday, September 25, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
This evocative sonic poem explores themes of migration, diaspora, memory, identity and emotional/cultural ties to place.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Steve Peters: Canções Profundas (Deep Songs)
Saturday, September 26, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
This evocative sonic poem explores themes of migration, diaspora, memory, identity and emotional/cultural ties to place.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Wayward Music Series: Daniel Corral + noisepoetnobody
Friday, October 9, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Spacey electronic polyrhythms, intricate tuning systems, noisy ambiance and analog modular synthesis.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Dialectical Imagination + Christian Pincock
Saturday, October 10, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Ecstatic music for ecstatic people.
$10 (or pay what you can)
Monktailfest: Stephen Fandrich + Seman/Ostrowski
Thursday, October 22, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Monktail Creative Music Concern continues to celebrate 15 years of bringing high-quality adventurous music to Seattle audiences. Tonight: original music for gamelan, plus improvised solos and duets.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Tomeka Reid / Mike Reed / Nicole Mitchell
Friday, October 23, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
From Chicago come three key figures of the new generation of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians collective: versatile cello experimenter Tomeka Reid, frequent jazz-flute poll winner Nicole Mitchell, and drummer Mike Reed.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Nakatani Gong Orchestra
Thursday, October 29, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
11 Seattle artists join Tatsuya Nakatani in this extraordinary 12-piece gong orchestra.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Matthew James Manowski
Thursday, November 12, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
After a two-year hiatus, American sound artist Matthew James Manowski returns to live performance with a re-imagined vision of what contemporary composition can be.
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: FHTAGN + noisepoetnobody
Friday, November 13, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A program of controlled improvisation sessions directly inspired by selected works of Charles Ives, plus noisepoetnobody’s Driftwood Orchestra captures the voice of a forest under constant strain from civilization.
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: Judy Dunaway + Susie Kozawa
Saturday, November 14, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Avant-garde compositions on amplified latex balloons and works performed using a collection of homemade instruments, toys, and found objects.
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: 17 x 3 Fest: New works inspired by a pair of numbers
Wednesday, November 18, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A dozen composers from the Seattle area plus four instrumentalists rally around the theme of 17 x 3. Nominally a celebration of one of the instrumentalists’ 3rd 17th birthday.
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: Yann Novak, Robert Crouch, special guest
Friday, December 4, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Join sound and visual artists Novak and Crouch as they kick off their west coast tour with a special guest.
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: Carol Robinson
Saturday, December 5, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Robinson's works often combine acoustic sounds with electronics, and her musical aesthetic is strongly influenced by a fascination for aleatoric systems.
$5-$15
A Gathering: A box of sound, art & words
Saturday, December 19, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
What will become of these 56 boxes of visual art, text, and music?
$5-$15
Dead Tosa | Arrington de Dionyso & Oomung Varma | Hair & Space Museum
Thursday, January 7, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Impressionistic soundscapes, Hindustani classical music, and multimedia meditations on the generative, cosmic properties of sound.
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: Nick Demopoulos + Vance Galloway
Friday, January 15, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Exploring algorithmic composition, artificial intelligence, and fractal rhythms with unorthodox and microtonal tunings.
$5-$15 donation