Join us for a night of raw emotional songwriting and beautiful instrumentals, featuring three of the most exciting new local acts to emerge! Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm $6 supports the artists and the AltLib Featuring: Eve Smason started writing original music in 2015. Influenced by jazz, classical, klezmer, and soul music her style […]
A night of songs featuring two women song weavers ~ Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm $8 admission supports the artists and the AltLib Alexandra Blakely lives between Seattle, WA and Mexico City. She dedicates her life in service to healing. It is through her own adversities that she explores vulnerability and accesses the interconnectedness […]
Acoustic rock, rap, and folk, featuring three great acts from just outside of Bellingham! Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm $6 supports the artists and the AltLib Whiskey Fever - Skagit Valley gents bringing the dancing, porch jamming, yachting, and sharing the night together. https://www.reverbnation.com/whiskeyfever Rain Farmer - Rain Farmer is an alternative folk & […]
Seattle clarinetist, James Falzone, returns to the Alternative Library with the Matrio trio, featuring Tom Baker on guitar, theremin and electronics, and Greg Campbell on percussion and horns! Traveling with them will be Chicago-based trio Twin Talk with Dustin Laurenzi on tenor saxophone, Katie Ernst on bass and voice, and Andrew Green on drums. https://www.twintalkmusic.com/ […]
An enigma nested within a paradox ad infinitum Doors at 7:30pm; Performances at 8:00pm $6-12 sliding scale Nordra - Dystopian soundtracks to make you feel. Nordra is a founder of Zen Mother and has performed with artists including: Xiu Xiu, Bing and Ruth, SUMAC, Mamiffer, Nate Young, Sissy Spacek, Deafheaven, Imarhan, Mirrors for Psychic Warfare, […]
Jewish Voice for Peace Presents an Evening with BRIVELE ! בריוועלע and Other Jewish Anti-Fascists, living and dead! Doors at 7:30pm; Performances at 8:00pm $6-$16 sliding scale at the door~ BRIVELE is a Seattle-based anti-fascist klezmer folk-punk trio who braid together oral history, Yiddish language, contemporary and old-country musical genres, American Vaudeville, and visual arts. […]
Message from Lou: "In 2019, I continue my small space 7:30 showtime tour. I did this throughout 2018 and it was really good. The general set-length seems to be about 2 1/2 hours which is what it takes to play the requests I get and the corners of my catalogue (Sebadoh, Folk Implosion, Dinosaur Jr, […]
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm $8-16 supports the artists and the AltLib JJ Gregg is known for his lyrical and meditative style of sitar playing. For the past eighteen years, JJ has studied and performed South Asian Classical music on the sitar under the guidance of his guru, Ustad Usman Khan. JJ Gregg has […]
The Alternative Library's Future Jazz series, explores work from modern experimental composers and improvisers in the field of jazz~ Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm $10 supports the artists and the AltLib Naomi Moon Siegel returns to Bellingham, touring her latest record, Live at Earshot, recorded at the Earshot Jazz Festival on October 17, 2017 […]
$6-10 supports the artists and the AltLib Mobilities is a four-piece experimental rock / progressive indie rock band based in Portland, OR. On tour this summer to bring their upcoming EP, "Something’s Right”, to the American West. Drawing influence from bands like The Mars Volta, Incubus, White Denim, Wand, Queens of the Stone Age, Portugal. […]