The Alternative Library is very excited to welcome back some of our Siberian friends for another incredible concert of traditional folk music of Sakha and Tuva! This show will be produced at the Firehouse Arts and Events Center and tickets are limited! Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm General Admission - $18 Advance tickets are […]
$15 supports the artists and the AltLib Doors at 7:00pm; Music at 7:30pm Eugene Chadbourne has been creating unique improvisational music since the early 1970's. He's performed with the Violent Femmes, Camper Van Beethoven, John Zorn, members of The Mother's of Invention, and many other music legends. He reinterprets American music and the popular song […]
Behind the Mountain Yarns is a film and curation project exploring the state of contemporary folk music and its relationship to place and community. The project was dreamed into being by Dana Anastasia and Kestral Laipply, two artists whose lives revolve around music and who perform together in their duo Twin Whistle. The artists produce […]
This year for Leap Day Eve, and there's a beautiful show just down the street. Come join in a harmonius evening with music from The Sons Of Rainier, I Love You Avalanche and Whiting Tennis! Doors at 7:00pm; Music at 7:30pm $6-10 supports the artists and the AltLib ~~~ The Sons Of Rainier (Duo) = […]
Eclectic bill of underground hip-hop at the new location of the Alternative Library featuring some of Bellingham's best Hip-Hop, Rap & R&B artists. Featuring: KLEFTO Estimate IMA Hunter Gillam Bf knowhere CHVRNS Saturday, February 29th || 7:30pm All Ages || $6 supports artists and the AltLib
After the sold out Sounds of Siberia concert, Tuvan throat singer, Nachyn Choreve returns to Bellingham! He will be performing a solo set, followed by a duo performance with artist Arrington de Dionyso (Old Time Relijun), performing spontaneous compositions, blending each of their influences together. $15 supports the artists and the AltLib Doors at 7:00pm; […]
$8-12 supports the artists and the AltLib Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm March 14th @ Alt Lib V.Vecker (aka Keith Wecker, b. 1983) is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He has been a member of the Vancouver experimental scene since 2006 and has been touring North America since 2009. He […]
Advance tickets are available for $15 via WithFriends: https://withfriends.co/event/4456125/ Doors at 7:00pm; Music at 7:30pm Seattle guitarist, Bill Horist is an improviser/composer/performer in a wide array of genres including rock, jazz, contemporary chamber, avant garde, folk, new music and several subgenres within each. He has appeared on over 80 recordings and has performed well over […]
Alt Lib Radio Hour is a new livestream performance initiative broadcast every Friday out of the Alternative Library. ALRH understands live-streaming as not merely a response to COVID-19 but a site of indeterminate possibility: where the internet is available, so too is an entire world of art and culture. While intended to transition into (coterminous) […]
Three artists join us this March 26th for a night of ‘sound, song and elegiac trance’, centered thematically around loss, elegy, release and letting go. Eclectic artist K. Kunkel offers us the vocal channeling of grief and surreal, unedited prose with sparse musical accompaniment. Body Conference, the project of writer, artist and theologian Ashley Chambers, […]