Music for the dog days
Lotta folks like dogs.
Lotta folks like music.
Only some folks like folk music.
Some ambitiously open- minded folks like both dogs and music.
If you flock to that last category then you might agree this is going to be an atomic dog show.
It’s called Woofstock (yep, spelled it right, W-O-O-F stock) and it goes down all day Saturday outside on the Spokane Humane Society grounds, 6607 N. Havana (near Francis and Bigelow Gulch), in partnership with SpokAnimal, PetSavers, SCRAPS (Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service) and ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).
For dog lovers there will be adoptions from noon until 6 p.m. and a mobile doggy wash, plus kids activities, food vendors, a live music stage sponsored by 7 and more. The event is free to the public.
The music runs from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m., starting with acoustic-soul loops guru Danny Weber, blues-pop duet Wayne Patrick and Caroline Francis, and alt-country folk headliner Karli Fairbanks and the Pretty Flowers.
People who aren’t there for the music may not mind it, but they might just love it.
That sort of thing happens when people see something like a Karli Fairbanks performance for the first time.
That doesn’t seem fair
There are street fairs happening almost every weekend this time of year – The Perry Street Fair last weekend, the Hillyard Festival next weekend, and the Garland Street Fair on Aug. 16 – that have one thing in common – they’re free.
So it might seem odd to learn that Empyrean Coffee House is charging admission for its first-ever Madison Street Fair, which takes place Aug. 9-10.
Tickets go on sale today at Empyrean Coffee House, 154 S. Madison St. Presale two-day passes are $15, or pay $10 per day. Day of show two-day passes are $20, or $13 per day.
The ticket announcement pointed out that the presale two-day pass works out to about 60 cents per band.
Not sure if that’s how the bands were sold on playing, but the lineup is a fierce who’s who of the local music scene – Karli Fairbanks and the Pretty Flowers, Pour Soi, Joel Smith and the Hands of Plenty, Zac Fairbanks and the Booze Fighters, Go Man Gos, James Pants, Cyrus Fell Down, Oil of Angels, The Groove Patrol, Locke and more – plus a cluster of West Side all stars, such as Ice Age Cobra, Don’t Tell Sophie, The Globes and kickoff-day headliners, the spectacular Shim, which was the main attraction the last two years at Elkfest (which is free).
Check out the full lineup at the Madison Street Fair on the soundwave blog: www.spokane7.com/ blogs/soundwave.