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Puget Sounds | Documenting Music Cultures Close to Home

Resources | Venues

This page includes a list of resources about local music in the Puget Sound region. The list includes links to guides, record labels, publications, blogs, radio stations, etc...

General Puget Sound

• Music of Washington (Wikipedia)
• Northwest Folklife
• Northwest Music Blog (The Sound of Music in the Northwest)
• Victory Music - acoustic music resource of the Pacific Northwest
• Washington Composers Forum
• Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association
• Weekly Volcano Spew (weekly entertainment publication for the Puget Sound)
  

Skagit, San Juan, and Island Counties

• Skagit County Orchestra
• Skagit Music
• Skagit Opera
  

Anacortes

• Anacortes Arts Festival
• Kelp (blog)
• Knw-Yr-Own Records
• What the Heck Fest
  

Camano Island

• Big Quack Records
  

Orcas Island

• Radio Free Olga
  

San Juan Islands

• IslandsMusic.com

Jefferson and Snohomish Counties

• Murder Mountain Records (out of Bellingham promoting Northwest musicians)
• Snohomish County Performing Arts
  

Port Townsend (Jefferson County)

• Port Townsend Music Guide
• Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader: Community Calendar
  
  

King and Kitsap Counties

Seattle

• Beep Repaired Records
• Cog-Dis (Seattle's experimental music calendar)
• Dandelion Gold Records
• Don't Stop Believin Records
• DXARTS- Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, UW
• Earshot Jazz
• The End 107.7
• Experience Music Project
• Hardly Art Records
• Hollow Earth Radio
• Jack Straw Productions
• KBCS Radio
• KEXP 90.3 FM (Bellevue)
• Light in the Attic Records
• Line Out (the Stranger's Music Blog)
• Loveless Records
• Lucky Horse Industries
• Monktail Creative Music Concern
• Nadamucho.com
• Noise | Order Recordings
• Northwest Folklife (performer directory)
• Origin Arts (John Bishop's Seattle-based label)
• Rainydawg Radio (UW student station)
• Sarathan Records
• Seattle DIY
• Seattle Improvised Music
• Seattle OnHold Music
• Seattle Presents
• Sound on the Sound (a Seattle music blog)
• Sub Pop Records
• Three Imaginary Girls (blog)
• Woodson Lateral Records

Silverdale (Kitsap County)

• Pig Boat Recording (a recording studio)

Pierce County

• Pierce County Arts Guide
  

Tacoma (Pierce County)

• KUPS 90.1 FM Tacoma - The Sound
• Northwest Sinfonietta - a classical chamber orchestra
• The Rise of the South (article about Tacoma music in the Stranger)
• Tacoma Opera
• Team Unicorn Records
• Wintergrass Bluegrass Music Festival
  

Mason and Thurston Counties

Olympia

• Bicycle Records
• Buyolympia.com
• KAOS 89.3 FM
• Killrockstars Records
• Music of Olympia, from Wikipedia
• K Records
• The Longhouse Education and Cultural Center @ Evergreen
• Olymusic.com
• Olympia Festival of Experimental Musics
• Olympia World Sacred Music Festival
• Opera Pacifica - Olympia Washington's Opera Company\
• Olympia Symphony
  

Shelton

• Bluegrass from the Forest Festival
• Shelton-Mason County Chamber of Commerce list of events and festivals
• Shelton Old Time Fiddle Fest