Can't Miss It: The Weekend
MISCHIEVOUS HONKS: In May, HONK! Fest West returns for another year of marching bands, drum corps, samba lines, and anything acoustic and mobile that makes a ruckus. But this Saturday, HONK! is throwing a Night of Mishchief and Music to raise funds for the festival and it's a doozy. Stomp along to marching music from Titanium Sporkestra, One Love, and Movitas; dance off your blues to Mouce Manouche, Purty Mouth, and Miss Mamie Lavona The Exotic Mulatta & Her White Boy Band; and prep your nethers for burlesque by Boom Boom L'Roux, Madisun Avenue, and Trojan Original. Pre-sale tickets can be obtained today by donating $25 or more to their Kickstarter, or day-of at the door. HONK! is a 501(c)3 Organization through The Vera Project, so all donations are tax deductible, with all proceeds going to covering the line-items of a free street festival and paying the musicians for their awesomeness. Support the 4th Annual HONK! Fest West!*
Saturday 7:00 p.m. // Fred Wildlife Refuge // $25 donation (21+)
BUY BOOKS: You know what? Your shelves are looking a little bare. All that spring cleaning got rid of the cruft, but also left a few holes in your library stacks. Rectify that this Sunday, when the Friends of The Seattle Public Library Book Sale returns to the Warren G. Magnuson Park! More than 250,000 books, CDs, DVDs, audio books, videos, sheet music, art prints and posters will be on sale at prices that would make a bibliophile faint. Items for the sale are donated by private individuals, book stores, and the Library and all proceeds benefit The Seattle Public Library. Do your part. Buy books.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Sunday 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. // Warren G. Magnuson Park, Building 30 and the Brig // FREE
A HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN: This weekend, the Early Music Guild presents a delightful mix of Orazio Vecchi’s L’Amfiparnaso and Claudio Monteverdi’s Il ballo delle ingrate. Gesundheit. Pulling from the tradition of Commedia dell’arte, which is an improvised performance style, A Fine Day in Town, A Hot Night in Hell tells the simple tale of a miserly father who wants to sell his daughter’s hand in marriage to a monied—and therefore creepy—older man than lose her to a young—and therefore poor—suitor, but whose intentions are thwarted with the help of a puckish servant. There's also a "Spanish braggart" somewhere in there too, probably brashly holding forth on the veranda. With All My Children gone, let us turn to the old soaps, the ones sung in madrigals.
Friday and Saturday 8:00 p.m., Sunday 2:00 p.m. // The Moore // $38 - $88
*AUTHOR'S NOTE: I am an volunteer organizer for HONK! Fest West. I receive no money from the organization or this event. Just wanted to be upfront about that.
