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Kool and the Gang Concert at little creek casino

Show Details: Show | 8PM Doors | One Hour Prior General Admission ticket allows holder to sit in any bleacher seat. All sales are final. Must be 21 and over to attend.  No outside drinks allowed. Bags and purses may be subject to search prior to entry

$50.00

Creativity Salons hosted by Window Seat Media, monthly

The Liberation Collective, YWCA Friendship Hall 220 Union Ave SE, Olympia

Come learn from and with other artists. Work on a creative project, build skills in your chosen artistic practice and gain insight from other creatives during your process. Window Seat Media is hosting a space to support community members engaging in creativity. Bring a storytelling project in your chosen medium that you want to work ...

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Free and by donation

Dick Hensold & Patsy O’Brien in Concert

New Traditions Cafe & Fair Trade Gallery 300 5th Ave SW, Olympia, WA, United States

Celtic music concert, songs and instrumentals. Dick Hensold is the leading exponent of Northumbrian smallpiping in N America, and Patsy O’Brien is a singer, songwriter and guitarist from County Cork in Ireland.  Together they play a concert of Celtic music which is both traditional and innovative, focused and eclectic.  The program is half songs and half instrumentals, including a variety of songs ...

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$18 – $25

Five for Fighting with String Quartet

The Washington Center for the Performing Arts 512 Washington St SE, Olympia

The only way for a story to progress is to turn the page. John Ondrasik — the songwriter and performer known as the platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated, Five For Fighting — knows this well. In the two decades since his first major single, “Superman (It’s Not Easy),” hit the stratosphere, the artist has both evolved and come back ’round ...

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$35

Five for Fighting with String Quartet

Washington Center Main Stage 512 Washington Street SE, Olympia, WA

The only way for a story to progress is to turn the page. John Ondrasik — the songwriter and performer known as the platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated, Five For Fighting — knows this well. In the two decades since his first major single, “Superman (It’s Not Easy),” hit the stratosphere, the artist has both evolved and come back ’round ...

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$35

The Red Hot Chilli Pipers

Washington Center Main Stage 512 Washington Street SE, Olympia, WA

It’s Bagpipes. It’s Rock. It’s Bagrock. AC/DC meets the poet Robert Burns. Where rock anthems sit comfortably alongside the great tunes from the glens and the mountains of Scotland. It’s The Red Hot Chilli PIPERS – (NOT the Peppers!) — a 9-piece ensemble consisting of pipers, guitarists, keyboards, and drummers — who have been rocking ...

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$39

MCE: Haydn’s “Mass in Time of War”

The Washington Center for the Performing Arts 512 Washington St SE, Olympia

Haydn composed this mass in 1796, one of the most popular of his mass settings, at the time of Austria’s general mobilisation into war. With the title, “Mass in Time of War,” Haydn subtly moves the focus from the conflict itself to what it means to those who must endure its consequences–who understand what it means to ...

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$12 – $24

Flamenco

Washington Center for the Performing Arts 512 Washington St SE, Olympia, WA, United States

Alexandra Arrieche, Music Director and Conductor The Olympia Symphony presents a ground-breaking, unique collaboration that brings together live flamenco dancing and classical music. Filled with vibrancy and passion, our season finale will transport you to southern Spain to experience the heart and beat of this incredible culture! Featuring: Clara Rodriguez, flamenco dance Miya Higashiyama, mezzo-soprano ...

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