Main Stage Music Schedule
Brought to you by the Peace Through Music Foundation
(Precise timing subject to slight change as needed)
Friday, August 16th
- 5:30 - 6:00 pm: Opening Circle Invocation (w/ Ben Klein)
- 6:00 - 6:40 pm: Sam & Anna Band
- 7:00 - 8:30 pm: Sweater Weather Stringband
- 9:00 - 10:30 pm: Rafe Pearlman + Daniel Berkman
- 10:45 - 11:15 pm: Lucé
Saturday, August 17th
- 5:30 - 6 pm: Opening Circle Invocation (w/ Burke & Jocéan)
- 6:00 - 6:40 pm: Summer Barbone
- 7:00 - 8:15 pm: Wade Evans Ensemble
- 8:30 - 9:45 pm: Three Wheels Turning
- 10:00 -11:30 pm: Elijah & The Band of Light
Music at the NW Herbal Fair on the Peace Through Music Main Stage
Rafe Pearlman
Daniel Berkman
Rafe Pearlman + Daniel Berkman & Friends
Friday Night Headliner
Rafe Pearlman started his singing career with the wolves, ravens and sled dogs of the Alaskan wilderness. Rafe’s intention with his music is to inspire a vision of a world in harmony and unity, celebrating diversity, sustainability, and equality for all beings. Sometimes a simple song is all it takes to open a connection.
Daniel Berkman is a San Francisco-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, accompanist, singer-songwriter, electronic musician, looper, producer, film and dance score composer and innovator of electro-acoustic music, specializing in the kora (a 21-stringed west african harp)
Elijah Ray & The Band of Light
JUST ANNOUNCED—Elijah Ray Returns to Headline Saturday Night!!!
Elijah Ray is an international recording and touring artist, vocalist, teacher and composer.
Over two decades of producing and releasing albums, touring the world, and bringing people together through his music and message, Elijah Ray continues to produce soulful, epic, timeless soundtracks to awaken to.
Elijah Ray's sound (and presence) is rare in its spectrum. His music is dripping with lush vocals, symphonic, shamanic awareness, and pop-infused, world beat sensibility.
Vulnerable melodies of the heart ring out along thundering anthems, soul stirring Piano Ballads, while neo-soul hooks bounce along side choirs of angels.
In between the notes of his songs, you can hear Elijah’s passion to awaken.
Elijah Ray’s music & message has been a clarion call for the great awakening since he formed the Band of Light in 2004.
Since that time, at the end of every show, everyone knows that they too, are IN THE BAND.
Welcome to the Band of Light.
Three Wheels Turning Photo by Valera Vulfson
Three Wheels Turning
Saturday Night Showcase
Three Wheels Turning is folk trio based in Port Townsend, Washington that synthesizes the skills and tunes of multi-instrumentalist songwriters Micaela Kingslight, Samara Jade and Aimée Ringle. Together, these three seasoned artists create a rich and compelling braid of voices, genres, styles and insights - gleaned from their individual paths and brought to bear through their collaboration and friendship.
Instrumental prowess and seamless blending of harmonies define their ear-catching sound, but it is their spirits, hearts, and commitment to growth, healing, and loving the earth that shine through the music, alchemizing their signature musical medicine.
Ben Klein Experience
Silver Flautist for the legendary acoustic trio Trillian Green will be offering an Opening Showcase + Musical Collaborations Friday & Saturday
Ben Klein is a dynamic flute player whose high intensity performances have led him to regional renown throughout the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Northwest. His unique style of extreme flute, which he calls Ben Flutism, is a symphony of interweaving melodies, percussive rhythms, punk rock blasts, and blues riffs. From introspective themes to reckless abandon, he ignites audiences and raises a new wonder about the instrument for adults and kids alike.
In Ben’s music, you can hear the multi-cultural influences from his wide range of musical interests, which blend into a richly colored tapestry of sound, indefinable yet strangely familiar. With his passionate expressiveness, animated movements, and psychedelic soundscapes he engages his audiences with vivid imagery that transports them into another world. Ben performed at the NWHF in 2021 and 2022 with the legendary acoustic revolutionary trio Trillian Green, and we are excited to welcome him back to the Peace Through Music Main Stage in 2024!
Sweater Weather String Band
Friday Night Showcase
With members drawn together from all across the Salish Sea by a mutual love of traditional music and knitwear, Sweater Weather String Band blends old-time, honky-tonk, Celtic, and indie rock influences into a style that has been likened to “the frolicking of sheep before a thunderstorm.” Formed from a series of jams and impromptu gigs, the band quickly developed a wildly danceable sound that’s been heard at festivals, folk dances, and bars throughout the Northwest.
Summer Barbone
Saturday Opener
Studying the muse ~ from Eastsound, WA
Summer will bringing her beautiful voice and original songs and instrumentation to the Peace Through Music main Stage to open of the evening on Saturday!
Wade Evans Ensemble
Saturday Night Feature
A lifelong musician and multi-instrumentalist, Wade Evans has traveled the world in search of The Sound. Whether playing Hindustani classical music on the sitar (which he has studied under the direction of renowned master Pt. Shivnath Mishra for over 21 years), traditional Turkish and Arabic forms on the oud (which he has learned during numerous journeys wandering the Middle East as a minstrel), the compositions of JS Bach, and much more, he is at home in the rich tapestry of art and folk musics of the world.
Jocéan & Burke
Friday Invocation + Weekend Collaborations
Welcome to the enchanting world of Jocéan and Burke, an acoustic duo hailing from the serene San Juan Islands. With a mesmerizing blend of Handpan, Frame Drum, Wood Flute, Guitar, Percussion, and Vocal Harmony, they craft a spellbinding musical experience that transcends sonic boundaries.
+ MORE!
Sam & Anna Band
(Friday Opener)
Lucé
(Friday Intimate Closing Set)
Shanti Salish Kirtan Group
(Saturday Lunchtime Set in the SKYLODGE)
Previous Years Performances
