Blaine Harbor Music Festival will bring live music to downtown July 10-16

Blaine Harbor Music Festival is bringing back its camp and downtown performances for the first time since the pandemic started from Sunday, July 10 to Saturday, July 16.

“I’m most excited about getting back to a live camp again,” Pacific Arts Association (PAA) president Bryan Johnson said. “Being able to see kids and see them interact with the musicians will be the highlight of the camp.”

PAA organizes the yearly festival that will bring faculty from as far as Luxembourg, New York and Oregon. Camp classes will be geared for youth ages 12-20, and include courses such as songwriting, music theory, electronic music and jazz choir. 

Free festival concerts are open to the public every day at noon at the G Street plaza and 7 p.m. at the Blaine Performing Arts Center, 975 H Street. A Big Band Benefit performance will cost $50 at Semiahmoo Golf Club Pavilion, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 14.

Nick Biello, the festival’s artistic director and saxophonist, put together a new curriculum that will bring new opportunities for the campers, Johnson said.

Camp classes will remain open for last-minute registration until Sunday, July 10, Johnson said.

“People are in for a real treat and we hope they take the extra opportunity to come out and hear some remarkably good artists who are committed to Blaine and our music festival,” Johnson said.

For more information and the performance schedule, visit the music festival website at blaineharbormusicfestival.org.