What’s on this weekend

There is plenty to do in Ballard this New Year weekend. Enjoy!

FRIDAY, December 30

Live Music
- Market St. Dixieland Jazz Band at Egan’s Ballard Jam House (1707 NW Market St) at 7 p.m. $10 cover. Boxwell/Feldman Group at 9 p.m. $10 cover/$7 students.
- The Local Strangers, Ole Tinder, Day Laborers and Petty Intellectuals at Sunset Tavern (5433 Ballard Ave NW) 9 p.m. Tickets $10.
- Staticland, Duke Evers and The Family Curse at Tractor Tavern (5213 Ballard Ave NW) at 9 p.m. Tickets $15.

SATURDAY, December 31

Create Peace: New Year’s Eve at Kadampa Mediation Center (6556 24th Ave NW) from 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. $10. To pre-register, click the Registration tab below. Everyone welcome (no child program, but children are welcome to sit quietly with parents upstairs).
Visioning and Collaging Your Intentions for the New Year at Amazing Grace Spiritual Center (2007 NW 61st St) from 5:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. Participate in a visioning process to clarify your intentions for the coming year, then begin bringing them into being by creating a beautiful collaged Vision Board. Stay after for Gina Sala’s New Year’s Eve Global Chant/Kirtan event, from 9:30 p.m. – 12:15 a.m.
NYE Bash at The Old Pequliar (1722 NW Market St) from 9 p.m. DJ Justin will play the tunes. No cover. 21+ over.
NYE Black and White Masquerade Party at the Kangaroo and Kiwi Pub (2026 NW Market St) from 7 p.m. DJ, party favors and champagne toast.
Live Music
- Christmas show featuring Andy Forrest and Scott Katz9pm at Egan’s Ballard Jam House (1707 NW Market St) at 7 p.m. $8 cover. Susan Carr’s annual Blues Xmas Show at 9 p.m. Cover $10.
- NYE w/ Bread and Butter, Great Spiders, and Head Band at Sunset Tavern (5433 Ballard Ave NW) 9 p.m. Tickets $10.

SUNDAY, January 1

Ballard Farmer’s Market along Ballard Ave from 10 a.m.- 3 p.m.
Sunday Morning Meditation at Amazing Grace Spiritual Center (2007 NW 61st St) from 10 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Live Music
- Open mic at Conor Byrne Pub (5140 Ballard Ave NW) sign-up at 7:30 p.m.