The long weekend is in reach, so take a break from your labors to hit up stress-busting events from the Seattle Indies Expo to the Seattle Paddle Rave and from the IndigeFolk Music Festival to the Encanto Music Festival. Our top picks guide suggests more fun things to do this week.
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IndigeFolk Music Festival
DJ Big Rez hosts a show called the REZolution on Seattle’s Indigenous music radio station, which airs from the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center. This weekend, he’s bringing the jams out of the booth and into the sunlight at Victor Steinbrueck Park on the north end of Pike Place Market. The fest’s stacked lineup also includes Isaac Tonasket, who went viral for a guitar-plucking country song called “Boyz Don’t Cry,” traditional Coast Salish singing and dancing from the Blue Lightning Canoe Family, and country-rock rhythms from the Sober Junkie. SHANNON LUBETICH
(Victor Steinbrueck Park, Pike Place Market, free)
