Mardi Gras comes to Ballard tonight with the big event of the annual Ballard Jazz Festival: the Jazz Walk. 15 jazz groups will be playing across 12 venues along Ballard Ave. and Market St. One ticket ($15 in advance, $20 in person) will get you in all of them. Also, the Hadley Caliman Quartet and Hal Galper Trio will be playing tonight at the Nordic Heritage Museum at 7:30 p.m. Here’s the schedule for both events. Meanwhile, here’s the rest of the music calendar for this weekend…
Sunset Tavern
Friday: Ballard Jazz Festival
Saturday: North Twin, Red Jacket Mine (CD release), Burning Rivers
Sunday: Indian Jewelry, Du Hexen Hase, Pyramids
High Dive
Friday: Trunk Fulla Funk, Electric Jake Rhythm Test, DJ Leopold Bloom
Saturday: Heavy Hearts (CD release), The Cute Lepers (members of The Briefs, The Girls, The Spits), Holy Name Dropouts, Mark Mallman, Zach Harjo, DJ Taco Supreme and… a special mystery band!
Sunday: The Primate 5, Warning:Danger!, Chinese, Lords Of The North, Skullbot, DJs Brian Foss, Nick, and West
Tractor Tavern
Friday: The Relay with Billy Wayne Davis
Saturday: The Maldives, The Crying Shame (CD release), 17th Chapter
Sunday: Storyhill, Matt Coughlin, Carrie Elkin
Tueday: Tyler Ramsey (of Band of Horses), Husbands Love Your Wives
