Quickdraw will be playing down at the Dirty Dan Days festival in Fairhaven at the Village Green Park, behind Village Books, a week from this Sunday 12-2pm. Come eat chowder, watch pianos roll down hills, and listen to music in springtime PNW sunshine. If that ain't enough for you, step across the street to the Archer Ale House later that same afternoon and hear us again!

Kat is back from touring and we are again four. Come check us at the Archer Ale House, this Sunday. Hey, Sunday dinner never sounded so good.

Tomorrow we will be down in Fairhaven at the Village Green Park behind Village Books playing before the outdoor movie. The movie is going to be The Pursuit of Happyness. We haven't seen it. None of us. And we probably won't see it tomorrow night, but we're going to play, and you should come down and hear us live, support the community, and check out Will Smith, maybe he'll be there too, the real Will. We will. More info --> Shows.

This Saturday, 21 July, we are playing a benefit concert and contra barn dance for Animals As Natural Therapy (ANT). ANT is a program based on the knowledge that animals can teach important life skills: respect for self and others, trust-building, and clear communication. For eight years Animals as Natural Therapy has been working with youth and adults, many of the youth considered "at risk" by social service agencies. ANT strengthens our community by developing healthy, resilient individuals through animal-assisted education and personal growth. It is a fantastic cause worth coming out for, and should be a real good time for all. The Saturday festivities will be an Open House, Salmon Bake, and Barn Dance! There will be a contra dance caller. You can walk around and pet the pigmy goats and horses, fill up on Pacific Northwest Salmon, fill up on pop, and take in some County Summer sun.

Next Saturday, 28 July, we will be playing the Haynie Opry up in Blaine. This is a real live opry show, with four bands as well as Matt Audette's Circle of Friends house band. We will be playing a supercharged live set, as well as recording for broadcast on the radio.

Tomorrow we will be sharing the stage in the Boundary Bay Beer Garden with the Starlings, coming up from Seattle. Check us, check the Starlings, check the Boundary Bay beer garden. It is bound to be a fine, fine show.

This coming Wednesday, we will be up at Western Washington University playing for the noon concert series. Sun, food, fun, live music, all set in an academic setting bound to learn you a thing or two. There is a lot going on with Quickdraw folks. Check the shows page for the know. Oh, and Happy Summer Solstice!

Hamsterdam! Quickdraw plays Hamsterdam tomorrow, only one of the bands playing from 2-9pm. It is going to be a beautiful day, so come out for live music, or come out for some beer or lemonade, or come out just because it is better being out than in. Hamsterdam is a growing event in Bellingham, and next year the organizers hope to bring it out of the backyard and into downtown. Help them with your support.

And later tomorrow, like at about 7:30, we will also grace the Archer Ale House to play our weekly set, or rather, they will grace us with some of that delicious food and fine ales on tap. See you there!

We are playing tomorrow at 4pm and Sunday at 1pm down at the Village Green Park, behind Village Books in Fairhaven for the Annual Dirty Dan Days Festival. There will be a lot of fun had here folks: Antiques displays, rowing and kayaking on the waterfront, tasty chowder cook-off, charter sailing yacht tours, vintage car parade and show, sea shanty singers, piano races, and of course, Quickdraw to delight you musically. You must catch this one.

Also, Sunday 29 April, after our 1pm Dirty Dan show, we will thirstily walk over to the Archer Ale House to play our weekly set. Starts at 7:30.

We are playing tomorrow and every Sunday throughout the summer at the Archer Ale House in Fairhaven. The shows are from 7:30-9pm and there is no cover. See the Shows page for more information.

March 28 we will be at the Boundary Bay Brewery in downtown Bellingham. Come have a pint of Bellingham's best!!

We are very happy to announce the addition of Kat Bula to Quickdraw String Band! Kat plays a monster fiddle and really can sing. She has rounded us out nicely, and we are happy to have her. She gives you just one more reason to like Quickdraw...

We are playing tomorrow and every Sunday throughout the coming spring at the Archer Ale House in Fairhaven. The shows are from 7:30-9pm and there is no cover. Please come down for a Sunday evening beer, dinner, and listen. The Archer is an incredibly quaint basement pub in the heart of Old Fairhaven. See the Shows page for more information.

March 2 we will once again be opening up for the Cody Rivers Show at the Idiom Theater in downtown Bellingham. The Cody Rivers Show is remarkably fun and entertaining, well worth the $10. If you don't catch them on Friday 2 March, when we open, please catch them at one of their other performances. There is a link to their page on our Shows page.

Catch us today at the Allied Arts Holiday Market at 10am and Mount Bakery at 11am, both in downtown Bellingham. Our once Bellingham-local fiddler Allegra Ziffle will be here to help us revel in some of that bygone old-timey sound of ours. Come and listen! Shop! Eat! Support local business and music...

A needed apology here given for the empty months of a newsless news page. It is not that we had no news to give, but that our webmaster, lost the file transfer connection. No updates could be made to any of our pages, so apologies. Happily, we have returned..

We aim to wish our friends, family, fans, acquaintances and all a happy winter holiday. Keep smiling and enjoying life through art and music. It makes all the difference in this world.

Tomorrow from 5-7pm, Quickdraw is playing Happy Hour down at Kendrick's Pool Hall in Bellingham. Kendrick's is now serving beer and wine, they've also got some mean paninis, salads, and smoothies, as well as a nice little chunk of sidewalk real estate to sit and consume these fine bevs and vittles. Anybody out there with any claim on sanity would be tempted by this.

We'll also be playing next Thursday night, 15 June, at the Acoustic Tavern. The Acoustic Tavern is one of our favorite spots in Bellingham to play. It is cozy, dog friendly, people friendly, and the wait staff (aka James) is real nice. Come down and support your local Acoustic Tavern, and your local Quickdraw boys. We'll start around 9pm, and the cost will be free, or real real close to being free. Check the shows page for an address if you don't know where to go.

Welcome to March, the month where all things begin to bloom! We will again grace the stage at the Acoustic Tavern tomorrow night, and begin our own process of blooming, to shake off the cold, and give a hearty welcome to warmer weather. Come out and lend an ear, come out and have a beer.

Tomorrow night Quickdraw will be at Bellingham's Green Frog Cafe Acoustic Tavern. The venue is cozy, which is something we here at Quickdraw Inc advocate: cozy venues for a better musical experience. Come out for beer, come out for wine, come out for Quickdraw. As always, check the shows page for address and info. Hey, it's free!

Come out and see Quickdraw tonight at Bay Street Coffeehouse. They will be sharing the stage with Los Angeles based singer songwriter Mitchell, and Seattle's Bheule. Check that shows page for more.

Tomorrow we will be gracing the stage down at the Allied Arts Holiday Market on Bay Street in Bellingham. We go on at 4pm. Come down, browse the local artisans' offerings, and take in some Quickdraw songs and tunes. There is no charge.

The new Quickdraw CD, Blasting Caps, is finally here! It is a thing of beauty. We recorded it live the first two days in June, and the packaging was hand pressed, one by one, by Bison Letterpress in Bellingham on a turn-of-the-century printing press. We couldn't be happier. The packaging is a thing of beauty, and the sound on the album is as live as can be. You won't be disappointed folks. The CD is complete, and we are ready for our CD Release party this Saturday, 10 September, in Bellingham at Boundary Bay Brewery's beer garden! For those of you in the Bellingham, Washington area, come out and enjoy some outdoor music while the weather is still permitting. For those of you in different states and cities that can't make it, you can listen to sample tracks from the record and purchase it if you are so inclined at the CD Baby marketplace, here. Check the Albums page for further information and updates about the new Quickdraw CD.

Also, this Friday, 9 September, we will be playing at the Wild Buffalo in Bellingham to benefit NW Youth Services. We will be gracing the stage along with Feed and Seed, Gus & Kati and the Mighty Ghosts of Heaven, and Paedar MacMahon's 8-Hand Reel. The show is Free, but donations to NW Youth Services will be strongly encouraged.

A lot is happening right now on the Quickdraw front, besides the pending release of our debut album, Blasting Caps, we also have some really good shows coming up:

This Saturday, 16 July, we are playing a benefit concert barn dance for Animals As Natural Therapy (ANT). ANT is a program based on the knowledge that animals can teach important life skills: respect for self and others, trust-building, and clear communication. For six years Animals as Natural Therapy has been working with youth and adults, many of the youth considered "at risk" by social service agencies. ANT strengthens our community by developing healthy, resilient individuals through animal-assisted education and personal growth. It is a fantastic cause worth coming out for, and should be a real good time for all. The Saturday festivities will be an Open House, Salmon Bake, and Barn Dance! You can walk around and pet the pigmy goats and horses, fill up on Pacific Northwest Salmon, fill up on pop, and take in some County Summer sun.

The following Friday, 22 July, you can catch us at the Nightlight Lounge, where we will be opening for Foghorn String Band. Foghorn is at the forefront of the Pacific Northwest Old-Time scene. There is a great quote from Molly Tenenbaum of The Old Time Herald on Foghorn’s website that sums up the live Foghorn experience well: “The Foghorn Stringband, if you ask me, is one of the greatest new things in old-time music. All they have to do is play, and the power surges straight through your own chest. they are supertight, are major monster players, and they don't do anything weird to the music -- they let their own musicality and the tunes speak for themselves.” This should be a show to remember folks. We here at Quickdraw are very excited to warm up the Nightlight for Foghorn’s first Bellingham show. The price is a measly seven bones.

Also in July, we will be at the Bay Street Coffeeehouse in Bellingham on 28 July, and the Fairhaven Village Green Outdoor Movie on Saturday, 30 July warming up the kiddies for Shrek 2. Get out there and dig in for that Pacific Northwest summer now, the sun won’t stay but a couple months.

Welcome to our new domain! With the pending release of our debut full-length CD, Blasting Caps, we have decided to undergo a name change to Quickdraw String Band. But fret not, you can still call us Quickdraw and people will still know who you are talking about. With the change in name, comes a change in our web domain, so be sure to update those bookmarks and pop in for a visit occasionally.

Come out to Elizabeth Park in Bellingham this Thursday where we will play from 6-8pm. The sun is promising to show up, providing you do, so we are counting on you for a fantastic sunny concert in the park experience. Last year was a blast, about 800 people showed, the sun was shining bright, and learning from our lesson, we promise to place the speakers outside of the gazebo this year so we can project our sound just a little bit further for those of you propped up in lawn chairs way in the back.

There are a few new shows on the calendar, so check that. Happy Independence day to all you in these United States of America!

Come out tomorrow day and night for two Quickdraw shows! Tomorrow day, between 3-6pm, we will be playing at the St. Francis Retirement facility for their Strawberry Festival, featuring shortcake, door prizes, and plenty of Northwest summer sun. Check the shows page for details. And tomorrow evening, from 8-10pm, we will be playing at the Bay St. Coffeehouse in Bellingham. Both shows are free, and worth much more that that.

The Quickdraw CD is mixed and will go in for mastering next week. We laid it down live, over two glorious evenings, July 1 and 2, at the Yurtship in Bow, Washington. We are pleased with the sound and will be updating the website with more information as the project progresses. Estimated release date is 10 August!