Music

Help fund Orcas Center's free outdoor Summer Concert Series! Orcas Center's Summer Concert Series returns to the Village Green! Give the gift of entertainment to our community and help fund this incredible program. This year features 18 FREE outdoor concerts on Eastsound's Village Green stage - with touring artists and local music makers, offering world class music from all kinds of genres at zero cost to you and your families.

This May, immerse yourself in music to transport your soul as Orcas Choral Society presents, “Glory, Grandeur & Gospel” for voices and brass.

Folk music festival in Eastsound on beautiful Orcas Island featuring The Litch Brothers Duo, Eli West, and Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms!

This concert showcases the growth of the public school string program on Orcas Island from 5th grade through graduating seniors. Come and support these talented young musicians!

With a performance history spanning more than 29 years and having released 15 CDs, Pearl Django endures as one of the most highly regarded Hot Club style groups working today. Although the band’s roots are firmly in the music made famous by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, its extensive repertoire includes traditional jazz classics and original compositions.

We Are Here is a one-hour documentary by Marc Levy that investigates the intention and process of a community whose aim is to move us to action through moving art. In We Are Here, we find out what makes a puppet come to life and we are challenged to reconsider our own place in the world.

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival Presents: The Children's Concert. Join us for Symba and the Lobster, an interactive storytelling experience created and performed by violinist Nanki Chugh with oboist Anne Pinkerton and narrator Sophie Parker

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival Presents: Open Rehearsal for Seniors Orcas Center Main Stage Friday, August 15, 1:00pm FREE (no tickets required)

Join us for an evening of free jazz on the Village Green starting at 5 PM! Duende Libre and Sabu help wrap up the Summer Concert Series and kick off the Orcas Island Jazz Festival!

Greta Matassa's 40 year career has been a whirlwind of exciting opportunities and experiences. Over the last 20 years she has become established as one of the greatest jazz singers of her time. Working with top jazz musicians in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. In 2016 She was featured with bassist John Clayton’s group in a centennial tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.

EntreMundos Quintet is an electrifying Seattle-based group that brings to the stage an uplifting and kinetic mix of deep Brazilian roots flavored with world rhythms––a deft blending of funk, jazz, and soul melding with the classic sounds of samba and bossa nova. EntreMundos means “between worlds” and the group’s mélange of seductive sounds embodies their name, stirring a personal and uncommon blend into a sound with universal appeal.

Martin Lund, one of the most diverse musicians in the universe, lives and breathes music in many different colors and cultures. He has played with some of the great blues artists of our time and worked in the studios of LA as a composer, arranger, and musician. He is well known for bringing great artists to this island and providing some of the best shows at Orcas Center.

The famed showdown of musical might has returned! The 2025 Battle of Bands makes a jump to the Orcas Center for an event that is bigger than ever. Featuring all local and regional music, on this fateful day bands will compete for trophies and glory, all while raising money for the Orcas Community Resource Center. With our intrepid hosts, we will learn what it means to be a band, the highs and lows of musicianship, and perhaps even the meaning of love!