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Last Updated:  2/26/2010 

Concerts & Special Events coming up in February

SOLD OUT!! Thank You!

An evening with… Taj Mahal Trio

7:00pm doors/8:00pm show

All Ages with 21+ Beer Garden

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal, a two-time GRAMMY winner and one of the most influential American blues and roots artists of the past half-century, has made no Faustian deals in his long and distinguished career. In his never-ending exploration of the complex origins and underpinnings of American music, he has forged a four-decade career by gathering and distilling countless musical traditions from a range of geographical and cultural sources: the Mississippi Delta, the Appalachian backwoods, the African continent, the Hawaiian islands, Europe, the Caribbean and so much more.

Friday, March 5 - OFS and the 4 Horsemen Present….
Le Cabaret Noir’s “Sin on Heels” with special guests TUSH! Burlesque
8:00pm doors/8:30pm show
$10.00 OFS Members/$15 General Admission tickets available online at www.buyolympia.com or at Rainy Day Records
All Ages with risqué content

Our annual Oscar Party is always a blast, dress to the nines - you never know if you’ll get stopped on the Red Carpet Walk by our fashionista correspondents, have your picture taken with a REAL OSCAR STATUE and play trivia for great prizes! We’ll have wine and yummy Fishtale beers on tap and of course the show will be televised on the big screen!  Come celebrate your favorite and not so favorite movies with us!
All proceeds support the Olympia Film Society!

A special screening of the wildest high-adrenaline films entered in the Banff Mountain Film Festival.  The Radical Reels Tour foootage focuses on dynamic, high-adrenaline films featuring sports such as skiing, climbing, kayaking, BASE jumping, snowboarding and mountain biking films.

Concerts & Special Events coming up in April

Friday, April 2 - OFS Presents!
Ludicra, Pierced Arrows, and Lullaby Arkestra
8:00pm doors/8:30pm show
$8.00 OFS Members/$10.00 General Admission
Tickets available at www.buyolympia.com/events and at Rainy Day Records, Phantom City Records, and at the box office night of show.
All Ages!

After the demise of underground legends DEAD MOON in fall 2006, nobody was surprised to hear that founders Fred and Toody Cole had lost little time in starting a new band. They recruited drummer Kelly Halliburton in April 2007, and soon the PIERCED ARROWS were up and running, playing live shows in the Northwest and recording songs for upcoming releases. PIERCED ARROWS picks up, musically, where DEAD MOON left off - a lo-fi assault on the senses played with the sincerity and feeling that made DM such a special band for all of their fans around the world.

Having never sung a note before, Holly kicked off her musical career in the legendary garage band Thee Headcoatees. After four years as a Headcoatee, Holly started a solo career, whilst still singing with the band. Her first full-length record, released in 1995, was The Good Things. Since then, she has become one of the most interesting and diverse artists to emerge from The Medway Delta.

Holly primarily writes her own material, interspersed with a wide range of cover songs by such artists as Willie Dixon, Ike Turner, Lee Hazlewood, Wreckless Eric, and Bill Withers to name a few. Although her sound has remained remarkably consistent throughout her career, each record has a quality that sets it apart from the others.

Aside from her own records, Holly has also made guest appearances on various other projects over the years, from bands such as Mudhoney, The White Stripes, etc. In fact, due to her initial collaboration with The White Stripes, she was then invited to sing a duet with frontman Jack White on the track “It’s True That We Love One Another,” which then appeared on the Stripes breakthrough album Elephant. It was this exposure that gave her a much wider audience for the future.

Now at the start of a new year, the Brokeoffs prepare for their most recent release, Medicine County, out March 30, 2010 via Transdreamer Records. Recorded in an abandoned, recently foreclosed-upon church near to home, this album features twelve new tracks: eight originals by Golightly & The Brokeoffs alongside traditional numbers like “Blood On the Saddle” and “Jack O’Diamonds.”

Bruce Cockburn’s 2001 induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame seems a long time coming when you view the incredible body of work he’s put together both personally and professionally in a career spanning somewhere near 4 decades. He was also made an Officer of the Order of Canada and has been the recipient of honorary degrees in Letters and Music from several North American universities, including Berklee and Toronto’s York University. His many other awards have included the Tenco Award for Lifetime Achievement in Italy and 20 gold and platinum awards in Canada.

As a songwriter, Cockburn is revered by fans and musicians alike. His songs have been covered by such diverse artists as Elbow, Jimmy Buffett, Judy Collins, the Skydiggers, Anne Murray, Third World, Chet Atkins, k.d. lang, Barenaked Ladies, Maria Muldaur and the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia. As a guitarist, he is considered among the world’s best. The New York Times called Cockburn a “virtuoso on guitar,” while Acoustic Guitar magazine placed him in the esteemed company of Andrés Segovia, Bill Frisell and Django Reinhardt. With 2009’s “Slice O Life”.