Benefit Concert in Beer Garden this Friday

Sun Community Service Benefit Poster

Following the Fry-day Fish Fry on Friday, August 19, Boundary Bay Brewery will be hosting a benefit for Sun Community service featuring live music by local dance-inducers No-Fi Soul Rebellion, local post-pop-punk super group Rookery (ex-Black Eyes & Neckties/ Axes of Evil), and local navel-gazing rockers Candysound.

Sun Community Service (SCS) administers two housing programs for people in Whatcom County who are homeless and have significant behavioral health/mental health needs. The first, Sun House, is an emergency homeless shelter where people can live for up to three months while transitioning into permanent housing. SCS also runs a Permanent Supported Housing program with five apartments, which just opened in July.  SCS have been serving the people of Whatcom County since 1973 and their staff works hard to make sure their clients have the support they need to meet their goals.

The show starts at 9pm in the beer garden and there is a $5 cover and a $10 suggested donation (which includes a raffle ticket).  Each additional raffle ticket costs $2 and enters you in a raffle to win prizes from the following local businesses:

Brenthaven
Home Depot
Everyday Music
The Upfront Theatre
Mojo Music
Bellingham Fitness
Barnes and Noble
Village Books
Trader Joes
Old Fairhaven Wines
Community Food Co-op
Fairhaven Runners
Drizzle
City Gym
Costco
Quel Fromage
20th Century Bowl
And More!

Halloweekend 2010 @ Boundary Bay Brewery & Bistro

Saturday, October 30 and Sunday, October 31,  Boundary Bay Brewery & Bistro invites you to don your costumes and come on down to the taproom to celebrate Halloweekend 2010: two nights of thrills, chills and excellent local live music!

Halloweekend 2010 kicks off Saturday, October 30th with live music by up and coming Bellingham rockers They Hibernate (who will celebrating the release of their debut ep), Misfits tribute band Horror Business, the folk punk sounds of Baltic Cousins (featuring members of Black Eyes and Neckties and the Russians), and the always entertainingly manic No-Fi Soul Rebellion.  The music starts at 10pm and there is a $6 cover.

Halloweekend 2010 continues on Sunday, October 31 with an evening of the music of David Bowie performed by Bellingham’s best Bowie tribute band, Scary Monster and the Super Creeps!  Music starts at 9:30pm and there is a $4 cover.  Costumes are encouraged and welcomed whether you will be attending one or both nights of the celebration.

Compassionate Friends All Ages Benefit Concert at Boundary Bay Brewery

This Sunday, September 5, following Trivia in the beer garden, Boundary Bay Brewery will be playing host to an all ages benefit concert for Compassionate Friends featuring live performances by So Adult, Burn Up and No-Fi Soul Rebellion.
Compassionate Friends is a non-profit organization formed 40 years ago in England to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive. Today more than 600 chapters serving all 50 states plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico offer friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved parents, siblings, grandparents, and other family members during the natural grieving process after a child has died.

The benefit will feature performances by local rock ‘n roll upstarts So Adult, Sean Meyer’s (of Scary Monster and the Super Creeps fame) newest band Burn Up, and local music institution, and all ages favorite No-Fi Soul Rebellion.

The show is all ages with doors opening at 7:30pm and a $3 cover.  Click here to view the Facebook event invitation.

New Year’s Eve at Boundary Bay Brewery!

How was your 2009?

So lackluster that it needs a quick fix in it’s final hours?

So middling and forgettable that it needs to end in a way that won’t escape your memory in the coming years?

So incredibly spectacular that it needs to end with a bang?

If you answered yes to any of the above, then Boundary Bay Brewery has THE New Year’s Eve party for you!  With live music courtesy of two of Bellingham’s most party starting musical outfits, No-Fi Soul Rebellion and GNS & The Reparations, the freshest dance cuts from the current and previous millennium spun by DJ Idlhnds, a midnight keg drop (Bellingham’s own version of a Times Square tradition) and plenty of delicious Boundary Bay Brewing Co. beer, 2009 will end just like you need it to: with the best party of the year!

Thursday, December 31 @ Boundary Bay Brewery & Bistro, doors 10pm, $6 cover, 21+

Hoppy Holidays at Boundary Bay Brewery

From all of us here at Boundary Bay Brewery, we wish you the happiest of holidays.  May you have much laughter, joy and love surround you as we ease out of one year and into the next.  We opened our doors almost 15 years ago and, through those years, have been lucky to celebrate many of our holidays with the very community that supports us.

This year, we will be open on Christmas Eve with our regular menu until 4:00 pm.  Then, from 5-8  pm we’ll be celebrating Christmas Eve with an All You Can Eat Pasta Feed!  Families are welcome and reservations are recommended.  We will close early on Christmas Eve and will be closed Christmas Day to celebrate the holidays.  On New Years Eve and New Years Day we’ll be open for our regular hours and we’ll be partying hard New Years Eve with No Fi Soul Rebellion and Guinness and the Reparations.

Come celebrate your holidays with us here at Boundary Bay Brewery.  Here, you are our family.  Cheers, everyone!

Hoppy Holidays from your local craft brewery, Boundary Bay!

The Late Show Returns TONIGHT @ Boundary Bay Brewery

Is it too much to ask for good, inexpensive live music that makes you feel like you are doing something good?  You know, makes you feel all warm and fuzzy and good karma-y?  Boundary Bay Brewery doesn’t think so.

Boundary Bay Brewery is pleased to to be raising the curtain on another season of The Late Show, a series of Friday night bi-monthly benefit concerts in the taproom featuring local, regional and national bands performing to raise money and awareness for Bellingham area non-profit organizations.

The Late Show season kicks off tonight with a barn burner of a dance party featuring performances by Bellingham’s own soul-punk duo No-Fi Soul Rebellion and Portland, Oregon’s record-scratchin’-sax-blowin’-one-man-can-of-rad Boy Eats Drum Machine with all proceeds going to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Washington.  The show is 21+ with a $4 cover and the the doors opening @ 10:30pm.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Washington are non-profit organization dedicated helping the youth of Whatcom & Skagit counties reach their potential by establishing professionally supported, one-to-one mentoring relationships. To achieve their mission of successful mentoring relationships for all children who need and want them, Big Brothers Big Sisters recruits and trains dedicated volunteers to match with at-risk youth in the local community.  Through careful background checks, training and regular match support, Big Brothers Big Sisters is working to ensure that every child who needs a caring adult role model has one—contributing to brighter futures, better schools and stronger communities for generations to come.

For more information(or if you can’t make it to the show tonight but still want to help financially or through volunteering) visit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Washington’s website:  http://www.bbbs-nw.org

We hope to see you here tonight!

Musician/Inventor Quintron TONIGHT at Boundary Bay Brewery!

Performing tonight at Boundary Bay Brewery and Bistro is New Orleans ‘Swamp-Tech’  duo Quintron & Miss Pussycat.

Quintron & Miss Pussycat’s blazing organ runs, stomping drum machine beats, professionally played maracas, puppets and yowled wildcat vocals all combine to create a widely critically acclaimed live music experience that might leave you exclaiming,  ‘How’dtheydothat?!?’  Well friends, the answer is that Quintron invents and modifies his own instruments!  From the Fender Rhodes-meets-Hammond organ-meets-vintage muscle car of his keyboard rig, to the zenith of his creations, the light controlled analog synthesizer he calls the Drum Buddy, it is safe to say that nothing and nobody sounds like Quintron.  Quintron actually manufactures Drum Buddy’s for sale.  Proud owners include legendary performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson and Wilco guitarist Nels Cline.  Even Kanye West has marveled at the wonders of the Drum Buddy on his blog.

Perhaps this whole Quintron & Miss Pussycat thing merits some further investigation…

Quintron & Miss Pussycat play in Boundary Bay Brewery & Bistro’s beer garden Friday, July 31st with No-Fi Soul Rebellion.  Doors are @ 9pm and tickets are $8

Live Rock Show at Boundary Bay!

Head Like A Kite will be rocking the Boundary Bay Brewery Friday night Late Show THIS Friday (October 24th, 2008) along with No-Fi Soul Rebellion.  This is not a show you want to miss!  The show starts at 10:30 pm and has a measly $5 cover.  To get yourself pumped up about the show, tune in to KUGS where Head Like A Kite will be on air at 3:00 p.m.  You can also listen online if you don’t have the benefit of being right here in beautiful Bellingham!

Head Like a Kite

Here’s a sample of No-Fi:

Halloween help from Boundary Bay Brewery

Chances are if you haven’t yet picked up a pumpkin by now, how to celebrate Halloween is something that hasn’t even begun to be considered to enter your already maxed out mind. So let Boundary Bay Brewery make it easy for you.

Costume

The ghost costume is a classic. According to eHow.com, it can be made in eight easy steps:

Step One Get your hands on a white sheet that you don’t mind cutting. Check thrift stores for an old sheet, but remember to wash it before you use it.

Step Two: Put the sheet over the person who plans to wear it, with the person’s head in the middle of the sheet.

Step Three: Draw two circles around each of the person’s eyes with a crayon or other blunt marker.

Step Four: Mark how much material has to be removed to keep the sheet off the ground.

Step Five: Remove the sheet.

Step Six: Cut the eyeholes in the sheet using cloth scissors, and cut the bottom off if needed.

Step Seven: Cut the sheet in a ragged fashion at the bottom for a more ghostly effect.

Step Eight: Brush glue on the hem and around the eyeholes to prevent fraying.

Party

Choosing the right Halloween party or celebration to attend can really make or break the holiday. Private parties are alright, but the risk of personal injury,or (even worse) boredom is far too great on such a short notice. We recommend you come celebrate with us at Boundary Bay Brewery this Halloween. There will be plenty of delicious beer, hot food and snacks, and two stages hosting 4 bands! And the lineup of bands this year is top notch. Just check the Schedule out:

 

9 pm on the tap room stage: A Gun That Shoots Knives

10 pm on the beer garden stage: Guinness and the Reparations

11 pm on the tap room stage: No-Fi Soul Rebellion

Midnight on the beer garden stage: Yogoman Burning Band

 

Still not convinced? Have a listen to our Halloween music preview podcast:

There! We have done all the work for you. See you on Halloween here @ Boundary Bay Brewery!