CONCERTS

Fri, June 26
Shana Cleveland and the Sandcastles: Oh Man, Cover the Ground Release Show
While Seattle’s La Luz is waiting until August to release its new album Weirdo Shrine, frontwoman Shana Cleveland is busy expanding her sonic horizons. In May, her new band Shana Cleveland and the Sandcastles released its first album—Oh Man, Cover the Ground—on Suicide Squeeze Records. It’s a stark departure from the surf rock sounds of La Luz, with finger-picked songs and haunting breathy vocals that drift along with a Northwest woodsy folkiness. A month after it arrived, Cleveland and company head to Columbia City Theater to give the record a proper release show. Columbia City Theater, $10–$12

Sat, June 27
Kenny Chesney and Jason Aldean
Since 2002, Kenny Chesney and Jason Aldean have released a combined 16 studio albums, and all have reached No. 1 on the country charts. It’s that kind of success that lets acts tour stadiums. Dust off your cowboy boots and hat for the biggest country concert of summer. CenturyLink Field, $19–$175

SPECIAL EVENT

Thur, June 25
Noise Yoga: FHTAGN
Frye Art Museum’s Noise Yoga series combines yoga with live music, and the latest installment features local experimental sound ensemble FHTAGN. The collective’s sound employs horns, strings, electric guitar, and God knows what else to construct a deafening, stimulating, anti-social, and at times terror-inducing racket. The band’s name is a sure reference to H.P. Lovecraft’s famed space-octopus god Cthulhu, and, fittingly, listening to FHTAGN will instantly have you picturing Cthulhu rapidly descending upon you amidst a violent thunderstorm, with his bat-like wings stretched wide, eyes gleaming bright with sick delight, and tentacles eagerly probing the air for you: the defenseless and petrified prey that you are. So yeah... stretch to that. Frye Art Museum, $15

Sat & Sun, June 27 & 28
Urban Craft Uprising
Like a Pinterest dream come to life, Urban Craft Uprising offers shoppers a chance to check out unique, independently made, handcrafted wares that they won’t find in stores. With 135 vendors peddling clothes, art, jewelry, accessories, and various knickknacks, there’s bound to be something to give you or your home a summery zest. Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, Free

Sun, June 28
Seattle Pride Parade
Over the past year same-sex marriage reached a tipping point in the United States. There’s still progress to be made, but the fact that it’s legal in 37 states is just another reason to be in a celebratory mood for this year’s Seattle Pride Parade, which features the local owners of Wildrose—the country’s oldest lesbian bar—as grand marshals. 4th Avenue Downtown, Free

CLASSICAL & MORE

Fri & Sat, June 26 & 27
Disney Fantasia Live in Concert with the Seattle Symphony
Disney shares one of its crown jewels of feature animation with a live orchestra concert accompanying scenes from Walt Disney’s original Fantasia (1940) and from Fantasia/2000, highlighting a selection of both films’ magnificent repertoire. Iconic moments from Disney’s stunning footage, including Mickey Mouse in Paul Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and the mythical unicorns that accompany Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony, will be shown in high definition on the big screen. Benaroya Hall, $19–$84

Sat, June 27
Shaker Loops and Timo Andres
Composer John Adams created a masterwork in 1978’s Shaker Loops by taking minimalism’s quintessential repetition and adding speedy shifts in harmonics and dynamic. Members and alumni from Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra perform the piece along with a new commission by rising American composer Timo Andres. Town Hall, $20–$25

COMEDY

Thur, June 25
Jen Kirkman
Jen Kirkman is a veritable laundry list of things society loves judge: female comedian, woman in her 40s, divorcee, woman without kids...it just keeps going. Instead of cracking, she takes that immense societal pressure and uses it to create comedic diamonds. While she’s shined on shows @Midnight and Drunk History (she’s by far my personal favorite drunk storytelling historian), Kirkman truly locks into her comedic voice with her terrific new Netflix standup special I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine). Passionate and unabashedly 40, she explores the struggles of ignoring your judgmental married friends as a divorcee, the follies of being single once again (20-year-old drummers be warned). Vera Project, $16

June 25–27
Jay Pharoah
As Saturday Night Live's current master of impressions, Jay Pharoah delivers some of the shows most consistently hilarious material with his takes on Barack Obama, Kanye West, Denzel Washington, Jay-Z, Drake, and more. The best thing about his standup act is he's not limited to only doing one or two of the impersonations a night. Prepare for an onslaught of madcap mimicry. Parlor Live Seattle, $25–$35

VISUAL ART

Thru Sept 7
Disguise: Masks and Global African Art
We all conceal parts of ourselves from the outside world. Be it for self-preservation or as a tool for deceit, manipulating our facades is human nature. Disguise: Masks and Global African Art takes a look at the ideas and psychological impacts of distorting our identities though contemporary sculpture, video, drawings, and site-specific performances. Seattle Art Museum, $20