11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. • Starbucks Stage
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The Tripwires A local supergroup of sorts, The Tripwires comprise members of The Minus 5, Screaming Trees, and Young Fresh Fellows, and make giddy, harmonic power-pop tunes that recall the likes of Big Star and the Replacements. —Erin K. Thompson
Noon to 12:45 • Northwest Court
Johnny Bregar One of the new breed of singer/songwriters making kids' music that parents can stomach too, Bregar's got a charming, rootsy feeling. He's pretty much the guy you run into at the Phinney community meeting, complete with guitar, soul patch, and upbeat attitude. —Mark D. Fefer
Noon to 1 • 1 Reel Film Festival, SIFF Cinema
Best of the Northwest High School Film Festival Ten titles from local teens include a documentary trip to Africa and a music video from Anacortes. —Brian Miller
Noon to 1:15 • Words & Ideas
I'll Show You a Story! Three local writers promise to pair visual art with their readings, I'm not sure how. One of them, though, Brian McGuigan, curates "Cheap Wine & Poetry" at Hugo House, which means he's pretty good at pairing things for artsy folks. Also reading are Elissa Washuta and Hugo House writer-in-residence Cienna Madrid. —Mary Pauline Diaz
12:30 to 1:30 • Fisher Green
Eldridge Gravy & The Court Supreme Those who doubt that funk is anything but alive, well, and ass-kicking need look no further than the furious energy of the local 10-piece and its charismatic frontman. —Nick Feldman
12:30 to 1:30 • Sky Church
School of Rock All Stars In a single hour, kids age 7 to 18 prove how much better they are than you at playing music.Listen for everything from Radiohead to AC/DC. —Paige Richmond
12:30 to 1:30 • Broad Street Stage
Unnatural Helpers Hardly Art's Unnatural Helpers have been earning well-deserved raves across the board for their raw, spirited garage rock, as heard on their second album, Cracked Love & Other Drugs, replete with raging guitars, gritty vocals, and spot-on percussion beats. —EKT
1 to 1:15 • Center Square
Circus Una Motorcycle Thrill Show See Saturday, 1 p.m. (Also today 2:45 to 3, 4:30 to 4:45, 6:15 to 6:30, 7:30 to 7:45.)
1 to 2 • Sunday Performing Arts Stage
AXIS Dance Company See Saturday, 6 p.m.
1 to 2 • 1 Reel Film Festival, SIFF Cinema
Seattle Performs Five films about, or featuring, Seattle artists, including a 15-minute cut of Wes Hurley's The Unlikely Career of Waxie Moon, seen at SIFF. —BM
1:15 to 2:15 • Comedy Stage West
Famous Mysterious Actor Show From Portland, Joe Frice performs in a Mexican luchador mask and fright wig, presiding over a talk show you might compare to Pee-Wee's Playhouse, only for grown-ups. The Ed McMahon figure on the show, known as Cutter, speaks only German. Expect guests from any of Bumbershoot's three comedy stages. —BM
1:15 to 2:15 • Northwest Court
Greta Matassa Quartet It's easy to take her for granted because she seems ever-present, but Matassa is a winsome singer of jazz standards, with a fantastic clarity of tone, who's always worth another hearing. She kicks off a three-act Seattle Jazz Showcase (which constitutes the sum of B-shoot's ever-scanter jazz booking). —MDF
1:15 to 2:15 • Starbucks Stage
Horse Feathers This Kill Rock Stars folk outfit makes pleasingly elegant music featuring sugary vocals, sweeping cello, and plunking banjo. —EKT
1:15 to 2:15 • Center Square Stage
Sweet Water Sweet Water's arrival on the scene coincided with grunge's explosion, and the Seattle band was a bit too pretty, fun-loving, and shallow to really capitalize on the craze (although "Everything Will Be Alright" was some heavy shit). But holy fuck, can they lather up a crowd. If David Bowie birthed a child sown from Adrian Grenier's seed (and you just know Bowie would tear that ass up), it would produce a quasi-earthling akin to lead singer Adam Czeisler—Ziggy Stardust, but with a Greek ankle tattoo, precision haircut, and puka-shell necklace. Sweet Water's lyrics will never be mistaken for Chaucer's, but neither will the Presidents of the United States of America's, and the fact that the latter act has a cult-like following while the former is now considered a fuck-and-run splash of nostalgia is felonious. —Mike Seely
2 to 3 • Sky Church
The Lonely H With three albums and nearly seven years of performing under their belts, this shaggy-haired Port Angeles rock band sounds like the love child of John Fogerty and Don Henley. —PR
2 to 3 • Comedy Stage North
Kumail Nanjiani, John Mulaney, Nick Kroll See Saturday, 7:15 p.m.
2 to 3 • 1 Reel Film Festival, SIFF Cinema
Films4Families: A Fantasia of Musical Family Shorts In the futile yet amusing tradition of Wile E. Coyote, the animated pig in Ormie has one objective in mind: a cookie jar, poised frustratingly out of reach atop a refrigerator. Your kids will surely relate, as he employs every possible aid to reach the elusive treats. The four-minute film is one of five shown. —BM
2 to 3 • Words & Ideas
Why Vampires? Why Lincoln? Why Now? Only so often do vampires and Abe Lincoln end up in the same space (or so we think). Unfortunately, this is not one of those times, as no actual vampire or Lincoln will be on hand (or so we think). Who will be on hand are a "Lincoln enthusiast," author Brian Thornton, two teenage vampire fans, and Tracy Rector of Longhouse Media—a local nonprofit that empowers Native American communities to use film and media—to discuss why teens care so much about vampires and why everyone cares so much about Lincoln. It's a strange panel of experts (?) for an equally strange concept, but these guys never promised to be serious. —MPD
