LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>>

Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9 pm. NC.

Hannah's Bar & Grille Olympia - Downtown. Open Mic. 9 pm. NC.

Hell's Kitchen Tacoma - Downtown. Oh Me! Oh My!, Heidi Vladyka, Badhorse, Pleasure Coma. 9 pm. NC.

Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Wednesday Sessions, featuring Vicci Martinez Band. 8 pm. NC.

Kamel Toe Bar and Grill Tacoma - Parkland. Jam Night. Features members of Kashmire, Soul Stripper and special guests. 9 pm. NC.

Le Voyeur Café and Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Gashcat, Elephant Apple, Engine. 9 pm. $3.

Northern Olympia - Downtown. Arbouretum, Tattered Dress, Endless Boogie, Eternal Tapestry. All Ages. 8 pm. $5.

• Time to break your wizard bong out of storage: Wednesday's show at Northern promises to be intensely psychedelic. Arbouretum are set to perform with Oregonian jammers Eternal Tapestry, their comrades on a brief West Coast tour that's bringing both bands' gargantuan riffing and hypnotic arrangements to eager ears from SoCal to Seattle. Arbouretum - the quartet of Corey Allender, Matthew Pierce, Buck Carey, and songwriter/guitarist Dave Heumann - make music that's simultaneously intellectual and intoxicating. Heumann's lyrics are inspired by heady sources like Gnostic philosophy and Carl Jung's hallucinogenic confessional Red Book, and contain third-eye-opening lines like "Take me out beyond the barriers of what is said is done" from "Destroying to Save," the third song on The Gathering, the Baltimore band's fifth studio album. - Jason Baxter
  

The Royal Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Funk/Soul Night With The Brown Edition Featuring DJ Turtledove. 9 pm. NC.

Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Classic Rock Jam, with Barry Torrence Band. 8 pm. NC.

Tempest Lounge Tacoma - Upper Tacoma. Maurice The Fish Records Showcase. 7 pm. NC.

Washington Center for the Performing Arts Olympia - Downtown. The Chieftains. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $30-$67.

• These six-time Grammy winners pride themselves on preaching the wonders of traditional Irish music to the world. Not only have they uncovered a wealth of traditional Irish music from centuries past, but they make it their own with a style that is as exhilarating as it is definitive. Their home country honored them with the title of Ireland's Musical Ambassadors. If they were good enough to perform for the pope, as they did in 1979, then they're good enough for you. — Michael Swan

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