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March to a different drummer at this year’s art & music festival

This year’s arts and music festival will be as much about making music as listening to it.

“We’ll be having drum circles on both days and creationary children’s workshops,” said Pam Oakley, a director with the sponsoring Arts Foundation. “In the workshops we’ll be making instruments that the children get to play at drum circle.”

The first day of this year’s two-day event, Saturday July 30, will be a showcase for local musicians and the popular Rahma Dancers. Bellingham’s KAFE radio will be broadcasting the shows live all day. Sunday July 31 will bring in an international lineup of featured acts including familiar faces like, Bocephus King and Craig Jacks and the Mighty Jackalopes, along with new additions like Belinda Bruce.

Oakley said the list of artists and vendors lining the boardwalk at Lighthouse Marine Park for the event was bigger than ever and growing, including food vendors, jewelery, clothing, sculpture, herbs, aromatherapy, “a little bit of everything.”