Mount Baker Summer Festival 2026

Participating Performers

Main Stage Performance Schedule

  • Music With Eli creates a safe space for playful self-expression

    Eli’s spontaneous musicality invites everyone to experience childlike joy

    The show brings people of all ages into the moment, together as a community


  • Seattle based Swing 3PO delivers fun and exciting Traditional Jazz and Swing with their debut release 'Doin' the New Lowdown'.  Lead by Kevin Connor (guitar, banjo, vocals), the group includes archtop guitar, drums, acoustic bass and trombone.  With playful vocals, swingin' solos and fun arrangements Swing 3PO brings joy to any occasion.  The group is dynamic and versatile, equally at home playing a child's party as a large Lindy Hop dance event.  'Doin' the New Lowdown' includes 6 of Connor's compositions and 6 standards from the late 20's and 30's including one musette waltz. All of the songs are at tempos suitable for Swing dancing.  The original songs include vocals and cover topics such as; shapes, ice cream headaches, the weather, and the Reuben sandwich.  This is a CD that will appeal to toddlers, Swing dancers and Jazz aficionados.  The arrangements are fresh and exciting with  influences from Django Reinhardt, Oscar Aleman, and Slim and Slam among others.   Connor plays archtop guitar and switches to banjo for 'Big Butter and Egg Man'.  David Loomis is featured throughout on the trombone   Drum duties are shared by JoJo Mascorella and Mike Daugherty with each contributing one lead vocal.  The bass chair is shared by Lamar Lofton and Taylor Kent.   Kevin Connor has been a key part of Seattle's thriving Gypsy Jazz and acoustic music scene over the last decade.  He performs and records with Hot Club Sandwich and the SuperSones and leads Swing 3PO.  'Doin the New Lowdown' is the 2nd release under his own name and the first release for Swing 3PO.  


  • David Miles Keenan and Nova Karina Devonie have been playing music in bands together since 1991. “Miles & Karina” came to life in 1996 as a creative exploration of their own compositions and select covers ranging from early twentieth century French Musettes, Big Band and Western Swing up to Bossa Nova grooves from the 1960’s - and much in between…

  • Experience the richly textured song palate of sunny blue trio, a combo of intimate singer-songwriter-Americana to bluesy-grass with tasty vocal harmonies.

    jean mann: this award-winning singer-songwriter plays guitar, ukulele and harmonica

    Off stage, she teaches ukulele and leads multi-arts mini retreats. 

    Michael Bauer: an eclectic percussionist who creates a full sound with cajon, brushes, hi-hat. 

    Michael has accompanied jean in PNW gigs since 2013.

    Greg Ensminger: a lifelong violinist, began writing songs 5 years ago and joined songwriter groups and music festivals. 

    He helps host Mosaic MI open mic, where he and jean met in 2025.


  • Seattle based Swing 3PO delivers fun and exciting Traditional Jazz and Swing with their debut release 'Doin' the New Lowdown'.  Lead by Kevin Connor (guitar, banjo, vocals), the group includes archtop guitar, drums, acoustic bass and trombone.  With playful vocals, swingin' solos and fun arrangements Swing 3PO brings joy to any occasion.  The group is dynamic and versatile, equally at home playing a child's party as a large Lindy Hop dance event.  'Doin' the New Lowdown' includes 6 of Connor's compositions and 6 standards from the late 20's and 30's including one musette waltz. All of the songs are at tempos suitable for Swing dancing.  The original songs include vocals and cover topics such as; shapes, ice cream headaches, the weather, and the Reuben sandwich.  This is a CD that will appeal to toddlers, Swing dancers and Jazz aficionados.  The arrangements are fresh and exciting with  influences from Django Reinhardt, Oscar Aleman, and Slim and Slam among others.   Connor plays archtop guitar and switches to banjo for 'Big Butter and Egg Man'.  David Loomis is featured throughout on the trombone   Drum duties are shared by JoJo Mascorella and Mike Daugherty with each contributing one lead vocal.  The bass chair is shared by Lamar Lofton and Taylor Kent.   Kevin Connor has been a key part of Seattle's thriving Gypsy Jazz and acoustic music scene over the last decade.  He performs and records with Hot Club Sandwich and the SuperSones and leads Swing 3PO.  'Doin the New Lowdown' is the 2nd release under his own name and the first release for Swing 3PO.  

  • The Go Janes write songs that explore the current and long-view of life, with deep appreciation for creative invention in many forms. They feature 3-part harmony vocals on all-original songs, with a delicate approach to arranging for voices, ukes and guitar.

    The trio is composed of three veteran Seattle musicians with long histories of performance and recordings: Patrice O’Neill, Kathleen Tracy and Arni Adler. 

    Patrice (baritone/tenor ukes, vocals) sings with Uncle Bonsai and has recorded solo albums as well as two lullaby recordings with classical guitarist Hilary Field. She is also the longtime artistic director of Wintergrass.

    Kathleen (guitar, uke, vocals) has recorded several solo albums and is the longtime director of Columbia City community choirs. She has also written music for plays, including the recent Flying Blind, which examines life for those living with limited or no sight. 

    Arni (concert uke, melodica, vocals) co-founded Uncle Bonsai in 1981, and retired from that trio in 2024. She is also a painter showing at various venues in Seattle. Arni has taught intuitive painting at the Seattle Artists League and multi-media arts at the Seattle Playgarden.

Kid Zone Stage Performance Schedule

  • Since 2011, Stephani* has taught 100's of humans to build puppets.

    Half Pint Puppets has been successfully luring people, young and old, away from computer screens to draw, build, perform with their hands...puppetry.

    Before Half Pint Puppets was born, Stephani designed and built big, furry costumes for Children's Educational Theater in Salem, Oregon.  While attending a workshop at The 2nd City in Chicago (name dropping), she attended an improvised puppet show, and was hooked. Puppets are like a costume for your hand!  Stephani taught puppet building, along with costuming, at the Children's Educational Theater  until  moving to Seattle with the quest of putting a puppet on every hand in the city!   

    Now it's your turn to make a puppet!