The Week Ahead
July 6, 2026
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Summer on Bainbridge Island has a way of expanding the definition of community. The season is not only marked by longer days and warmer evenings, but by the return of public gatherings that invite residents and visitors to step outside their regular routines and participate in something shared. Across parks, school campuses, and performance spaces, the island becomes a setting for music, service, creativity, and connection. This summer, three events in particular offer a meaningful look at the range of experiences that make Bainbridge Island’s cultural life so distinctive: Terry’s Sounds of Summer Concert Series, the Rotary Auction & Rummage Sale, and All of Us, Quietly at Bainbridge Performing Arts.
Together, these events reflect different dimensions of island life. One brings people together outdoors for live music and an easygoing evening at Battle Point Park. Another mobilizes thousands of volunteers around one of the region’s most ambitious annual fundraising efforts. The third invites audiences into the intimate process of new theatrical work, offering a glimpse of a musical still in development. Each event is different in tone and purpose, yet all three are rooted in the same idea: community is strengthened when people gather with intention.
Terry’s Sounds of Summer Concert Series represents the familiar pleasure of a free outdoor concert, where music becomes a reason to gather across generations. With Backstreet Jellyroll performing the music of Van Morrison, the event combines professional musicianship with the relaxed atmosphere of a summer evening in the park. Food vendors, community booths, and a pre-concert Qigong demo add to the sense that the evening is not simply about entertainment, but about creating a welcoming public space.
The Rotary Auction & Rummage Sale shows a different kind of community energy. Now in its 66th year, the event is remarkable not only for its scale, but for the volunteer effort behind it. More than 2,400 people help transform Woodward Middle School into a temporary marketplace, organizing donations into more than 30 sale departments. What might appear at first to be a large rummage sale is, in practice, a major civic undertaking that supports Rotary projects, grants, and scholarships locally and internationally.
At Bainbridge Performing Arts, All of Us, Quietly offers a more contemplative experience. Written by Rachel Noll James and presented as part of BPA’s Studio Series in partnership with bitLAB, the staged reading explores the private struggles people carry beneath their outward lives. As a work-in-progress, it gives audiences the opportunity to engage with new art as it evolves, making the act of attendance part of the creative process.
Taken together, these three events reveal the breadth of Bainbridge Island’s summer calendar. They offer music, philanthropy, theater, food, volunteerism, and reflection. More importantly, they remind us that community is built in many ways: through celebration, through service, and through the shared willingness to listen closely to one another.
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Terry's Sounds of Summer - Backstreet Jellyroll
Bainbridge Island’s summer calendar is often defined by the kinds of gatherings that bring neighbors outdoors, invite families to linger in the evening light, and turn public parks into shared cultural spaces. Terry’s Sounds of Summer Concert Series is one of those traditions. Held on Wednesdays in July and August from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Battle Point Park, the free concert series offers residents and visitors an accessible way to enjoy live music in one of the island’s most welcoming outdoor settings.
One of this season’s featured performances is Backstreet Jellyroll, an 11-piece band dedicated to celebrating the music of Van Morrison. Morrison’s catalog spans more than five decades and includes some of the most enduring songs of the rock era, known for blending rhythm and blues, jazz, folk, soul, and Celtic influences. Backstreet Jellyroll approaches that body of work with the scale and nuance it deserves. With a large ensemble of professional working musicians, the band is able to capture both the intimacy and force of Morrison’s music, moving easily from quiet, reflective passages to full-bodied, energetic arrangements.
For longtime attendees of Sounds of Summer, Backstreet Jellyroll is a familiar favorite. Their return reflects the series’ broader appeal: high-quality performances presented in a relaxed, community-centered environment. The concert is not simply a musical event, but an evening designed to encourage people to gather, eat, move, learn, and connect.
Those who arrive early can take part in a free 30-minute Qigong program demo led by Park District Fitness Instructor Anna. The “Move & Groove” activity begins at 5:45 p.m. in front of the stage and offers a gentle, accessible way to ease into the evening before the music begins. Qigong, with its emphasis on breath, balance, and intentional movement, provides a fitting prelude to an outdoor concert experience.
Community organizations will also be present, including KiDiMu and Bainbridge Community Foundation, giving attendees an opportunity to learn more about local resources and civic life. A wide range of food vendors will round out the evening, with options from Island Cool, Aunty Dolly’s, Da Q Shack, Green Pot Deli, Sauced, Sourdough Social Club, Bluetree Cotton Candy, and Figlia Baking Co.
With free admission, live music, community booths, local food, and a family-friendly park setting, Terry’s Sounds of Summer continues to represent what summer on Bainbridge Island does especially well: making culture feel open, local, and shared.
Cost, tickets and logistics:
Wednesday, July 8, 6:30p–8:30p
Battle Point Park, 11299 Arrow Point Dr NE, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
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Rotary Auction & Rummage Sale Day
Few Bainbridge Island events demonstrate the scale of local cooperation quite like the Rotary Auction & Rummage Sale. Now entering its 66th year, this annual fundraiser is part community marketplace, part logistical achievement, and part civic tradition. Organized by the Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island and powered by more than 2,400 volunteers, the event transforms donated household goods into funding for projects, grants, and scholarships that benefit both local and international communities.
The 2026 schedule begins with donation drop-offs from July 5 through July 8, each day from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. During this period, community members are invited to bring items through the event’s drive-through donation system. What follows is an intensive process of sorting, cleaning, testing, pricing, and displaying thousands of donated goods. By the time the doors open to shoppers, Woodward Middle School has been converted into a sprawling temporary marketplace.
The sale itself occupies nearly every available part of the school campus. More than 30 departments are arranged in classrooms, under tents, across parking areas, and on the athletic field. This scale is one of the event’s defining characteristics. Rather than a typical rummage sale, the Rotary Auction functions more like a carefully organized, short-term department store, with categories designed to help shoppers navigate the wide variety of donated items.
A Preview Night will be held on July 10 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., giving attendees an early opportunity to see what will be available before the main sale. Sale Day follows on July 11 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., when the full community turnout is expected.
The event’s importance extends beyond bargain hunting. At its core, the Rotary Auction & Rummage Sale is a circular community effort: island residents donate items they no longer need; volunteers contribute time, expertise, and labor; shoppers give those items a second life; and the proceeds are returned through Rotary-supported initiatives. That cycle gives the sale a broader significance than its one-day format might suggest.
For Bainbridge Island, the auction is both practical and symbolic. It reduces waste, encourages reuse, supports philanthropy, and brings together thousands of people around a shared purpose. After 66 years, its continued success reflects not only strong organization, but a community willing to show up for something larger than itself.
Cost, ticket, and logistics:
Saturday, July 11, 8:00 to 2:00
Woodward Middle School, 9125 Sportsman Club Road, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
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All of us, Quietly
From July 10 through 12, 2026, with a preview performance on July 9, Bainbridge Performing Arts will invite audiences into the early life of a new musical with All of Us, Quietly, a staged reading written by Rachel Noll James. Presented as part of BPA’s Studio Series and produced in partnership with bitLAB, the work offers more than a conventional night at the theater. It gives audiences the rare opportunity to encounter a musical while it is still taking shape.
All of Us, Quietly is described as an intimate, ensemble-driven piece centered on the private struggles people carry beneath the selves they present to the world. Through the interwoven stories of four characters, the musical examines the gap between outward composure and inner unrest. Its central question—what lives beneath the version of ourselves we show the world?—places the work firmly in conversation with contemporary concerns about identity, isolation, performance, and emotional survival.
The format of a staged reading is especially well suited to this kind of material. Without the full visual architecture of a finished production, attention turns toward the essentials: the writing, the music, the characters, and the emotional architecture of the story. For audiences, that can create a particularly direct theatrical experience. Rather than observing a completed work from a distance, attendees become part of the developmental process, listening for what resonates and witnessing how a new piece begins to find its voice.
The musical arrives at a moment when many people are negotiating public lives that can feel increasingly curated, fragmented, or strained. Against that backdrop, All of Us, Quietly suggests that the most consequential human experiences often happen privately: in the moments not posted, performed, or easily explained. Its focus on four characters allows the piece to explore interior life not as an isolated condition, but as something shared across different lives.
The production’s partnership with bitLAB further emphasizes experimentation and artistic development. As a work-in-progress within BPA’s Studio Series, All of Us, Quietly invites curiosity rather than passive consumption. It asks audiences to engage with new theater as a living process, one shaped by risk, revision, and discovery.
For those interested in original musical theater, local arts, or stories that examine the emotional complexity of everyday life, All of Us, Quietly offers a thoughtful and timely addition to Bainbridge Island’s summer cultural calendar.
Cost, tickets and logistics:
July 10 - 12, 7:30pm
Bainbridge Performing Arts, 200 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
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