Olalla Americana Music Festival

Help celebrate our festival's 30th year! Bring your family, friends and acquaintances to spend the day away from the city. This is Kitsap's classic summer getaway.
The idyllic and rural community of Olalla [“oh-law-lah”] is located just a stones-throw away from Gig Harbor, Port Orchard, and within an easy 20 minute drive across the Narrows Bridge from Tacoma. We feature 8 regional bands with folk, rock, bluegrass, country, americana, and blues roots.

Though the music is the “draw”; we create an extraordinary festival due to the extras that make this festival truly special including 45 artisan vendors and country food booths, pie contest, children’ activities, historical booth and demonstrations like quilters, spinners, and woodcrafters. This year, we auction a gorgeous locally made quilt and sponsor a crafty Beer and Wine Garden for the adults!
On festival day, our guests begin to arrive around 10:30 am and continue to stroll-in till the last band closing set at dusk. By 11am, the bands begin to play! Folks settle into their low back chairs or walk around to experience the vendor tents set-up all around the field.

Our annual pie contest, with entries from local pie bakers, begins around noon.  Entries are presented in the morning, judges are hand-selected from the crowd, and each entry is carefully judged for quality and presentation. The winning pie is then auctioned off to the highest bidder in the afternoon. The vendors booths create a wonderful way to walk around and enjoy food, art and crafts of all sorts. The bands play on till dusk!