21st annual Street Music Week
The 21st annual Street Music Week started Monday as more than a dozen performers lined the sidewalks of Main Street in Downtown Spokane, the Garland District and Coeur d'Alene.
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Dalyn Harper and Max Malone of the band “Diary” perform on Main Street during the last day Street Music Week, The 21st annual event raised money for Second Harvest Inland Northwest food bank. For the noon hour, Harper and Malone performed an eclectic mix of country rock, top 10 with some Bee Gees and Tina Turner added to the mix.
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Street Music Week founder Doug Clark, right, plays with musician Joe Brasch on Friday on Main Street. Both are members of the band Trailer Park Girls. The 21st annual music event, which ended Friday, raised money for Second Harvest food bank.
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Doug Thorsvik, wearing hat, strums a cigar box guitar with his group the Cigar Box Guitar Slingers on Garland Avenue, Wednesday, June 14, 2023, at Street music week, the annual food bank fundraiser. The simple instruments only feature two or three strings. Amateur musicians volunteer their talents and collect donations for Second Harvest during lunch hours through the week.
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Henry Toungate, 9, sings and plays Wednesday in the shadow of the Ferguson’s Cafe on Garland Avenue, the third day of the Street Music Week fundraiser, where amateur musicians play during the lunch hour and collect donations for Second Harvest food bank. Toungate has performed at the annual fundraiser for several years.
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Sisters Ivy Eyer, 12, left, and Neilia Eyer, 14, play and sing harmony while their father Cary Eyer, right, watches at Street Music, the annual rally of musicians who spread out through the lunch hour each day this week and raise money for Second Harvest food bank, shown Monday, June 12, 2023, on Main Avenue in downtown Spokane. The two have been performing at the annual gathering for almost 10 years and their father, Cary Eyer has stepped in to help organize the event after the passing of organizer Jim Lyons.
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Musician Jen Edgren plays solo along Main Avenue, Monday, June 12, 2023, as part of Street Music, an annual fundraiser for Second Harvest food bank. Amateur musicians gather contributions while playing at the lunch hour through the week in downtown Spokane.
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Sisters Ivy Eyer, 12, left, and Neilia Eyer, 14, play and sing harmony at Street Music, the annual rally of musicians who spread out through the lunch hour each day this week and raise money for Second Harvest food bank, shown Monday, June 12, 2023, on Main Avenue in downtown Spokane. The two have been performing at the annual gathering for almost 10 years and their father, Cary Eyer has stepped in to help organize the event after the passing of organizer Jim Lyons.
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Avid musician Alex Mabe plays jazz on the alto saxophone at Street Music, the annual rally of musicians who spread out through the downtown area at the lunch hour each day this week and raise money for Second Harvest food bank, shown Monday, June 12, 2023, on Main Avenue in downtown Spokane.
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Guitarists Jimmy Shore, left, and Marlon Laffoon, right, play songs and remember their bandmate, Jim Lyons, shown in a photo, who was an organizer for the annual street music festival each spring in downtown Spokane, but who died unexpectedly in the past year. "He was my best friend," said Shore. The photo and flowers sat on the sidewalk on Main Avenue next to Lyons' microphone stand adorned with scarves. Lyons, Shore and others often performed as the band "Joy Junkies."
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Wendy Bauer plays an old banjo and plays Woody Guthrie's "Roll On, Columbia" by herself on Garland Avenue, Wednesday, June 14, 2023, the third day of Street Music Week in Spokane, where amateur musicians volunteer their time and talents to gather donations for Second Harvest food bank. Musicians generally gather in downtown Spokane, the Garland district and Coeur d'Alene for the annual fundraiser.
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Musician Mark Majeski plays a celtic folk harp on the sidewalk of Garland Avenue as part of Street Music Week, an annual fundraiser for Second Harvest food bank, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Amateur musicians donate their time and talents to gather donations for the food bank by performing each lunch hour through the week.
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Doug Thorsvik fingers a simple chord on a cigar box guitar with his group the Cigar Box Guitar Slingers on Garland Avenue, Wednesday, June 14, 2023, at Street music week, the annual food bank fundraiser. The simple instruments only feature two or three strings. Amateur musicians volunteer their talents and collect donations for Second Harvest during lunch hours through the week.
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Vietnam veteran Phillip Mulligan picks out tunes on a melodica while participating in Street Music Week, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. The annual event brings amateur musicians out to gather donations for Second Harvest food bank.
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Walter Gilbert, right, and Larry Tichey, left, play music in front of theBrown Derby tavern, Wednesday, June 14, 2023, which was midweek for the annual fundraiser where amateur musicians volunteer their time and talents to gather money for Second Harvest food bank.
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