Bainbridge Record Show @ Bainbridge Island

📆 Saturday, September 14th, 2024
🕓 9 am – 5 pm
🎟 Tickets start at $5
📍 760 Winslow Way East, Bainbridge Island

If you missed Record Store Day earlier this year or are simply craving a more local outing, Bainbridge Island has you covered.

Big Dawg Records on the quaint island has organized its first annual Bainbridge Record Show, hoping to bring out vinyl lovers from across the region. The show follows a wave of record stores that opened up in Kitsap County during the pandemic: Bigfoot’s House of Vinyl in Bremerton, C-Side Records in Port Orchard, and Rockin’ Ruby’s Records in Poulsbo. Matthew Coates—who opened Big Dawg in late 2023 as a rare record store with pinball machines—hopes to make Bainbridge a hotbed of vinyl activity. 

“We’re already a destination for other creative endeavors, like the art museum, and we got the troll, and we got all this other stuff,” Coates told the Kitsap Sun. “So it’s like, why not music in the sense of vinyl records?”

So true, Matthew. The Bainbridge Record show will have 25 (yet to be announced) vendors selling vinyl, cassette tapes, and music memorabilia in genres from jazz to metal to soul. Located just a two-minute walk from the Bainbridge Island ferry terminal, physical media heads can also expect live DJ sets, food, bevvies, tote bags, and tee shirts. 

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