Pierce County Events Calendar

Pierce County Events Calendar

This calendar is the place to find fun events happening throughout Pierce County, including Tacoma, Puyallup, Lakewood and beyond.

Have an event that isn’t listed? Please email events@SouthSoundTalk.com with the following information:

  • Name of Event
  • Date, time and location (name of business if applicable and complete address)
  • Organizer(s) name
  • Cost
  • URL to purchase tickets
  • Website URL
  • SHORT description of the event
  • Photo

Our editors will review and post within a few business days.

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Jan
3
Tue
Hey Singers! 
Tickets
Jan 3 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Hey Singers! 

Hey, Singers, be our guest to explore Tacoma’s largest a capella chorus in the barbershop style at 7 pm, every Tuesday. Join us at 602 N. Orchard. tacomavocalstandard@gmail.com or Facebook: TacomaVocalStandard

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts
Jan
10
Tue
Hey Singers! 
Tickets
Jan 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Hey Singers! 

Hey, Singers, be our guest to explore Tacoma’s largest a capella chorus in the barbershop style at 7 pm, every Tuesday. Join us at 602 N. Orchard. tacomavocalstandard@gmail.com or Facebook: TacomaVocalStandard

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts
Jan
13
Fri
The Simon & Garfunkel Story @ Pantages Theater
Tickets
Jan 13 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

This immersive concert-style theater show chronicles the amazing journey shared by the folk-rock duo, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. Using huge projection photos and original film footage, a full live band will perform all the hits including ‘Mrs. Robinson’, ‘Cecilia’, ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, ‘Homeward Bound’ and many more.

It tells the story from their humble beginnings as Tom & Jerry to their incredible success as one of the best-selling music groups of the ‘60’s to their dramatic split in 1970. It culminates with the famous “The Concert in Central Park” reunion in 1981 with more than half a million fans in attendance.

With more than 100 million album sales since 1965, Simon & Garfunkel’s perfect harmonies and songs that poignantly captured the times made them one of the most successful folk-rock duos of all time. Over the years, they 10 Grammy Awards and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. In 1977, their “Bridge Over Troubled Water” album was nominated at the Brit Awards for Best International Album. In 2003, Simon and Garfunkel were awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the following year saw their “The Sound of Silence” awarded a Grammy Hall of Fame Award.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts Tags: #Darlingside #downtowntacoma #gramnash #Lovett #nash #simonandgarfunkel #tacoma #tacomartslive concert cover band Lyle Lovett
Jan
16
Mon
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Commemoration @ Washington State History Museum
Tickets
Jan 16 @ 11:00 am

Monday, January 16, Performances at 11:00 AM, 1:00 PM, and 3:00 PM
FREE –open with free admission from 10 AM-5 PM for MLK Day

Theater performances at the Washington State History Museum will bring to life Dr. King’s legacy. At 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM, Tacoma Arts Live presents 11 Days in the Life of Dr. King featuring spoken word, dance, music, shadow play, and historic images. At 3:00 PM, Living Voices presents The Right to Dream: Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, a story told through the eyes of a young African American activist in the 1960s.

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Categories: Family Events Seasonal and Holiday Events Theater Performances
Jan
17
Tue
Hey Singers! 
Tickets
Jan 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Hey Singers! 

Hey, Singers, be our guest to explore Tacoma’s largest a capella chorus in the barbershop style at 7 pm, every Tuesday. Join us at 602 N. Orchard. tacomavocalstandard@gmail.com or Facebook: TacomaVocalStandard

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts
Jan
19
Thu
Scholarly Selections; Keeping the Lights On – Seattle’s Underground Hip Hop Movement @ Washington State History Museum
Tickets
Jan 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

FREE – the Washington State History Musuem has free admission from 3-8 PM on Third Thursdays
Seattle had a vibrant underground hip hop movement in the 1980s and 1990s, but not until the mid-2000s would it fully capture the attention of mainstream culture. Join UWT student Alex Zerbe to examine the twenty-year gap between Seattle’s two nationally recognized hip hop stars, Sir Mix-A-Lot (Anthony Ray) and Macklemore (Ben Haggerty). Learn how Seattle’s second generation of savvy and disciplined hip hop artists in the early 1990s laid the groundwork for the third generation today.

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Categories: Author Talk
Jan
20
Fri
PO BOY TANGO @ Tacoma Little Theatre
Tickets
Jan 20 @ 7:30 pm

A celebration of the human spirit and the joy of cooking.

Po Boy Tango tells the story of Richie Po, a Taiwanese immigrant who turns to his estranged friend Gloria, an African-American Soul Food Chef, to help him recreate his mother’s ‘Great Banquet’. Despite the challenges of shark fin soup, duck po boy sandwiches, and underlying cultural tensions, they find common ground through their shared humor and the blending of traditional Chinese cuisine and African-American soul food. Helped by lessons from Po Mama’s television cooking show, the two discover a deeper understanding of food, culture, and the nature of friendship.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Theater Performances Tags: tacoma little theatre Theater theatre theatre arts
Jan
21
Sat
J-Fell and McMenamins presents: Big Me [Foo Fighters Tribute] + 21 Guns [Green Day Tribute], All Ages @ McMenamins Spanish Ballroom @ Elks Temple
Tickets
Jan 21 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Big Me – Seattle’s Tribute to Foo Fighters covers the entirety of the Foos 25-year/20 Million album sales/GRAMMY-winning/Rock Hall of Fame catalog. If you’re a fan of the Foo, this ultimate tribute band is a must-see show!

21 Guns – Green Day tribute breaks out the guyliner, chuck t’s and black on black wardrobe to bring all the antics, attitude, two decades of 2nd generation punk rock to life. From “Kerplunk” to ‘Revolution Radio’, 21 Guns brings the PNW’s premier Green Day experience to a city near you.

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Categories: Music Concerts
PO BOY TANGO @ Tacoma Little Theatre
Tickets
Jan 21 @ 7:30 pm

A celebration of the human spirit and the joy of cooking.

Po Boy Tango tells the story of Richie Po, a Taiwanese immigrant who turns to his estranged friend Gloria, an African-American Soul Food Chef, to help him recreate his mother’s ‘Great Banquet’. Despite the challenges of shark fin soup, duck po boy sandwiches, and underlying cultural tensions, they find common ground through their shared humor and the blending of traditional Chinese cuisine and African-American soul food. Helped by lessons from Po Mama’s television cooking show, the two discover a deeper understanding of food, culture, and the nature of friendship.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Theater Performances Tags: tacoma little theatre Theater theatre theatre arts
Jan
22
Sun
PO BOY TANGO @ Tacoma Little Theatre
Tickets
Jan 22 @ 2:00 pm

A celebration of the human spirit and the joy of cooking.

Po Boy Tango tells the story of Richie Po, a Taiwanese immigrant who turns to his estranged friend Gloria, an African-American Soul Food Chef, to help him recreate his mother’s ‘Great Banquet’. Despite the challenges of shark fin soup, duck po boy sandwiches, and underlying cultural tensions, they find common ground through their shared humor and the blending of traditional Chinese cuisine and African-American soul food. Helped by lessons from Po Mama’s television cooking show, the two discover a deeper understanding of food, culture, and the nature of friendship.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Theater Performances Tags: tacoma little theatre Theater theatre theatre arts
January 2023 Jan 2023