Festivals
Hops & Crops Music and Beer Festival
Saturday, September 12, 2026 @ 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM / Mary Olson Farm, 28728 Green River Road, Kent, WA
Yabadaba doooo!!! Yeah, maybe that’s a lil old school, but we’re super duper looking forward to playing Hops & Crops Festival 2026! Not yet sure where in the line up we’ll be playing, but we’ll let ya know as soon as we find out what time we go on. This will be a fun day in the PNW sun! See you in Kent!
https://www.wrvmuseum.org/hopsandcrops
Wooden Boat Festival
Friday, September 11, 2026 @ 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM / Wooden Boat Festival, 431 Water Street, Port Townsend, WA
We can’t think of too many better ways to spend a September evening than playing a set in Port Townsend at the Wooden Boat Festival!
This festival is a full sensory experience in the best possible way: hand built boats rocking in the harbor, artists and makers everywhere, conversations spilling through the waterfront streets, sea air, color, motion, laughter and music!
Our Friday evening mainstage set will feature new and old Elevator Operator favorites carried by driving grooves, glowing synth textures, hypnotic guitar lines, and melodies designed to get the waterfront dancing! Looking forward to seeing you and the good old Pacific Northwest magic!
Friday, September 11
5 PM Mainstage
Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival ⚓🌊⚡🎹🎵🎸🥁🌞
https://woodenboat.org/
Peace Valley Barefoot Festival
Saturday, August 8, 2026 @ 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM / Peace Valley Barefoot Festival, 2620 W Little Egypt Road, Shelton, WA
Peace Valley is more than a music festival. It’s a gathering rooted in community, creativity, sustainability, and connection , all dedicated to supporting and educating those affected by Traumatic Brain Injury. We deeply support that mission and are honored to be invited back!! We’ll be playing a 90-ish minute set from the main stage on Saturday night. Time TBD.
https://www.peacevalleybarefootfestival.com/
Carbondale Mountain Fair
Sunday, July 26, 2026 @ 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM / Sopris Park, Snowmass Drive & 2nd Street, Carbondale, CO
Yay!!! We are SO excited to be part of the Carbondale Mountain Fair this year!
For over 50 years, Mountain Fair has been a joyful celebration of art, music, community, and creative expression, all rooted in connection, sustainability, and showing up fully as yourself. We absolutely love what this festival stands for and feel incredibly grateful to be invited into such a vibrant, free, authentic and heart-filled space.
We’ll be bringing an uplifting, high-vibe set of original Elevator Operator songs, shimmering with synth textures, pulsing rhythms, and melodies that pull you in and lift you up. It’s music to move our bodies, crack our hearts open, put smiles on our faces, and remind all of us how good it feels to be alive together in the moment.
See you in July, Carbondale!!! 🌞⚡🎹🎵🎸🥁🌈
https://www.carbondalearts.com/mountain-fair/#about-the-fair
Boise Hempfest
Saturday, April 18, 2026 @ 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM / Julia Davis Park, 700 S Capitol Blvd, Boise, ID
We’re bouncing with excitement to be part of Boise Hempfest this April!
Boise Hempfest is more than an amazing two days of live music! It’s a gathering of community, music, advocacy, and positive energy, bringing people together to support education, awareness, and the benefits of hemp and cannabis. Events like this create a vibrant space for connection and creativity, and we’re super excited to add our music to the mix.
We’ll be bringing a set full of vibrant synth textures, melodic guitar lines, uplifting grooves, and songs built to get bodies moving and spirits lifted. Expect big hooks, dancing, smiling faces, and that magical feeling that happens when music uplifts thousands at the same time!
Huge gratitude to the Boise Hempfest organizers for inviting us to be part of their annual celebration.
Looking forward to sharing the weekend with you!
Oh and looks like we hit the main stage on Saturday at 3PM. It’s a short set, but better some than none!
🌿 Music to Save the Forest
Sunday, June 8, 2025 @ 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM / Fern Gully Forest School, 1443 Brown St SE, Olympia, WA
We’re honored to return to the forest with the Community Nature Foundation for an afternoon of live music and environmental action. Music to Save the Forest is more than just a concert—it’s a call to protect Olympia’s last remaining urban wildlands.
The Community Nature Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and restoring ecosystems, providing outdoor education, and helping communities—especially youth—build resilience through connection with nature. This all-ages event supports their efforts to conserve vulnerable urban forests, foster environmental stewardship, and create inclusive green spaces for future generations.
Come celebrate, connect, and contribute to the cause. We’ll be playing from 2 to 5 PM, surrounded by trees, community, and purpose.
Learn more at communitynature.org
Hops & Crops Music and Beer Festival
Saturday, September 14, 2024 @ 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM / Mary Olson Farm, 28728 Green River Road, Kent, WA
Yabadaba doooo!!! Yeah, maybe that’s a lil old school, but we’re super duper looking forward to playing Hops & Crops Festival 2024! Not sure where in the line up we’ll be playing, but we’ll let ya know as soon as we find out what time we go on. This will be a fun day in the PNW sun! See you there!
https://www.wrvmuseum.org/hopsandcrops
Shady Grove Music Camp Festival!
Saturday, July 20, 2024 @ 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM / Shady Grove Music Camp Festival, FMC Park, Pocatello, Idaho
Yes the Elevators are hitting the road and pulling our trailer full of magical musical toys all the way to Pocatello, ID for the best outdoor camping fests in these here parts! 🙂 We’ll be playing a full set of all original Elevator Operator songs and adding to the beautiful, celebratory vibe of this amazing festival! The festival July 19th and 20th. We’ll be playing on Sat eve, time TBD. For tiks and more info, check the link below!
CRAVE Northwest Festival - Spokane Valley
Saturday, July 13, 2024 @ 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM / Crave Northwest Festival – Spokane Valley, CenterPlace Regional Event Center 2426 N Discovery Place, Spokane Valley, WA
Crave Northwest Festival is the place to be for live music, mind blowing food and the yummiest PNW beers, ciders and wines! Crave is the Inland Northwest’s premier food and drink celebration will be held July 11-13, 2024 at Spokane Valley CenterPlace. This year’s three day festival is chef-focused, showcasing the creative talents of visionary chefs and tastemakers from around the region while highlighting the flavors of the great Northwest. Party with the chefs and celebrate all that’s fun during Crave! NW week with live music, casual eats and a non-hosted bar. Time to let loose, and have fun with the entire group that makes the culinary scene happen during the week of Crave! NW. Afterparty event 21+
Elevator Operator will be perfroming two 90-minute sets at 5pm to 6:30 and 7:30 to 9pm.
TIX ON SALE NOW: https://cravenw.com/event/
FREMONT FAIR
Sunday, June 23, 2024 @ 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM / Fremont Fair Festival, Fremont Ave N on N 35th St. and N 34th St, Fremont, WA
Let’s kick off summer together with a bang at the Fremont Fair! The FF is taking over 6 city blocks of Fremont during the solstice weekend! There will be two stages of live music, over 300 craft vendors, beer gardens, art cars, one-of-a-kind parades and lots of yummy fair food!
ElEVATOR OPERATOR will be playing the FREMONT FAIR on Sunday June 23rd @ 1:00 PM
The Fremont Fair is found in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. Activities primarily take place west of Fremont Ave N on N 35th St. and N 34th St.
CRAVE Northwest Festival – Lynnwood
Saturday, May 11, 2024 @ 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM / CRAVE Northwest Festival – Lynnwood, 3711 196th St SW,, Lynnwood, WA
We’re super duper excited to be playing a 2-hour set at Crave Festival Northewest on Friday night, June 21st! Crave is the Northwest’s premier food & wine festival! It’s the place to be for live music, mind blowing food and the yummiest PNW beers, ciders and wines!
Set time TBD. We’ll keep you updated!
https://cravenw.com/event-lynnwood/
Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival
Saturday, October 7, 2023 @ 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM / The Port Angeles Waterfront at the City Pier, Red Lion Hotel Port Angeles Harbor parking lot and Gateway Plaza, 221 N. Lincoln St., Port Angeles, WA
The Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival is the annual celebration of the region’s diverse bounty – the seafood, the maritime and cultural traditions and the coastal environment. From the Native American heritage to delicious Olympic Coast Cuisine, the annual CrabFest works to bring together our diverse communities and celebrate all of our traditions. Enjoy the crab, festivities and LIVE MUSIC! Hope to see ya there!
Click here for more details!
3rd Annual Black Lake Mini Festival – Elevator Operator, Groove Lab & Silver Saturn AND Special Guest, Comedian Sam Miller!
Saturday, September 16, 2023 @ 12:00 PM - 7:30 PM / Exact location disclosed to ticket holders, Black Lake, Olympia, WA
Yes! Our third annual Black Lake Mini Fest on the shore of Black Lake, Olympia with yours truly and our friends Groove Lab, Silver Saturn, comedian Sam Miller and magician Magic James! 🙂 Come enjoy the lake and play all day! 🎵❤️🎹🎸🥁🌞🌈
All proceeds will be donated directly to residents of Lahaina, Maui.
Doors open at Noon
⚡Lake time 12 Noon to 2PM, bring your beach chairs, blankets and swimsuits for the lake!
⚡Music 2 to 7:30PM
⚡Tix are $15!
⚡BYOB – Bring your own beverages, coolers are welcome.
⚡We’ll have a pop-up yummy food vendor here all day!
⚡TIX ON SALE NOW:
⚡Location and details will be sent to all ticketholders a week before the event!
Peace Valley Barefoot Festival - Mainstage!
Saturday, August 12, 2023 @ 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM / Peace Valley Barefoot Festival, 2620 W Little Egypt Road, Shelton, WA
Peace Valley Barefoot Festival: Experience Peace, Love and Live Music! A family friendly weekend of camping adventure filled with live bands and at night, lazer light, pyro shows and more! Come celebrate movement, music and healing. Produced by the Sweitzer Strong Foundation, dedicated to supporting and educating those who have been affected by Traumatic Brain Injury.
We’re so looking forward to this beautiful festival and playing main stage! Hope you’ll come out to enjoy this high vibe music festival and support this important cause!
Click here for more information on tickets!
BAM Arts Festival 2023
Friday, July 28, 2023 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM / BAM Arts Festival, 510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA
We’re thrilled to be playing this AMAZING festival in Bellevue, WA this summer! The Bellevue Arts Museum hosts the largest award-winning arts & crafts festival in the Northwest. They’re committed to handmade excellence and supporting national designers, artists, craftspeople and musicians!
Come find us! We’ll be playing on the BAMboozle stage, situated at the East entrance to the Bellevue Mall – located between the Bellevue Arts Museum (across the street) and the art vendors. Get there early, you don’t want to miss this incredible set we have for you!
Save Fern Gully Forest Spring Festival
Saturday, June 17, 2023 @ 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM / Fern Gully Forest School, 1443 Brown St SE, Olympia, WA
The Community Nature Foundation is a nonprofit based in Olympia, Washington with a mission to protect nature and have a positive, regenerative, impact on the ecosystems and the Olympia community. Come join us in their beautiful effort to save the Fern Gully Forest! We’ll be playing 8:30 to 10pm.
Click here to learn more about the Community Nature Foundation: https://www.communitynature.org/
And here’s info on the Festival: https://www.communitynature.org/event-details/save-fern-gully-forest-spring-festival
Native Plant Festival
Saturday, March 4, 2023 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM / Thurston County Fairgrounds, 3054 Carpenter Rd SE, Lacey, WA
Alright, let’s go! Playing this daytime festival at Thurston County Fairgrounds! See ya out there!
2nd Annual Black Lake Summer Show
Saturday, September 3, 2022 @ 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM / Black Lake, Olympia, WA, Black Lake, Olympia, WA
This is a private, invite-only show on the shores of Black Lake in Olympia, WA. Hit us up back-channel if you want an invite.
Harstine Hoopla Summer Festival 2022
Saturday, June 25, 2022 @ 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM / Harstine Hoopla, 1400-2498 E Harstine Island Rd N, Shelton, WA
Join Elevator Operator and and a super talented line-up of amazing PNW bands for this 3-day festival on Harstine Island!
Elevator Operator plays the main stage on Sat June 25th from 6:30 to 8pm!