Outdoor season is fully open. The wineries have bands, the parks have symphonies in vans, and the longest evening of the year gets soundtracked twice. Here's the next two weeks, sorted.
The big civic moments
Spokane Pride Parade and Rainbow Festival takes downtown on Saturday June 13, free. The following Friday brings a free Juneteenth Park Celebration at the North Bank Shelter. And on Saturday the 20th — solstice eve, near enough — two free Summer Solstice Sunset Concerts fire up within five minutes of each other: Balfour Park at 8:15, Mirabeau Meadows at 8:20. Pick by which side of the Valley you live on.
Arbor Crest is the dependable one
The Arbor Crest Wine Cellars summer series now runs twice a week: James Berkely on the 11th, the Atomic Jive Band on the 14th, Pamela Benton on the 18th, Nu Jack City on the 21st, Prairie Fire on the 25th. The outlier is Wednesday the 17th, when the Spokane Symphony itself plays the winery. Related and delightful: the symphony's BeethoVAN van spends the back half of the month popping up in parks — Balfour on the 20th, a kids' storytime concert at Mirabeau Point on the 23rd, Terrace View the same day.
Club season doesn't slow down
The District Bar has the rock end covered — Supersuckers on the 11th, Mike Love on the 13th, a Jamaican party night on the 19th. The Knitting Factory counters with Shordie Shordie on the 11th, Emo Nite on the 13th, Metal Mayhem on the 19th, and The Crane Wives on the 23rd. Alela Diane plays The Chameleon on the 17th, and The Dead South headline Spokane Live on the 14th.
Stages and galleries
Spokane Youth Ballet dances The Little Prince at the Fox on Saturday the 13th, the Civic Theatre runs The Hunchback of Notre Dame on the 14th and its Playwrights' Forum Festival on the 18th. The 33 Artists Market sets up in Manito Park on the 13th, free, and Terrain's Bazaar — the art-market institution — takes River Park Square on Saturday the 20th.
Across the border
Coeur d'Alene holds up its end: the 2nd Friday ArtWalk downtown on the 12th, the CDA Flea on Sunday the 14th, and the Appalachian Road Show at the Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center in Post Falls on the 18th. Further east, the free Kellogg Summer Concerts run Fridays, and tiny Harrison does free Saturday shows on the lake — Gil Rivas on the 13th, Steel Reserve on the 20th. The drive home along the water is part of the program.