TRANS
TRAD
Queer Traditional Music Festival: June 5-7, 2026 : Olympia, WA
CELEBRATING TRANS & GENDER NONCONFORMING PERFORMERS IN FOLK MUSIC
June 5-7, 2026
South Bay Grange
3918 Sleater Kinney Rd NE
Olympia, WA 98506
Genre-fluid traditional music for everyone!
TransTrad is a new festival in Olympia, WA, celebrating and elevating trans and gender nonconforming performers in traditional folk music. Fluid in genre, this festival includes old-time fiddle tunes, hard-driving bluegrass, Irish and Scottish dance music, Scandinavian tunes, and more. There will be three days and two nights of concerts, workshops, dancing, and jamming!
LINEUP
SCHEDULE
Friday
6:30 Welcome plus a few tunes (Alex and Hayden)
7:00 Natterjack
8:00 Miram Hacksaw
9:00 Tradwife
10:00 Square Dance - Tradwife and Friends
- 12-ish
Saturday
10:00 Noa
Collecting Family Songs / Oral Tradition (Miriam Hacksaw)
11:00 Kadan Spooner
Old-Time Fiddle (Sophie Wellington)
12:00 Free hour for lunch
Shanty Sing with the Ranzo Boys
1:00 Garlic Bread & Roses
Mandolin Workshop (Maddie Witler)
2:00 Nobody's Business
Flatfooting (Sophie Wellington)
3:00 Sophie Wellington
Backing Celtic tunes (Helen and Casey)
4:00 Sweeten the Third
Bluegrass Guitar (Maddie Witler)
5:00 Maddie Witler
6:00 The Ranzo Boys
7:00 Free hour for dinner
8:00 Contra Dance - Natterjack,
- 11:00 Nobody's Business w/ Ang DeCarlis calling
Sunday
10:00 Open Mic
11:00 Kyle Gaul
Rhythm Bones 101 (Miriam Hacksaw)
12:00 Free hour for lunch
1:00 Scottish Fiddle Collective
2:00 Olympia Jamgrass Collective
4:00 Teardown and Cleanup
Workshops in italics
Make a donation
To continue booking top trans talent, we need to make sure this festival can pay them what they’re worth. Your tax deductible donation helps us put on an event that is sustainable, affordable, and (most importantly) booked up with top tier trad music talent.
Frequency
One time
Monthly
Amount
$5
$25
$100
$250
$500
Other
0/100
Comment (optional)
STAY UPDATED
VOLUNTEER
Interested in volunteering at TransTrad Fest? Sign up here.
Full and partial work trade is available.
KEEP IN TOUCH
Use this form or shoot an email to transtradfest@gmail.com