CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC MARKET
2023-08-12 09:30 - 13:30, 2023-08-19 09:30 - 13:30 UTC | The Grove Plaza, 827 W. Main St, Boise, ID, 83702
Welcome to Boise’s downtown Saturday market!
The Capital City Public Market HAS been in operation since 1994 and our 29th Market Season IS NOW OPEN IN Downtown Boise!
Every Saturday, you can enjoy the sights and sounds of the public market, meet the producers themselves, and feel confident you are buying a product made in Idaho, from someone who knows the product they sell.
We are open from mid-April to mid-December, and are proud to provide natives and tourists alike the chance to eat fresh, shop small, and experience the LOCAL side of Boise, Idaho.

Boise Soul Food Festival
2023-08-12 11:00 - 20:00 | Julia Davis Park, 700 S Capitol Blvd, Boise, ID, 83702
The mission of the Boise Soul Food Festival is to educate and grow the Boise African American culture for present and future generations.
The Soul Food Festival’s purpose is to celebrate and educate the greater Treasure Valley region about Black culture in order to enhance and nurture racial understanding and harmony within the community.
Our programs include an annual Soul Food Festival that showcases African-American inspired soul food, music, dancing, Black culture and businesses. The festival may include workshops or demonstrations to educate the public about African-American history, Black Culture, traditional dances and music, hair care, and/or current social justice issues.

Boots, Buckles & Brews
2023-08-12 18:00 - 22:00 | Indian Creek Plaza, 120 S Kimball Ave, Caldwell, Idaho, 83605
Kick off Caldwell Night Rodeo Week at Indian Creek Plaza’s barn dance! Put on your boots and get ready to stomp along to the beat of country music. There will be live entertainment, drinks and of course dancing with your partner round and round. It’s going to be a great big celebration for the best rodeo in Idaho, where the cowboys are the stars!

Michael Franti & Spearhead: Big Big Love Tour 2023
2023-08-12 19:00 - 22:00 | Ford Idaho Center
All patrons are subject to bag searches, wanding, pat-downs, or a combination per show request.
Re-entry to the Ford Idaho Center is not allowed.
Please call 208-468-1000 with any further questions on event policies.
All tickets subject to ticketing an

W.A.S.P.
2023-08-12 20:00 - 23:00 | Revolution Concert House, 4983 N Glenwood St, Garden City, Idaho, 83714

Iris DeMent
2023-08-12 20:00 - 23:00 | The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, Idaho, 83702
On her transcendent new record, Workin’ On A World, Iris DeMent faces the modern world — as it is right now — with its climate catastrophe, pandemic illness, and epidemic of violence and social injustice — and not only asks us how we can keep working towards a better world, but implores us to love each other, despite our very different ways of seeing. Her songs are her way of healing our broken inner and outer spaces.
With an inimitable voice as John Prine described, “like you’ve heard, but not really,” and unforgettable melodies rooted in hymns, gospel, and old country music, she’s simply one of the finest singer-songwriters in America as well as one of our fiercest advocates for human rights. Her debut record Infamous Angel, which just celebrated its 30th anniversary, was recently named one of the “greatest country albums of all time” by Rolling Stone, and the two albums that followed, My Life and The Way I Should, were both nominated for GRAMMYs. From there, DeMent released three records on her own label, Flariella Records, the most recent of which, The Trackless Woods (2015), was hailed as “a quietly powerful triumph” by The Guardian. DeMent’s songs have also been featured in film (True Grit) and television (The Leftovers) and recorded by numerous artists. Fittingly, she received the Americana Music Trailblazer Award in 2017.
Workin’ On A World, her seventh album, started with the worry that woke DeMent up after the 2016 elections: how can we survive this? “Every day some new trauma was being added to the old ones that kept repeating themselves, and like everybody else, I was just trying to bear up under it all,” she recalls. She returned to a truth she had known since childhood: music is medicine. “My mom always had a way of finding the song that would prove equal to whatever situation we were facing. Throughout my life, songs have been lending me a hand. Writing songs, singing songs, putting them on records, has been a way for me to extend that hand to others.”
With grace, courage, and soul, Iris shares 13 anthems — love songs, really — to and for our broken inner and outer worlds. DeMent sets the stage for the album with the title track in which she moves from a sense of despair towards a place of promise. “Now I’m workin’ on a world I may never see / Joinin’ forces with the warriors of love / Who came before and will follow you and me.”
She summons various social justice warriors, both past and present, to deliver messages of optimism. “How Long” references Martin Luther King, while “Warriors of Love” includes John Lewis and Rachel Corrie. “Goin’ Down To Sing in Texas” is an ode not only to gun control, but also to the brave folks who speak out against tyranny and endure the consequences in an unjust world. “I kept hearing a lot of talk about the arc of history that Dr. King so famously said bends towards justice,” she recalls. “I was having my doubts. But, then it dawned on me, he never said the arc would magically bend itself. Songs, over the course of history, have proven to be pretty good arc benders.”
Bending inward, DeMent reaches agilely under the slippery surface of politics. She grapples with loss on the deeply honest “I Won’t Ask You Why,” while encouraging compassion over hate in the awe-inspiring “Say A Good Word.” Album closer “Waycross, Georgia,” encompasses the end of the journey, thanking those along the way. As she approaches subjects of aging, loss, suicide, and service, an arc of compassion elevated to something far beyond words is transmitted. The delicate fierceness encompassed in the riveting power of her voice has somehow only grown over time.
Stalled partway through by the pandemic, the record took six years to make with the help of three friends and co-producers: Richard Bennett, Pieta Brown, and Jim Rooney. It was Pieta Brown who gave the record its final push. “Pieta asked me what had come of the recordings I’d done with Jim and Richard in 2019 and 2020. I told her I’d pretty much given up on trying to make a record. She asked would I mind if she had a listen. So, I had everything we’d done sent over to her, and not long after that I got a text, bouncing with exclamation marks: ‘You have a record and it’s called Workin’ On A World!’” With Bennett back in the studio with them, Brown and DeMent recorded several more songs and put the final touches on the record in Nashville in April of 2022.
The result is a hopeful album — shimmering with brilliant flashes of poignant humor and uplifting tenderness — that speaks the truth, “in the way that truth is always hopeful,” she explains. Reflecting on the lyrics of the song “The Sacred Now” (“see these walls/ let’s bring ‘em on down / it’s not a dream; it’s the sacred now”), DeMent is reminded of Jesus saying the Kingdom of God is within you and the Buddhist activist monk Thich Nhat Hanh saying the rose is in the compost; the compost is in the rose. On Workin’ On A World, Iris DeMent demonstrates that songs are the healing and the healing arises through song

Young the Giant with Milky Chance
2023-08-14 19:00 - 22:00 | Ford Idaho Center
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Re-entry to the Ford Idaho Center is not allowed.
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All tickets subject to ticketing and/or handling fees
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Tuesdays on the Creek
2023-08-15 18:00 - 21:00 | Indian Creek Plaza, 120 S Kimball Ave, Caldwell, Idaho, 83605
Spend your ‘Tuesdays on the Creek’ in downtown Caldwell! This 20-week event series includes live music from local and touring artists. This event is held in conjunction with the Farm to Fork Farmers’ Market. Enjoy the music, grab a bite to eat and something to drink, then get ready to dance the night away!

Alive After 5
2023-08-16 17:00 - 20:00 | The Grove Plaza, 827 W. Main St, Boise, ID, 83702
Downtown Boise’s 36th Season
Free Summer Concert Series on The Grove Plaza

WHITE REAPER
2023-08-16 19:00 - 22:00 | Knitting Factory, 416 S 9th St, Boise, Idaho, 83702
The World’s Best American Band.
The bold statement from Louisville’s White Reaper is not only the title of their new album, but also the band’s credo.
“Because we are the best,” says guitarist/vocalist Tony Esposito. “Just like Muhammad Ali was the greatest, you gotta say it out loud for people to believe it.”
And with that mentality the band hit the studio with close friend and producer Kevin Ratterman (My Morning Jacket, Young Widows) and made a good ol’ fashioned in-your-face rock ’n’ roll record.
“We didn’t make this record or start this band because we wanted to come across in a single, certain way,” says Esposito. “We just make records that we’d want to hear. We started doing this because it’s fun as hell, just as much now as it was when we were 14.”
Boasting textured melodies, layered guitars and more seasoned lyrics, The World’s Best American Band finds the quartet busting out of the basement sound established on their previous full length (2015’s White Reaper Does It Again) and setting their sights on the arena.
Garnished with glimpses of the golden age of rock and roll, TWBAB is loaded with guitars that scream and gigantic drums in lockstep rhythm, each song packing its own massive, but none the less unique, punch. Lead single “Judy French” struts like a runway model raised on Heavy Metal Parking Lot, while midway point “The Stack” pairs a classic rock shimmy with a flair for glam.
The Kentucky boys eagerly await hitting the road in 2017. Armed with a record that celebrates rock in all of its glory, they are poised to satisfy crowds whether they are packed shoulder-to-shoulder in the “standing room only” pit or kicking back in the cheap seats.
“Come to the show, have a drink, have fun,” laughs Esposito. “But be nice to everybody, cause you’re gonna get real close.”

RUSSELL DICKERSON
2023-08-17 19:00 - 22:00 | Revolution Concert House, 4983 N Glenwood St, Garden City, Idaho, 83714

ZACH BRYAN
2023-08-17 20:00 - 23:00 | Ford Idaho Center
Zach Bryan
The Burn, Burn, Burn Tour
with special guest Charles Wesley Godwin
and Levi Turner
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Ford Idaho Center Arena

Western Idaho Fair
2023-08-18 12:00 - 23:00, 2023-08-19 11:00 - 23:00 | Expo Idaho, 5610 North Glenwood Stree, Garden City, Idaho, 83714
Fun for the whole family!

Boise Tattoo Convention
2023-08-18 15:00 - 22:00, 2023-08-19 11:00 - 22:00 | Idaho Central Arena, 233 S Capitol Blvd, Boise, Idaho, 83702
Boise’s only locally run tattoo convention is back! Previously known as Treasure Valley Tattoo Convention.
August 18th 3pm to 10pm
August 19th 11am to 10pm
August 20th 11am to 8pm
Located in beautiful downtown Boise at the Idaho Central Arena.

Simpul Fest
2023-08-18 17:00 - 23:00 | Mad Swede, 2772 Cole Rd #140, boise, ID, 83709
2nd Annual Simpul Fest featuring:
Black Bolt
The Boredom Corporation
Broken Hipster
Chase Ricks
College Radio
The Crawlouts
DILFS
Dumpster Fire
Fugue State Ravens
Gail
Jabroni Marcozzi
Jen Whittaker
The Jerkwadz
Jimmy Sinn Duo
Joey Young (Alandria)
Johnathan Hoff
Karate Riot
Kid.Catapult
Kids On Fire
Knocked Down
Let Me Downs
Old Cross
Ra!ne.
Salvo
Self Smartid
The Still Frame
Ten Second Tom
TUC

Vantage presents Dismas Premiere
2023-08-18 19:00 - 22:00 | The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, Idaho, 83702
Vantage presents Dismas Premiere feat. Kyler Daron Band
Come and hang out with the cast and crew from Vantage Stories as they premiere their latest film: “Dismas.” Enjoy live music from our’ composer: Kyler Daron, and an interview with lead actor Mario Eusebio, conducted by “The Chosen’s” very own Beverly Holloway. Join us as we celebrate Boise’s thriving film scene and network with other local creatives!

Boise’s First Kids Adventure Race!
2023-08-19 08:00 - 11:00 | Frontier Point Lodge, Bogus Basin Road, Horseshooe Bend, ID, 83629
Team adventure race for kids and families! Two exciting courses including an Expedition Course for 6-10 year olds with fellow child or adult partner and an Explore Course for 2-5 year olds and adult partner.
Activities include hiking, biking, rock wall climbing and more!
***Team of 2 required***
***Two tickets required per team***
(For unique team arrangements contact race director)
michael@wildbeginningsnatureschool.org
When
Saturday August 19th 8am – 11am
Where
Bogus Basin – Frontier Point Lodge
Frontier Point Lodge

Aaron Butler Memorial Purple Heart Run: Idaho
2023-08-19 09:00 - 12:00 | Eagle Island State Park, 165 Eagle Island Pkwy, Eagle, ID, 83616
The Aaron Butler Memorial Purple Heart Run will be held on Saturday, August 19th, 2023 at Eagle Island State Park. Chose to experience the 5K, 10K, or an Unknown Distance Run, all will start at 0900. The event is about community and sacrifice – feel free to wear traditional running attire, or load yourself down with a ruck sack, military/LEO uniform, or boots and body armor for an added degree of awesomeness. Wondering if the “suck factor” may be too high? Ask yourself… What Would Aaron Butler Do #wwabd? Embrace the suck! With beer, music, food, guest speakers, and lots to do for kids, it’s a lot more than a run. It’s an emotional and educational experience.
Place
Eagle Island State Park
Eagle, ID US 83616
This is a celebration of all US servicemembers who have given their lives or parts of themselves physically in combat operations around the globe. The after party promises to be epic. We will have local beer, music, food, local coffee, and lots to do for kids. All race proceeds will go to the Aaron Butler Memorial Foundation (a 501C3 nonprofit). This event was created by local Purple Heart recipients, and there will be an opportunity for all participants and supporters to meet and learn from those men and women who have been wounded in combat. The race courses will be lined with pictures and stories about Purple Heart Recipients who gave their lives in the Global War on Terror (since 9/11/2001). Bring out your families, let your children meet and absorb the words of Gold Star families (who have lost loved ones in combat), Vietnam War Purple Heart Recipients, and Purple Heart Recipients from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are among us every day, this in a unique opportunity for all of us to see and hear from local community members who have given more than most for our Nation.

Boise Farmers Market
2023-08-19 09:00 - 13:00 | Boise Farmers Market, 1500 Shoreline Drive, Boise, Idaho, 83712
At the Boise Farmers Market you will find fresh local seasonal vegetables and fruit, many types of locally raised protein, breads and pastries, honey, jams and sauces, fresh-roasted coffee, and a delicious selection of ready-to-eat foods. We always have the best of what is local and in season!
OPEN SATURDAY | 9AM-1PM | APRIL – OCTOBER

Meridian Main Street Market
2023-08-19 09:00 - 13:00 | Meridian Main Street Market, 33 E Broadway Ave, Meridian, ID, 83642
The Meridian Main Street Market is the traditional Farmer’s Market, but ours is unique in that it provides opportunities for our youth as well. It also gives the public the chance to support local small businesses, farms and entrepreneurs. It is a way to provide healthy, organic food options for our community.
Enjoy the market next to Meridian City Hall on Broadway (between Main and Meridian) and also in the City Hall Plaza
April 15, 2023 through October 14, 2023
Saturdays: 9 AM to 1 PM

Nampa Farmers Market
2023-08-19 09:00 - 13:00 | Lloyd Square Park, 1 14th Ave S, Nampa, ID, 83651
A Part of Downtown Nampa Since 1989
Every Saturday April through October
Rain or Shine
9 AM to 1 PM in Lloyd Square Park

Boise Farmers Market
2023-08-19 09:00 - 13:00 | Boise Farmers Market, 1500 Shoreline Drive, Boise, Idaho, 83712
2023 SEASON OPEN THROUGH OCTOBER
EVERY SATURDAY 9AM-1PM AT 1500 SHORELINE DRIVE

Meridian Main Street Market
2023-08-19 09:00 - 13:00 | Meridian Main Street Market, 33 E Broadway Ave, Meridian, ID, 83642
The Meridian Main Street Market is the traditional Farmer’s Market, but ours is unique in that it provides opportunities for our youth as well. It also gives the public the chance to support local small businesses, farms and entrepreneurs. It is a way to provide healthy, organic food options for our community.

Nampa's Farmers Market
2023-08-19 09:00 - 13:00 | Lloyd Square Park, 1 14th Ave S, Nampa, ID, 83651
Quality Products From People You Know

Eagle Saturday Market
2023-08-19 09:00 - 14:00 | Heritage Park, 185 E State St, Eagle, ID, 83646
The Eagle Saturday Market is back running every Saturday from May 6th through October 7th (excluding July 1st and 8th) from 9 am to 2 pm at Heritage Park and on 1st Street! Enjoy delicious food and amazing crafts from our vendors while listening to wonderful musicians performing in the Gazebo.
Old State Saloon logo in black and white old west lettering.This year we will also have live music on 1st Street provided by Old State Saloon if you want to grab a drink from Old State Saloon or eat some great food while enjoying live music in that area of downtown Eagle.
Bike over Hustle Black LogoAnd make sure to visit Hustle Fitness who will be sponsoring the market for the month of June and will have a booth in Heritage Park at the Eagle Saturday Market.
We are all looking forward to seeing you all again and are excited to have another great year and lots of fun at the Eagle Saturday Market!

EAGLE SATURDAY MARKET
2023-08-19 09:00 - 14:00 | Heritage Park, 185 E State St, Eagle, ID, 83646
The Eagle Saturday Market is back running every Saturday from May 6th through October 7th (excluding July 1st and 8th) from 9 am to 2 pm at Heritage Park and on 1st Street! Enjoy delicious food and amazing crafts from our vendors while listening to wonderful musicians performing in the Gazebo.

Boise Goathead Fest VI
2023-08-19 10:30 - 17:00 | Cecil D. Andrus Park, 601 W Jefferson St, Boise, ID, 83702
The Boise Goathead Fest is a wonderfully weird celebration of Boise’s bicycle culture & goathead removal around the city. This one-day festival kicks off with an eccentric pedal-powered parade. Festival-goers dress up in their favorite kooky costume, bring their person-powered ride (bikes, rollerblades, scooters, etc.), and roll with Boise Bicycle Project and thousands of others through the streets of downtown Boise! After the parade, the festival grounds are filled with live music, artwork, funky bikes, food trucks, and beer from Lost Grove Brewing.
