Calendar of Events

Workshops, concerts and festival appearances. Peter Ross performs and teaches throughout the Pacific Northwest, from city street fairs to Japanese gardens.

An outdoor summer arts festival with a craft tent and listeners

Workshops

One-day shakuhachi intensives are held periodically in the Seattle area, sometimes with visiting master teachers. They suit beginning to intermediate players and cover practice methods, breath control and core honkyoku techniques, usually ending with an informal performance. See the news page for the most recent announcement.

Festivals & Craft Shows

Across the warmer months, Peter has appeared at a season of arts festivals and craft shows around the Pacific Northwest, where visitors can hear the flutes played and see them up close. Many take place alongside long-running regional gatherings such as the Northwest Folklife Festival. A typical season has included events such as:

Late May — University District Street Fair, Seattle, Washington
Memorial Day weekend — Northwest Folklife Festival, Seattle Center
June — Fremont District Fair, Seattle, Washington
Early July — Heritage Festival, Marymoor Park, Redmond, Washington
Mid-July — Choochokam Arts Festival, Langley, Whidbey Island, Washington
July — Salem Festival of the Arts, Salem, Oregon
Summer — Bellevue regional arts fair, Bellevue, Washington

Festivals are also one of the best places to meet the instruments in person. At a craft-show booth a visitor can pick up a flute, feel its weight and balance, hear the difference between a short bright 1.6 and a deep, breathy 2.4, and ask the questions that are hard to answer online. For many players, a first encounter at a summer fair is what turns a passing curiosity into a lasting practice.

Concerts & Special Appearances

Beyond the festival circuit, Peter gives concerts in Seattle and throughout the region, performs each year at a major regional folk-life festival, and has played at Japanese gardens and international shakuhachi gatherings. He has also performed with modern-dance groups, at tea houses, and for private events. These settings suit the shakuhachi well: its quiet dynamic range and meditative character reward an attentive, intimate audience. For booking a concert or a lecture-demonstration, see the order page to make contact.

Specific dates change from year to year; the latest are posted here and on the news page.