Location and Venues
You just can't appreciate fine wine by guzzling it. The wine needs your attention and the time to seep into your senses. It isn’t about emptying the glass. It’s about playing with each swallow with your mind, as well as your mouth. It’s the same with great music.

At Annas Bay, we want our audiences to have fun looking for the flavors, colors and textures in the music we present. We want to unveil the process, so you can see what it takes to create and perform art music. So at Annas Bay, while you won’t find a lot of black ties, you will discover lively, informative programs; interesting opportunities to interact with the artists; and thought-provoking experiences that will help you develop your own insights about the music.

This means the music needs the right setting, and for us, that means warmth and intimacy. At most Anna’s Bay events, you’re likely to be just feet away from the performers, and provided with ample opportunities to meet and talk with them, both during and after the performance. So the venues we choose to perform at tend to be pretty special: intimate, beautiful, and most often, also in a setting of spectacular natural beauty.

Elmer & Katharine Nordstrom Great Hall

Our home venue, the Elmer & Katharine Nordstrom Great Hall was completed in October 2006, and offers spectacular views of Hood Canal and the Olympic Mountains in addition to a warm and intimate acoustic. Anna’s Bay enjoys artist-in-residence status at Harmony Hill Retreat Center, which also the co-hosts the Raised Voices sing-along events and generously sponsors our community Chorale activities.

Kenneth A. Minnaert Center for the Arts

The Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts is South Puget Sound Community College's signature building. It is the physical symbol of the college's two-decade evolution into a comprehensive community college. The Center's 500-seat Main Stage theatre and Black Box theatre provide home stages for the college's Theatre Program, and music students enjoy classrooms for choir, instrumental music and electronic music, as well as practice rooms and a secure place to store instruments. The building houses a general art lab, a ceramics lab, a lab for drawing and printmaking and an exhibition gallery for the public to view student works.

Islandwood Great Hall

Located in Islandwood's main Welcome Center, the Great Hall is a wonderfully intimate concert environment, featuring a granite rock fireplace, recycled wood flooring with radiant heat, and facing a solar meadow.

Town Hall Seattle

Town Hall is Seattle's community culture center located in the historic First Hill neighborhood, on the edge of downtown. Town Hall showcases the community's cultural energy with diverse music, arts and humanities, civic discourse, and world culture programming. Housed in an historic Roman-revival-style building on the corner of 8th and Seneca, Town Hall opened in March 1999.

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