We have an outstanding array of performers scheduled for our 16th concert season, which started in September. They are coming from Scotland, Canada, Ireland and all over the United States, and will perform wide-ranging styles from jazz to Latin to Celtic to folk to swing 
to..... Many are award-winning and critically lauded.
Our 10 month concert season last year presented over 60 concerts which were attended by nearly 4,000 people. Join us this season for our most 
ambitious line-up of artists yet. To read about these performers and listen to their music, just visit the events page. All concerts have tickets available in advance or at the door, unless they are already sold out.
Traditions is a place to discover folk art products from cultures around the world, made available through fair and equitable trade relationships with low-income artisans and farmers from more than fifty countries.
Traditions is also a cafe and center for concerts, workshops and public forums; a gathering place for a community of interesting and involved people.
This site is about community - from our friends here in Olympia to the wider community of the world. Here you'll find useful information, stories and connections to others. We welcome your comments, suggestions, ideas and your presence. We encourage you to come gather with us for conversation, music and good food.
Silkscreen by Chaela Herridge-Meyer in celebration of the arrival to Traditions of shoes and shirts from worker-run cooperative factories in Argentina.
Find out where some of our clothes and accessories came from in our interactive “Where in the world did it come from?” pages. Click on the images below to learn interesting facts about a number of fair traded items.
Traditions, as Traditions Fair Trade, started at the Antique Sandwich Company. in Tacoma, Washington. in October of 1993. The Antique Sandwich Company has been operating since 1974 as a place for tasty and healthy breakfasts, sandwiches, salads, entrees, and desserts as well as a spot for the South Puget Sound community for folk and classical concerts, open mikes, plays, and social benefits. Tamie and Shirley Herridge started small and grew over the years and they continue to serve the first and next generation of “Antique regulars”. I had been a working part of that partnership for two decades until devoting my time to the Olympia store and cafe. However, you can still find a section of ‘Traditions’ crafts at the Antique Sandwich Co., so visit there as well - if not for the crafts then for the best milkshakes you might ever have. (Antique Sandwich Company, 5102 No. Pearl, Tacoma, Wa. 98407 (253) 752-4069, near the entrance to Pt. Defiance Park and the Vashon Ferry landing) -Dick Meyer
This site is designed and maintained by VillageMediaWorks.
