Northwest Dance & Music Venues

Gold Creek Park
Woodinville, Washington

Some of the bands performed at this place during those great years of NW music were:

 

Albert Collins Alice Cooper The Allman Bros Bighorn Black Snake Blue Light Blue Max Bo Diddley Bruce and Eli Buckwheat The Byrds Canterbury Tales Cat Skinner Charles Musslewhite Chuck Berry Chicago Transit Authority Chinook City Zu Clockwork Orange The Continentals Cowboys Crome Syrcus Daily Flash Delany and Bonnie The Doors Dutchmasters The Dynamics Emergency Exit The Epics Family Tree Floating Bridge The Flock Flying Burrito Brothers Golden Earring Good Blessing Don and the Goodtimes Guess Who Heart Hocus Pocus

International Brick It's A Beautiful Day Kidd Afrika Led Zeppelin Little Big Horn Charles Lloyd Lonnie Mack Lee Michaels Magic Fern Mama's New Washingtons Melton Levy and the Dey Bros. Lee Michaels Mountainheath Ted Nugent Painted Ship Paris PH Phactor Pied Pipers Renaissance Fair Rockin Fu Murray Roman Santana The Section Tim Buckley Slade The Sonics Springfield Rifle Spirit Ten Years After Tim Buckley Ike & Tina Turner UFO Vanilla Fudge Volumn V Wayne Marshall Band Cherry Berry and the Winemakers Witness The Youngbloods War

Others ??

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Poster Courtesy of Richard Evans


Poster Courtesy of Donny Marrow

When Kidd Afrika rolled into Seattle in the summer of 1971, Gold Creek Park, (the “Dome”), in Woodinville, was notorious for its version of Woodstock, with the first major Rock Festival in the Northwest.

Kidd Afrika became the house band, opening for many of the name acts that rolled through, including Elvin Bishop, Barry Melton, Harvey Mandel and Buckwheat, (remember them? . . . not many do).  Gold Creek housed the band on the property, at one point putting us in the “Old Western Fort”.  Part of our income included “canned food” brought by patrons of the shows, (see flyer).  Tuna sandwiches for all!!   When a big rain storm hit the area, it washed tons of trout into the man-made pond, so we would regularly catch our breakfast.  One morning, Barry Melton comes to town and immediately makes his way to the fishing poles.  They didn’t call him “The Fish” for nothin’.

Donny Marrow, April 2013

Cold Creek was our first job ever and we had to do our own advertising.  Basically we had to bag the owner to let us play there.  The offer was 50% of the door.  I think we maybe made 50 bucks if we were lucky, but it was a great experience.  It gave us a start!!!

John Gordon, December 2006

Mike, Bill, Richard, Steve & Fred
Good Blessing at Gold Creek Park - 1972

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Heart at Gold Creek - Image Courtesy of Richard Evans

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Image Courtesy of Richard Evans

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Poster Courtesy of Richard Evans

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'64 at Gold Creek Park  - Courtesy of Paul Halvorson via Steve Thurgood

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Image Courtesy of Jack Weston

This scan of an original Allman Bros Band poster from the Gold Creek venue sold at auction in late 2013 for around $3,400.00!

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Last Update:   8 November 2017
Credits: Randy Solvang, Richard Evans, John Gordon, Don Edge, Fred Raxter, Richard Evans, Steve Thurgood, Paul Halvorson, Donny Marrow, Jack Weston, Myrl W. Siereveld, Evin