Everyone in the Seattle knows that Capitol Hill Block Party brings some of the biggest and frostiest underground acts to the city center for three days of fun, music, food, and revelry. Here are some of the lesser known festivities occurring around the festival grounds throughout the weekend. Don’t forget to check out our cannabis recommendations at the bottom of the list to stay elevated for CHBP festival weekend.

 CHBP 2018 Panel Series – Saturday, 7/21 @ 1 pm – Grimms

Now in its fifth year, this CHBP Panel Series is designed for local artists to connect and network with music industry influencers. This year’s panel will focus on generating income in today’s music industry and provide artists with strategies and insights on securing proper management and dealing with the local show promoters. Speakers include representatives from local venues like Chop Suey, Neumos, and the Sunset Tavern,  record labels like Suicide Squeeze and musician Sassyblack will also be in attendance. The event is co-sponsored by Lo Flux Media and NadaMucho.com. This is one event all aspiring musicians, rappers, and artists could find a lot of value in learning how to navigate the pitfalls of self-promotion, media gatekeepers, and scene politics.

Dancing Through Chop House Row

The fun doesn’t end at the festival gates, just outside,  CHBP brings the music to the surrounding area, these are free entry for the public. There’s a Tropical house & laidback disco show at the Double Sunrise Club. A soul-centric pop-up dance party at Feel Good Inc and Jet, a Seattle airline themed dance party.

Lesser Known Attractions

There’s plenty of things to check out before, between and after your favorite band’s sets.

• You can attend a vinyasa yoga class at  Sweatbox Yoga “Yoga With Reva.” This takes place outside of Chop House Row.
• There’s sounds and visual design concept show with SoundOptica at Northwest Film Forum.
• Photo showcase at cafe vita that stretches through the entire month of July

Cannabis Strains For CHBP

Make sure and grab some cannabis online before you head down to the festival to avoid the long lines of the downtown cannabis retailers.

Orange Poison makes a great daytime sativa strain and Catholic School Girl is a crazy powerful hybrid that is best left for people who aren’t driving or when you’re safely back home for the evening.

Lemon Meringue is a sativa-hybrid strain. Cookies and Cream and Lemon Skunk were bred together to create it. Shatter isn’t the best way to experience this strains terpene profile, but it usually has creamy citrus, skunk, and pine aromas.

True OG is A List Cannabis Club’s cut of OG Kush, a strain that is the genetic backbone of Washington’s recreational cannabis industry. OG Kush’s dominate traits shine through with any strain its bred with adding a special potent kushy pop.

Glueberry #1 creates large fluffy triangular flowers that have equal parts purple, green and orange coloring. The colors blend into a truly unique looking bud. There are plenty of trichomes covering the surface, but cracking open the bud reveals a shimmering undercoat sticky resin. Glueberry #1 has aromas akin to spicy berries and wood. Glueberry is a good strain to smoke when you head back to the car for a much needed smoke break. Ease your sore muscles before you head back in for the night and watch the headliners throw it down.

Sweetwater Farms is one of the most popular cannabis producers out of Eastern Washington. Their Key Lime Cupcake strain is a creative sativa-hybrid. The Key Lime Cupcake strain is a cross between Sweet Island Skunk and Lime Skunk. Smoke some of this to help recover and get your day started after a couple rough nights of partying.

• Catholic School Girl – Sky Standard Gardens
• Orange poison – Sub X
• Lemon Meringue – GreenRush
• True OG – A List Cannabis
• Glueberry – Lilac City Gardens
• Key Lime Cupcake – Sweetwater Farms

Adults 21 and over can purchase up to one ounce of usable cannabis flower, 16 ounces of cannabis-infused edibles in solid form, 72 ounces of cannabis drinkables, and 7 grams of cannabis concentrates.

If you’re a registered medical cannabis patient, the limits are:

Three ounces of usable cannabis flower, forty-eight ounces of cannabis-infused edibles in solid form, two hundred sixteen ounces of cannabis drinkables, and twenty-one grams of cannabis concentrates, per the Washington State Department of Health.

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