Salmonfest

Ninilchik's annual Salmonfest partners with several Alaska-based organizations to get the word out about environmental causes. A portion of the festival's proceeds also go directly to some of these groups.

Ninilchik’s annual Salmonfest is a three-day music festival that advocates for the protection of healthy salmon through song and educational resources. But it also highlights Alaska Native culture through workshops and demonstrations.

Nearly 10,000 music lovers descend on Ninilchik each year for Salmonfest, making it the largest music festival in Alaska. That also means it generates a lot of trash. But the festival is aiming to reduce that waste in the years to come.

The inaugural Seward Salmon and Song Festival kicked off last weekend and welcomed both local and national acts, like The Brothers Comatose. Lead singer and guitarist Ben Morrison sat down with KDLL to talk about his band.

The inaugural Seward Salmon and Song Festival kicked off last weekend following the city's annual mermaid festival. And like Salmonfest, the new music festival is tied to environmental conservation.

While Salmonfest is known for its live music, it serves as a prime opportunity for Alaska-based artisans to sell their goods. For some small businesses, the festival is imperative to their overall success.

While some couples tie the knot in a church or under a gazebo, others opt for nontraditional wedding venues. One Kenai Peninsula couple recently said “I do” on a stage at Salmonfest, a Ninilchik-based music festival that advocates for healthy salmon populations.

Salmonfest, an annual music festival that advocates for the protection of healthy salmon runs through music and educational resources, returned to the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds in Ninilchik over the weekend. The event has become a summer staple of the Kenai Peninsula since the first festival more than a decade ago.

Troopers say Joshua Brown had meth, cocaine, psilocybin mushrooms, LSD and unidentified drugs in his tent at a Salmonfest campsite in Ninilchik.

Thousands flock to Ninilchik each summer for the three-day music festival. But underpinning the whole event is a pro-fish, anti-Pebble Mine message that appears in every aspect of the festival.