Salmonfest

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.

The main attraction of the annual Salmonfest in Ninilchik is the music. But fashion is one of the highlights of the three-day festival, too. And Alaska apparel made by one Kasilof artist has become a Salmonfest staple.

The annual Salmonfest music festival begins today at the fairgrounds in Ninilchik.

Ninilchik has fewer than 1,000 year-round residents.But in the summer, the town balloons with thousands of tourists. Over two weekends in particular,…