Winds5: Woods | Friday, Oct. 24 | Tacoma Armory Roosevelt Room, 8 p.m. (doors 7)

All October long, we at Peaks & Pints are pairing Tacoma Arts Month happenings with beers from our 13-door cooler — because art deserves a pint after the applause, and beer tastes better when it carries a story from the stage, the gallery, or the street.

Step into Tacoma Arts Live’s Roosevelt Room, where the air itself exhales melody. Winds5 — Seattle’s genre-defying woodwind quintet — conjures Woods, a lush, cinematic program where Bon Iver’s ghost hums beside forest-themed video game scores and brand-new compositions by rising star Molly Turner. It’s chamber music unbuttoned — wild, emotive, and alive with cedar breath. Each note feels grown, not written, as if plucked from moss and morning fog. This isn’t your grandmother’s recital; it’s a woodland séance in 5/4 time.

Cooler Prefunk: Maritime Pacific Windfest
Before the first downbeat stirs the leaves, anchor yourself with Maritime Pacific Brewing’s Windfest — an amber Märzen lager with toasted malt, caramel hush, and a salt-tinged breeze. It’s equilibrium in a glass: sturdy, aromatic, quietly transcendent. Take a sip, feel the sails fill, and let the night carry you into the woodwind wild.

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