From open mic to main stage:

This year's Little Norway Festival is bursting with music. Local acts take the festival's downtown main stage across Friday and Saturday this year, spanning jazz, classic rock, Appalachian folk and everything between. Evening shows at Kito's Kave and the Harbor Bar keep the live music rocking and the dance floor bumping into the middle of the night. And the weekend closes with a classical music piano concert at the Lutheran Church.

"I absolutely love it," said Robyn Cardenas, who curated the main stage lineup for the second year running. "Between the main stage and everything else - I'm like,...