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Trumpeter Bria Skonberg

All that jazz descending on Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — Some 250 jazz musicians from across the continent are in town this week for the Pacific Northwest's longest-running jazz festival: Jazz Port… Continue reading

Trumpeter Bria Skonberg
The Summertime Singers will offer a concert at Port Townsend’s Trinity United Methodist Church this Thursday. The vocalists include

Chorale members to combine for summertime concert in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — For a midsummer concert, the Summertime Singers, starring members of the Wild Rose and RainShadow chorales and Port Townsend’s Community Chorus, are… Continue reading

The Summertime Singers will offer a concert at Port Townsend’s Trinity United Methodist Church this Thursday. The vocalists include
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PENINSULA PROFILE: She draws together community with ukulele playing, hat project

PORT ANGELES — It is possible to teach a man, over the phone, how to play the ukulele. Lil Tinsley of Oahu, Hawaii, and Bill… Continue reading

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Duoi Xu of Seattle photographs friend Xiao Tong Yang at Jardin du Soleil Lavender

Sequim busts out its purple passion this weekend

EDITOR'S NOTE — This story has been corrected to reflect that Graysmarsh Farm is on the Sequim Lavender Festival's Farms on Tour organized by the… Continue reading

Duoi Xu of Seattle photographs friend Xiao Tong Yang at Jardin du Soleil Lavender

Volunteers pitch in to help Sequim festivals

SEQUIM — Days after moving here in July 2010, Melissa Murray found herself steeped in purple herbs and other volunteers. Now, she’s the Lavender Farmers… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Dance with Parkinson’s class set in Dungeness Schoolhouse

SEQUIM — Heeding requests for more classes, the Dance with Parkinson's group will add sessions in the Sequim area at the Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2781 Towne… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Drum recital, potluck party set in Dungeness

SEQUIM — A drum and dance party, aka the Village Heartbeat student drum recital and potluck, is set for Sunday (July 21) at the Dungeness… Continue reading

Coreena Brown

WEEKEND: Freddy Pink to perform at Quilcene fundraiser

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” represent Friday, July 19; Saturday is July 20; Sunday is July 21. QUILCENE — Freddy Pink, the band whose motto is… Continue reading

Coreena Brown
Jaie Livingstone and Joel Yelland.  -- Photo by Martin Shaw

WEEKEND: Performers to bring songs from Broadway to Peninsula

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” represent Friday, July 19; Saturday is July 20; Sunday is July 21. “Broadway and Bordeaux,” a revue featuring songs from the… Continue reading

Jaie Livingstone and Joel Yelland.  -- Photo by Martin Shaw

WEEKEND: Polyrhythmics set to rattle roof at Peninsula winery

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” represent Friday, July 19; Saturday is July 20; Sunday is July 21. PORT ANGELES — The name tells you exactly what… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Saturday (July 20) barn dance to benefit Museum & Arts Center

BLYN — Barn dances are big around here, so when you want a fundraiser, a hot band and a big, old building make a good… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Sequim Arts Studio Tour opens

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” represent Friday, July 19; Saturday is July 20; Sunday is July 21. SEQUIM — Starting today, at 18 studios across and… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Therapy Session to celebrate CD with free concert in Forks

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” represent Friday, July 19; Saturday is July 20; Sunday is July 21. FORKS — Therapy Session, the rock-country-blues band from the… Continue reading

Portland

Artist bends boundaries with translucent medium

PORT ANGELES — Ask Alex Hirsch what you're looking at — is this a painting, or what? — and she pauses. “That's a tricky question,”… Continue reading

Portland
The beheaded "Violet Picking Lavender

Lavender Weekend sand sculpture vandalized in Sequim

SEQUIM — “Violet Picking Lavender,” the sand sculpture outside Adagio Bean & Leaf cafe at 981 E. Washington St., was vandalized Sunday night, its creator… Continue reading

The beheaded "Violet Picking Lavender
”Matt Zorella” (Ean Henninger) confesses in “FRAMED at the Art Blast

Port Angeles Library stages murder mystery play

PORT ANGELES — With a motley cast of community members, the Port Angeles Library's first murder-mystery play turned into one black comedy. “FRAMED at the… Continue reading

”Matt Zorella” (Ean Henninger) confesses in “FRAMED at the Art Blast
The beheaded "Violet Picking Lavender

Lavender Weekend sand sculpture vandalized in Sequim

SEQUIM — “Violet Picking Lavender,” the sand sculpture outside Adagio Bean & Leaf cafe at 981 E. Washington St., was vandalized Sunday night, its creator… Continue reading

The beheaded "Violet Picking Lavender
Mitch Luckett

Brinnon author captures adopted hometown in new book

BRINNON — Mitch Luckett fell for the Duckabush River valley at first sighting. He wanted to honor this, his adopted home, and to use storytelling… Continue reading

Mitch Luckett
Jazz guitarist and singer Michael Glaviano will play a benefit concert Tuesday at the Key City Playhouse in Port Townsend.

Musician to dish up jazz, blues Tuesday in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — From Billie Holiday to Tom Waits, this guitarist and singer likes to wander the blues-jazz passages. Michael Glaviano, a Port Townsend musician,… Continue reading

Jazz guitarist and singer Michael Glaviano will play a benefit concert Tuesday at the Key City Playhouse in Port Townsend.
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PENINSULA PROFILE: Expertise with lavender takes him to many different shores

PORT ANGELES — From the searing heat of Bakersfield, Calif., to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, this man has seen a world of weather. He… Continue reading

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