Diane Urbani de la Paz

Young performers receive Port Angeles music honors

PORT ANGELES — Seventeen-year-old saxophonist Hillary Smith went silent, just for a moment, last weekend. The Stardust Big Band and Sequim High School Jazz Ensemble… Continue reading

International Blues Challenge winner Matt Andersen has Port Angeles on his calendar this Wednesday night.  -- Photo by Tracey Savein/South Paw Productions

Performer Andersen to bring unprocessed blues to Port Angeles stage next week

PORT ANGELES — There’s nothing slick about Matt Andersen. This hulking singer from the rural Canadian town of Perth-Andover is the antithesis of polished, pop… Continue reading

International Blues Challenge winner Matt Andersen has Port Angeles on his calendar this Wednesday night.  -- Photo by Tracey Savein/South Paw Productions
Admission is free to the screening of “For the Next 7 Generations” at the Elwha Heritage Center in Port Angeles at 2 p.m. Saturday.

Film tells of grandmothers’ healing journey

PORT ANGELES — The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe is inviting the community on an extraordinary journey. In it, 13 indigenous grandmothers from the far reaches… Continue reading

Admission is free to the screening of “For the Next 7 Generations” at the Elwha Heritage Center in Port Angeles at 2 p.m. Saturday.

WEEKEND: Cinema history series begins Saturday at Rose Theatre

PORT TOWNSEND — Saturday mornings for the next couple of months, “The Story of Film” series will whisk off movie buffs on an odyssey. The… Continue reading

PT Songlines co-directors Gretchen Sleicher and Laurence Cole will bring their singers in for a concert at the Cotton Building in Port Townsend this Saturday night.

WEEKEND: PT Songlines to warm Port Townsend on Saturday with concert

PORT TOWNSEND — The PT Songlines choir will stage its Winter Concert and Participatory Sing, one of just two public performances each year, at the… Continue reading

PT Songlines co-directors Gretchen Sleicher and Laurence Cole will bring their singers in for a concert at the Cotton Building in Port Townsend this Saturday night.
The Fiddle Kids

WEEKEND: Snowgrass brings bands together for annual fundraiser

PORT ANGELES — Bluegrass, from players age 6 to 84, is about to take over the Port Angeles High School auditorium. This is the 11th… Continue reading

The Fiddle Kids

WEEKEND: Take a chance, take a chance, take a chance chance chance: Music of ABBA to resound through Rose Theatre on Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — It’s not technically a sing-along movie — no lyrics appear on the screen — but belting will be strongly encouraged during the… Continue reading

Vicki Helwick

Concert to take donations for Carnegie Hall trip

PORT ANGELES — Vicki Helwick did not want any of Port Angeles High School's Roughrider Orchestra musicians to miss out on a long-hoped for trip.… Continue reading

Vicki Helwick
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Award-winning Port Townsend novelist to read at free event

SEQUIM — Novelist Elizabeth Ann Scarborough will give a reading Friday from her book The Tour of Doom, a comic story set in a community… Continue reading

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Arran Stark holds items grown at Nash’s Organic farm.  -- Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Chef’s Port Townsend classes to cook up locally grown cuisine

PORT TOWNSEND — Arran Stark used to work with beluga caviar. He was a fancy chef in fancy restaurants in Atlanta, Boston and Portland, Ore.… Continue reading

Arran Stark holds items grown at Nash’s Organic farm.  -- Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News
Debbie Wooten on stage at Peninsula College.  -- Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Speaker tells of meeting Martin Luther King — and living, humorously, with pain

PORT ANGELES — When you go to a speech in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, you don’t expect hilarity. You don’t expect the… Continue reading

Debbie Wooten on stage at Peninsula College.  -- Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News
Kristin Warner Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Drawn to healing: Therapist uses art to help kids, teens deal with pain

PORT ANGELES — Once in a while, a child looks up and says to Kristin Warner: “This is really helpful.” And for Warner, that is… Continue reading

Kristin Warner Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News
Competition draws musicians from across Peninsula today

Competition draws musicians from across Peninsula today

PORT ANGELES — The prizes for the Port Angeles Symphony's annual Young Artist Competition are a bit richer this year. The 20 competitors — pianists,… Continue reading

Competition draws musicians from across Peninsula today
Port Townsend artist Karen Hackenberg is restoring her installation

Artists get together to fix damaged works

PORT ANGELES — “Water Shed,” a sculpture made of hundreds of plastic bottles, was pictured on the front page — pushed onto its side. This… Continue reading

Port Townsend artist Karen Hackenberg is restoring her installation
Journalist Anselmo Mancebo and his wife

WEEKEND: ‘Under the Same Moon’ to screen in Port Angeles, Forks

Two movie showings, two conversations and two travelers from Spain: All are coming to Port Angeles and Forks. “Under the Same Moon” (“La Misma Luna”),… Continue reading

Journalist Anselmo Mancebo and his wife
Songwriter Michael Rivers

WEEKEND: Birthday bash becomes benefit for friend

PORT ANGELES — Gifts of music, from Irish to gospel, will soon rain down at Wine on the Waterfront. At first, it was to be… Continue reading

Songwriter Michael Rivers
WEEKEND: Competition draws musicians from across Peninsula

WEEKEND: Competition draws musicians from across Peninsula

PORT ANGELES — The prizes for the Port Angeles Symphony's annual Young Artist Competition are a bit richer this year. The 20 competitors — pianists,… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Competition draws musicians from across Peninsula
The Blues Counselors are set to play an all-ages dance tonight at the Port Townsend Elks Club. The Counselors include

WEEKEND: Dance away winter funk with blues band

PORT TOWNSEND — The Blues Counselors sextet is swinging into town tonight for another all-ages dance at the Port Townsend Elks Club, 555 Otto St.… Continue reading

The Blues Counselors are set to play an all-ages dance tonight at the Port Townsend Elks Club. The Counselors include
Cosy Sheridan

WEEKEND: Singer to perform, give songwriting workshop Sunday, Monday

DUNGENESS — When little Cornelia Sheridan was 6 weeks old, her dad nicknamed her Cosy. “He said I had a lot of body heat,” says… Continue reading

Cosy Sheridan
Richard and Mildred Loving are seen circa 1965. Their battle against Jim Crow laws of the South is told in "The Loving Story." Icarus Films

Rose Theatre to offer free film on MLK Day

PORT TOWNSEND ­— When Rocky Friedman came across “The Loving Story,” a movie about an interracial couple in the Jim Crow South, he knew it… Continue reading

Richard and Mildred Loving are seen circa 1965. Their battle against Jim Crow laws of the South is told in "The Loving Story." Icarus Films