Diane Urbani de la Paz

Jazz artist John Stowell will play Peninsula College's Maier Performance Hall this Saturday night. ()

WEEKEND: Jazz master, local trio to play Saturday on Port Angeles campus

PORT ANGELES — A jazz artist with “a brilliant national and international reputation,” according to Peninsula College Music Department head David Jones, will join a… Continue reading

Jazz artist John Stowell will play Peninsula College's Maier Performance Hall this Saturday night. ()
Pianist George Radebaugh and vocalist Robin Bessier are two of the artists appearing in the Steinway piano celebration at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship this Saturday evening. ()

WEEKEND: Jazz, classical, originals to be played on restored Steinway grand piano Saturday in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — It will be a night in piano heaven. Five pianists, with two singers and a cellist added for good measure, will bring… Continue reading

Pianist George Radebaugh and vocalist Robin Bessier are two of the artists appearing in the Steinway piano celebration at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship this Saturday evening. ()
The Mighty Dreadful

WEEKEND: Mighty Dreadful duo set for Sunday performance in Coyle

COYLE — When this guitar man came to rural Jefferson County to play with the band The Fire Inside last year, he gave the gig… Continue reading

The Mighty Dreadful
“Wall of Water” is a fractal image by Pamela Dick

ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS: Local artist set for state show in Bremerton . . . and other items

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Jan. 22. BREMERTON — Pamela Dick of Sequim is one of the artists selected to show her work… Continue reading

“Wall of Water” is a fractal image by Pamela Dick
Tim Connell

WEEKEND: Eclectic sounds featured on mandolin Saturday with Tim Connell in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — The music of Brazil, Bach, the Beatles and then some will fill Room to Move, the yoga studio upstairs at 1008 Lawrence… Continue reading

Tim Connell
The Flying Strings — from left

WEEKEND: From Flying Strings to FarmStrong, Snowgrass to stand tall Saturday in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — They all do it for love: of music, the little ones and their folks. Snowgrass, Port Angeles' 14th annual bluegrass-and-roots festival this… Continue reading

The Flying Strings — from left
Jazz artist John Stowell will play Peninsula College's Maier Performance Hall this Saturday night. ()

WEEKEND: Jazz master, local trio to play Saturday on Port Angeles campus

PORT ANGELES — A jazz artist with “a brilliant national and international reputation,” according to Peninsula College Music Department head David Jones, will join a… Continue reading

Jazz artist John Stowell will play Peninsula College's Maier Performance Hall this Saturday night. ()
Pianist George Radebaugh and vocalist Robin Bessier are two of the artists appearing in the Steinway piano celebration at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship this Saturday evening. ()

WEEKEND: Jazz, classical, originals to be played on restored Steinway grand piano Saturday in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — It will be a night in piano heaven. Five pianists, with two singers and a cellist added for good measure, will bring… Continue reading

Pianist George Radebaugh and vocalist Robin Bessier are two of the artists appearing in the Steinway piano celebration at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship this Saturday evening. ()
The Mighty Dreadful

WEEKEND: Mighty Dreadful duo set for Sunday performance in Coyle

COYLE — When this guitar man came to rural Jefferson County to play with the band The Fire Inside last year, he gave the gig… Continue reading

The Mighty Dreadful
Sequim's Carol Swarbrick portrays Lillian Carter in “Miss Lillian Speaks

Play coming to Port Angeles this Saturday will split open shell of President Carter’s mother

PORT ANGELES — People would ask Lillian Carter: Was it your best day when your son Jimmy was inaugurated as president of the United States?… Continue reading

Sequim's Carol Swarbrick portrays Lillian Carter in “Miss Lillian Speaks
Mike VanQuickenborne ()

Professor to explore film’s power to shape thinking with program Wednesday in Port Hadlock

PORT HADLOCK ­— Movies wield tremendous power to shape our thinking, professor Mike VanQuickenborne believes. He's fascinated by film, philosophy and humor, so this coming… Continue reading

Mike VanQuickenborne ()

Sequim open-mic reading, poetry deadline both arrive this Friday

SEQUIM — An entire evening of open-mic readings is set for this week as Writers on the Spit, the local writing group, hosts another Fourth… Continue reading

All the way from Denmark come

Trio to perform traditional Danish music Friday in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — They’re coming over from Denmark, one of the three happiest countries in the world: Lydom, Bugge & Høirup, bringers of traditional Danish… Continue reading

All the way from Denmark come
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ()

Traveling novelist to be featured speaker at Tuesday’s Story Swap in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — This novelist has traveled to Sir Walter Scott’s home in Scotland and to Comanchero Forts in the Big Bend part of Texas.… Continue reading

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ()
Hoops

WEEKEND: Cirque Ziva acrobats are back in Port Angeles on Sunday

PORT ANGELES — The 25-member Golden Dragon Acrobats of China are back in town this weekend for one show: Sunday afternoon at the Port Angeles… Continue reading

Hoops
The PT Songlines choir will host a participatory concert this Saturday night at Port Townsend's Cotton Building. ()

WEEKEND: Songlines choir extends invitation to all voices with participatory concert Saturday in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — An on-the-spot musical community will form in downtown Port Townsend as the PT Songlines choir hosts its winter participatory concert Saturday night.… Continue reading

The PT Songlines choir will host a participatory concert this Saturday night at Port Townsend's Cotton Building. ()
The 17-member Stardust Dance Band will dish up swing and other vintage music at this Saturday's Jazz Dinner Dance to benefit the Sequim High School music program. ()

WEEKEND: Stardust Dance Band, teens are ‘In the Mood’ for jazz dinner Saturday in Sequim

SEQUIM — Two big bands, swing and a Hawaiian style dinner: It could only be the Jazz Dinner Dance to benefit Sequim High School's music… Continue reading

The 17-member Stardust Dance Band will dish up swing and other vintage music at this Saturday's Jazz Dinner Dance to benefit the Sequim High School music program. ()
Jason Noltemeier

WEEKEND: The American dream and the truth unfold on Port Townsend stage with Sam Shepard’s “Buried Child”

PORT TOWNSEND — This play is much like having a dream. The people and the events defy the rules of the waking world. And everything… Continue reading

Jason Noltemeier
Joel Yelland ()

‘Spirituals and Samovars’ in next Music Live with Lunch on Tuesday in Sequim

SEQUIM — Singer, actor and medical doctor Joel Yelland will offer a noontime interlude of American songs and Russian folk tunes — a program called… Continue reading

Joel Yelland ()
Jeremy and Anna Pederson of Port Angeles will bring their folk harmonies to Sequim's Wind Rose Cellars tonight and to Port Angeles' Metta Room next Thursday evening

ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS: Two voices, two cities, no cover charge . . . and other items

Jeremy & Anna, those young musical partners, will bring their vocal harmonies and folk arrangements to a couple of venues this week and next. Wind… Continue reading

Jeremy and Anna Pederson of Port Angeles will bring their folk harmonies to Sequim's Wind Rose Cellars tonight and to Port Angeles' Metta Room next Thursday evening