CrabFest events scheduled today through Sunday

PORT ANGELES — The 17th annual Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival will bring a slew of food, music, demonstrations, games and other events to the City Pier today through Sunday.

Last year’s event saw a record eight tons of Dungeness crab served up to locals and visitors, and organizers are preparing for another big event.

Admission to the festival is free. Hours are from noon to 10 p.m. today, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Meal tickets are $26 for the Peninsula Daily News Community Crab Dinner tonight and $29.95 on Saturday and Sunday for a meal with a locally-caught whole crab served along with fresh corn and cole slaw. Half-crab dinners are available for $16.

On the final day of the festival, patrons can purchase two crab dinner tickets for $55.90. Active military and their families who have ID will pay $26 per person all three days. Non-seafood and vegetarian dishes also will be available.

Tickets are available now at www.crabfestival.org.

Craft, merchant and nonprofit vendor booths will be set up on City Pier.

Here is the schedule for the 17th annual Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival:

Today

• Noon to 5 p.m. — High Tide Seafoods & Wilder Auto Grab-a-Crab Tank Derby at City Pier.

• Noon to 6 p.m. — 75 arts and crafts, nonprofit, food and sponsor booths and the Windermere Real Estate Pier Stage on City Pier.

• Noon to 10 p.m. — Peninsula Daily News Community Crab Meal ($26 Friday, $29.95 Saturday and Sunday) in the Kitsap Bank Crab Central Pavilion, which features eight restaurants, oyster bar, wine and beer, live music and festival merchandise.

• Noon to 5 p.m. — Port Townsend Radio Station KPTZ 91.9 FM live broadcast of “Tossed Salad” hosted by Phil Andrus at the Windermere Real Estate Pier Stage.

Saturday

• 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. — Open registration for CrabFest 5K Fun Run on the Olympic Discovery Trail.

• 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. — Welcoming Ceremony with the Lower Elwha Drum Group at the Gateway Pavilion.

• 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. — Feiro Marine Life Center at City Pier.

• 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. — High Tide Seafoods & Wilder Auto Grab-a-Crab Tank Derby at City Pier.

• 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. — 75 arts and crafts, nonprofit, food and sponsor booths and the Windermere Real Estate Pier Stage on City Pier.

• 11 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. — Cooking demonstrations at the Gateway Pavilion.

• 11 a.m. — CrabFest 5K Fun Run on the Olympic Discovery Trail.

• 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. — Crab feed dinner ($29.95), eight restaurants, oyster bar, wine and beer and live music in the Kitsap Bank Crab Central Pavilion.

• 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. — U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue demonstration in Port Angeles Harbor.

• 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. — Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association rowing demonstration and “learn about rowing” sessions at Hollywood Beach.

Sunday

• 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. — Crab Revival, a nondenominational musical service at Gateway Pavilion.

• 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. — Feiro Marine Life Center at City Pier.

• 10 a.m. 2 p.m. — Captain Joseph House Chowder Cook-Off in the Clallam Transit Center lanes west of the Gateway Pavilion.

• 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. — 75 arts and crafts, nonprofit, food and sponsor booths and the Windermere Real Estate Pier Stage on City Pier.

• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — High Tide Seafoods & Wilder Auto Grab-a-Crab Tank Derby at City Pier.

• 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. — Crab feed dinner ($29.95), eight restaurants, oyster bar, wine and beer and live music in the Kitsap Bank Crab Central Pavilion.

• 11:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. — Cooking demonstrations at the Gateway Pavilion.

• Noon to 5 p.m. — Behind the scenes at the CrabFest (Washington Festivals and Events Association Seminar requires registration at wfea.org)

• 2 p.m. — Captain Joseph House Chowder Cook-Off award ceremony.

• 5 p.m. — Festival closes.

For more information, see www.crabfestival.org, email operations@crab festival.org or call 360-452-6300.