PORT TOWNSEND — Centrum’s Acoustic Blues Festival hosts concerts for all ages in multiple venues at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way. Tickets, packages and information await at centrum.org and 800-746-1982.
Here’s the lineup:
Tonight
• 7:30 p.m. — The Blues Dance with musicians including Jerron Paxton, Ernie Vega, the Frog and Henry band and others in the USO Hall, $20.
Friday
• Noon — Free Fridays at the Fort presents the Acoustic Blues Festival showcase, an hour-long concert on the Commons lawn.
• 8 p.m. to midnight — Blues in the Clubs spreads across the Fort Worden campus, with country blues, cajun, zydeco, jug-band music and other rootsy sounds. Each venue — the USO Hall, the Chapel, Wheeler Theater, Building 204 and the Commons — hosts three sets of music, with food and drink for sale throughout. Wristbands are $25 per night.
Saturday
• 11 a.m. — Detroit’s Shirley Smith leads the Port Townsend Gospel Choir in a free concert at the Wheeler Theater.
• 1:30 p.m. — The Acoustic Blues Showcase and barbecue stir together music from north, south, east and west: Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, Guy Davis, Jontavious Willis, Phil Wiggins, the Rev. Robert Jones, Valerie and Ben Turner, Terry “Harmonica” Bean, Jim Kweskin and Suzy Thompson and many others. McCurdy Pavilion and Littlefield Green are the destination; tickets are $27, $40 and $48.
• 8 p.m. to midnight — Blues in the Clubs returns for one more night; see Friday.
