PORT ANGELES — Monday Musicale will hold its annual Scholarship Benefit Concert at 2 p.m. Sunday to showcase local artists.
Tickets are $15 in advance at Port Book and News, 104 E. First St., and Joyful Noise Music, 112 W. Washington St., Sequim. They also will be available at the door for $20 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 201 E. Lopez Ave.
Scheduled to perform are:
• Linda Dowdell, a jazz pianist with roots in both jazz and classical music. She toured the world from 1988 to 1998 as musical director of both Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project and the Mark Morris Dance Group, performing with a variety of artists including Yo-Yo-Ma.
Dowdell is currently collaborating with a local author on a children’s book to be produced as a family-friendly musical.
• Dan and Katie Cobb, who perform as Fool’s Gold and have been making music for most of their lives.
Katie, 15, attends Port Angeles High School and is involved in both the symphonic orchestra and select women’s choir programs.
Dan Cobb, 52, is in his 19th year of teaching elementary music in the Port Angeles schools and recently completed his 17th year singing with the Peninsula Men’s Gospel Singers.
Both have been involved in musical theater and enjoy the art of performance.
• Traci Winters-Tyson, who will perform on cello with Kristin Quigley Brye, who will play piano.
Winters-Tyson is a product of the Port Angeles Orchestra Program.
She began playing cello at Franklin Elementary and performed in Carnegie Hall her senior year during the Port Angeles High School orchestra’s first New York trip. A recipient of a Monday Musicale Scholarship many years ago, she went on to earn her music degree from Western Washington University.
She now teaches orchestra at Franklin and Stevens middle schools.
Kristin Quigley Brye holds degrees in horn, collaborative piano and vocal coaching from Pacific Lutheran University and North Carolina School of the Arts. She is an adjunct professor of music at Peninsula College and a collaborative pianist with Northwest Women’s Chorale; she maintains a busy private studio.
• Jimmy Hoffman, a native of the area, raised in Joyce. At age 13, he took up the guitar and in 1978 was a winner in the Monday Musicale scholarship auditions.
Hoffman performs at many of the area music venues, such as Concerts on the Pier in Port Angeles, the Port Angeles Eagles, 7 Cedars Casino and other venues in the state.
Monday Musicale has been in Clallam County for 51 years. It is an organization devoted to providing scholarships to high school students who want to pursue a career in music, according to the news release.
To date, Monday Musicale has awarded more than 175 scholarships amounting to more than $150,000.
