Music performances, an art fair and a reopening ceremony for a Fort Worden bar and kitchen highlight weekend events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• Music on the Strait will begin its season with two chamber music concerts over the weekend.
The Art of the String Quartet series at Maier Hall, which is sold out, will present “Late Beethoven” at 7 p.m. Saturday.
Jeremy Denk and friends will perform Beethoven and Hahn at 3 p.m. Monday in the Donna M. Morris Auditorium at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $25 to $55 per person at www.fieldhall events.org/tickets.
The concert will feature pianist Jeremy Denk, violinists Kristin Lee and James Garlick, violists Noah Geller and Richard O’Neill and cellist Ani Aznavoorian.
The program includes Ludwig van Beethoven’s Seven Variations on a Theme from the Magic Flute, WoO 45 and his Piano Sonata in A-flat major, Op 110.
The concert also will include the infrequently performed Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor by the Venezuelan composer Reinaldo Hahn.
The festival finale, “Frank and Faure,” is set for Sept. 6 at Field Hall.
For more information, visit www.musiconthe strait.org.
• Ken Young will present a piano and organ recital at 7 p.m. Saturday at St. Matthew Lutheran Church, 132 E. 13th St., Port Angeles.
Admission is by donation, which will benefit the church’s preschool.
Young, a pianist and organist, will perform on the church’s new pipe organ, which recently was installed by Bond Organ Builders of Portland, Ore.
Organ works will include Johann Sebastian Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 and Charles-Marie Widor’s Toccata in F major from the Organ Symphony No. 5.
Young also will perform several of his own compositions, including a medley of songs composed for Olympic Theatre Arts’ “Lavender Legacies” and on the church’s 9-foot Steinway concert grand piano.
In addition, he will perform some traditional hymns, and the audience is encouraged to sing along.
For more information, call 360-457-4122 or email stmatthewpa@gmail.com.
• Live Life Loud, a two-day festival, will feature a mixture of punk, metal and psychedelic rock in the barn at the Quilcene Lantern, 7360 Center Road, Quilcene.
Tickets are $30 for Saturday, $50 for Sunday and $75 for the full weekend at https://btt.boldtypetickets.com/events/170367825/live-life-loud.
Parking, at $10 per car per day, and camping, at $15 per person per night, will be available on site.
Saturday’s lineup will include Filth Is Eternal, Key Party, Trashfecta, Male//Gaze and Benzo.
Sunday’s program will kick off with the festival’s featured band, Earth, along with Serial Hawk, Von Wildenhaus and Stebmo.
The Lantern bar will be open throughout the festival with wine, beer, cider, non-alcoholic drinks, cafe and pizza.
For more information, visit www.quilcenelantern.com.
• The Port Ludlow Art League will host its Labor Day Art Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday on the waterside lawn at the Port Ludlow Inn, 1 Heron Road, Port Ludlow.
The fair will feature artwork by local artists, including jewelry, paintings, photographs, woodworking, ceramics, textiles and cards.
For more information, visit www.portludlowart.org.
• Black Diamond Junction will perform a free Labor Day concert at 1 p.m. Monday at John Wayne’s Rustic Waterfront Resort, 2634 W. Sequim Bay Road, Sequim.
The band performs classic hits from the 1970s and ’80s
Visitors are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets for seating.
Refreshments will be available for purchase during the concert.
• The Olympic Music Festival will finish its summer season with concerts at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
The concerts will be in the Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend.
Tickets are $20 to $60 per person at www.olympicmusicfestival.org/2025-concerts.
All vehicles must display a Discover Pass in parking areas on Fort Worden. Passes may be purchased on site.
The festival will close with “Chamber Music Masters” featuring violinists Steven Copes and Sandy Yamamoto, violist Jonathan Vinocour, cellist Efe Baltacıgil and pianists Julio Elizalde and Robert McDonald.
Saturday’s concert, “Dark Passions,” will include works by Ades, Rachmaninoff and Franck.
On the program are “Three Berceuses” from Thomas Ades’ 2018 opera “The Exterminating Angel,” Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19, and Cesar Franck’s Piano Quintet in F minor.
The season finale, “Tempest and Triumph,” on Sunday will feature works by Schubert, Brahms and Dvorak.
The program will feature the Allegro in A minor for Piano, Four Hands, D. 947 “Lebensstürme” by Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms’ Four Piano Pieces, Op. 119, and Antonín Dvořák’s Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81.
For more information, visit www.olympicmusic festival.org.
• Wilderson, composed of Ben Wilson and Steve Anderson, will perform acoustic rock from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Port Townsend Farmers Market, 650 Tyler St., Port Townsend.
• Rhythm Ride will perform original acoustic music from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at the Chimacum Farmers Market, 9122 Rhody Drive, Chimacum.
• The Sequim Guild of Seattle Children’s Hospital will conduct a bake sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., or until sold out, Saturday at the Pumpkin Patch Flea Market, 260045 U.S. Highway 101, Sequim.
The fundraiser features homemade cookies, pies, breads, jams and jellies ranging from $8 to $15.
Proceeds benefit uncompensated care and research at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
• Heidi Haney and Brian Curry will host a grand reopening party for Taps at the Guardhouse from 4 to 10 tonight at Taps Bar and Kitchen at Fort Worden State Park, 300 Eisenhower Ave., Port Townsend.
The party will feature wine tastings, live music as well as DJ Chef spinning vinyl.
The bar, which initially opened in June, offers comfort foods and salads as well as local wines, beer and cider across the street from Wheeler Theater.
For more information, visit www.tapsattheguard house.com.
• The Port Townsend Urban Sketchers will sketch near Point Hudson at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The group will meet at the outdoor picnic tables west of the Hudson Point Cafe, 130 Hudson St., Port Townsend.
After sketching boats, iconic buildings, the beach, the bay, the Cupola House and Sea Marine’s Boat Yard, the group will reconvene at noon to share their work and take a photo.
The event is free and open to sketchers of all skill levels.
For more information, visit www.urbansketchers porttownsend.wordpress.com.
