Entertainment

Duck Derby to offer prizes on Sunday

First in-person version of annual event since 2019

Black Feathers duo, Song Club performances set

Rainshadow Recording is hosting performances tonight and Friday night in Port Townsend. The Black Feathers, a U.K.-based singer-songwriter duo, will perform at… Continue reading

Tom Noddy will present Bubble Magic during the highlight of the Chautauqua Weekend, which will begin on Friday.

Chautauqua celebrates activities this weekend

Some events blend with weekend’s Rhody Festival

Tom Noddy will present Bubble Magic during the highlight of the Chautauqua Weekend, which will begin on Friday.
Blake McCabe

Drag performances offered at Studio Bob for weekend

Studio Bob will offer a weekend of drag performances led by Port Angeles High School alumnus Blake McCabe on Friday and Saturday… Continue reading

Blake McCabe

Storytellers, listeners wanted at Sequim slam

The next Out Loud Story Slam is set for this Friday and storytellers of any experience level are invited. This monthly event will… Continue reading

Ella Ashford.

Students to be honored at Feiro dinner/auction

Jamestown speaker to tell of sacred link to water environments

Ella Ashford.

Alternative Cinema presents free screenings

Alternative Cinema will present two screenings of “Whose Children Are They?” The free presentations are at 7 p.m. Friday at Port Angeles… Continue reading

Diane Urbani de la Paz has published “All My Love: A Story of War and Hope,” a work of narrative nonfiction. (Phil Lusk)

Love, war and hope feed author’s first book

Former reporter, columnist tells tale of letters written home

Diane Urbani de la Paz has published “All My Love: A Story of War and Hope,” a work of narrative nonfiction. (Phil Lusk)

Poets discuss dance and poetry

Mary Moore Easter and Lillo Way on Thursday will share stories from their careers as dancers and choreographers and discuss how dance,… Continue reading

Lisa Jensen
Port Townsend Rhododendron Festival Royality are, from left, Princess Brigitte Palmer, Queen Jenessah Seebergoss and Princess Hailey Hirschel. Seebergoss will not be able to attend this year.

Stop and smell the rhodies again

Rhododendron Festival begins Wednesday

Lisa Jensen
Port Townsend Rhododendron Festival Royality are, from left, Princess Brigitte Palmer, Queen Jenessah Seebergoss and Princess Hailey Hirschel. Seebergoss will not be able to attend this year.
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Denny Henson of NW Rustic Cuts works on carved bears at the Logging Show at the Sequim Irrigation Festival on Friday. The show continues today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. as well as a variety of other events during the festival’s grand finale weekend. The highlight will be the Grand Parade through downtown Sequim from noon to 1:30 p.m. today. For more information, see irrigationfestival.com and facebook.com/SequimIrrigationFestival.

Art with bear hands at Irrigation Festival

Denny Henson of NW Rustic Cuts works on carved bears at the Logging Show at the Sequim Irrigation Festival on Friday. The show continues today… Continue reading

Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group 

Denny Henson of NW Rustic Cuts works on carved bears at the Logging Show at the Sequim Irrigation Festival on Friday. The show continues today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. as well as a variety of other events during the festival’s grand finale weekend. The highlight will be the Grand Parade through downtown Sequim from noon to 1:30 p.m. today. For more information, see irrigationfestival.com and facebook.com/SequimIrrigationFestival.

Prelude canceled; Juan de Fuca Fest to go on

The Prelude to a Festival has been canceled, but not the actual Juan de Fuca Festival set for May 27-29. The Prelude,… Continue reading

Sam Chase and his band, the Untraditional, will be among the performers at a new event, a prelude to the upcoming Juan de Fuca Festival.

‘Prelude to a Festival’ Sunday at Elks ballroom

Concert will include blend of music and space for dancing

Sam Chase and his band, the Untraditional, will be among the performers at a new event, a prelude to the upcoming Juan de Fuca Festival.

Boat school’s Hull Raiser this weekend

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding will host a fundraising auction both in person and virtually on Saturday. The Hull Raiser will… Continue reading

Celebrations, music, plants and boat christenings planned on Peninsula this weekend

A grand parade and logging show as part of a Sequim festival and Esprit hosting public events in Port Angeles are among the events scheduled… Continue reading

Chicago Bob Longmire, pictured playing solo at the Rothschild House last summer, will bring the Midnight Train Blues Band to Port Townsend’s Discovery Bay Brewing Co. for the monthly blues jam starting Sunday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

First blues jam of season set for Sunday

Midnight Train Blues Band to lead session

Chicago Bob Longmire, pictured playing solo at the Rothschild House last summer, will bring the Midnight Train Blues Band to Port Townsend’s Discovery Bay Brewing Co. for the monthly blues jam starting Sunday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Cabled Fiber & Yarn owner Beth Witters will demonstrate weaving on Saturday.

Second Saturday Art Walk offers demonstrations, artwork

The Second Saturday Art Walk offers free demonstrations and exhibits throughout Port Angeles. • Studio Bob’s Second Weekend on Saturday and Sunday… Continue reading

Cabled Fiber & Yarn owner Beth Witters will demonstrate weaving on Saturday.
Katy Morse's images are on display at Gallery 9 in Port Townsend.

Wood work, acrylics on display at Gallery 9

Gallery 9 has turned May’s spotlight on Jon Geisbush and his woodturnings and Katy Morse and her acrylic paintings. Gallery 9, home… Continue reading

Katy Morse's images are on display at Gallery 9 in Port Townsend.
Guest conductor Jolene Dalton Gailey of Port Angeles leads the RainShadow Chorale in rehearsal for two concerts in Chimacum this week. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Music, poetry: ‘The Illumination of My Soul’

Guest conductor to lead RainShadow Chorale performance

Guest conductor Jolene Dalton Gailey of Port Angeles leads the RainShadow Chorale in rehearsal for two concerts in Chimacum this week. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Olympic Theatre Arts offers improv comedy

Imagined Reality will preform improv comedy on the Olympic Theater Arts Main Stage at 7 p.m. Saturday. Olympic Theater Arts Center saw overflowing… Continue reading