PORT ANGELES — The 10th annual Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival on the Port Angeles waterfront continues from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today (Sunday) with vendors, cooking demonstrations, children’s activities, music and, yes, more food at City Pier, The Gateway pavilion and the Red Lion Hotel.
Admission to the festival is free, and a big-top tent provides covered seating in the parking lot of the Red Lion, 221 N. Lincoln St.
More than 60 craft and merchant booths are set up on City Pier, along with children’s activities and food vendors.
“Fish” for crab at the High Tide Seafood and Wilder Auto Grab-A-Crab Tank Derby on City Pier between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For a $5 fee, participants can attempt to snag crabs for 10 minutes from large holding tanks using crab snares and bait.
The Crab Volleyball Tournament will continue today on Hollywood Beach.
Crab Revival
Ninety minutes of soul-stirring music is on the schedule this morning as the first-ever Crab Revival comes to The Gateway pavilion at First and Lincoln streets.
Abby Mae & the Homeschool Boys, a local group mixing gospel, Gaelic and Appalachian folk songs, will share the stage with the Peninsula Men’s Gospel Singers, a 19-voice choir.
The event will start at 9 a.m. and go till 10:30 a.m. And there will be food available, including crepes, crab quiche, a traditional breakfast and beverages.
This is a nondenominational gathering, said Mike Stenger, spokesman for the Men’s Gospel Singers. Abby Mae will open and play for about 25 minutes, and then “minister of the sea” Chuck Russell will speak.
To bring things to a crescendo, the Peninsula Men’s Gospel Singers will do a 25-minute set.
“We’re going to open with ‘Rise Up O Men of God,’” Stenger promised, adding that “Soon and Very Soon” and “Let There Be Peace on Earth” are among the other selections for Sunday.
This concert is also a chance to hear the choir with its new director, Lee Moseley, and new accompanist Penny Hall.
The Homeschool Boys, meantime, are taking a break from their studio work to come out this weekend.
The foursome, with singer Abby Latson, guitarist David Rivers, bassist Hayden Pomeroy and fiddler Joey Gish, are recording their next CD, for release Nov. 25, the day after Thanksgiving.
Other performances
Music on City Pier today:
■ 11 a.m.-noon: West African music with Korakana
■ 12:15-1:15 p.m.: 1920s and ’30s jazz with the Towering Inferno Orchestra
■ 1:30-2:30 p.m.: Mountain blues with Blue Rooster
■ 2:45-3:45 p.m.: Towering Inferno Orchestra
■ 4-5 p.m.: New Age guitar duo Fret Noir
