SEQUIM — Jazz from the American songbook, marimba music from Africa, electrified Celtic violin: One after another, they will fill the air at this weekend’s Sequim Balloon Festival.
The three-day event will bring 17 musical acts to Grant Field, 792 West Sequim Bay Road (across from the Black Bear Diner and Holiday Inn Express) alongside the display of hot-air balloons, a classic car show, food and drink vendors and an arts and crafts fair.
Tickets to the Sequim Balloon Festival cover all of the entertainment and are available at the Grant Field gates for $19 per day, or $29 for a three-day pass.
Children 11 and younger, though, can enjoy the events free, provided they are accompanied by an adult ticket holder.
Details await at www.SequimBalloonFestival.com.
Today’s printed Peninsula Daily News also has plentiful information about festival activities; here is the schedule for live music and dancing:
Saturday
■ 11 a.m. — Country and rock with Haywire
■ 11:30 a.m. — “Chicago” Hampton plays the National Anthem on harmonica
■ 1 p.m. — Jazz standards with vocalist Sarah Shea and her band, Chez Jazz
■ 3 p.m. — Big-band swing with Olympic Express
■ 5 p.m. — Soulful country with singer, guitarist and fiddle player Buck Ellard
■ 7 p.m. — Street dance with music by Half Pack LIVE
■ 9 p.m. — Electric violinist Geoffrey Castle
Sunday
■ 11 a.m. — Rock ‘n’ roll with Bound to Happen
■ 1 p.m. — Jazz with singer Jenny Davis
■ 3 p.m. — Global rhythms with Sequimarimba
■ 5 p.m. — English folk and American blues with Fret Noir
■ 7 p.m. — Street dance with music from the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s by Lenny Epps and the Hitmen
■ 9 p.m. — Geoffrey Castle
Monday
■ 10 a.m. — Country with the Buck Ellard Band
■ 11:30 a.m. — Bluegrass and country with the Old Sidekicks
■ 1:30 p.m. — Street dance with music by the MLR (Moderately Loud Rock) band.
