PORT ANGELES — A trio of singers is set to offer an evening of music — for all ages with no cover charge — at Wine on the Waterfront this Tuesday.
Dan Maguire, John Miller and 13-year-old Sammy Weinert will join forces for this 7 p.m. show produced by Michael Rivers, voice teacher to all three.
“Dan, better known for his work with Juan de Fuca Foundation and the YMCA, turns out to be a prolific songwriter, and a good one at that,” Rivers said.
The singer-guitarist “keeps playing me these great songs with catchy and insightful lines like ‘I was so far down, the bottom looked up.’
“Anyway, Dan will open with a strong set of original tunes.”
Next up: Sammy, who is releasing her first CD single, “Never Know.”
Her set will be “short and amazing,” Rivers believes.
The single is a bluesy song Sammy wrote about her late mother, Justine Raphael. She penned the lyrics after her mom’s breast cancer diagnosis.
Raphael died in November at age 53.
Mother-daughter love
Arranged and recorded by Jeremy Cays Productions of Sequim, “Never Know” is a love song between a mother and daughter, Rivers said.
Sammy also will sing a couple of her favorite covers: one from “Les Miserables” and one from the Disney movie “Hercules.”
The show will close with John Z. Miller, a guitarist, another of Rivers’ voice students and a longtime Farmers Insurance agent in Port Angeles.
Turns out, Rivers said, that Miller loves country and folk songs from the likes of Johnny Cash, Dana Lyons and Hank Williams — and will offer six of them in his set.
Tuesday is also the birthday of Miller’s elderly dog, Farley. So there will be dog songs in the mix.
To find out more about Tuesday’s showcase, contact Wine on the Waterfront, which is upstairs in The Landing mall at 115 E. Railroad Ave., at 360-565-VINO (8466). Rivers can be reached at 360-808-7050.
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Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane.urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.
