PORT ANGELES — J.A. Jance will present her new book, Dance of the Bones, in a free event at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., next Friday, Sept. 11.
This 7 p.m. appearance is likely to be popular, so Jance fans are encouraged to come early.
Dance, her 51st novel, brings together two of Jance’s series characters, Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont and Arizona Sheriff Brandon Walker, in a hunt for a sociopathic smuggler who’s been eluding justice for years.
The book, to come out this Tuesday, is the fifth in Jance’s Sheriff Walker series and the 24th in her Beaumont series.
About to rock
SEQUIM — Foghat, the group known for “Slow Ride,” “Fool for the City” and other 1970s hits, is coming to the James Center for the Performing Arts, aka the Sequim band shell, next Saturday, Sept. 12.
Gates open, rain or shine, at 6 p.m. at the James Center, 563 N. Rhodefer Road; show time is 7 p.m. with Seattle’s Medicine Hat as the opening act.
Tickets range from $25 for general admission to $40 for reserved infield seating to $60 for seats in the first 10 rows, while the outlets include brownpapertickets.com, 7 Cedars Casino in Blyn, Windermere Realty and the Olympic View Inn in Sequim, Odyssey Books and Strait Music in Port Angeles and Pennysaver Mart in Port Townsend.
For details, see www.Sequimconcerts.com.
‘Sounds of Cinema’
PORT LUDLOW — Tickets are on sale now for the first concert in the new Port Ludlow Performing Arts season, to take place at the 220-seat Bay Club auditorium, 120 Spinnaker Place.
Presidio Brass is the band on its way here for a Sept. 25 performance, for which tickets are $25 via www.PortLudlowPerformingArts.com. More about the rest of the season also awaits on that website.
At the Sept. 25 show, a champagne reception will start at 6:30 p.m. since this is the opener for the 25th anniversary season; then the brass ensemble will step up at 7:30 p.m.
The concert, titled “Sounds of the Cinema,” features John Williams’ scores for “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Jurassic Park” and “Return of the Jedi,” plus classical music from other movie soundtracks, all on the quintet’s tuba, trumpet, trombone, horn and piano.
For more details, phone the Bay Club at 360-437-2208.
Barn concerts
QUILCENE — This is the second-to-last weekend for the Olympic Music Festival, the summer concert series on a farm in rural Jefferson County. So two performances — at 2 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday — will be given over to the music of Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Monti, Falla and Ysaye, with violinist Ray Chen and pianist Julio Elizalde.
The sonatas and other pieces will fill the venue, a century-old barn, at 7360 Center Road in Quilcene, 18 miles south of Port Townsend. Listeners can choose to sit inside or outside on the lawn, where the music is broadcast; tickets range from $14 to $32.
For reservations and lots more information, see OlympicMusicFestival.org or phone 360-732-4800.
