Fall means potluck, dancing
SEQUIM — The Fall Community Potluck and Barn Dance are about to take over Nash’s Organic Produce, 4861 Sequim-Dungeness Way, on Saturday night.
The party starts at 6 p.m. with the potluck open to all, this time with local beer and wine poured by North Olympic Land Trust workers.
Proceeds from those beverages will benefit the trust, and outside alcohol won’t be allowed.
The barn dance will get started at 7:30 p.m. with Spoonshine, a Seattle band calling their music “Americana and beyond.”
Admission is $10 for adults; free for youths 15 and younger.
To find out more about the band, see Spoonshine.com, and for details about Saturday’s events, phone Nash’s at 360-681-6274.
Calling all dancers
PORT ANGELES — The music that made its way to the Pacific Northwest over the Oregon Trail will soon come to life again, dished out for dancers and listeners Saturday night.
The band Notatious — Phil and Vivian Williams, Bonnie Zahnow and W.B. Reid — will step up for a community contra dance at 8 p.m., following a beginners’ dance lesson and refresher at 7:30 p.m., all at the Black Diamond Community Hall, 1942 Black Diamond Road.
Music lovers of all ages are welcome, and no experience is necessary to join the dance or just sit and take in the music.
Admission is $8 for adults and $4 for youths 17 and younger.
All of the steps will be cued by Amy Carroll, a well-traveled dance caller from Seattle. A music and dance teacher in the public schools there, Carroll will lead the evening’s workshop.
To find out more about Port Angeles’ contra dances, visit www.BlackDiamondDance.org.
Sweet art
PORT TOWNSEND — Painter Carol Long — aka Mrs. Toyne, teacher in the Port Townsend schools till retirement in 2001 — is home from her travels in Guatemala, Mexico and Belize and eager to display her art in two uptown venues.
Long’s “Expressions on Paper,” light-filled paintings sparked by her imagination and by Mother Nature, are on display at Sweet Laurette’s Cafe, 1029 Lawrence St., where Long will be on hand for an open house Tuesday. Art lovers are invited to stop by between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Long’s art is also on view at the Library Learning Center, 1256 Lawrence St., through November.
