PORT TOWNSEND — Highway Twenty Roadhouse, 2152 W. Sims Way, will present hip-hop artist Kyle Collins, who goes by the moniker “Sincerely Collins,” at 8 p.m. Saturday.
Tickets are $12, and available at the door.
Collins, of Tempe, Ariz., currently is traveling the country as part of his Break For Gold Tour to promote his new album “The Legend of The Phoenix.”
Collins was homeless for two years while he recorded this album, he said.
The album, he said, was inspired by his life-long search for his mother, Lisa Dianne Jameson, who has been missing for 21 years.
“This album is basically an autobiography,” Collins said.
“A microscopic look into my life from day one. I’ve pushed through adversity so many times in one lifetime you would think I was searching for it.
“As far as ‘Limelight,’ well that’s where I am now. It’s a representation of the diamond. The result of all the previous pressure and darkness.”
For more information, call 360-385-7747 or visit www.sincerelycollins.com.
Benefit concert
PORT TOWNSEND — Grace Lutheran Church, 1120 Walker St., is slated to host the eighth annual Ugandan AIDS Orphans Benefit Concert presented by pianist Lisa Lanza on Sunday.
Lanza has assembled musicians to perform at the show including cellist Madelyn Kowalski; harpist Pinky Dale; violinist Mimi Grant; pianists Anika Pearl and Mia Torres; singers Diana Bond, Ayla Favati, Owen Brummell, Sydney Keegan, Leslie Lewis and Peter Gries; and The All City Choir directed by Marj Iuro and Colleen Johnson.
Doors open at 3:15 p.m. with pre-concert music by musical group Bellajack at 3:30 p.m. and the concert scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.
Entry is by the suggested donation of $15 at the door, organizers said.
Proceeds from the concert will benefit 17 orphans sponsored by the church, organizers said.
“For the past 13 years, one of the major outreach projects of Grace Lutheran Church has been to support the education of children in a remote part of Uganda who have lost their parents due to AIDS,” Lanza said.
“The program has been so successful that nine have graduated from the initial group.”
These young men and women “have gone on to become middle class citizens working in occupations such as nurses, chefs, hair dressers, electricians, business owners and teachers,” Lanza continued.
“The four who remain in the program are enrolled at university studying economics, medicine and secondary education.
“Two of them will finish their studies this term.”
For more information, call 360-385-1595.
Call for art
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Arts Commission and Northwind Arts Center seek submissions for the 18th annual Art Port Townsend Juried Art Competition titled “Expressions Northwest.”
The show will take place Aug. 4-28 at the arts center, 701 Water St..
Artists must be at least 16 years old and a resident of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska or British Columbia, Canada. Works, including photography, can be three-dimensional or two-dimensional.
Cash and merchandise awards will be presented.
The juror will be Patricia Watkinson, who is an art and museum consultant based in Seattle. Most recently, she was the interim director of the Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner.
A nonrefundable entry fee of $45 is required to submit a maximum of three digital entries (no slides or prints) per artist.
Entries must be submitted online to www.OnlineJuriedShows.com.
Artists will need to create a free account and then follow the provided directions to enter into Art Port Townsend, including the “Receipt of Entry.”
The deadline to enter is June 10.
For more information, phone Joan Balzarini at 208-869-7508 or 360-437-7922 or email nwartistjb@outlook.com, or email Kim Simonelli at webmaster@northwindarts.com.
Further information can be found in person at the Northwind Arts Center or online at www.northwindarts.org or www.artporttownsend.org.
