NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Feb. 26.
PORT TOWNSEND — The Crow Quill Night Owls are back in town for their first local performance in months at The Cellar Door, 940 Water St. No. 1.
The band will be on stage from 9 p.m. to midnight tonight. The cover charge is $5. Then on Saturday, The Galaxy Trio will be on stage from 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
The group in 2014 was founded by drummer Steve Grandinetti and vibraphonist Rickey Kelly.
The two say they have a strong musical connection, playing together with focused intensity in their improvisational explorations of time and space.
They will be joined by bassist Ted Enderle who is filling in for Phil Sparks.
Book Launch
PORT TOWNSEND — Writers’ Workshoppe and Imprint Books, 820 Water St., on Saturday will host a book launch for Port Townsend author Julie Christine Johnson.
Her new book, In Another Life was published this year.
It tells the tale of a heartbroken researcher on an adventure through the lush landscape and historical intrigue of southern France.
The book launch will begin at 7 p.m.
For more information, call 360-379-2617.
Chimacum event
CHIMACUM — The Port Townsend Community Orchestra on Sunday will perform at Chimacum High School Auditorium, 91 West Valley Road.
The free concert will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
During the concert, the orchestra will perform pieces such as Franz Schubert’s “Symphony No. 1” and “March Militaire,” George Friderick Handel’s “Concerto Grosso No. 1 in G Major,” Charles Sanford’s “Irish Rhapsody No. 1,” and Johann Strauss Jr.’s “Tritsch Tratsch Polka” and “Wine Women and Song Waltz.”
For more information, visit http://www.porttownsendorchestra.org.
Poet Ellen Bass
PORT TOWNSEND — Poet Ellen Bass will give a special poetry reading Sunday evening at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave.
The free reading will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Throughout the years, Bass’ writings have found a welcome home at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, with her poems being discussed within sermons, presented as readings during worship, and highlighted by congregants during the fellowship’s annual “Favorite Poem Service.”
Bass believes that poetry is one way to become more acutely awake to the human experience, allowing oneself to be transformed.
“How do we praise the world even as we are open eyed to all its brutality and loss?” she writes.
“How do we open our door to the strange angels of beauty and pain, love and death?”
Bass’ poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Sun, and many other journals and anthologies.
Copper Canyon Press has published her two most recent books of poems, The Human Line and Like a Beggar.
In 1973, she co-edited the groundbreaking, No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women.
In 1996, her book, Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth, was published.
Then in 2008, her book, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, was published and went on to sell more than 1 million copies and has been translated into 12 languages.
Bass’ books from Copper Canyon will be available for purchase and signing after the reading.
