Eleven choirs, 220 singers at Worden
PORT TOWNSEND – The Fort Worden Children’s Choir Festival, a gathering of singers from across the Northwest, culminates in a public concert at McCurdy Pavilion this Saturday afternoon.
With 11 choirs and 220 choristers, the event will start at 3 p.m. at the venue at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way.
Tickets will be available at the door for $15 for general admission or $12 for seniors and students, with festival seating.
This year’s ensembles include:
■ The Colla Voce and Bella Voce choirs from Kent.
■ The Port Townsend Youth Chorus.
■ The Holy Trinity School Choir from Vancouver, B.C.
■ The Bellevue Girlchoir’s premiere concert and training choirs.
■ The Seattle Children’s Chorus.
■ The Spectrum Choral Academy’s Youth & Children’s Chorus from Gig Harbor.
■ The St. Joseph’s School Choir from Seattle.
■ The Oregon Repertory Singers from Portland, Ore.
The festival is open to all children’s choirs, with singers ranging in age from 5 to 18, said Stephanie Charbonneau, executive director.
Its philosophy is a non-competitive one, she added, with emphasis on making great music and new friendships rather than winning.
To purchase tickets in advance of Saturday’s concert, visit www.BrownPaperTickets.com or phone Charbonneau at 360-271-8086.
More information also awaits at www.fortwordenfestival.com.
Hot, tasty music Saturday night
PORT TOWNSEND — In Hot Club Sandwich, you’ve got swing fiddle, swing mandolin, guitar, bass, a light drum kit and everybody singing.
The band, specializing in vintage jazz and Latin classics with plenty of twang, is here for a gig at Rainshadow Recording Studio on Saturday night.
Admission is $10 to the 8 p.m. show, which will fill up the new Rainshadow studio, which seats around 50 people.
Everett Moran recently established Rainshadow in the space formerly used by the Synergy studio inside Building 315 at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way.
Moran plans to open his studio, also a workshop and rehearsal space, in June. He can be reached at centrumrecording@gmail.com.
As for Hot Club Sandwich, fans also can catch the band at Port Angeles’ Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts both Saturday and Sunday.
For details, see the report in this Peninsula Spotlight and visit www.JFFA.org.
Wanted: Videos
PORT ANGELES — Current and former Peninsula College students are invited to enter their short videos in the second annual Moving Pictures Festival set for next month.
The submission deadline is Wednesday, May 27, at noon.
Entries must be available as a high quality video on YouTube for consideration, and run less than 15 minutes.
Videos can be student work or productions outside of coursework.
The Moving Pictures Festival will be held Thursday, June 4, at 7 p.m. in Maier Performance Hall at Peninsula College, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
The event will be free and open to the public.
Participants must email their YouTube URL to Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond, Peninsula College’s digital video instructor, at rbrock-richmond@pencol.edu.
Each video must include the entrant’s name, years attending Peninsula College, the title of the video, the length and the year it was made.
Brock-Richmond and Peninsula College students who have earned their Short-Term Certificate in Digital Video will review the submissions Thursday and make their selections in time for the videos to be edited together for the festival.
For more information, contact Brock-Richmond at rbrock-richmond@pencol.edu or call 360-460-3023.
Solstice festival call
PORT ANGELES — Artisans and other vendors are sought for the new Summer Solstice Festival, to be held Saturday, June 20, at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center.
Those who create original, handmade crafts and artwork are encouraged to apply, as are others such as tarot card readers and henna tattoo artists.
The deadline to submit a vendor application is May 31; accepted exhibitors will receive notification by June 5.
To apply online, see www.PAFAC.org and click on Event Information.
Applicants will need to attach two photos of their items to be sold plus pay a nonrefundable submission fee of $25.
Vendors who are accepted will pay a booth fee of $25.
The Summer Solstice Festival will include the presentation of the new Art Outside sculptures in Webster’s Woods, the 5-acre art park surrounding the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Bellydancing, drum circles and a barbecue are also part of the plans.
For more information, phone fine arts center director Robin Anderson at 360-457-3532.
