FOUR DAYS OF arts and music comes to Port Angeles — buy your tickets now! (And . . . FREE pre-festival show Thursday)

FOUR DAYS OF arts and music comes to Port Angeles — buy your tickets now!  (And . . . FREE pre-festival show Thursday)

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS is the major sponsor of the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts.

Truly one of the great West Coast music and arts festivals, it will bring more than 100 performers to Port Angeles this coming Memorial Day weekend — Friday (May 24) through Monday (May 27).

AND THERE’S an extra — a FREE, family-friendly pre-festival special event at 7:30 p.m. Thursday (May 23).

Mane Rok — from Denver, one of the premier hip hop artists/emcees — will perform at the festival’s main venue, the Vern Burton Center, 308 E. Fourth St. in Port Angeles.

(And there’s plenty of nearby free parking, available that night and through the weekend).

For more about Rok, click on: http://jffa.org/?page_id=182

CHECK OUT the festival lineup in the official program that was in Sunday’s Peninsula Daily News.

Or click to read it page by page online on http://issuu.com/peninsuladailynews/docs/jffa2013?mode=window&layout=http://skin.issuu.com/v/light/layout.xml&showFlipBtn=true.

Or go to the festival’s home page at www.jffa.org.

SPECIAL SALE now on through Thursday! Save money on Early Bird Four-Day Passes ($50 now, $60 at the gate beginning Friday. You can also buy per-day passes.). 

Early-bird passes are available online at www.jffa.org, and from Port Book and News in downtown Port Angeles and Pacific Mist Books in downtown Sequim. Or phone the festival office at 360-457-5411.

In addition to the on-stage performances, there are workshops plus the Art Shack and the Street Fair featuring food, arts and outdoor entertainment.

And wine, beer and snack food inside the Vern Burton Center.

AND FOR the over 21-set, there are festival after-hours shows in Bar N9ne, Bella Italia and Next Door Gastropub in downtown Port Angeles (your festival ticket/wristband gets you in free, or you can buy a $5 pass).

The promotion . . . BELOW . . . has more.

SEE YOU at the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts!

(PLEASE NOTE: If you’re using AN IPAD (which doesn’t permit Flash), click on this link to view the promotion: https://www.box.com/shared/qeo7akjur4w7l8mnsmwp)

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