PORT ANGELES — The 26th annual Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts continues today and Monday.
Daily tickets are $40 for today and $30 for Monday. Students with valid identification can purchase half-price tickets.
Children 12 and younger will be admitted free of charge.
On Memorial Day, each active-duty service member and each veteran will be given a 50 percent military discount on festival day passes.
The primary festival grounds are at the Vern Burton Community Center at 308 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles. There are the D.A. Davidson Main Stage, the Nancy Vivolo/7 Cedars Casino Chamber Stage and the festival ticket store, as well as art shows in the Vern Burton atrium and at the entrance to the Main Stage.
Outdoors at the Vern Burton center will be 12 food vendors and 42 artisans booths, as well as a Community Tent and free outdoor entertainment.
Other venues are at the Elks Naval Lodge at 131 E. First St. The Elwha River Casino Stage will be on the second floor of the lodge. The KONP Stage will be on the third floor.
Today’s concerts will begin at noon. Music on Monday will start at 11 a.m., with the final act at 4:15 p.m. At 11:45 a.m., a Memorial Day celebration is set on the Main Stage.
A free festival shuttle will loop around the venue sites — the Vern Burton Center and the parking lot across from the Elks lodge — from noon to 8 p.m. today.
Information is available at jffa.org.
The Peninsula Daily News published a 2019 Juan de Fuca Festival guide May 15. That special section also can be found online at www.peninsuladaily news.com. Go to the Menu, then to Print Editions and then click on either Clallam or Jefferson counties. Special sections are below the e-editions.
Members of the Five Acre Soundwaves Marimba Band from Sequim’s Five Acre School show off their musical skills on Friday outside Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles.
Amica Hunter, top, and Dave Cantor of the vaudeville duo A Little Bit Off give a slapstick performance on Saturday on the Juan de Fuca Festival Main Stage.
Jess Barnes of Bend, Ore.-based Loving Tree Henna drains pooled rainwater from fellow vendor’s tent next to her own after drenching rain moved over Port Angeles on Saturday, cancelling many outdoor performances and activities.
Port Townsend-based Stringology, from left, Tracy Grisman, Terianne Stratton and Eric Bogart, entertains the audience from the festival’s Chamber Stage on Saturday.
Renee Hasner of Lewiston, Idaho sands under her umbrella wating to place a food order from the Bancock Bistro food stand on Saturday.
Dion Solheim of Graham and Ramona Valadez of Port Angeles examine a display of children’s art in the atrium of Vern Burton Community Center on Saturday.
Festival patrons stand in a pouring rain along a nearly deserted line of food booths and trailers on Saturday afternoon.
The Trio Voronezh performs a set of classical and contemporary music on Saturday at the Elks Club in Port Angeles, one of four venues for the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts. The band consists of, from left, Vladimir Volokhin on domra, Valerie Petrukhin of balalaika and Sergi Teleshev on bayan.
San Francisco-based Barrio Manouche enthralls the audience on the Main Stage in Vern Burton Community Center on Saturday.
