Juan de Fuca sets season concert series

PORT ANGELES — Dan Maguire calls it a “great community adventure”: nine concerts bringing blues, folk, Celtic, rock, gospel, even the circus to town.

Maguire, executive director of the Juan de Fuca Foundation for the Arts and presenter of the Juan de Fuca Festival every May in Port Angeles, has booked the 2013-2014 set of Season Concerts.

The series brings in one act per month to various venues, starting in July with the Scots-Irish duo Men of Worth on July 27 at the Peninsula College Little Theater. Then come the Slide Brothers, sacred-steel guitar men, Aug. 3 at Olympic Cellars winery just east of town. A parade of musicians follows into next spring.

Season passes are on sale now at $99 for all nine shows; premium seating at the whole set goes for $119. Pass-holders will save up to 40 percent off single ticket prices, Maguire notes. For more information, see www.JFFA.org, phone 360-457-5411 or visit the Juan de Fuca Festival page on Facebook.

Here’s the Season Concerts lineup.

■   Men of Worth, music of Scotland and Ireland, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 27, Little Theater at Peninsula College, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., single tickets $15.

■   The Slide Brothers, gospel, blues and soul,

7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, Olympic Cellars winery, 255410 U.S. Highway 101, single tickets $15.

■   Everything Fitz, with Canadian fiddle champions Julie and Tom Fitzgerald; Ottawa Valley step-dancing, jigs, reels, bluegrass and beyond, 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center, 304 E. Park Ave., $15.

■   Maria in the Shower, Vancouver, B.C.’s favorite vaudevillian quartet, steps up to the challenge of making old music feel new and performing material as fresh as it is traditional, 8 p.m., Oct. 12, Port Angeles Elks ballroom, 131 E. First St., $15.

■   California Guitar Trio and Montreal Guitar Trio, progressive rock, classical, jazz and world music, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center, $15-$25.

■   Geoffrey Castle’s Celtic Christmas with Celtic dancers, Castle’s electric violin, light show and Santa Claus, 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center, $15-$25.

■   Cirque Ziva, acrobatics, dance, ancient and contemporary music and theater,

7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center, $15-$25.

■ Folk-country-roots singer Ruth Moody of the Wailin’ Jennys, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 2, Little Theater at Peninsula College, $20.

■   The Harlem Gospel Choir, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 4, Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center, $15-$35.

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