PORT TOWNSEND — From Billie Holiday to Tom Waits, this guitarist and singer likes to wander the blues-jazz passages.
Michael Glaviano, a Port Townsend musician, yoga teacher and writer, will offer an evening of Waits, Holiday and more next Tuesday at the Key City Playhouse, 419 Washington St.
The 7 p.m. performance is a benefit for Key City Public Theatre, a troupe offering plays, musicals, literary readings and youth programs in downtown Port Townsend.
Tickets to Glaviano’s concert are about 75 percent sold, according to organizer Debbi Steele. They’re available on a pay-what-you-can basis, she added, while the suggested donation is $15. To reserve seats, phone 360-379-2949 and leave a message.
Pay-what-you-can basis
“Michael Glaviano is a fabulous guitarist. He loves performing,” Steele said, “but he doesn’t want to take money for it.”
Retired from a career in the high-tech world, Glaviano is also a seasoned musician and a fan of Key City’s productions.
“They’re doing good things,” he said, and he wants to support those things any way he can.
“I hope we get a good cross-section of folks, especially people who don’t know much about Key City Public Theatre,” Glaviano said of Tuesday’s concert.
If any tickets are left that night, they will be sold at the door, he added.
For information about Key City presentations this summer, including Shakespeare’s “Much Ado about Nothing” opening Aug. 2 in Port Townsend’s Chetzemoka Park, visit www.KeyCityPublicTheatre.org or phone 360-379-0195.
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Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane.urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.
