Marcello Goncalves, guitar, and Anat Cohen on the clarinet, play a duet during a Jazz Port Townsend concert Friday at McCurdy Pavilion at Fort Worden State Park. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Marcello Goncalves, guitar, and Anat Cohen on the clarinet, play a duet during a Jazz Port Townsend concert Friday at McCurdy Pavilion at Fort Worden State Park. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

PHOTO GALLERY: Jazz sounds, then blues fest in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — The wonderful sounds you heard coming from Fort Worden over the weekend were Jazz Port Townsend, which ran through Saturday. Centrum will host another festival at Fort Worden, the Acoustic Blues Festival, with a dance on Wednesday, a free showcase at noon Friday, Blues in the Clubs at the fort Friday and Saturday and the Centrum Gospel Choir performance and Acoustic Blues main stage concert Saturday. For information, go to https://centrum.org.

Immanuel Wilkins, center, on alto sax, is joined by Dan Balmer on guitar, D’Vonne Lewis on drums, Shawn Conley on bass and Eric Verlinde on piano as they play a set in Fort Worden’s Wheeler Theater during Jazz Port Townsend Jazz in the Clubs on Friday night. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Immanuel Wilkins, center, on alto sax, is joined by Dan Balmer on guitar, D’Vonne Lewis on drums, Shawn Conley on bass and Eric Verlinde on piano as they play a set in Fort Worden’s Wheeler Theater during Jazz Port Townsend Jazz in the Clubs on Friday night. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Guest artist Mark Taylor, on sax, joins Matt Wilson on drums with Chuck Deardorf on bass and Dawn Clement on the piano during a Jazz Port Townsend Jazz in the Clubs set at the Commons at Fort Worden State Park on Friday. Jazz Port Townsend continued through Saturday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Guest artist Mark Taylor, on sax, joins Matt Wilson on drums with Chuck Deardorf on bass and Dawn Clement on the piano during a Jazz Port Townsend Jazz in the Clubs set at the Commons at Fort Worden State Park on Friday. Jazz Port Townsend continued through Saturday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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