PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT
PORT ANGELES — The 11th annual Juan de Fuca Festival begins today, May 28, and continues through Monday, May 31.
Tickets for the festival which celebrates a diversity of cultures with music, dance and theatrical performances, are $30 for a four-day pass ($25 for Festival members) and are available at Port Book and News, 104 E. First St., and Pacific Mist Books, 121 W. Washington St., Sequim. They are also available at the Vern Burton Center, 308 E. Fourth St., during the festival.
Daily tickets are available at $10 person ($9 for Festival members, students and seniors) at the Vern Burton center.
A street fair takes place beginning today at noon at the Vern Burton Center.
Performances take place at several stages: Ruddell Auto Mall Main Stage is at the Vern Burton Center; Chamber Stage is located down the hall from the Main Stage; Pettit Oil Stage is also located in the Vern Burton Center; KONP Stage is at the First United Methodist and Congregational Church, 110 E. Seventh St.; Fine Arts Center Stage is located at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.; and the Peninsula College Arts Stage is at the College Little Theatre, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
A schedule of performances follows. The schedule is subject to change without notice.
Friday, May 28
Ruddell Main Stage
6 p.m.: Casey Neill, country, folk, traditional Irish, and bluegrass
7:30 p.m.: Opening Ceremonies
7:45 p.m.: Showcase: Misty River, four women playing a wide range of Americana music from traditional to modern folk, on guitar, fiddle, accordion, bass and banjo.
9:15 p.m.: Showcase: What the Chelm performs Klezmer music of Eastern Europe and Israel.
Chamber Stage
5:30 p.m.: Shockable Rhythms Celtic music on guitar, fiddles, djembe drum and vocals.
6:30 p.m.: Baby Gramps music rooted in the ’20s and ’30s, rags, jazz, blues and originals on his antique National guitar.
7:45 p.m.: Juliet Wyers
9 p.m.: Casey Neill
Pettit Oil Stage
5 p.m.: Mars: A New Opportunity, power-point session looking at the Mars robotic missions of Spirit and Opportunity.
6 p.m.: Open House Visit and NASA Displays
Saturday, May 29
Ruddell Main Stage
11 a.m.: Five Acre “Orff”‘estra with Juanita Ramsey, children 7-12 years old perform a variety of tunes from Bach to Blues on xylophones, marimbas, recorder and percussion.
12:15 p.m.: Sun.Ergos: Family Theatre performs “Twinings: Folk-tales and Dances from the Third World.”
1:30 p.m.: Stevens Middle School Jazz Band
2:45 p.m.: Scoil Rince Slieveloughone Dance Company, traditional Irish step dancing
4:15 p.m.: Misty River
5:30 p.m.: Correo Aereo, traditional music of Venezuela, Mexico and Argentina.
6:45 p.m.: Tropak Ukrainian Dance Theatre
7:30 p.m.: Showcase: Dance Theater of Oregon
9 p.m.: Showcase: Cambalache, nine-piece salsa band
Chamber Stage
11 a.m.: Ches and Rebecca
Noon: Cameron and Kristin
1:15 p.m.: Cherry Hill bluegrass
2:30 p.m.: Carolyn Caruso
3:45 p.m.: Mandrell and Wedekind
5 p.m.: Tom May
6:30 p.m.: Kim and Jason
8 p.m.: Correo Aereo, Latin rhythms
9:15 p.m.: Larry Murante
Fine Arts Stage
Noon: Juliet Wyers
1:15 p.m.: Casey Neill
2:30 p.m.: Lynn Moroney: Stories and Myths of the Sky by the Chickasaw storyteller
3:45 p.m.: Larry Murante.
5 p.m.: TINH, Oregon-based Vietnamese guitarist and protégé of the legendary John Fahey
6:15 p.m.: Carolyn Caruso, multi-instrumentalist
KONP Stage
11:30 p.m.: North Olympic Beledi Middle Eastern Belly Dancers
12:45 p.m.: What the Chelm
2 p.m.: Misty River
3:15 p.m.: Nomadic Theater: The See-Saw Project; 2 clowns, One Mat, No Exit
4:30 p.m.: Naki’i Hawaiian Dancers
5:30 p.m.: Salsa lessons with Teresa Fajardo Lambert
6:15 p.m.: Manteca
7:30 p.m.: Lonely H Band
Peninsula College Arts Stage
11 a.m.: Northwest Dance Syndrome with Teresa Cowan-Kuist
Noon: Scoil Rince Slieveloughone Dance Company
1:15 p.m.: Tropak Ukrainian Dance
Pettit Oil Stage
10 a.m.: Tai Chi Chuan Workshop with Teresa Schmid
11:30 a.m.: Olympic Park Institute, expert instructors tell tales of bear and coyote
12:45 p.m.: A Voyage through Art and Space with Donna Young
2 p.m.: Searching for meteorites in Antarctica with Monika Kress.
3:15 p.m.: The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 with Brian Atwater
4:30 p.m.: Deep Water Exploration of Seafloor Habitats with Mary Sue Broncato.
Sunday, May 30
Ruddell Main Stage
11 a.m.: The Lincoln Park Daycare Marimba Ensemble
12:15 p.m.: The Charlie Brown Juggling Show
1:30 p.m.: Huayllipacha (Why-lee-pasha), music from Peru
2:45 p.m.: Andre Feriante, guitarist
4 p.m.: Shannon Saunders and the Splinters
5:15 p.m.: Shivanth and Deobrat Mishra, master sitar players
6:30 p.m.: Showcase: Jenna Mammina
7:45 p.m.: Showcase: Sentanta, Irish music
8:15 p.m.: Showcase: The Sugar Beets, bluegrass, Celtic, Folk and Motown
Chamber Stage
11:15 a.m.: Elaine Grinnell, S’Klallam storyteller
12:30 p.m.: Bottom Line Duo, Spencer and Tracy Hoveskeland on bass and cello
1:45 p.m.: TINH
3 p.m.: Sentanta
4:15 p.m.: Jeanette Alexander Duo with Geoff Castle
5:30 p.m.: Andre Feriante
6:45 p.m.: Tania Opland and Mike Freeman
8 p.m.: Shivnath and Deobrat Mishra: Master Sitar players
9:15 p.m.: Jenna Mammina
Fine Arts Stage
11:30 a.m.: Li Li
12:45 p.m.: Sentanta
2 p.m.: Jeanette Alexander Duo with Geoff Castle
3:15 p.m.: Peninsula Poets: Tess Gallagher, Alice Derry and Charlotte Warren
4:30 p.m.: Tanya Opland and Mike Freeman
5:45 p.m.: Stephen Cohen
KONP Stage
10:15 a.m.: Dance Theatre of Oregon: Dance workshop with principal dancers Marc Siegel and Pamela Lehan-Siegel
Noon: Singing In Baghdad: Film Presentation with Cameron and Kristina
1:30 p.m.: Peninsula Men’s Gospel Choir
2:30 p.m.: Odd Hack Band and Erran Sharpe
4:30 p.m.: The Charlie Brown Juggling Show
6 p.m.: Katari Taiko (Talking Drums)
7 p.m.: Shannon Saunders and The Splinters
Peninsula College Arts Stage
11:15 a.m.: Nomadic Theatre, The See-Saw Project: 2 clowns, One Mat, No Exit.
12:30 p.m.: Shakespeare, Robert Greenwood creates a one-man depiction of Shakespeare’s characters
1:45 p.m.: Port Angeles Dance Center
2:45 p.m.: Dance Theatre of Oregon
Pettit Oil Stage – NASA
11:30 a.m.: Marine Mammals of the Olympic Coast with Mary Sue Broncato
12:45 p.m.: The Search for Extrasolar Planets with Chris Laws
2 p.m.: The Dark Side of the Universe with Rob Fardon
3:15 p.m.: Illustrating and Animating the X-Ray Universe with Donna Young
4:30 p.m.: Olympic Park Institute, learn about the animals in Olympic Park
Monday, May 31
Ruddell Main Stage
11:30 a.m.: North Olympic Youth Symphony
12:45 p.m.: Katari Taiko (Talking Drums)
1:30 p.m.: Memorial Day Ceremony with Hank Cramer
2 p.m.: Pint and Dale, music based in the traditions of the British Isles and France
3:15 p.m.: Grupo Yawarmayo Peruvian Scissor Dancers (or 500-year-old break dancing!)
4:30 p.m.: Showcase: The Ecclestons
5:45 p.m.: Closing Ceremonies
6:15 p.m.: Showcase: Geoffrey Castle Band
Chamber Stage
11:30 a.m.: Hank Cramer
12:45 p.m.: Ann Louise Sterry, storyteller, singer and comedian
2 p.m.: The Ecclestons
3:15 p.m.: Stephen Cohen
4:30 p.m.: Pint and Dale
5:30 p.m.: Stanley and Kip Greenthal, traditional music of Brittany, Scotland, Ireland and the Balkans.
Fine Arts Stage
Noon: Huayllipacha (Why-lee-pasha)
1:15 p.m.: Melanie Falcioni, original Italian ballads, blues, jazz and folk songs
2 p.m.: Andre Feriante
3:15 p.m.: Stanley and Kip Greenthal
4:30 p.m.: Jenna Mammina
KONP Stage
Noon: Grupo Yawarmayo Peruvian Scissor Dancers
1:15 p.m.: Sun.Ergos: Coyote’s World
2:30 p.m.: Blue Notes
3:45 p.m.: Hot Club Sandwich
Pettit Oil Stage
10:30 a.m.: Stephen Cohen leads an instrument making workshop with found objects.
12:15 p.m.: From the American Dream to the Global Dream: Workshop led by Cameron and Kristina
2 p.m.: Banjos 101
Outside Stage
(Monday)
12:30 p.m.: Carpetbag Brigade Physical Theater Company: Mudfire, an acrobatic stilt-walking spectacle
2:30 p.m. Carpetbag Brigade Physical Theater Company: Mudfire
4:30 p.m.: Jenna Mammina
