PT outdoor concert at 3 p.m. today (and other outdoor concerts later this week)

Pack up a picnic dinner, grab your lawn chair or a blanket and head to family-friendly outdoor community concerts in Jefferson and Clallam counties this week.

Don’t forget your sunglasses if it’s sunny, and a coat for when the sun begins to dip.

Here’s the schedule:

Port Townsend

• Today, 3 p.m. — The Port Townsend Summer Band wraps up its season with a concert in Chetzemoka Park, 900 Jackson St., between Garfield and Roosevelt streets.

Free.

The band will perform selections from “Mikado,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “Hello, Dolly!” and a tribute to Benny Goodman, the “king of swing.”

The guest conductor will be Lylburn Layer, music director and conductor of the North Cascades Concert Band.

He also is the principal clarinetist in the Port Angeles Symphony and Chamber Orchestra.

• Thursday, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. — Battle of the Bands winner Blacky Sheridan (Port Townsend-based band, classic and modern rock).

Free.

This is the last in the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce’s summer Concert on the Dock series at the end of Water Street across from the Northwest Maritime Center (431 Water St.).

Concert on the Dock will resume next summer.

Sequim

• Tuesday, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. — Ranger and the Re-Arrangers (gypsy jazz).

Free.

This is the last in the city of Sequim’s Music in the Park series at the outdoor James Center for the Performing Arts amphitheater in the Sequim Water Reuse Park, 563 N. Rhodefer Road, just north of Carrie Blake Park.

Music in the Park will be back next June.

Port Angeles

• Wednesday, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. — Luck of the Draw (bluegrass).

Free.

This is part of the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Concert on the Pier series.

Concerts are every Wednesday through Sept. 8 on Port Angeles City Pier.

Vendors sell food.

City Pier is a no-smoking, alcohol-free environment.

Some chairs are available for the disabled and early arrivals.

Next free Concert on the Pier, on Wednesday, Sept. 8 — last concert of the season — Sequim City Band (marches, music from musicals and movies, classical, jazz, big band and pop music).

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