PORT ANGELES — Country music will float from the City Pier on Wednesday as the Concert on the Pier series begins for the summer.
The annual Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Concert on the Pier series will begin with country band 8 Second Ride performing from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
They are the first of the free summer concerts to be held in Port Angeles on Wednesdays and Sequim on Tuesdays, both from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The Port Angeles concerts will be weekly until Sept. 8 at the City Pier.
Sequim’s Music and a Movie in the Park will begin Tuesday, June 29.
City Pier is a no-smoking, alcohol-free environment. Vendors will sell food.
Title sponsors of the Port Angeles music series include KeyBank, Peninsula Daily News and Elwha River Casino, and the presenting sponsor is Sunset Do It Best Hardware.
The rest of the schedule:
• Big Fine Daddies with music from the 1960s to the present on June 30.
• Wise Guys with music from Sinatra to the Rolling Stones on July 7.
• Dixi-Blu Jazz Band on July 14.
• Olympic Express Big Band on July 21.
• Deadwood Revival with bluegrass on July 28.
• Jane and the John Doe Band with rock ‘n’ roll on Aug. 4.
• The Soulshakers with blues on Aug. 11.
• SuperTrees with rock ‘n’ roll on Aug. 18.
• Sequimarimba with marimba on Aug. 25.
• Luck of the Draw with bluegrass on Sept. 1.
• Sequim City Band with big band music on Sept. 8.
Music in Sequim
The Air National Guard Band of the Northwest will kick off the city of Sequim’s Music and a Movie in the Park series Tuesday, June 29.
The outdoor performances will be every Tuesday until Aug. 31 at the James Center for the Performing Arts, 202 N. Blake Ave., just north of Carrie Blake Park.
Movies will follow concert performances at dusk. The slate of movies has not been released.
There are two exceptions to the regular schedule: a performance by the 133rd Army Band at 6 p.m. Friday, July 2, and a performance by Locust Street Taxi that will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3.
The rest of the schedule:
• Electric Blue Sun with original jazz fusion on July 6.
• Big Fine Daddies with new and classic rock on July 13.
• The Late Bloomers with acoustic folk rock on July 20.
• Stardust Big Band with big band and swing music on July 27.
• Howly and da’ Boyz with island swing originals on Aug. 10.
• MLR with multigenerational classic rock ‘n’ roll on Aug. 17.
• Olympic Trombone Orchestra with standards and jazz on Aug. 24.
• Ranger and the Re-Arrangers with bluegrass on Aug. 31.
