NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Dec. 12.
PORT ANGELES — It’s not every Friday night that you can go to a dance party where an artist, then and there, creates a body cast on a model.
But that’s Port Angeles sculptor Gray Lucier’s plan tonight: live casting on a live model, with live music playing alongside. This is the Second Friday Art Rock party — aka 2FAR — at Bar N9ne, 229 W. First St., with Lucier providing the art and the Alternators duo providing the rocking music. The cover charge for the 8 p.m. mashup is, as always, $3.
“It takes about 45 minutes to put it on,” Lucier said of the body casting, “and at least 45 minutes before we can take it off.”
While the plastered form dries, his model may well walk around — or perhaps dance.
The Alternators, aka fiddler Peter Evasic and accordion man George Radebaugh of the Port Townsend-based band the Delta Rays, play a mix of zydeco, Gypsy, swing and Irish tunes, “guaranteed to get you moving even if you only know how to tap your foot,” promises the 2FAR news release.
The duo has played 2FAR before, but Lucier, ironically, is new to the event.
Though he is a pillar of Port Angeles’ art community and known for his metal sculptures downtown and at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s art park, tonight marks his first time as Second Friday’s featured artist.
For information, see the Second Friday Art Rock-2FAR page on Facebook or phone Bar N9ne at 360-797-1999.
