SEQUIM — Looks like all kinds of harmony will win out.
On Saturday, four musical groups will bring their songs to Olympic Theatre Arts for “Bluegrass & Barbershop,” a pair of concerts to benefit OTA.
The Olympic Peninsula Men’s Chorus, the Luck of the Draw band, the No Batteries Required barbershop quartet and FarmStrong, a country-blues outfit, will converge on the OTA stage at 2 p.m. and again at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for youth, with proceeds to benefit the theater company’s programs. OTA is located at 414 N. Sequim Ave.
The men’s chorus will open the show; then comes Luck of the Draw, featuring Dave and Rosalie Secord.
After an intermission, No Batteries Required will step up with renditions of “Smile,” “Come Go With Me,” “Walkin’ My Baby Back Home” and a few more, member Rich Wyatt said.
FarmStrong — Cort Armstrong, Jim Faddis, Rick Meade and John Pyles — is next. The band, based in Sequim, is known around the West for its twangy treatments of songs by Merle Haggard, John Prine, Taj Mahal and the Temptations.
“We were lucky to snag FarmStrong,” Wyatt said of the quartet, which will also appear at Port Angeles’ Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts (JFFA.org) tonight and Monday.
Barbershop and bluegrass may sound like strange bedfellows or stage-fellows,” said Wyatt, who is also the show director for the men’s chorus.
“But it’s a winning combination, with great harmony and tunes that people like to sing. Audiences [will] smile from one act to the next.”
To close the concert, the Olympic Peninsula Men’s Chorus will offer “Goodnight Sweetheart,” he added, and then invite the audience to sing along on “Goodnight, Irene,” the folk standard made famous by Huddle “Lead Belly” Ledbetter.
All of the groups are donating their time to this Olympic Theatre Arts benefit. For more about the organization and its activities this spring and summer, see www.Olympic
TheatreArts.org or phone the box office at 360-683-7326.
