NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Oct. 10.
PORT ANGELES — Br’er Rabbit was a trickster, a nimble one more witty than brawny.
He’s also a character in the Disney movie “Song of the South” — and most recently, Br’er Rabbit is a nationally known band on its way to the Port Angeles Library for a free concert tonight.
The library, which hosts free quarterly events dubbed Art Blasts, is using tonight’s party to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the federal Wilderness Act.
Some 15 artists are displaying wilderness-inspired paintings, photographs and other work at the library, which will start the party with a reception at 6:30 this evening.
Folk-stomp Americana
After refreshments and conversation with the artists, Br’er Rabbit will step up at 7 p.m. to play what the group affectionately calls folk-stomp Americana right there in the library’s “living room,” aka the big front room surrounded by books.
The band hasn’t played a public library before, said Miranda Zickler, the lead singer who, for her tendency to jump around on stage, is the band’s Rabbit.
Alongside brothers Zach and Nathan Hamer and newest member Gillian Walker, Zickler has been bringing the Br’er Rabbit sound to music festivals, pubs and nightclubs around the country.
It was Port Angeles Library manager Noah Glaude who recently discovered Br’er Rabbit’s record, “The Wild North,” and felt the foursome would be perfect for the Art Blast.
Their brand of Americana sounds “fun and boisterous,” he said, like “music you’d want playing as you headed out on an adventure in the mountains.”
Tonight’s Art Blast is funded by the Port Angeles Friends of the Library.
For more details about this and other activities at North Olympic Library System branches in Sequim, Clallam Bay, Forks and Port Angeles, visit www.NOLS.org or phone the main library at 360-417-8500.
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Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane.urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.
