COYLE — Let’s get this out of the way: Sunday’s concert with the Blackberry Bushes, the high-energy string band, will get going at 3:30 p.m. after doors open at 3 p.m. at the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center here.
Concerts in the Woods presenter Norm Johnson has moved the start time to accommodate the Seattle Seahawks vs. Green Bay Packers football game, which begins at 12:05 p.m. Sunday.
“We will have everything set up to view the game at the community center then,” Johnson said.
It should be over by 3:30 p.m., when the band takes the stage to dish out music traditional, playful and twangy.
As usual, admission is by donation and all ages are welcome at the Blackberry Bushes’ show, and free coffee and cookies are set out at intermission.
Johnson first met lead singer and songwriter Jes Raymond about nine years ago when he was hosting a Friday night music series at Café Allegro in Seattle’s University District.
“I was immediately struck,” he recalled, by her voice and her song lyrics.
Johnson has heard many a singer in his years of doing coffeehouse shows, “but Jes stood out as a unique talent.”
With her husband Jakob Breitbach beside her on fiddle and Forrest Marowitz on the upright bass, Raymond has turned the Blackberry Bushes into a blend of Appalachian, gospel and jazz flavors.
Theirs is “a modern string band sound,” according to www.BlackberryBushes.com, that “like their thorny namesake, [is] rooted and growing, growing, growing.”
To find out more about Sunday’s show and future events in the Concerts in the Woods series, see www.CoyleConcerts.com. Directions to and details about the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center at 923 Hazel Point Road can be found there or by contacting Norm Johnson at 360-765-3449 or johnson5485@msn.com.
