SEQUIM — The Sweet Evangelines have been making music together for about a year, having met in a harmony-singing workshop with Sequim’s Cort Armstrong.
This weekend, “we’re taking a leap of faith into something more professional,” Donna Rankin, half of the duo, said earlier this week.
She and the other Sweet Evangeline, Rachael Snyder, hoped their gig at Nash’s Organic Produce, from 10:30 a.m. till about 12:30 p.m. Saturday, would lead to more.
It has already.
Following the Nash’s booking, Sid Anna Sherwood of Annie’s Flower Farm invited the women to sing at her place Saturday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Nash’s, at 4681 Sequim-Dungeness Way and Annie’s, at the corner of Woodcock and Kitchen-Dick roads, are two of the eight locations on the Clallam County Farm Tour, open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. (See story today.)
Donate to land trust
The Sweet Evangelines — they just liked the sound of that name — plan to donate half their tips to the North Olympic Land Trust, co-sponsor of the farm tour.
Happily, the two have a bundle of songs in their repertoire.
They roam from Gillian Welch’s “Down Along the Dixie Line” and the 103-year-old tune “Anchored in Love” to country originals such as “Home for the Best” and “Maybe I Want To.”
“We’re both songwriters,” said Rankin, who has more time than Snyder to pursue the vocation.
She is recently retired, along with her husband, from their landscaping business, while Snyder is a veterinarian at Sequim’s Pacific Northwest Veterinary Hospital.
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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.
