WEEKEND: West Coast Women’s Blues Revue at Olympic Cellars at 7 p.m. Saturday . . . and other entertainment briefs

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PORT ANGELES –– Wine, women and song.

PORT ANGELES — West Coast Women’s Blues Revue, a collaboration of blueswomen from across the West Coast, headlines a concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at the woman-owned-and-operated Olympic Cellars winery at 255410 U.S. Highway 101.

Proceeds from the $13 ticket price will go to the Jefferson County Community Foundation’s Fund for Women & Girls.

The fund empowers women and girls through local investment in their futures by making an annual grant to a local nonprofit organization.

Tickets for Saturday’s show at www.BrownPaperTickets.com are $13 or pay $15 at the door.

To learn more about the endowed fund under the umbrella of the Jefferson County Community Foundation, visit www.JCCFgives.org.

Key City cabaret

PORT TOWNSEND –– The bluegrass twang of John Reischman & the Jaybirds kicks off the Key City Public Theatre and Toolshed Soundlab Cabaret Concert Series on Tuesday.

The concert at the theater, 419 Washington St., begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20.

The theater is offering season passes to the summer concert season, which features jazz, classical and country music acts through Sept. 13.

Concertgoers can purchase tickets to four, five or six of the cabaret concerts through the theater’s website at tinyurl.com/PDN-cabarettix.

Kitsap Arts Fest

KINGSTON — The Kitsap Arts & Crafts Festival is slated for next weekend.

The summer festival, held in Kingston’s Ed Moon Field at Kola Kole Park on Maine Street between state Highway 104 and First Street, brings together the best in art, crafts, food, music and entertainment.

Admission is free.

The festival is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 25 and 26; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 27.

Popular performers include Jeff Kashiwa, a smooth jazz saxophonist from Seattle; Paul Holiday, a guitarist playing country/roots music and Americana from Bremerton; Eugenie Jones, a Seattle-based jazz singer, stylist and songwriter; and Industrial Revelation, a band playing jazz with infusions of hip-hop, indie rock, punk and soul from Idaho.

A highlight of this year’s festival will include a juried art show encompassing painting, sculpture, mixed media and photography for both adult and student art.

For more information, phone 360-271-8236, email evyhh@comcast.net or visit www.kitsapartsandcrafts.com.

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