SEQUIM — Shirley’s friend Barbara told her, “You’ve got to go hear this band, Main Street Jamboree,” playing down at the hangout in Sarnia, Ontario.
“I was a little leery about going,” Shirley recalled.
She didn’t think much of that “Jamboree” name, but Barbara talked her into it.
Then “she introduced me to Les,” a blue-eyed guitar player.
That was more than four decades and a great many miles ago.
Les and Shirley Wamboldt are married musicians who perform eight, 10, 15 times a month as Jubilee, a country and bluegrass sextet that ranges from 1950s Elvis Presley hits to classics like “Your Cheatin’ Heart.”
Jubilee will give a free concert at the bandshell at Carrie Blake Park, 202 N. Blake Ave., from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
It’s the second-to-last in Sequim’s Music & Movie in the Park series; Sept. 9 is the finale featuring the Stardust Big Band.
“A jubilee in the South is a big party,” said Les, recalling the late Roy Acuff’s invitation, “Come on down to Memphis, and we’ll have a jubilee.”
Les knew Acuff, “the king of country music,” well when the two men worked in Nashville, Tenn.
