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Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Port Townsend’s Centrum Acoustic Blues Festival presented Justin Golden as an opening act for special guest Bobby Rush in a solo acoustic concert on Wednesday at McCurdy Pavilion at Fort Worden State Park. Rush joined the Acoustic Blues artist faculty on Tuesday to teach a harmonica clinic during the 2023 Acoustic Blues Workshop and to tell stories to the registered participants of the workshop. The festival continues today with the Acoustic Blues Showcase at 1:30 p.m. and Saturday Blues in the Clubs at 6:30 p.m. For more information, see https://centrum.org/events-calendar.
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Blues in Port Townsend

Port Townsend’s Centrum Acoustic Blues Festival presented special guest Bobby Rush in a solo acoustic concert on Wednesday at McCurdy Pavilion at Fort Worden State… Continue reading

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Port Townsend’s Centrum Acoustic Blues Festival presented Justin Golden as an opening act for special guest Bobby Rush in a solo acoustic concert on Wednesday at McCurdy Pavilion at Fort Worden State Park. Rush joined the Acoustic Blues artist faculty on Tuesday to teach a harmonica clinic during the 2023 Acoustic Blues Workshop and to tell stories to the registered participants of the workshop. The festival continues today with the Acoustic Blues Showcase at 1:30 p.m. and Saturday Blues in the Clubs at 6:30 p.m. For more information, see https://centrum.org/events-calendar.
"The Secret," from Cusco, Peru, appears in photographer Brian Goodman's show opening Sunday at the Old Alcohol Plant. photo by Brian Goodman

Black and white photo show opens Sunday

Peru, Israel, Gabriola Island, B.C. and many other locations appear in Port Townsend photographer Brian Goodman’s show opening this Sunday. Goodman invites… Continue reading

"The Secret," from Cusco, Peru, appears in photographer Brian Goodman's show opening Sunday at the Old Alcohol Plant. photo by Brian Goodman

Free outdoor concerts on Peninsula next week

Free outdoor summer concerts are scheduled on the North Olympic Peninsula next week. The season’s free concerts are on Tuesdays in Sequim through Aug. 29,… Continue reading

Jazz on the Lawn offered free on Monday

The Thirteenth Annual Jazz on the Lawn concert on the Port Angeles campus of Peninsula College will be at noon Monday. The… Continue reading

Tininha Silva is one of a trio of women unveiling their fiber artwork in “The Fiber of Our Being,” the new show opening this week in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Northwind Art)

‘The Fiber of Our Being’ blends art forms in Port Townsend

Three women — who’ve found healing in art — interweave their creations in “The Fiber of Our Being,” the show opening this… Continue reading

Tininha Silva is one of a trio of women unveiling their fiber artwork in “The Fiber of Our Being,” the new show opening this week in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Northwind Art)
Gary Rainwater’s Lions are among the art on display at Gallery 9.

Port Townsend Gallery, Gallery 9 on art walk

Among the galleries open for the Saturday Art Walk in Port Townsend will be Port Townsend Gallery and Gallery 9. Port Townsend… Continue reading

Gary Rainwater’s Lions are among the art on display at Gallery 9.

Pie, music, plays on tap for this weekend

Blackberry pie, concerts, plays and art shows are offered this weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula. • The 2023 Joyce Daze Wild Blackberry Festival on… Continue reading

The Olympic Strings Workshop at Lake Crescent will present a free public concert Friday afternoon. Pictured during the 2022 camp are, from left, Marley Cochran, Courtney Smith, Jacklyn Minnoch and Luke Gavin. photo by Dewi Sprague/Olympic Strings Workshop

Strings students to present public concert Friday

cutline info for attached photo (Oly strings wksp by Dewi Sprague) The Olympic Strings Workshop at Lake Crescent will present a free public concert Friday… Continue reading

  • Aug 3, 2023
  • Diane Urbani de la Paz For Peninsula Daily News
  • Clallam County
The Olympic Strings Workshop at Lake Crescent will present a free public concert Friday afternoon. Pictured during the 2022 camp are, from left, Marley Cochran, Courtney Smith, Jacklyn Minnoch and Luke Gavin. photo by Dewi Sprague/Olympic Strings Workshop
Cheryl Anderson of Joyce stages slices of blackberry pie for sale to the public at the Joyce Daze Wild Blackberry Festival in 2022. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Blackberry pie to be star of Joyce Daze on Saturday

Community marks 40th anniversary of event

Cheryl Anderson of Joyce stages slices of blackberry pie for sale to the public at the Joyce Daze Wild Blackberry Festival in 2022. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Centrum artists play the blues

Capping off Blues Week at Centrum will be Free Fridays at the Fort. Blues in the Clubs on Friday and Saturday, and… Continue reading

Joyce Daze schedule

The 2023 Joyce Daze Wild Blackberry Festival is Saturday. Here is the schedule. • 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. — Pancake breakfast at… Continue reading

American jazz singer Diane “Deedles” Schuur, front, along with bassist Bruce Phares, perform in the Donna M. Morris Theater at the Field Arts & Events Hall in Port Angeles during Friday night’s opening weekend show. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Dazzling performances

American jazz singer Diane “Deedles” Schuur, front, along with bassist Bruce Phares, perform in the Donna M. Morris Theater at the Field Arts & Events… Continue reading

American jazz singer Diane “Deedles” Schuur, front, along with bassist Bruce Phares, perform in the Donna M. Morris Theater at the Field Arts & Events Hall in Port Angeles during Friday night’s opening weekend show. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Free outdoor concerts set on Peninsula

Get out your picnic baskets, blankets and sunglasses for free outdoor summer concerts on the North Olympic Peninsula. The season’s free concerts are on Tuesdays… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Lower Elwha Klallam artist and storyteller Robert Fernandes, who served as curator of the Field Arts & Events Hall gallery collection of Klallam art works and crafts, speaks about the collection during Thursday night's gallery opening and reception in Port Angeles. The showing has the title "Creations by the Klallam People."

Gallery opens at Field Hall

Field Arts & Events Hall celebrated the opening of its gallery a special welcoming reception. The opening was the first event of… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Lower Elwha Klallam artist and storyteller Robert Fernandes, who served as curator of the Field Arts & Events Hall gallery collection of Klallam art works and crafts, speaks about the collection during Thursday night's gallery opening and reception in Port Angeles. The showing has the title "Creations by the Klallam People."

Field Hall celebrates grand opening

Field Arts & Events Hall is hosting a series of opening acts this weekend. The new facility at 219 N. Oak St.,… Continue reading

Entertainment abounds on Peninsula this weekend

A variety of entertainment is slated on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend. • Concerts in the Barn will begin its seventh season of free… Continue reading

Trio Hava will kickoff the seventh season of Concerts in the barn. Pictured are, from left,, cellist Amy Barston and violist Elisa Barston. Pianist Paige Molloy is not pictured.

Concerts in the Barn begins Saturday

Concerts in the Barn will begin its seventh season of free chamber music concerts in its iconic barn in Quilcene on Saturday. The… Continue reading

Trio Hava will kickoff the seventh season of Concerts in the barn. Pictured are, from left,, cellist Amy Barston and violist Elisa Barston. Pianist Paige Molloy is not pictured.
Ranky Tanky, the double Grammy-winning group from Charleston, S.C., will help Field Arts & Events Hall celebrate its grand opening Saturday night. (Peter Frank Edwards)

Ranky Tanky to bring ‘Good Time’ and more from South Carolina roots

Grammy winners coming to Field Hall

  • Jul 27, 2023
  • By Diane Urbani de la Paz for Peninsula Daily News
  • Clallam County
Ranky Tanky, the double Grammy-winning group from Charleston, S.C., will help Field Arts & Events Hall celebrate its grand opening Saturday night. (Peter Frank Edwards)
The dancers of BANDALOOP, pictured in Munich, Germany, will come to Port Angeles to perform on Field Arts & Events Hall’s north exterior wall this Saturday. (Basil Tsimoyianis/BANDALOOP)

Performers to dance off the wall in Port Angeles

Field Hall grand opening features three shows Saturday

The dancers of BANDALOOP, pictured in Munich, Germany, will come to Port Angeles to perform on Field Arts & Events Hall’s north exterior wall this Saturday. (Basil Tsimoyianis/BANDALOOP)

Community Players to conduct auditions for play about domestic violence

The Port Angeles Community Players plan auctions today and Saturday for the group’s 2023-24 season opener “To The Moon.” The auditions will… Continue reading