Music concerts, stage productions and a community food drive highlight weekend events on the Peninsula.
• The Haunted Bordello will return to Port Townsend with tours at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. tonight and Saturday.
The guided tours will start at the Billy Club spookeasy, 280 Quincy St., and span several venues downtown.
The hour-long tours will be led in groups of four to six. Most of the historical venues are not ADA accessible.
Tickets are $20 per person at www.eventbrite.com or $25, cash only, at the door.
Guests must be at least 17. Admission to the Billy Club is 21-plus only.
Guests may not touch any of the actors on the tour and may be asked to remove bulky costumes or masks that obstruct their vision.
Photography, weapons, food, drink or smoking is not permitted in any of the tour’s venues.
Guests should expect strobe lights, artificial smoke, loud noises, steep stairs and graphic scenes of violence with sexual content that might be offensive to some.
For more information, visit www.hauntedbordello.com.
• The Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra will open its new season with a concert at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The free concert, directed by Tigran Arakelyan, will be in the auditorium at Chimacum High School, 91 West Valley Road.
The public also is welcome to attend the final dress rehearsal at 7 tonight.
The concert will feature Ben Thomas, a Seattle-based percussionist, bandoneonist and composer, and will premiere one of his new works. The bandoneon is a concertina-like instrument popular in tango music that Thomas uses when he tours with the Atlas Tango Project.
Thomas has taught music theory, composition and performance at Highline College since 2001; he has released five albums of original music spanning tango, jazz and chamber music.
The program includes “Carnival Overture” by Antonin Dvorak, “Dances in the Canebrakes” by Florence Price, “Three Pieces for Bandoneon and Orchestra” by Thomas, “Blue Cathedral” by Jennifer Higdon and “In the Steppes of Central Asia” by Alexander Borodin.
For more information, visit www.ptsymphony.org.
• The Sequim City Band will kick off its 2024-2025 indoor season of free public performances with “Words of Note” at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Port Angeles Performing Arts Center, 304 E. Park Ave., Port Angeles.
The concert will bring famous literary works “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, the poem “High Flight” and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles” to life through music.
Tyler Benedict will direct a program that includes Francis McBeth’s “Of Sailors and Whales,” Johan de Meij’s “Lord of the Rings,” James Curnow’s “Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew” and Erika Savnoe’s “Baskerville.”
The band also will present “Sounds of the Season” on Dec. 22 and “Dawn to Dusk” on March 9.
Interested musicians are invited to visit the band’s weekly rehearsals at 7 p.m. Wednesdays in the Chuck Swisher Rehearsal Hall at the James Center for the Performing Arts, 506 N. Blake Ave., Sequim.
For more information, call 360-207-4722, email scb@sequimcityband.org or visit www.sequimcityband.org.
• Key City Public Theatre will continue its production of the musical “Wild Man of the Wynoochee” with shows at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and matinee performances at 1:30 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 27 at the theater, 419 Washington St. in Port Townsend.
Tickets range from $5 to $59 per person and are available at keycitypublic theatre.org/wildman.
The show brings the story of John Tornow to the stage.
Tornow, sometimes referred to as the Wild Man of the Pacific Northwest, was accused of killing two teenage boys in the Wynoochee Valley in Grays Harbor County.
Tornow was killed in a gun battle during spring 1913 after a two-year manhunt.
The libretto explores the themes of love, loss, survival and wildness.
Key City Public Theatre’s 2024-2025 main stage season also includes David A. Natale’s “Bake to Alaska” Dec. 5-29; Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale.” Feb. 20 through March 16; and Ana Maria Campoy’s “Carmelita” April 14 through May 11.
• “Night of the Living Dead” continues with shows at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and matinees at 2 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 27 at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.
The classic horror film has been rewritten and set to the current day, giving some elements a whole new meaning.
Tickets are $20 each, $15 for students, at www.olympictheatrearts.org or at the box office.
The 1968 film is credited with creating the current image of the modern zombie and the stage production is designed to make the audience joyfully uncomfortable.
• Peter Mulvey will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Palindrome at Eaglemount Cidery, 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road in Port Townsend.
Tickets are $20 at www.ticketstorm.com or $25 at the door.
Mulvey spent a couple years busking and gigging in Ireland, the Midwest and Boston. His small shows led to larger shows and, eventually, to regional and then national and international touring.
He has recorded 19 albums and opened for such artists as Ani DiFranco, Emmylou Harris and Chuck Prophet.
• Revenge of the Scream Queens, two nights of horror-themed drag and burlesque shows, are planned for 8 p.m. tonight and Saturday at Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $25 to $40 per person at www.studiobob.art.
Friday’s show will be hosted by Blake McCabe, and Tootsie Spangles will host Saturday’s performance.
Local performers include Aleksandra, Mistress of Fusion, Salty Pleasure, Pistil Peach, Mike Drop, Johnny Longboi, Count Dragg Ulah, Pearl Grey and Madame Taran Tula.
Dulce D’Jour, Drew and Jessica Paradisco and Vena Kahlo will join the show from out of town.
• Kommuna Lux will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Palindrome at Eaglemount Cidery, 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road in Port Townsend.
Tickets are $25 online at www.eventbrite.com.
The Ukrainian folk band performs urban folk music from its hometown of Odesa, such as “7:40,” a tune from the late 1800s with a driving rhythmic pulse that propels it forward just like the trains that chugged into the Odesa station at 7:40 every day from the Moldovan city of Bendery.
The band’s 501(c)(3) charity, KMLX, funds the Rotary Club’s Hospital Beds for Kramatorsk project.
Since July, their concerts have raised more $11,000 across the U.S. and Canada for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.
Donations fund much-needed hospital beds for burn victims on the front lines, as well as medicine and protective equipment to organizations throughout Ukraine.
• Mia Torres will perform from 5 to 7 tonight at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock. No cover charge.
• Bill Volmut will perform from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday in Spirits Bar and Grill at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock. No cover charge.
• The Stardust Big Band, with vocalist Olga Palenga, will perform from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday for a masquerade ball at the American Legion Hall, 209 Monroe St., Port Townsend. Admission is $12 at the door.
• Adult Night Out: Books and Beverage Tasting is set for 6 to 8 tonight at the Forks Branch Library, 171 S. Forks Ave., Forks.
Attendees at the free night out will enjoy curated book recommendations paired with non-alcoholic beverages at an event designed to foster new connections and book discussions.
For more information, visit www.nols.org.
• Cosplay Party for Teens is set for 6 to 8 tonight at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
Teens in seventh through 12th grades can dress as their favorite character, watch the 2023 horror film “Five Nights at Freddy’s” and enjoy free snacks and pizza.
Costumes must be appropriate for public and have traction on the bottoms of the feet.
The evening was planned by the library’s teen advisory board.
For more information, call 360-417-8500, email discover@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.
• The Port Townsend Urban Sketchers will sketch at the Haller Fountain at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The group will meet at the bottom of the Terrace Steps at the intersection of Washington and Taylor streets.
The 7-foot-tall cast bronze fountain was donated by Theodore N. Haller and installed by the city in 1906.
After sketching, the group will reconvene at noon at the bottom of the steps to share their work and take a photo.
The event is open to all skill levels.
For more information, visit www.urbansketchersporttownsend.wordpress.com.
• The 39th WAVE Community Food Drive will collect food and monetary donations from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Food Co-op, 414 Kearney St., Port Townsend; Port Townsend Friends Meeting, 1841 Sheridan St., Port Townsend; Henery’s Hardware, 901 Ness’ Corner Road, Port Hadlock; Windermere Hood Canal, 294963 U.S. Highway 101, Quilcene; and the Halfway House Restaurant, 41 Brinnon Lane, Brinnon.
Donations will purchase turkeys and hams, seasonal produce and all the fixings for holiday meals.
The Jefferson County Food Bank Association aims to raise $35,000 to purchase food for the holidays.
For more information or to donate online, visit www.jcba.org.
• LED will present “Kid Lightning” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Donna M. Morris Auditorium at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles.
LED also will present an abbreviated 60-minute, family-friendly matinee performance at 1 p.m.
Tickets to the evening show are $40 to $65, or $25 for the matinee performance, at www.fieldhall events.org/tickets.
“Kid Lightning” is the story of a group of talented contestants on a popular game show in the stylized world of the 1970s.
LED is a dance company, music project and film studio based in Boise, Idaho.
• Greg Jensen will present “The Unsung Roles of Crabs and Shrimps” at 3 p.m. Sunday in the chapel on Fort Worden on Fort Worden Way near W Street.
The free presentation is part of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s Future of Oceans series.
Jensen will dispel some of the myths and misconceptions about crabs and shrimp and share observations, photos and video of the behaviors of these crustaceans.
Jensen is a biologist with the University of Washington and author of several books, including “Crabs and Shrimps of the Pacific Coast” and “Beneath Pacific Tides.”
For more information, visit www.ptmsc.org.
• The annual Harvest Dinner, hosted by the Esther Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, is set for noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Port Angeles Masonic Temple, 622 S. Lincoln St.
The turkey dinner costs $25 per person and includes stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes, green beans, cranberry jello salad and choice of pumpkin, apple or pecan pie.
Meals are available to eat at the temple or to take home.
Proceeds from the dinner benefit the chapter’s local scholarships, its Heart Fund, Cancer Fund and other charities.
For a reservation, call Judy Scott at 360-457-6783 or email judithscott784@gmail.com.
