PORT TOWNSEND — The sound of vintage Hawaiian jazz will fill the snug Key City Playhouse as Casey MacGill and Orville Johnson, specialists in what’s known as the hapa-haole style, step up this evening.
Show time is 8 p.m. for MacGill, a ukulelist, and Johnson, who is known for his dobro playing, to give this final performance in the Key City Cabaret series.
Both men are singers, too, and will dish out 1930s-style hapa-haole tunes, which pair the bouncy rhythm of traditional Hawaiian music with Hawaiian and English lyrics touching on love, family and the beauty and lifestyle of the Hawaiian islands.
Johnson and MacGill’s latest album together, “Hawaii of My Dreams,” blends their voices, swinging ukulele and slide guitar sounds with Matt Weiner’s rumbling bass.
Tickets to today’s concert, presented by Key City Public Theatre and the Toolshed Soundlab studio in Port Townsend, are $20 via www.keycitypublictheatre.org and the playhouse box office, 360-385-5278.
If still available, tickets also will be sold at the door of the Key City Playhouse, 419 Washington St.
