Free outdoor concerts set this week across Olympic Peninsula

Black Diamond Junction will perform classic hits at the season’s final Port Angeles Concerts on the Pier at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Sequim’s Music in the Park will host the Buck Ellard Band, which will perform traditional country mixed with classic rock, blues and originals. The concert will begin at 6 p.m. at the James Center for the Performing Arts in Carrie Blake Park, 500 N. Blake Ave. in Sequim.

The City of Sequim and the City Arts Advisory Commission are co-sponsoring the series with Sequim Community Broadcasting/KSQM Radio.

On Thursday, The Merry Makers will play a mix of psychedelia and roots rock at Pope Marine Park Plaza on Water Street at Madison Street in Port Townsend.

The plaza will open for people to set up lawn chairs and picnic blankets at 4:30 p.m.

Two hours of live music will begin at 5 p.m.

The concerts put on by Port Townsend Main Street will offer beer, wine and cider.

Here’s the lineup for the rest of the summer:

Sequim

Music In the Park

• Aug. 31 — Black Diamond Junction: classic hits.

The grand finale of the Sequim summer series will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, at the James Center for the Performing Arts in Carrie Blake Park.

Tess Teel Trio will perform from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and Sound Advice with Dawn Martin will be on stage from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

For more information about the free concert series in Sequim, see www.sequim wa.gov/ 512/Summer-Music- Events.

Port Townsend

• Sept. 2 — Kevin Mason and the PT All Stars: with singer Christa Holbrook, travel from soul to rock to rhythm and blues.

For information about Concerts on the Dock and other fall and winter events in the works, see PT mainstreet.org, phone 360-385-7911 or email admin@ptmainstreet.org.

The Port Angeles concerts are sponsored by Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts, which provides more information at see jffa.org/ concerts-on-the-pier or by calling 360-457-5411.

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