Peninsula Daily News

PORT TOWNSEND — Fiddle Tunes, which began July Fourth, continues today and Saturday at Fort Worden.

Free Fridays at the Fort: Fiddle Tunes Showcase will be at noon today on the Commons Lawn at Fort Worden. Admission is free.

Tonight will be the Patriot Fiddlers Concert at 7:30 p.m. at the McCurdy Pavilion. Tickets are $32, $26 and $16.

The show will blend the Reed Island Rounders of Virginia with Suzy, Eric and Allegra Thompson of California; alongside will be Irish music from Winifred Horan and friends and the Quebecois sound from David Simars and Stephanie Lepine.

Fiddle Tunes Finale will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the McCurdy Pavilion. Tickets are $32, $26 and $16. This get-together spills out of McCurdy Pavilion onto Littlefield Green, replete with Mo Chilli BBQ fare and a musical blend of cultures.

On the bill are Don and Cindy Roy, recently named National Heritage Fellows by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Roys, descendants of French families who emigrated from Canada to Maine, have been partners in life and music for close to four decades. Don has been playing fiddle since he was a teenager; Cindy’s known for her step-dancing piano accompaniment.

The Modock Rounders from West Virginia and Jeremy Rusu and Patti Kustorok of western Canada are also part of the finale concert; so is a rare chance to hear the Texas-Mexican style known as Tejano. Perfomring will be fiddler Belen Escobedo of San Antonio, bajo sexto master Virginio Castillo and Ramon Gutierrez, who plays the tololoche, an upright bass from the borderlands.