Music and stage performances plus a seed exchange highlight this weekend’s scheduled events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• Luke Bulla will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Palindrome at Eaglemount Cidery, 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road, Port Townsend.
Tickets are $20 per person at www.ticketstorm.com/c/17038/rainshadow recording or $25 at the door.
The Nashville-based musician, who has been playing the fiddle since he was 7, also plays the guitar, mandolin, sings and writes songs. He won in his age category at the National Fiddle Contest in Weiser, Idaho, six times and, at 16, won the contest’s Grand Champion division.
Bulla started his career playing fiddle for Ricky Skaggs in the band Kentucky Thunder and earned a Grammy award with the band in 2000 for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album, “Soldier of the Cross.”
Bulla released a solo EP in 2009 before joining Lyle Lovett’s Large Band, with whom he toured full time until 2023.
• The OCEAN K-12 School will present a stage production of “The Hobbit” with performances at 7 p.m. tonight and Saturday and a matinee performance at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Erickson building at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St., Port Townsend.
All shows are by donation at the door.
The play, based on the 1937 fantasy novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, will feature performers from the school’s second through 12th grades.
The production, directed by Marc Weinblatt, features costumes by Libby Wennstrom, giant puppets and shadow puppetry under the guidance of puppetmasters Celia Fulton-Walden and Thaddeus Jurczynski and live music led by Kristin Smith.
The producers advise that some scenes may be scary to very young children.
For more information, visit https://ocean.ptschools.org/our_school/hobbit.
• Steve Fisher will direct Neil Simon’s “Fools” with performances at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and a matinee performance at 2 p.m. Sunday at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.
Tickets are $20 per person, $15 for students at www.olympictheatrearts.org or by calling the box office at 360-683-7326.
The play, which features Leon Tolchinsky as a teacher who has landed a job at a Russian hamlet that has been cursed with chronic stupidity for 200 years, is Olympic Theatre Arts’ 2025 Members’ Choice production.
• The Port Angeles Community Players will stage a production of “The Man in the Green Truck” at 7:30 p.m. Friday with matinee performances at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday on the main stage at the Port Angeles Community Playhouse, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Tickets are $15 per person, $8 for students at www.pacommunityplayers.org or at the box office 30 minutes before each performance.
At the request of John Bertholl, the author of the play, one-third of ticket sales will be donated to Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County.
Bertholl, a Sequim resident and storyteller, based the play on his experiences when he moved from Alaska to Washington in his green truck to help care for his aging parents.
The play navigates the emotionally charged landscape of caring for a father with Alzheimer’s disease and a mother concealing congestive heart disease with humor and some poetry.
Funny incidents in the play mitigate the pain of losing loved ones while the story explores the question of how do we care for the parents who raised us?
Director Barbara Jo Maier has worked closely with Bertholl to fine-tune the script for its premiere production.
Cast members Rick Mischke, Rebecca Gilbert, Mary Kaye O’Brien, Rich Hendricksen, Susan Bjork and Steve Henrickson will present the story in a readers theater format with additional multimedia components.
• The North Olympic Library System will host “Escape from the Wizard’s Workshop” at 5 tonight at the temporary location of the Sequim Branch Library, 609 W. Washington St., Sequim.
Families will work together to solve puzzles designed for 5- to 8-year- olds in the pen-and-paper escape room game.
Children must be accompanied by an adult.
For more information, call the library at 360-683-1162, email youth@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.
• The Port Angeles Friends of the Library will host a Bag of Books sale from 10:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday and from 10:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
The sale will be in the entry lobby at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
Bags will be provided, and customers will be able to purchase as many books they can fit into the bag for $5.
Customers also may bring their Friends of the Library canvas tote bag and fill it for $3.
The Friends of Library’s book bags also are available; customers may buy a bag for $8 and fill it for free.
Proceeds will benefit special programs hosted by the North Olympic Library System.
For more information, visit www.friendsofthe librarypa.org.
• The 14th Plant and Seed Exchange will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at Shy Acre Farm, 363 Discovery Road, Port Townsend.
Seed savers and gardeners can bring extra seeds, plant starts, bulbs, plant divisions or ornamental or edible plants that need a new home.
There is no buying, selling or bartering, although a cash donation is requested to help support the exchange.
For more information, email treehuggerjim@yahoo.com.
