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Olympic Music Festival announces summer season

Tickets are on sale now for the 40th summer season of the Olympic Music Festival. In-person performances will be at Fort Worden’s… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Port Scandalous Roller Derby team members Jamie "Ginger" Haire, front left, and Shauna "LilyHammer" Rogers-McClain, front right, bump into each other as the rest of their team follows in the pack during a demonstration skate on Thursday at the Olympic Skate Village in downtown Port Angeles. The demo was part of an opening celebration for the temporary roller skating rink, which opened for public skate sessions on Friday.

Olympic Skate Park opens in Port Angeles

Port Scandalous team members involved in planning

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Port Scandalous Roller Derby team members Jamie "Ginger" Haire, front left, and Shauna "LilyHammer" Rogers-McClain, front right, bump into each other as the rest of their team follows in the pack during a demonstration skate on Thursday at the Olympic Skate Village in downtown Port Angeles. The demo was part of an opening celebration for the temporary roller skating rink, which opened for public skate sessions on Friday.
Clallam County 4-H participants Cole Anderson, left, and Zoey Van Gordon practice judging and evaluating Boer goats at a practice session for the state Livestock Judging Contest on Saturday in Moses Lake. Last year’s team of Anderson, Van Gordon, Asha Swanberg and Lukas Teague won first place in the team competition. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

4-H’ers head to state livestock judging competition

Team won first place last year

Clallam County 4-H participants Cole Anderson, left, and Zoey Van Gordon practice judging and evaluating Boer goats at a practice session for the state Livestock Judging Contest on Saturday in Moses Lake. Last year’s team of Anderson, Van Gordon, Asha Swanberg and Lukas Teague won first place in the team competition. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)
Pamela Roberts Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra with Conductor and Artistic Director Tigran Arakelyan.

Chamber music series to highlight musicians Saturday

The Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series will have its founding concert at the Port Ludlow Community Church at 3 p.m.… Continue reading

Pamela Roberts Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra with Conductor and Artistic Director Tigran Arakelyan.

Crab feed, acrobats among weekend’s attractions

A crab feed and an acrobatic performance are among this weekend’s attractions on the North Olympic Peninsula. • The Sequim Valley Lions’ 11th annual Crab… Continue reading

Field Day welcomes public in PA, PT

Field Day, open houses welcoming the public to the annual event for amateur radio operators, are planned this weekend in Port Angeles and Port Townsend.… Continue reading

Ash Devine is playing Concerts in the Woods in Coyle

Folk singer to perform in Coyle

Appalachian-Americana folk singer Ash Devine will play a matinee show at Concerts in the Woods in Coyle at 3 p.m. Sunday. The concert… Continue reading

Ash Devine is playing Concerts in the Woods in Coyle
The Port Townsend Summer Band will perform Sunday.

Port Townsend Summer Band to kick off season

The Port Townsend Summer Band will kick off its 31st year of free summer concerts at Chetzemoka Park at 1 p.m. Sunday.… Continue reading

The Port Townsend Summer Band will perform Sunday.

Stillway and Sky to perform at The Palindrome

Rainshadow Recording and Concerts will host fingerstyle guitar masters Jamie Stillway and Eric Skye at The Palindrome at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets… Continue reading

Rocky Horror Picture Show to be shown

The Rocky Horror Picture Show will be shown on a big screen with surround sound at Studio Bob on Saturday. The 1975… Continue reading

Lino Rivera will peform in Port Townsed on Thursday.

Classical pianist to perform Thursday

Trinity United Methodist’s Candlelight Concerts will host Lino Rivera, a classical pianist, at 7 p.m. Thursday. Rivera will play one set with… Continue reading

Lino Rivera will peform in Port Townsed on Thursday.
Everett Polansk, 14, provides the first performance at the Field Hall Theater. (Lexie Winters)

Hog Wild nets $88,000 for Olympic Medical Center Foundation

Fundraiser first event held at Field Hall

Everett Polansk, 14, provides the first performance at the Field Hall Theater. (Lexie Winters)

Brass Screw Consortium festival continues this weekend

The Brass Screw Consortium continues its celebration of Steampunk in Port Townsend today and Sunday. The three-day festival began Friday with the… Continue reading

The Westerlies will perform with the Gravitas Quartet on Monday, with Riley Mulherkar and Chloe Rowlands on trumpet, and Andy Clausen and Willem de Koch on trombone.

Jazz concert to entertain in Port Townsend

The Westerlies and Gravitas Quartets in Concert will be at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Sanctuary. Doors will… Continue reading

The Westerlies will perform with the Gravitas Quartet on Monday, with Riley Mulherkar and Chloe Rowlands on trumpet, and Andy Clausen and Willem de Koch on trombone.
Cherie Higbee's garden, which has grown and changed since it was last on the Petals and Pathways tour in 2017, features recycled treasures.

Tickets on sale now for Petals & Pathways tour

Six diverse home gardens displayed next weekend

Cherie Higbee's garden, which has grown and changed since it was last on the Petals and Pathways tour in 2017, features recycled treasures.
Lydia Vadopalas, holding Abilene, will give free, farm-inspired art demonstrations at the Port Townsend Farmers Market this Saturday. photo courtesy of Northwind Art

Art demonstration set Saturday at PT Farmers Market

This Saturday at the Port Townsend Farmers Market, Northwind Art School teaching artist and goatherd Lydia Vadopalas will give a free, farm-inspired… Continue reading

Lydia Vadopalas, holding Abilene, will give free, farm-inspired art demonstrations at the Port Townsend Farmers Market this Saturday. photo courtesy of Northwind Art

Fiddlers camp out this weekend in Quilcene

Washington Old Time Fiddlers District 15 will conduct its start of summer campout today through Sunday. The annual camping trip is at the… Continue reading

Summertide, Pride events scheduled this weekend

A variety of events are planned this weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula. • Summertide Solstice Art Festival will mark the longest day of the… Continue reading

Guild issues call for artists

The Port Townsend Arts Guild has openings for artists and craftspeople who make their own unique work and would like to sell… Continue reading

Rachel Storck, community engagement director for the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, sits on the art installation “Sky Gazer” by Port Angeles artist Steve Belz, one of several new artworks in the Webster’s Woods Sculpture Park, the site of this weekend’s Summertide Solstice Arts Festival. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Art festival to kick off summer at fine arts center

New works, poetry at Webster’s Woods

Rachel Storck, community engagement director for the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, sits on the art installation “Sky Gazer” by Port Angeles artist Steve Belz, one of several new artworks in the Webster’s Woods Sculpture Park, the site of this weekend’s Summertide Solstice Arts Festival. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)