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Master Gardeners host free festival this Saturday

Master Gardeners host free festival this Saturday

Flower arranging tips, fall and winter gardening presentations, and a plant clinic will highlight Saturday’s garden festival. Washington State University Clallam County Master… Continue reading

Master Gardeners host free festival this Saturday
The final two performances of the Olympic Music Festival on Saturday and Sunday will both include pre-concert lectures by veteran festival pianist and Beethoven specialist Paul Hersh. (Olympic Music Festival)

Olympic Music Festival presents final weekend with ‘musical journey’

Two days devoted to Beethoven’s string quartets will conclude the Olympic Music Festival’s summer season this weekend. “Beethoven’s string quartets are truly… Continue reading

The final two performances of the Olympic Music Festival on Saturday and Sunday will both include pre-concert lectures by veteran festival pianist and Beethoven specialist Paul Hersh. (Olympic Music Festival)
Expect the unexpected at Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival

Expect the unexpected at Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival

More than 200 wooden vessels, 120 presentations, 91 vendors and 21 bands are expected at Point Hudson Marina today through Sunday for… Continue reading

Expect the unexpected at Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival

As always, live music offered at Wooden Boat Festival

Not all of the attractions at the Wooden Boat Festival will be boats. Live music is planned throughout three days of the… Continue reading

Vendor Lisa Young of Joyce, left, and Colleen Bradley of Sequim look at an antique camera at Young’s table near the Joyce Museum in Joyce as part of last year’s Great Strait Yard Sale. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Great Strait Sale to celebrate 10th anniversary

It’s the longest rummage sale most of us will ever see. And it’s set among some of the loveliest scenery the North Olympic Peninsula offers.… Continue reading

Vendor Lisa Young of Joyce, left, and Colleen Bradley of Sequim look at an antique camera at Young’s table near the Joyce Museum in Joyce as part of last year’s Great Strait Yard Sale. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Photographers put on a show at Port Angeles studio

Photographers put on a show at Port Angeles studio

Images of musicians in Havana, animals in Clallam Bay and a sunset in Saguaro National Park in Arizona — among other locales… Continue reading

Photographers put on a show at Port Angeles studio
Plethora of maritime experiences offered at Wooden Boat Festival

Plethora of maritime experiences offered at Wooden Boat Festival

At the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival, you can take your pick of maritime sights and experiences — whatever rows your boat.… Continue reading

Plethora of maritime experiences offered at Wooden Boat Festival

Various wares on display at Crafts by the Dock

One block from the Wooden Boat Festival, you can view craftsmanship of other sorts. The wares at the 46th annual Crafts by… Continue reading

Port Townsend magician competes on national stage

Port Townsend magician competes on national stage

Joey Pipia doesn’t buy his props from magic supply stores. So, when the Port Townsend magician took the stage at the North… Continue reading

Port Townsend magician competes on national stage

Buffalo Ruckus to perform at Fort Worden on Thursday

Rainshadow Recording Studio’s bound to raise some ruckus Thursday with its choice of musical act. Buffalo Ruckus, a roots/Americana/southern experimental band, will… Continue reading

Preview of films for Port Townsend festival screen on Bainbridge Island

Looking to curb your anticipation for the Port Townsend Film Festival for just a couple weeks? The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art,… Continue reading

Finnriver fetes Labor Day with Red Wine, fare

Finnriver Farm &Cidery will celebrate Labor Day with Red Wine, an Italian bluegrass band; wild king and coho salmon; and homemade pies. On… Continue reading

‘My Father’s Dragon’ to be staged on Labor Day weekend

Actor/puppeteers with Key City Public Theatre will bring “My Father’s Dragon,” a free performance for children 5 and older, to five outdoor… Continue reading

Concerts in the Barn offers musicians ‘right at home’ venue

Concerts in the Barn offers musicians ‘right at home’ venue

Festival favorites Charles Wetherbee, Korine Fujiwara, Walter Gray and David Korevaar will perform for the fourth weekend of chamber music of the Concerts… Continue reading

Concerts in the Barn offers musicians ‘right at home’ venue
The band SeaStar will perform a “unique fusion” of Celtic, Americana, folk, sea shanties and bluegrass Saturday night for the 2017 Concerts in the Woods series in Coyle. (SeaStar)

Coyle concert spotlights Celtic folk band

SeaStar, a Celtic folk music band based in Seattle, will perform at Saturday’s Concert in the Woods. The all-ages concert, by donation, begins… Continue reading

The band SeaStar will perform a “unique fusion” of Celtic, Americana, folk, sea shanties and bluegrass Saturday night for the 2017 Concerts in the Woods series in Coyle. (SeaStar)
Feel the squeeze: Port Townsend accordion festival not ‘guys playing polka’

Feel the squeeze: Port Townsend accordion festival not ‘guys playing polka’

If you harbor any misconceptions about the accordion, prepare to release them this weekend with a “deep squeeze.” The Port Townsend Deep… Continue reading

Feel the squeeze: Port Townsend accordion festival not ‘guys playing polka’

Fort Townsend run laces up Sunday

The 17th annual Fort Townsend 4-mile trail run/walk will traverse rolling hills through an evergreen forest Sunday. The race starts and finishes… Continue reading

Dance caller Abigail Hobart will teach the steps at the first community contra dance of the season Saturday at Port Angeles’ Black Diamond Community Hall.

From punk to contra, dance caller makes debut in Port Angeles

A punk community in London made a dance caller out of her. Abigail Hobart, making her debut at the Black Diamond Community… Continue reading

Dance caller Abigail Hobart will teach the steps at the first community contra dance of the season Saturday at Port Angeles’ Black Diamond Community Hall.
Jammin’ in the Park offers a day on the waterfront

Jammin’ in the Park offers a day on the waterfront

The event’s catalyst has always been community. And it’s free. Jammin’ in the Park will return to Waterfront Park at West Railroad… Continue reading

Jammin’ in the Park offers a day on the waterfront

Living history group sets up Civil War encampment at Fort Worden

The Washington Civil War Association will roll into Port Townsend today to set up camp on Fort Worden’s parade ground. The encampment… Continue reading