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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)
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)
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)

Alternate prom set at First United Methodist Church

The Social Norm’s Social Club for YOUth will host its inaugural GAYLA, an Alternative Prom Formal Dance, from 5:30 p.m. to 9… Continue reading

Drag burlesque set at Studio Bob

Eau de Hollywood-A Drag/Burlesque Tribute to the Golden Age will be presented at Studio Bob on Friday. Tickets are $20 for the… Continue reading

Manuel Piazza

Manuel Piazza to perform on pipe organ

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church will host organist Manuel Piazza at 7 p.m. Friday. The concert at the church at 301 E. Lopez… Continue reading

Manuel Piazza
(Northwind Art Kathy Francis painting en plein air):  Northwind Art will host a plein air painting exhibition later this summer in tribute to the late Kathy Francis of Port Townsend, pictured here at the oxbow of the Hoh River. Artists are invited to enter work through July 14. photo courtesy of Bob Francis

Northwind Art invites entries to plein air show

Artists who love to go out and paint the sky, sea, forest and light are invited to submit their work to Northwind… Continue reading

(Northwind Art Kathy Francis painting en plein air):  Northwind Art will host a plein air painting exhibition later this summer in tribute to the late Kathy Francis of Port Townsend, pictured here at the oxbow of the Hoh River. Artists are invited to enter work through July 14. photo courtesy of Bob Francis
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Janel Bistrika of Port Angeles and her daughter, Amelia Bistrika, 7, look at a wall of photographs of first-grade students, including Amelia, who took part in the garden-themed "Blooming Artists" exhibition during an opening reception on Tuesday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. "Blooming Artists" features the works of about 275 youngsters and will run through June 25.

Blooming Art on display

Janel Bistrika of Port Angeles and her daughter, Amelia Bistrika, 7, look at a wall of photographs of first-grade students, including Amelia, who took part… Continue reading

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Janel Bistrika of Port Angeles and her daughter, Amelia Bistrika, 7, look at a wall of photographs of first-grade students, including Amelia, who took part in the garden-themed "Blooming Artists" exhibition during an opening reception on Tuesday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. "Blooming Artists" features the works of about 275 youngsters and will run through June 25.