Three-day Juan de Fuca Festival starts today

A live album recording, stage shows and the annual Juan de Fuca Festival highlight weekend events on the North Olympic Peninsula.

• Lightweight Champion will record a live album at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Rainshadow Recording Studio at Fort Worden State Park, 315 Artillery Hill Drive, Port Townsend.

Tickets are $25 per person at www.ticket storm.com/c/17038/rainshadowrecording.

Lightweight Champion debuted at the Conor Byrne Pub in Ballard and recently performed at Port Townsend’s Uptown Pub.

The Seattle-based band is composed of Aaron Spieldenner, Gabriel Delayne, Cam Hancock and Tom Moskal.

Spieldenner, a singer-songwriter from Seattle who now lives in Port Townsend, provides lead guitar and vocals. He can be seen around the local music scene, often playing at the Uptown Pub’s Tuesday night open mic.

Delayne, a singer-songwriter from Massachusetts, plays piano and sings for the band.

Hancock, a drummer from Vermont, has played with other Seattle-based bands, including The Whags and Coral Grief.

Moskal, a bassist from New Jersey, has played with Seattle acts Coach Phillips and La Fille.

• “Nunsense” opens Friday performances at 7 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and matinee performances at 2 p.m. Sundays through June 15 at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.

The theatre will host a champagne reception after the opening night performance.

Tickets are $18 to $25 per person at www.olympic theatrearts.org or at the box office from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays.

“Nunsense,” written by Dan Goggin, is a musical farce about a fundraiser by the Little Sisters of Hoboken to help bury 52 nuns who were accidentally poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God).

• Hayden Lindsey will host Tune Trade at the Theatre at 5:30 p.m. Sunday in the Gathering Hall at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.

Tickets are $15 at www.olympictheatrearts.org or at the box office.

Tune Trade will feature four singer-songwriters who will swap songs and the stories behind them.

• Saltfire Theatre will present “Trifles” at 7 p.m. Friday through Sunday and matinee performances at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Chameleon Theatre, 800 W. Park Ave., Port Townsend.

Tickets are $17 per person at www.saltfire theatre.org.

The play is a layered psychodrama that delves into the lives of women and their unique work in the world.

The play, which was written in 1916 by Susan Glaspell, will be directed by Genevieve Barlow.

The one-act production will be followed by a talkback with the actors and director.

Indivisible Sequim will conduct a gathering in support of its veterans from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Centennial Park, 104 E. Washington St., Sequim.

“The many changes to policy have engendered insecurity about all the programs dedicated to our former servicemen and women. We want our local veterans to know that we are on their side,” said Jamie Ross, Indivisible Sequim’s community building chair. “Come show your support for those who have given to you. Service members have sacrificed their time, health, hearts and souls for our country. Memorial Day is the holiday that commemorates those who gave the ultimate sacrifice of their lives.”

For more information, call Ross at 916-317-5098 or email 54jlross@gmail.com.

• The 32nd Juan de Fuca Festival will start at noon Friday through Sunday evening in Port Angeles.

The annual festival will be centered in and around the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles, with satellite stages at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 E. Front St.

Three-day passes for the festival are $125 per person, $35 per person for Friday and $65 per person for a one-day pass for Saturday or Sunday.

The festival boasts five stages as well as a free street fair, a kids zone and a wine and beer garden.

For more information, tickets or a full festival schedule, visit www.jffa.org/festival.

• Carla Main and Friends will perform from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Vintage, 725 Water St., Port Townsend.

No cover charge.

• The Forks American Legion Post 106 will host a 1940s Canteen Dance Party from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Rainforest Arts Center, 35 N. Forks Ave., Forks.

Admission to the USO-style dance is $15 per person, $10 for youths 18 and younger.

Prizes will be awarded for best period attire.

• Just Foolin’ Around will perform from 6 p.m to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the Sequim Elks Lodge, 143 Port Williams Road, Sequim.

Admission is $12 person, $10 for lodge members.

The Port Townsend Marine Science Center will sponsor a repair event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the Hagen Building adjacent to the Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave., Port Hadlock.

Volunteers will be on hand to help with small appliances and electronics, sewing and knitting, tool sharpening, bicycle repair, simple jewelry and other household items.

Attendees are asked to limit themselves to two items.

For more information, visit www.ptmsc.org/jeffco-repair.

• The Quilcene-Brinnon Garden Club will conduct its annual Plant and Bake Sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Brinnon Community Center, 306144 U.S. Highway 101, Brinnon.

The sale will include house plants, natives, shrubs, trees, pies, cookies and cakes.

• Clallam County 4-H, the North Olympic Shuttle and Spindle Guild and the North Olympic Fiber Growers Association will host the Shepherds’ Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday.

The free annual festival will be at Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, Sequim.

The festival will feature sheep herding and shearing demonstrations, fiber arts demonstrations, arts and crafts vendors, lamb kebabs, lamb chili, a farm animal petting zoo and raffles.

• The Joyce Museum, 50883 state Highway 112, Port Angeles, will begin its summer hours on Monday.

The museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays until Sept. 1.

Margaret Owens, the museum’s curator, will be on site to provide information and help with research.

The log depot, which was built in 1915, houses photographs, historical data and artifacts from the former towns of Port Crescent and Twin as well as the Joyce, Lake Crescent, Salt Creek and Camp Hayden areas.

The museum’s Gossett Wing is home to an 1890 Studebaker runabout horse carriage and a 1916 Republic truck.

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