Three-day Juan de Fuca Festival to begin Friday

PORT ANGELES — The 32nd Juan de Fuca will start at noon Friday and continue through Sunday evening.

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

Three-day passes 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.

Friday’s performers include Victims of Love: A Tribute to the Eagles, Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble, Amanda Lynn Bacon with special guest Todd Ortloff, Terrier, Champagne Sunday, Shula Azhar Bellydance, The Five Acre School Marimba Band, Falcon Heart and the Port Angeles High School Jazz Band.

Saturday’s performers include The Brothers Comatose, Seattle Shakespeare Company’s educational tour of “Romeo and Juliet,” Heather Pierson, Quattlebaum, Manisha, the Port Angeles Symphony’s Valhalla Brass Quintet, Stout Pounders, Calico, Deadwood Revival, Flora Madrigal, Death and Taxes Swing Band, i///u, Rose Peak, Oscar Warnersmith, Miratise, Studio360, Forest Stoke and the Dance Center’s Elite Competition Team.

Sunday includes performances by Goodnight Texas, Halie Loren, LadyCouch, Lady A, The Coffis Brothers, The Sam Chase and The Untraditional, TapWater, El Javi, Soultru, Joseph Pennell, Virginia Louise, Samantha Kushnick, Mort Crim All Stars, Tuff Puffin, Peninsula College Jazz Ensemble, Bach and Bongos presented by Music on the Strait, Marty O’Reilly, Poor Man’s Whiskey, Ballet Victoria, Hillstomp, Babes in Canyon, Jenner Fox Band, Renegade Orchestra featuring the Port Angeles School District Orchestra Teachers and The Sylvia Joyce Wanner School.

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

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