Bit of musical therapy in Port Angeles on Saturday
PORT ANGELES — Therapy Session, the West End band dishing out rock, country and blues, is back from a hiatus to play for listeners and dancers age 21 and older at the Elks Naval Lodge, 131 E. First St., this Saturday night.
There’s no cover charge for the music from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., although the Elks welcome donations to their Warrior Transitional Battalion Marine Event.
In this program, lodge members will take wounded veterans salmon fishing this summer.
A fundraising raffle also will be going on, with proceeds going to the fishing trips.
Saturday night’s music will cure any summertime blues that might be lingering, said Therapy Session singer-guitarist Sally Milici.
The set list includes songs such as Dan Hicks’ “How Can I Miss You If You Don’t Go Away,” Doc Watson’s “Ready for Times to Get Better,” Steel Wheels’ “Red Wing,” the Kingston Trio’s “Scotch and Soda,” the Platters’ “Only You,” 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up?” The Band’s “Ophelia,” Elizabeth Cotton’s “Freight Train,” and Iron and Wine’s “Such Great Heights.”
And those, Milici said, are just a few.
“We play an eclectic kind of music because we all have come from a variety of musical experiences in our lives,” she added.
Bassist Dave Lenahan played mostly country before joining Therapy Session.
Harmonica man Pete Larsen’s background is rock ’n’ roll and blues, and Milici comes from folk and gospel.
Guitarist and singer Roger Lien stirs in some “esoteric random country music,” Milici added.
Classics on farm
QUILCENE — “Rare Masterworks: Mozart & More” is the title of this weekend’s Olympic Music Festival concerts, which bring pianist and artistic director Julio Elizalde, violinist Kristin Lee, flutist Sooyun Kim and cellist Dmitri Atapine to the festival farm.
These performances will fill a century-old barn at 7360 Center Road with fantasias and concertos by Czerny, Kodaly, Telemann and Mozart at 2 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday.
Tickets range from $14 to $35, depending on whether you sit inside the barn or outside on the grass where the music is broadcast.
The festival farm gates open at 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday for those who want to bring a picnic and stroll around the place. Then the barn doors open at 1 p.m.
For details about the festival concerts, see www.olympicmusicfestival.org or phone 360-732-4800.
Free films
PORT TOWNSEND — The Pourhouse pub will present a series of outdoor movies this summer: all on Wednesdays starting at 9:30 p.m. and all of them free.
First up is “A Fish Called Wanda” on July 15; then comes “Stand By Me” on July 29 and “When Harry Met Sally” on Aug. 12.
For information, stop by the Pourhouse at 2231 Washington St. or phone the venue at 360-379-5586.
Books and boogie
PORT HADLOCK— The Jefferson County Library will become a dance hall next Friday, July 17, as dance instructors Cheri Van Hoover and Debbie and Doug Groenig teach zydeco steps for an hour and then turn everyone loose for another hour of dancing to live music.
Admission is free to the party from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and refreshments will be laid out courtesy of the Friends of the Jefferson County Library.
For details visit the library at 620 Cedar Ave., see www.JClibrary.info or phone 360-385-6544.