SEQUIM — Singer and guitarist Dennis Blair, whose repertoire ranges from the Beatles to John Denver and beyond, will give another Music Live with Lunch concert this Tuesday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave.
Anyone who loves music and could use a midday interlude is invited to this gathering at noon.
It all starts with Blair’s concert; then comes a home-style hot lunch served in the parish hall. Admission is $10.
Tickets are available at the door just before noon Tuesday, and no advance purchase is needed. Those who’d like to make reservations can do that, though, by phoning St. Luke’s at 360-683-4862.
Like other entertainers at this event, Blair donates his time for the monthly Music Live with Lunch concerts, which have taken place at St. Luke’s for nearly 25 years.
“He has given much time to the community singing at the various nursing homes,” Music Live publicist Sammy Greenwood noted.
Variety of music
Blair “brings much joy,” she added, with a set list that travels from the 1930s all the way through the ’60s and ’70s, from “Sentimental Journey” to “Blue Moon” and “Heart of Gold.”
Blair first learned to play as a boy in 1964, when his mother made him take piano lessons. This didn’t work out at all because his only musical goal then was to sound like John, Paul and George of the Beatles.
So, by the time he was 12, he taught himself to play the guitar and abandoned the piano.
These days Blair consoles his mom by reminding her that all the musical theory she made him learn has paid off in the long run.