SEQUIM — Andre Feriante, the Italian-born guitarist known for blending music and poetry of Bach, Leonard Cohen, Lorca and Rumi, will give a Father’s Day concert at the Dungeness Valley Lutheran Church, 925 N. Sequim Ave., this Sunday.
Tickets to the 3 p.m. performance will be sold at the door only for $12. Proceeds to benefit the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, a place Feriante has supported in recent years.
Since moving to Seattle in the 1980s, Feriante has become a key player on the Pacific Northwest’s classical, world music and jazz-fusion fronts. Known for his flamenco guitar prowess, distinctive ukulele style and Valentine’s Day concerts at Benaroya Hall — this year was his 10th — Feriante has played Seattle’s Folklife, Hempfest and Bumbershoot festivals, as well as the Festa di Manziana in Italy. He has 11 albums to his credit.
To top all of this off, he was named one of MSN’s “12 Sexy Bald Men” along with Seal, Andre Agassi, Vin Diesel and Patrick Stewart, among others.
At Sunday’s concert, the guitarist will collaborate with violinist Cliff Self, and together the men will play ukuleles, guitars and violins made by Olympic Peninsula instrument builders.
While Self will take up violins made by Richard Thanem of Port Townsend, Feriante will play instruments from luthiers David Poplar, Pete Barthell, Richard Schneider and Jay Hargreaves.
Feriante and Poplar met a few years ago at the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts, the Memorial Day weekend event in Port Angeles, and Feriante has since acquired seven of Poplar’s stringed instruments.
Poplar is the one who introduced the guitarist to Barthell, and at Sunday’s concert, Feriante will play one of Barthell’s traditional cedar guitars.
Though the performance will be at Dungeness Valley Lutheran, the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center is the place to go for information. The center can be reached at 360-457-3532; its website is www.PAFAC.org.