NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, June 26.
PORT ANGELES — First Step Family Support Center, the Clallam County agency known for its Snowgrass benefit music festival every January, is hosting a summer concert tonight.
The folk trio of Emma Beaton and Blair McMillan of Nashville, Tenn., and David Moss of Brooklyn, N.Y., will bring their voices, cellos and guitars to Harbinger Winery, 2358 W. U.S. Highway 101, this evening at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $20 per person or two for $35.
Harbinger wines will be available for purchase, with 25 percent of sales benefiting First Step, while desserts will be laid out, too, for donations to the agency.
To purchase, visit www.FirstStepFamily.org or phone 360-457-8355; any remaining tickets will be sold at the winery tonight.
Beaton, who grew up in Qualicum Beach, B.C., has been traveling the continent with her music since she was a youngster.
She was 18 when she won the Canadian Folk Music Awards’ Young Performer of the Year prize for her debut recording, “Pretty Fair Maid.”
She went on to study at Boston’s Berklee College of Music and toured for six years with her folk band Joy Kills Sorrow.
The group broke up about a year ago, and now, Beaton is touring with her new outfit with McMillan and Moss.
Clallam County might not have been on the band’s itinerary, but First Step board member Sarah Cronauer of Port Angeles is well-acquainted with Beaton. Cronauer hosted Joy Kills Sorrow in a house concert two summers ago and has been a fan ever since, so she arranged tonight’s fundraiser.