COYLE — In what should be quite the unusual concert, the sounds of South America and the Pacific Northwest will meet this Saturday as the folk duo Strong Sun Moon arrives at the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center.
This is another in the Concerts in the Woods series, so admission is by donation to the 7:30 p.m. performance.
All ages are welcome, and, since these are community gatherings as well as concerts, complimentary cookies and coffee will be laid out at intermission.
Strong Sun Moon is Camelia Jade and Mike Antone, a pair of multi-instrumentalists who have moved to Port Townsend from the Seattle area.
The two sing in harmony while she plays the charango, a Bolivian lute that produces light, delicate notes; the ronroco, a larger mandolin-like instrument; and the bombo leguero, an Argentinian drum. Antone adds his lapsteel, harmonica and guitar.
“I’m anticipating some beautiful music . . . Their sound mixes South American instruments and rhythms with a more familiar Americana style,” said Norm Johnson, the Concerts in the Woods host who booked the folk singers after hearing their music online.
While Antone was born and raised in the Snoqualmie Valley, Jade learned her South American folk music from a mentor who knew her grandfather in Chile.
The pair, playing and writing songs together since 2010, recently played the Conscious Culture Festival in Tonasket, Okanogan County, and Seattle’s Northwest Folklife Festival; a recording of their Folklife set can be found on Strong Sun Moon’s Facebook page.
For more about Saturday’s show and links to Strong Sun Moon videos and song samples, see www.Strongsunmoon.org or www.CoyleConcerts.com and click on the “Upcoming Shows” heading.
For directions to the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center at 923 Hazel Point Road, contact Norm Johnson at 360-765-3449 or johnson5485@msn.com.
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Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane.urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.
