PORT TOWNSEND — Vocalists from across the nation who participated in Voice Works, Centrum’s celebration of singing, will offer public concerts today and Saturday.
All events are at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way.
First off, a Concert for Kids with Kristin Andreassen will begin at 11 a.m. today at the Fort Worden Chapel.
The concert is free for children and $5 for adults.
Then comes a “Free Fridays at the Fort” concert, with a showcase of Voice Works singers, at noon today on the Nora Porter Commons.
The Honky Tonk Dance and Polka Dot Contest happens tonight. Festivities will get started at 7:30 p.m. at the USO Building, and admission — with tickets at the door only — is $10. The Voice Works Faculty All-Star Band will dish out the music.
Seeing polka-dots
The “best overall polka-dot presence,” aka the supremely dotted outfit, will win free tuition to the 2014 Voice Works festival.
On Saturday, the finale concert, “Roots and Branches of American Singing, from the Secular to the Sacred,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the McCurdy Pavilion. Admission is $20 for adults and free for those 18 and younger.
Performers include the Birmingham Sunlights, Laurel Bliss, Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms, Riley Baugus, John Lilly, Jason and Pharis Romero, and others.
The Birmingham Sunlights, with their four-part a cappella gospel sound, are coming to Port Townsend after having toured Europe, the Caribbean, Africa and Australia.
To find out more about this weekend’s Voice Works activities and the forthcoming Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, which begins this coming Thursday and continues through Sunday, July 7, visit www.Centrum.org and phone 800-746-1982.
