Fireworks, parades and concerts will mark the Fourth of July throughout the North Olympic Peninsula.
Forks got a jump on the celebration, beginning Saturday for a three-day festival that culminates today with a Grand Parade, demolition derby and fireworks show.
The Grand Parade will begin at noon in the Forks Transit Center parking lot, 551 S. Forks Ave.
The Forks Lions Club Salmon Bake will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Tillicum Park.
The demolition derby will begin at 3 p.m. in the Tillicum Park arena. Tickets are $8.
Music will be performed from 6:30 p.m. until the fireworks at dusk, both in Tillicum Park.
Another West End community, Neah Bay — at the end of state Highway 112 — plans fireworks sponsored by the Makah Tribal Council at Front Beach at dusk.
Port Angeles
Port Angeles will celebrate with a parade, music and fireworks.
The parade will begin at 6 p.m. down Lincoln Street before turning onto First Street and proceeding to Valley Street.
The Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce will provide sound systems and announcers at Veterans Park, Laurel Street Fountain and the corner of Oak and First streets.
Country band Old Sidekicks will perform at City Pier starting at 7 p.m.
Fat Chance will perform rock ’n’ roll classics until the evening fireworks show.
Fireworks will begin at about 10 p.m. over Port Angeles Harbor.
The most popular free viewing areas for the show will be from City Pier or the Waterfront Trail.
For $5 each — free to those 12 and younger — visitors can watch the show from the top level of the mall’s parking structure at the north end of Lincoln Street.
Music and food will be available beginning at 6 p.m.
After the 10 p.m. fireworks display, The Landing will also be firing off a second round of fireworks, and the party will go on until midnight.
Sequim
In Sequim, a patriotic concert will begin at 2 p.m. at the outdoor bandstand at the James Center for the Performing Arts next to Carrie Blake Park.
The Peninsula Men’s Chorus will perform a concert followed by the Sequim City Band at 3 p.m.
The band will play pieces such as “The National Emblem March,” “Armed Forces Salute,” “Selections from the Music Man” and “American Flourish,” ending with “Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Philip Sousa.
Port Townsend
Music and fireworks will mark the Fourth of July in Port Townsend.
Events at Fort Worden State Park will begin at 1:30 p.m. with music and will end with fireworks.
The new State Parks Discover Pass will not be required for entry for the event in the park.
A special concert also will be held at American Legion Post 26 on the corner of Water and Monroe streets at 7:30 p.m.
The 45-member Port Townsend Summer Band will present its 10th annual Independence Day concert there instead of at Fort Worden, as it has done in the past.
Conductor Karl Bach has chosen a patriotic program of music by John Philip Sousa, E.E. Bagley, Irving Berlin, Samuel Ward, F.W. Meacham, Louis Ganne, Kenneth Alford, Henry Fillmore and his own original compositions.
The concert is free, but donations will be accepted.
Music at Fort Worden
Within Fort Worden, the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes’ special “Old Time Glory” show will begin at 1:30 p.m. at McCurdy Pavilion in Fort Worden.
The show will feature traditional sounds of North America, from Mexico to the Canadian Magdalen Islands.
A second show, “Fiddles and Fireworks” — featuring old-time, bluegrass, Kentucky and Cape Breton styles — will begin at 7 p.m. at McCurdy Pavilion.
Reserved seating tickets for each concert are $17 to $36. Youths ages 18 and younger are admitted free.
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Fireworks will light up the sky at about 10 p.m.
The fireworks display will originate from the lighthouse area at Fort Worden instead of from a barge in the middle of Port Townsend Bay as they have in years past, said John Eissinger of the Sunrise Rotary Club, which is organizing the event.