Concerts, enjoyable days set for Peninsula weekend

Music live shows, Clallam Bay/Sekiu Fun Days and Interdependence Day spotlight this weekend’s occasions on the North Olympic Peninsula.

• Concerts within the Barn will proceed its season with live shows by the Carpe Diem String Quartet at 2 p.m. right this moment, Saturday and Sunday on the Quilcene Lantern, 7360 Center Road, Quilcene.

Concertgoers are inspired to order a seat at www.
ticketstripe.com/event-list/concerts-in-the-barn.

The Carpe Diem String Quartet consists of violinists Sam Weiser and Marisa Ishikawa, violist Korine Fujiwara and cellist Ariana Nelson.

Today’s program, “An American Story,” consists of 5 particular person tales that every comply with the lifetime of an ancestor of one of many quartet’s members. Each member of the quartet wrote the music for his or her ancestor’s story.

Saturday and Sunday will function “Fünf Stücke für Streichquartett” by Erwin Schulhoff, Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1 and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11.

Concerts within the Barn’s season will end July 17-19 with the Barston Sisters and Friends.

• The Chimacum Farmstand will host its fifteenth Interdependence Day celebration on Sunday.

The annual all-ages occasion will have a good time arts, meals, tradition and neighborhood.

Activities embrace:

— A Chimacum-grown pancake breakfast from 9 a.m. to midday on the Chimacum Grange, 9572 Rhody Drive.

— A Farmers Market, with a petting park and youngsters actions, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Chimacum Farmers Market, 9122 Rhody Drive.

— A Salish Sea Makers Market from midday to five p.m. within the Hay Barn at Finnriver Farm and Cidery, 124 Center Road.

— Face portray and large bubble wands within the yard at Finnriver Farm.

— Mini golf and mini milkshakes at 2 p.m. till they run out on the Chimacum Cafe, 9253 Rhody Drive.

— A Pop-up Circus by Pop-Up Movement’s youth efficiency troupe from 5 p.m. to six p.m. at Finnriver.

— A dance social gathering from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. within the pavilion at Finnriver.

— The Chimacum History Gallery on the Chimacum Corner Farmstand Produce Porch, self-guided nature walks at Chimacum Ridge Community Forest and neighborhood data cubicles at Finnriver will probably be open all day lengthy.

A $5 to $20 cowl cost will probably be collected at Finnriver from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.

For extra data, e mail Erika Hitchcock at [email protected] or go to https://www.finnriver.com/interdependence.

• The Port Angeles Arts Council will host the Second Saturday Art Walk from
5 p.m. to eight p.m. Saturday within the Port Angeles Waterfront District.

Participants who go to and gather stamps from half of the areas will probably be entered right into a raffle for tickets for both a $50 present card to Kindred Collective, a
$50 present card to Studio Bob or a 15-inch Copper Salmon made by Eric Molina.

An Art Walk passport will be picked up and returned at any Second Saturday Art Walk location between
5 p.m. and eight p.m. Saturday. Participants should embrace their contact data to be entered into the drawing.

During the artwork stroll, Harbor Art Gallery, 114 N. Laurel St., Port Angeles, will host a reception for Gail McLain from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

McLain, the gallery’s featured artist for July, will exhibit jewellery, copper work and coloured pencil artwork.

McLain, who grew up in Tukwila, has a level in graphic design from the University of Washington and labored at Boeing as a manufacturing illustrator.

As a longtime resident of the Olympic Peninsula, McLain has sought out completely different media to seize her love of the world’s vegetation and wildlife. Her exhibit consists of sea creatures fashioned from copper sheet, hammered and formed by hand and coloured by way of the cautious software of warmth.

McLain’s art work will be seen at Harbor Art Gallery from 11 a.m. to
4 p.m. Wednesdays by way of Saturdays all through July.

• Sturtz will carry out at 7:30 p.m. Friday throughout the Rainshadow Concerts collection at Rainshadow Recording in Building 315 at Fort Worden Historical State Park, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend.

Tickets are $25 per individual at www.ticketstorm.com/c/17038/rainshadow
recording or $30 on the door.

The Colorado-based acoustic quartet consists of Andrew Sturtz, vocals and guitar; Jim Herlihy, banjo; Courtlyn Carpenter, cello; and Will Kuepper, bass.

Sturtz has been touring with teams just like the Eli Young Band, Trout Steak Revival, Lillie Mae and Smooth Hound Smith.

The band launched “Hyacinth,” its second studio album, in 2024 and is writing songs for a 3rd album.

• The Sam Grisman Project will carry out at 7:30 p.m. Friday within the Donna M. Morris Auditorium at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles.

Tickets are $45 to $75 per individual at www.fieldhallevents/tickets.

The venture contains a rotating forged of performers. Tonight’s present will embrace Grisman on upright bass and vocals, Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, Victor Furtado on clawhammer banjo, Max Flansburg on guitar, Dominick Leslie on mandolin, Nat Smith on cello and Tod Livingston on dobro.

The venture pays tribute to the music of such artists as David Grisman, Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan, Doc Watson, John Hartford and Mike Seeger.

Danny Barnes, the recipient of the 2015 Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, will open the present.

• The Bayside Art Gallery will host a reception for the opening of “Roots. Chosen.” from 4 p.m. to six p.m. Sunday within the gallery on the Old Alcohol Plant Hotel, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock.

“Roots. Chosen.” is a solo exhibition of oil and acrylic work by Bilonda Mireille Rommel.

Rommel is a Seattle-based, Congolese-born, self-taught summary artist. Her artwork attracts on the ceremonial motifs, sacred geometries and dwelling symbols of Luba, Bantu and Kongo traditions.

The exhibit, Rommel’s first solo exhibition, explores the intersections of heritage, identification and deliberate belonging by way of the duality between the organic, historic foundations we inherit and the communities, paths and identities we declare for ourselves.

“Roots. Chosen.” will probably be on show from 9 a.m. to
9 p.m. every day by way of Aug. 31.

For extra data, go to www.baysideart
gallery.com.

• The Chuchito Valdés Trio will carry out two reveals Saturday within the Thomsen Club at Field Arts & Events Hall, 210 W. Front St., Port Angeles.

Doors will open at 5 p.m. for the 6 p.m. present and at
8 p.m. for the second present at 8:30 p.m.

Tickets are $55 to $60 per individual at www.fieldhall events.org/tickets.

Valdes, a seven-time Grammy nominee, performs Cuban music, together with Son, Danzon, Cuban Timba and Guaguanco with influences from Afro-Cuban Latin jazz, Bebop, Danzon, Cha-Cha-Cha, Son Montuno and Caribbean rhythms.

The Thomsen Club provides a dinner and jazz membership expertise upstairs at Field Hall. Drinks and a dinner menu will probably be accessible to order.

• Clallam Bay Sekiu Fun Days are scheduled for right this moment by way of Sunday in downtown Clallam Bay and on the Sekiu Community Center, 42 Rice St., Sekiu.

Festivities will begin with the Art Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. right this moment, from midday to
4 p.m. Saturday and from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday within the Sekiu Community Center.

The Street Fair will probably be from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. right this moment, from 10 a.m. to six p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. Sunday within the bus barn car parking zone and within the entrance area on the college.

This yr will function “Moments That Made Us: Americas 250th” from
10 a.m. to five p.m. The exhibit explores how generations of Americans have given that means to the beliefs set out within the Declaration of Independence.

The Friends of the Library will host a guide sale from
10 a.m. to five p.m. Friday and from midday to five p.m. Saturday on the Clallam Bay department, 16990 state Highway 112.

The competition will kick off with a neighborhood potluck at 5 p.m. right this moment on the bus barn.

The Brian Waite Band will carry out for an out of doors live performance on the library from
5 p.m. to six p.m. right this moment.

Tonight’s actions will conclude with Trivia Night at 7 p.m. downstairs on the Sekiu Community Hall.

Saturday’s actions will begin with signups for the Poker Ride at 8:30 a.m. Then at 9 a.m., contributors will journey their bikes and round city to seek out taking part in playing cards. The greatest poker hand will win.

The parade will begin at
11 a.m. with an honor guard, the kiddie parade and the grand parade, and a dwell public sale within the bus barn will comply with the parade.

The True North Dance Team Performance will current a line-dancing occasion at midday on the college.

Also at midday will probably be a Bucket Dump fundraiser by the bus barn.

A 3-on-3 basketball match will begin at
12:30 p.m., and a blow-up impediment course will probably be open from 1:30 p.m. to three:30 p.m.

The North Olympic Salmon Coalition will current plant identification from 2:30 p.m. to five p.m. on the library.

The Beer Bellied Sneeches, with visitor singers, will carry out dwell music from 5 p.m. to eight p.m. in entrance of Sekiu’s Bay Cafe.

Karolyn Burdick and Larry Burtness will current Clallam Bay History at 7:30 p.m. within the Sekiu Community Center.

Saturday will shut with a fireworks present at 10 p.m.

Sunday will see a Fun Run at 9 a.m. Signups will start at 8 a.m. on the Clallam Bay Fire Department, 60 Eagle Crest Way, Clallam Bay.

The occasion will finish with the Pop Maneval Cribbage Tournament at 3 p.m. on the Toast and Jam Pub, 31 Frontier St.

For extra data, together with the total schedule, go to www.clallambaysekiu
fundays.info.

• Just Foolin’ Around will carry out from 6 p.m. to
8:30 p.m. Sunday at Elks Lodge #2642, 143 Port Williams Road, Sequim.

Admission is $12 per individual, $10 for lodge members.

• The North Olympic Library System will host a cat-themed teen evening from 6 p.m. to 7:30 tonight on the Sequim Branch Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.

The after-hours occasion is for teenagers solely.

Participants can get pleasure from card and board video games, watch cat cartoons and embellish cookies.

Stuffed animals are welcome, however pets must be left at residence.

Pizza and snacks will probably be offered.

For extra data, go to www.nols.org.

• The Friends of the Sequim Library will conduct a guide sale from 9 a.m. to three p.m. Saturday within the Friends’ storefront location at Rock Plaza, 10175 Old Olympic Highway.

Proceeds will profit packages on the Sequim Branch Library.

• Patty Bacon and Roger Steinert will current “Garden Bed Construction: Building an Elevated Planter” at 10 a.m. Saturday on the Woodcock Demonstration Garden, 2711 Woodcock Road, Sequim.

The free workshop is a part of the Clallam County Master Gardeners’ Digging Deeper gardening collection.

Bacon and Steinert will focus on instruments and supplies for constructing planters, after which they’ll exhibit the development of a 3-foot by 4-foot elevated planter produced from domestically sourced cedar.

For extra data, name 360-565-2679 or go to https://extension.wsu.edu/clallam.

• The Clallam County Master Gardeners will current “Outsmarting a Variety of Animal Pests in the Garden” at 10 a.m. Saturday on the Fifth Street Community Garden, 328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles.

The presentation is a part of the grasp gardeners’ Fifth Street Community Garden Clinic, which runs from
10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

The grasp gardeners will supply excursions, reply plant clinic questions and provides well timed gardening recommendation for vegetable gardeners.

For extra data, name the Washington State University Extension at 360-565-2679 or go to https://extension.wsu.edu/clallam/mg.

• The Brian Waite Band will current “Adventurous Rock ‘n’ Roll” at a number of branches of the North Olympic Library System this weekend.

The trio will carry out at
6 p.m. Friday on the Clallam Bay Branch Library, 16990 state Highway 112, Clallam Bay, throughout Clallam Bay Sekiu Fun Days.

The band additionally will carry out at 10:30 a.m. Saturday on the Sequim Branch Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim, and at 3 p.m. Saturday on the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles.

The reveals will embrace storytelling, humor and rock and roll music.

For extra data, name the library at 360-417-8500, e mail [email protected] or go to www.nols.org.

• The Jefferson County Master Gardeners will current “Starting from Scratch: Your First Steps in Landscape Design” at midday on Saturday.

The free presentation will probably be within the Humphrey Room on the Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave., Port Hadlock.

The lecture will probably be adopted at 1 p.m. by the Jefferson County Master Gardeners’ month-to-month “Ask a Master Gardener” plant clinic.

Master gardeners will probably be accessible to reply questions on choosing the suitable vegetation for the setting, composting, insect infestations and unknown pathogens damaging vegetation.

Attendees might convey a pattern of an stricken plant or convey plant or insect specimens for identification.

Samples of plant issues ought to embrace each the wholesome and affected tissue; the reduce finish of the stem must be wrapped with a moist paper towel, and the reduce vegetation must be saved in a cool and darkish location to forestall wilting.

For plant identification, embrace pictures or samples of the leaves, branches and stems of the plant, a portion of the fruiting or flowering construction and a consultant portion of the stem or bark.

Identification is extra doubtless when extra buildings of the plant will be examined.

For insect identification, convey an intact specimen in a small container quickly after seize; hold it saved in a cool, darkish place.

For extra data, e mail Bridget Gregg at [email protected] or go to www.jclibrary.info.

• Cathy Cowley and Jim Lapsansky would be the featured performers at an accordion social from
1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday on the Shipley Center, 921 E. Hammond St., Sequim.

Accordionists are invited to convey their devices and play a tune or two; the general public is welcome to pay attention or to bop.

Snacks and low will probably be offered.

A advisable donation of $5 will defray room rental prices.