June in Port Townsend
June 4, 2018 by bluegullinn
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Centrum Port Townsend
July 6, 2016 by bluegullinn
Centrum Port Townsend
Nonstop Music & Readings at Centrum in July
Centrum Port Townsend, is known around the world for its immersive arts and cultural workshops and festivals. In July, 2016, we will present twenty-four public performances and literary readings (nearly one a day!) at Fort Worden State Park and in venues throughout downtown Port Townsend.
The month of July features in-depth multi-generational workshops in Voice, Fiddle Tunes, Poetry and Creative Writing, and Jazz. Visitors and residents benefit from access to many free events at the Fort and world-class performances at concert venues on the Fort Worden campus.
This year also marks the 40th Anniversary of the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes and the 25th Anniversary of the McCurdy Pavilion, a WWI balloon hangar that Centrum converted into a 1,200-seat concert facility in the 1990s.
July Events
Voice Works: A Workshop for Singers (June 28-July 3)
Blood Harmony: Mothers and Fathers and Daughters
Friday, July 1, 7:30pm, Wheeler Theater
Free Fridays at the Fort (outdoor concert)
Friday July 1, Noon, featuring Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms
Honky Tonk Polka Dot Dance
Saturday, July 2, 7:30pm, USO Building
The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes – the 40th Gathering (July 3-July 10)
Fiddles on the Fourth
Monday, July 4, 1:30pm, McCurdy Pavilion
Fiddles and Fireworks
Monday, July 4, 7pm, McCurdy Pavilion
Free Fridays at the Fort (outdoor concert)
Friday, July 8, Noon, featuring The Seabright Serenaders
Rhythm and Roots Dance
Friday, July 8, 7:30 p.m. – Littlefield Green at McCurdy Pavilion
North and South America
Saturday, July 9, 1:30pm, McCurdy Pavilion
The Port Townsend Writers’ Conference (July 17-July 24)
Free Fridays at the Fort (outdoor concert)
Friday July 15, Noon, featuring Farko Dosumov & Friends
Writers’ Conference Public Readings (FREE)
July 17-23, 7 p.m., Wheeler Theater & Northwind Arts Center
Free Fridays at the Fort (outdoor concert)
Friday July 22, Noon, featuring Aba Kiser
Jazz Port Townsend (July 24-July 31)
Free Fridays at the Fort (outdoor concert)
Friday July 29, Noon, featuring the Jazz Port Townsend Big Band Directed by Clarence Acox
Friday Night Mainstage Performance
Friday, July 29, 7:30pm, McCurdy Pavilion
Saturday Afternoon Mainstage Performance
Saturday, July 30, 1:30pm, McCurdy Pavilion
Saturday Night Mainstage Performance
Saturday, July 30, 7:30pm, McCurdy Pavilion
Jazz in the Clubs
Thursday, July 28, 8pm-11pm, Downtown Port Townsend Clubs
Friday, July 29, 10pm-12:30am, Downtown Port Townsend Clubs
Saturday, July 30, 10pm-12:30am, Downtown Port Townsend Clubs
Voice Works – Centrum
June 28, 2016 by bluegullinn
Voice Works – Centrum
Fort Worden State Park
VOICE WORKS ARTICLES
Voice Works is this weekend at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, WA.
Be part of all that Centrum has to offer as a great kick off to Summer in the old blimp hanger.
Blood Harmony Voice Works Concert July 1
Voice Works – Centrum…..Friday night at the Wheeler is a show that you don’t want to miss. “Blood Harmony: Mothers and Fathers and Daughters” is a Voice Works concert featuring family members singing together, showing how people who were raised with the same accent, the same phrasing and intonation, the same genes, are capable of blending two and…
Voice Works Special: Free Screening of The Winding Stream on June 30
Voice Works – Centrum…..As part of 2016 Voice Works, Centrum and the Port Townsend Film Festival are delighted to present The Winding Stream, the story of the Carter Family that began in the hills of Virginia and led to the first real super stars of American country music. We will screen the film at the Joseph Wheeler Theater…
Petunia and the Vipers: Honky-Tonk Dance July 2
Voice Works – Centrum…..Honky-Tonk Polka Dot Dance Join us Saturday, July 2, at 8:00 p.m. in the USO Building at Fort Worden! Tickets $15 (sold at the door only) Featuring Petunia and the Vipers with a beer garden and a nice wooden dance floor. Wear your Polka Dots! About Petunia – acoustic guitar, vocals, yodeler, trumpeter Spending the early part…
2016 Voice Works: Singing to Kickstart your Summer
Voice Works – Centrum…….We’re getting close to June 28 to July 3 when we gather at Fort Worden in Port Townsend for Voice Works – our summer week of singing – and the program is shaping up nicely. There’s a plethora of opportunities for harmony singing, with a duet session held each period of the day: Duets from…
Voice Works Welcomes Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick in 2016
Voice Works – Centrum…..Before Laurie Lewis and Kathy Kallick became the highly respected and successful singers, songwriters, and bluegrass bandleaders they are today, they were founding members of the groundbreaking northern California band the Good Ol’ Persons. Although Laurie remained in that group for only a short while before moving on to lead her own bands, she and…
Mollie O’Brien, Rich Moore and Kids This Summer @ Voice Works!
Voice Works – Centrum…. Mollie O’Brien and her husband, guitarist Rich Moore, have for nearly 30 years quietly made it their mission to find, mine and reinvent other artists’ songs. They are geniuses at the craft of interpretation in the way that great singers, since the beginning of popular American music, have made the songs of their era their own. As songwriters they…
Centrum Port Townsend
June 24, 2016 by bluegullinn
BLUES
Apply for the John Potter Blues Scholarship
Our friends at Crossroads Music in Port Townsend are once again paying for a young, aspiring blues musician from Jefferson or Clallam County to attend the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Workshop. Crossroads Music began this music scholarship to honor their dear friend and teacher John Potter who passed in 2013. He taught at Crossroads Music for…
FIDDLE TUNES
Peter McCracken Named ‘Best of the West’
Folk Alliance Region-West (FAR-West) announced this week that Peter McCracken and Centrum, along with legendary songwriter/performer Danny O’Keefe are the recipients of its Best of the West Awards for 2016. The Best of the West awards were established by FAR-West in 2005 to honor individuals who have maintained an enduring presence in the folk and acoustic music scene in…
JAZZ
Space & Scholarships Still Available for Jazz Port Townsend
Summer will be here before we know it and of course that includes the 2016 Jazz Port Townsend workshop July 24-31. Remember the feeling of hearing world-class faculty from just a few feet away in your first Faculty Presents concert? The individualized attention you got in your combo or vocal class? The amazing mainstage and club performances,…
WRITING
Helena María Viramontes: Story Has No Limit
Centrum is pleased to welcome Helena María Viramontes to the faculty of the 2016 Port Townsend Writers’ Conference. Considered one of Hispanic literature’s most distinguished craftspersons, Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories and two novels Under the Feet of Jesus and Their Dogs Came With Them. She has also co-edited with…
VOICE WORKS
2016 Voice Works: Singing to Kickstart your Summer
We’re getting close to June 28 to July 3 when we gather at Fort Worden in Port Townsend for Voice Works – our summer week of singing – and the program is shaping up nicely. There’s a plethora of opportunities for harmony singing, with a duet session held each period of the day: Duets from…
YOUNG ARTISTS
Scholarship Deadlines for Youth Programs
Explorations Scholarship Deadline: January 25,2016 Notifications the week of February 1 Explorations is Centrum’s immersive, week-long program for middle schoolers. Students are introduced to the world of arts and ideas, creative risk-taking, and personal development. It’s a total learning environment that challenges the mind and body in equal measure. Each day features four workshop sessions where…
Coast Artillery Museum – Port Townsend
June 13, 2016 by bluegullinn
Coast Artillery Museum – Port Townsend
The Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum at Fort Worden.
On January 1, 2016 CAM will once again be participating in the State Parks First Day Hike Program. Coast Artillery Museum – Port Townsend. We’ll be starting near Battery Randol/Memory’s Vault at the top of Artillery Hill. This year we’ll be doing it a little differently. We’ll give a brief historical talk, then provide people with a pamphlet that provides a self-guided walking tour. That way people can take as long as they want, and cover as much of the area as they’d like. We’ll also provide at least one guided tour at 1 PM, plus additional talks and self-guided tour information as people show up until 3PM. Bring a flashlight if possible, cell phone flashlights will do, and people can share a light if necessary.
Coast Artillery Museum – Port Townsend. If we have enough volunteers current plans are to also have the Harbor Entrance Control Post open for tours, and we may start everything there. If so there will be signs directing people to the HECP from Memory’s Vault, it’s about 100 yards away.
The Coast Artillery Museum is open every day.
The museum is located in Building 201 (one of the original 1904 Barracks) next to the Park Office at Fort Worden. It is open 365 days/year 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend we have extended hours on Fridays and Saturdays: 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Admission: Effective April 1, 2013 rates are $4 adults, $2 ages 6-12, and a $10 family value package covering 2 generations. Admission is free for children ages 5 and younger and active duty service members. Effective August 15, 2014 partners and dependents of active duty military service members pay half price. Group rates are available for students, scouts and similar organizations by prior arrangement. Please Contact the Museum.
Help support Washington State Parks, purchase a Discover Pass. Passes are available at (click on the names for a Google Map) the Friends of Fort Worden Gift Shop (in their new location), the Coast Artillery Museum at Fort Worden, the Marine Science Center at Fort Worden, the Registration Desk in the Commons, and some other Fort Worden Partners for $30 without any additional charges so you save $5. Because the Partners sell the Pass at cost without any markup, some only take cash or checks. The Coast Artillery Museum, the Gift Shop and the Registration Desk in the Commons can accept credit cards.
Visit Fortworden.org for information about accommodations and events at the Fort.
Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day the Harbor Entrance Control Post will be open for tours on Saturdays from 11 AM to 3 PM, and there is a free, guided Walking Tour of Artillery Hill beginning at 1 PM on Saturdays, starting in the grassy field near Battery Randol. The walking tour covers 1-1.5 miles and can last up to 2 hours if people are interested, but you’re welcome to join up or leave at any time. A flashlight is advised, but not required. Donations are always appreciated, we have a box at the HECP when it’s open, and always at the Museum. Occasional extra days are scheduled, please see our Upcoming Events page for details.
The tours are also available for groups at any time by special arrangement, please call the Museum at (360) 385-0373 to discuss it. For those unable to walk to the top of the hill, you can check in at the Park office and present a Washington State disabled parking pass or equivalent to make arrangements to drive to the top of the hill. You will still need to be able to navigate uneven ground and some stairs to make the tour itself.
Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum
Building 201
Fort Worden
200 Battery Way
Port Townsend, WA 98368
(360) 385-0373
Building 201
Fort Worden
200 Battery Way
Port Townsend, WA 98368
(360) 385-0373
Port Townsend Aero Museum
June 11, 2016 by bluegullinn
Port Townsend Aero Museum
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| Port Townsend Aero Museum. The Port Townsend Aero Museum preserves aviation history in the Pacific Northwest. Located 45 miles northwest of Seattle, flanked by the Olympic Mountains and the Puget Sound, the museum contributes to a vibrant community. Our youth mentorship program is second to none. Young adults participate in all aspects of operations, including restoration and flight activities. Our collection includes a variety of antique and classic aircraft. We regularly fly those aircraft that are safe and airworthy. Restorations are performed in-house by an expert group of mechanics and volunteers. Our shop also performs contract restoration work. The museum is publicly owned and receives no tax-based funding. If you like our program, please consider contributing.
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Our Story
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| The Port Townsend Aero Museum began operations in 2001, founded by experienced aircraft restorers Jerry and Peggy Thoutte. With an initial donation of six flying antique aircraft and several restoration projects, the museum quickly attracted a group of dedicated young volunteers. The youth mentorship program grew alongside the collection. |
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| The museum was originally based out of a scattering of hangars at the west end of the airport. Fundraising for a new building was a major undertaking, with proceeds coming from contract work, rummage sales, online auctions and individual donations. After seven years of hard work by museum volunteers and contributers, along with generous support from the community and local contractors, we were proud to open our new $3.5 million facility to the public in the summer of 2008. Work has now begun on a restoration shop near the new buildling. Plans are in place for continued expansion over the next several years. |
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| Several hundred young adults have participated in the mentorship program over the years. Our aircraft collection continues to grow. We fly our airplanes regularly, visiting select events during the airshow season. We are a dynamic organization serving our community and the greater Puget Sound region. We invite you to stop by and see for yourself! |
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Concerts on the Dock 2016
June 8, 2016 by bluegullinn
Concerts on the Dock
Concerts on the Dock 2015, photo by Deja View Photography
Concerts on the Dock 2016
Port Townsend Main Street Program’s Concerts on the Dock
Free All-Ages Summer Music Series at Pope Marine Plaza
Concerts on the Dock 2016. Downtown Port Townsend rocks with all-ages free Concerts on the Dock Thursdays July 14th through September 1st at Pope Marine Park Plaza. This music on the waterfront is sponsored by generous local businesses, the Port Townsend Main Street Program, Homer Smith Insurance, Kitsap Credit Union, Uptown Pub & Grill, KPTZ 91.9 FM, The Peninsula Daily News, The CoLab and the City of Port Townsend. Local vendors and a Beer/Wine & Cider Garden contribute to the festive atmosphere. Seating opens at 4:30pm, show starts at 5:00pm and end at 7:30 pm.
July 14th – Kevin Mason & The PT All Stars
Stage Sponsor – The Bishop and Swan Hotels
Beer Garden Sponsor – The Commander’s Beach House
July 21st – Uncle Funk & The Dope Six
Stage Sponsor – Wooden Boat Festival
Beer Garden Sponsor – Jim & Sherry
July 28th – Toolshed Trio with Abakis
Stage Sponsor – SOS Printing
Beer Garden Sponsor – Sport Townsend
August 4th – Locust Street Taxi
Stage Sponsor – Holley Carlson, Coldwell Banker Best Homes
Beer Garden Sponsor – All About Escrow
August 11th – Olympic Express Big Band
Stage Sponsor – Get Connected
Beer Garden Sponsor – Glow Natural Skin Care/Soak on the Sound
August 18th – Cold Comfort with Kilcid Band
Stage Sponsor – Windermere Port Townsend
Beer Garden Sponsor – Jefferson County Cannabis
August 25th – Joy in Mudville
Stage Sponsor – Fort Worden
Beer Garden Sponsor – Fort Worden
September 1st – Lucky Brown & The Funk Revolution
Stage Sponsor – Peninsula Hearing
Beer Garden Sponsor – Schodowski Law
The ‘Concerts on the Dock’ are some of our favorite events throughout the year, and have become the sign for many of us that summer has truly arrived! These FREE outdoor music events take advantage of a beautiful waterfront setting in Pope Marine Plaza, and the lineup this year is going to be incredible. Come to dance, see your friends, enjoy a beer and have a bite. In addition to loyal, perennial vendors Daily Bird Pottery, Magical Henna and James Jackson Massage, we’ll have food at every concert alternating between Mo Chilli BBQ and Paella House, coffee from Java Gypsy, Popsicle by PT Pops, and vegan ice cream at select shows by Fiddlehead Creamery! Bring a chair or a blanket and settle in for some great tunes.
Tastes of Port Townsend 2016
June 7, 2016 by bluegullinn
“Tastes” of Port Townsend
Photo by Elizabeth Becker/Seaport Photography
Tastes of Port Townsend 2016…….“Tastes” of Port Townsend — Sample ~ Sip ~ Mingle…It’s going to be delicious!
Thursday, June 9th from 5-8 pm at the Northwest Maritime Center, 431 Water St.
Join us for an Evening of Local Tastes of Port Townsend Food, Beer, Wine, Cider and Desserts!
This is an amazingly tasty fundraiser for the Port Townsend Main Street Program, a 501c3 nonprofit.
TICKETS ON SALE AT THE DOOR or Until Noon on 6/8 at www.eventbrite.com or
Uptown Pub–
1016 Lawrence St.
Lively Olive Tasting Bar–
929 Water St.
The Food Coop–
414 Kearney St.
$50 for Food & Alcohol Tastes or $35 for Food Only Tastes
This is a 21+ event, please bring your ID.
Tasty Samples from:
The Belmont – Lamb Meatballs with a Basil Mint and Feta Cheese Pesto & Stone Ground Apricot Sauce
Cablehouse Beach Canteen – Razor Clam Chowder
Sirens Seafood Bar – Puget Sound Boil — local mussels, clams and prawns in traditional Old Bay and beer broth with red potatoes and corn on the cob
Taps at The Guardhouse – Pulled Pork Sliders
Ichikawa Sushi Bar & Steak House – Miso Soup & Sushi Samples
The OId Whiskey Mill – Caribbean Chicken Sandwich – Smoked chicken, Mount Townsend cheese curds, apricot habanero chutney and baby greens on thick sliced French bread with roasted shallot aioli
The Silverwater Cafe – Sicilian Prawn Risotto
The Tin Brick – Wood Fired Pizza
Dogs-A-Foot – Hot Dog Bites
Port Townsend Food Coop – A selection of Artisan Cheeses
Elevated Ice Cream and Candy Shop – Locally made Chocolates &
Root Beer Floats featuring Bedford’s Beer Soda and Elevated Ice Cream
Port Townsend Chocolates – House made Caramel, hand dipped and sprinkled with Sea Salt & House made Caramel with Organic Pecans
Port Townsend Fudge Company – Locally made Fudge
The Boiler Room – Homemade Cookies & Homemade Chai & New England Coffee Syrup
And Select Sips from:
Eaglemount Wine and Cider
FairWinds Winery – Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot Blend, Merlot & Lemberger
Finnriver Cidery – Honey Meadow Cider
Lullaby Winery – 2009 Morning Light, Rouge de Virginie, & 2014 Carbon
Marrowstone Winery – Pinot Gris, Riesling & Barbera
Pippa’s Real Tea – Iced Tea
Port Townsend Brewing Company – Chet’s Gold, Amber & Hop Diggidy
Propolis Brewing – Beltane – Elderflower Saison with Brett
Sunrise Coffee Company – Locally Roasted Reg. & Decaf Coffee
May 2016 Events NW Maritime Center
May 4, 2016 by bluegullinn
NW Maritime Center
May 2016 Events NW Maritime Center
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May 2016 Port Townsend Events
May 3, 2016 by bluegullinn
May 2016 Port Townsend Events
Coming Your Way in May—Rhodies and Races, Food and Fun!
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