Apr 12 Sunday
A herd of animal sculptures and wild paintings fills Northwind Art's gallery in downtown Port Townsend. The show, titled “New Work by Randy Sturgis and Peter Koronakos” features Randy's giant acrylic-charcoal-oil paintings and Peter's animals made of found objects. Together, they make a rich gallery environment. You can even pick up one of the scavenger hunt game cards as you roam around the show. The gallery is open 12 noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays; this exhibit runs through May 4. Also: during Port Townsend's first-Saturday Art Walk, you can meet the artists and enjoy refreshments and conversation from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. April 4 and May 2.
🎷 Jazz Jam at Butter Notes Café 🎷📍 Butter Notes Café – Everett, WA🗓️ Every 1st & 3rd Sunday @ 2 PM
☕ Come sip, snack, and swing!
Join us for an afternoon of live jazz and spontaneous creativity at Butter Notes Café! Whether you’re here to play or just enjoy the vibes, you’re welcome.
🧇 Fresh croffles and warm coffee served all afternoon🎶 Open to all instruments, all levels💛 Donations encouraged to support local musicians and future sessions
Bring your instrument, your friends, or just your love for music!
Jacobsen Series 2025-26 performances featuring Puget Sound music faculty, renowned guest artists, and inspiring themed concerts.
The Jacobsen Series was established in 1984 in honor of Leonard Jacobsen, former chair and professor of Puget Sound’s piano department. Ticket sales support the Jacobsen Series Scholarship Fund, annual music scholarships awarded to outstanding student performers and scholars in the SAI international music organization. Thank you to our many patrons whose support has benefitted students and contributed to this successful series. The Keyboard Series, now in its third year, features a dynamic lineup of charismatic guest artists.
To learn more, visit pugetsound.edu/jacobsen or call the School of Music at 253.879.3741.
Discover ancient and forgotten musical instruments, performed by music historians whosework with instruments seldom seen outside of museums. The magical thingabout Medusa Quartet is that these historians also create the loveliest and most hauntingmusic with these instruments, and show how the strange and sometimes-dismissed canintertwine with the ordinary to produce something profound and beautiful.Medusa Quartet—Saskia Tomkins, Marta Solek, Geo Hathaway, and Lea Kirstein—introduceinstruments with names like knee-fiddle, suka, nyckelharpa, and plock fiddle. These areinstruments found in archaeological digs, museums, and even trash heaps of old. According totheir official website, “Medusa the band aims to [bring back] what has been cast out…theyresurrect…near-forgotten traditional folk fiddles with disreputable connotations, rejected and[sometimes literally] buried in their home countries of Poland and Sweden.” Thesestrange-looking instruments play beautifully alongside the more familiar and modern viola,fiddle, and cello, and conjure up haunting melodies from Ireland, Eastern Europe, theMediterranean, Appalachia, and Scandinavia.The award-winning performers of Medusa Quartet have made it their mission to lift up thatmythical Gorgon Medusa, “wielding a sound that would turn classical music scholars tostone…Medusa tempts us to redefine what is beautiful.”
Anacortes-based artist Lucia Enriquez will give a demonstration of her digital art-making techniques and answer questions about her creative process. Everyone is invited to attend, and to see Lucia's deep, blue artworks on view in Northwind Art's "Showcase 2026" exhibit. This artist makes work shaped by her experiences with immigration, family history, her Filipina heritage, and time spent in nature. “Art is my way of searching for meaning in our constantly changing world,” she writes. Trained as a traditional printmaker, Lucia incorporates digital painting and special effects into her practice. Northwind Art's gallery is also open 12 noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays.
KKWO Music Festival Performance:Casey MacGill
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Jazz saxophone and flute master Mark Lewis is performing Sundays in Bremerton, each week with different guest musicians. All ages. No cover.
Olympic Ballet Theatre presents "Spring Rep," a dynamic double-bill celebrating striking contrasts in ballet. Donald Byrd’s "From the Dark Land," set to music by George Crumb and Franz Schubert, returns for the first time since its 2023 premiere, weaving beauty and dissonance into a riveting ballet. In contrast, excerpts from "La Fille Mal Gardée," set to music by Peter Ludwig Hertel and staged by Artistic Directors Oleg Gorboulev and Mara Vinson after Alexander Gorsky, bring warmth and charm to the stage, featuring the lively Waltz and the spirited pas de deux of Lise and her beloved Colas.
The Portland virtuosos of jazz combine their extensive musical resumes for an evening of intellectual jazz. John Stowell (www.johnstowell.com) established himself as an outstanding guitarist early in his career. Downbeat’s International Critic’s Poll in 1978 and 1979 identified John as “talent deserving wider recognition.” In 1983, John joined flutist Paul Horn, bassist David Friesen and Paul’s son Robin Horn for a historic tour of the Soviet Union. This was the first time in 40 years that an American jazz group had been invited to play public performances in Russia. He was invited back in 1993, 1995, 1998 and 2012. Over the years John has recorded/performed with a who’s who of artists worldwide and maintains a very busy teaching and performance schedule throughout the United State, Europe and Asia.
David Friesen (www.davidfriesen.net) is a highly influential jazz bassist, composer, pianist and educator, whose expressive artistry and creative breadth have earned him to placement among the top 100 greatest and 20 most influential jazz bassists of all time. Born in Tacoma and raised in Tacoma, Spokane and West Seattle along with his sister, actress Dyan Cannon, David enjoyed early success, performing across Europe, appearing at the Monterey Jazz Festival and various beacons of jazz. He has recorded over 80 albums as a leader or co-leader and appeared on more than 100 albums as a sideman. In addition he has traveled worldwide presenting music clinics in more than 200 universities and music conservatories.
Charlie Doggett, a native Oregonian, began violin lessons at age 8 but later switched to the drum set. He studied at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance and has maintained an extensive teaching and performing career since moving to Portland in 2000. Currently an adjunct faculty member at Lewis and Clark in Portland, he has performed in the Pacific Northwest, West Coast and in Europe. His diverse collaborations over the years speak highly of his skillset as he is established as a first-call drummer for artists on the Portland jazz scene as well as visiting artists.
