A cider festival, music performances and an art walk highlight weekend events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• The Olympic Peninsula Apple and Cider Festival will continue this weekend with apple harvests, cider tastings, food and music at area cideries.
The festival, which was launched in 2016, celebrates the apple and the community of orchardists, fermenters and artisans who bring it from tree to glass.
Participating cideries include Finnriver Farm and Cidery, 124 Center Road, Chimacum; Alpenfire Cider, 220 Pocket Lane, Port Townsend; Eaglemount Winery and Cidery, 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road, Port Townsend; Olympic Bluffs Cidery and Lavender Farm, 1025 Finn Hall Road, Port Angeles; and Bird and Blossom Cidery, 6495 Flagler Road, Nordland.
There also will be a nod to that other autumn fruit with pumpkin patches open at Dharma Ridge Farms, 431 Center Road, Chimacum; Wilderbee Farms, 223 Cook Ave. Extension, Port Townsend; and Finnriver Farm and Cidery.
For more information, visit www.theproductionalliance.org/events/ciderfest.
• Brian Conway will perform at 7:30 tonight at the Friends Meeting Hall, 1841 Sheridan St., Port Townsend.
Admission is by a $20 suggested donation.
Conway will perform traditional Irish music in the Sligo style, characterized by a lively tempo, intricate ornamentations or flourishes and a bouncy quality. The style originated in County Sligo in northwest Ireland.
Conway recently released “Wallace Avenue,” named after the street in the Bronx on which he grew up.
The album features Conway on fiddle with pianist Brendan Dolan and showcases more than 20 of his former students.
• Richard Russell will present “Raga and Tala: A Musical Journey to India” at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Unity Spiritual Enrichment Center, 3918 San Juan Ave., Port Townsend.
Tickets are $25 per person at https://bit.ly/429eFP8 or $30 at the door.
The concert will feature Anjan Saha playing sitar, Arup Chattopadhya on the tabla and Russell playing sarod.
The sarod is a fretless stringed instrument in the lute family that is central to the classical music of the Hindustan region of northern India. The sitar is a plucked, three-stringed instrument also used in classical Hindustani music.
Tabla refers to a paired set of hand drums. The smaller, higher-pitched Dayan is played with the right hand while the Bayan, which is larger and lower-pitched, is played with the left hand.
Tala comes from the Sanskrit word for hand clapping and refers to the rhythmic framework or meter of Indian music and provides the foundation for a composition or improvisation.
Raga refers to a structured melodic element of Indian music that often is used for improvisation, especially within the framework of a tala.
Saha and Chattopadhyay are both from Kolkata, India; Russell is based in Everett.
• The Port Angeles Arts Council will sponsor the Second Saturday Art Walk from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. this weekend at various downtown venues.
Featured venues include Harbor Art Gallery and Studio Bob.
— The Harbor Art Gallery, 114 N. Laurel St., will showcase the work of fiber artist Lora Armstrong from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Armstrong uses felt and what she describes as a “sprinkle of bling” to create hats, brooches, pillows and slippers from wool and other fabrics. Her exhibit highlights felted wearables and decorative pieces with their rich colors, layered textures and hints of shimmer.
Armstrong embraces both traditional methods of felting as well as modern innovations like nuno felting, which bonds wool fibers to open-weave fabrics such as silk in intricate textures and patterns.
Armstrong’s fiber art will be on display at Harbor Art from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays during October.
— Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., will host a reception for “Elevated Species” from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The solo exhibition features new work by Nathan Shields.
More well-known for his block prints, Shields will exhibit a series of acrylic paintings that dress often-overlooked animals in unexpectedly dignified garb.
Shields also will show some linoleum and woodcut prints and drawings along with a selection of ceramics that continue Shields’ exploration of perception and play.
“Elevated Species” will be on display from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays until Nov. 1.
• East Jefferson Fire Rescue will host the fourth Fire Rescue Fest from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at East Jefferson’s Station 1, 701 Harrison St., Port Townsend.
This year’s festival will celebrate 153 years of fire service in Port Townsend.
U.S. Rep. Emily Randall, D-Bremerton, will be at the opening ceremonies at 10 a.m.
Attendees will see and be able to participate in several demonstrations of current and former firefighting techniques, including a bucket brigade, a horse-drawn hand pumper, connecting and using fire hoses and cooking safety.
Also present will be community service partners including Jefferson County Public Utility District No. 1, the American Red Cross, Dove House, Airlift NW and JeffCom 911, sharing information on propane safety, emergency evacuation planning, when to call 911 and other emergency topics.
• “The Foreigner” will finish its run with performances at 7 p.m. Friday and matinees at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Port Angeles Community Playhouse, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $18 per person, $9 for students at www.pacommunity players.org.
The play was written by Larry Shue and directed by Rebecca Senne.
“The Foreigner” is set at a fishing lodge in rural Georgia and follows Englishmen Charlie Baker and Staff Sergeant Froggy LeSueur on a getaway trip.
Baker, both shy and depressed, tells LeSueur that he cannot speak with strangers and panics when the locals try to chat him up.
LeSueur concocts a story that Baker doesn’t speak English because he’s a foreigner from a far-off land.
Believing that Baker doesn’t understand them, the lodge’s other guests begin talking about their secrets in front of him.
• JFA will perform from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the Sequim Elks Lodge, 143 Port Williams Road, Sequim.
Admission is $12 person, $10 for lodge members.
• The Jefferson County Historical Society will host behind-the-scenes tours from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at its Research and Collections Center, 13692 Airport Cutoff Road, Port Townsend.
Visitors will see rarely exhibited artifacts, including historic newspapers, taxidermy specimens and the original Haller Fountain sculpture.
Gary Wessen, a local archaeologist, will be on hand to offer informal artifact identification.
The free guided tours will start every half hour.
• The Salish Sea Makers Market will open its Apple Day Makers Market from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at Finnriver Farm and Cidery, 124 Center Road, Chimacum.
The market will feature an array of artists and makers who hand make, curate vintage or upcycle goods.
The market is part of the Olympic Peninsula Apple and Cider Festival.
