NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Nov. 20.
SEQUIM — “Awake My Soul” from Mumford & Sons, Lorde’s “Royals” and “Forget Me Not” from the Civil Wars are a few of the songs on Jeremy and Anna Pederson’s set list for gigs starting tonight and continuing to month’s end.
The pair, partners in music and life, will play and sing from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. this evening at Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St., where there’s no cover charge.
Next the Pedersons will bring their music to 7 Cedars Casino, 270756 U.S. Highway 101 east of Sequim, where their Rainforest Lounge engagement is from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.
This venue hasn’t a cover charge either.
To wrap up November, the duo will light the Solar City boutique, 135 W. Washington St., from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 28, as part of Sequim’s Hometown Holidays events.
‘Lady’ wraps
PORT ANGELES — “Our Leading Lady,” the play billed as a “serious comedy” about theater and coping with a national emergency, is on stage at Peninsula College for just three more performances.
With a cast featuring Jade Evans, Steven Berry, Megan Mundy, K MacGregor, Debbie Bourquin, Hugh Carino, Victoria Smith, DyNara Rystrom, Bob Carter and Rodney and Niklaus Von Houck, “Our Leading Lady” starts at 7:30 tonight.
The final performances will be at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Tickets are $12 general, $10 for seniors and non-Peninsula College students and free for Peninsula College students with ID.
To reserve, see brownpapertickets.com; remaining tickets will be sold at the door of the Little Theater on campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Sirens show
PORT TOWNSEND — Indie folk-rock artist Sam Densmore is swinging by Sirens Pub, 823 Water St., tonight.
Show time is 9 p.m. at the 21-and-up venue and the cover charge is $5; that includes the opening set by the folk-Americana band Pretty Gritty.
To find out more about Densmore, who’s coming up from Portland, Ore., see samdensmore.com, and to see about the opening act, visit prettygrittymusic.com.
Artist demo
PORT TOWNSEND — Artist Jinx Bryant will give a free demonstration at the Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St., this Saturday afternoon.
With her abstract series “What Lies Beneath,” Bryant will demonstrate her work in pastels from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the center, where an exhibit of her art is at the Artist Showcase Gallery now through Saturday.
Free jazz flows
PORT ANGELES — Music from Count Basie, Jerome Kern, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Tower of Power and Earth, Wind and Fire is on the set list for a free Peninsula College Jazz Ensemble concert this coming Tuesday afternoon. The place: the campus Pirate Union Building, aka the PUB.
Vocalist Robbin Eaves and the 18-piece ensemble will also feature new music from bandleader and Peninsula College music professor David Jones in this 12:30 p.m. performance, which is for everyone, students and other community members alike.
The music will fill the PUB, in the center of Peninsula College at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., for an hour.
This lunch-time concert is a kind of prelude to the Peninsula College Jazz Ensemble’s final show of the quarter, set for 7 p.m. Dec. 1 at Maier Hall on campus.
Admission is free to this one too.
To find out more about the jazz ensemble, contact Jones at 360-417-6405 or djones@pencol.edu.
‘Nutcracker’ in PA
PORT ANGELES — Tickets are on sale for the Ballet Workshop Productions’ brand-new staging of “The Nutcracker” at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center, 304 E. Park Ave., on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 5 and 6.
This ballet, cosponsored by the Juan de Fuca Foundation for the Arts, gathers local dancers and theater artists from across Washington state for a production set in Clallam County on Christmas Eve 1895.
Tickets for the 7 p.m. Dec. 5 performance and the 2 p.m. Dec. 6 matinee are $10 for youngsters 14 and younger and $15, $25 and $35 for older teens and adults.
To find out more, see JFFA.org and brownpapertickets.com or phone the Juan de Fuca Foundation office at 360-457-5411.
