No musician ever said music could save the world, but there are some who would like to try.
Like some modern-day minstrels who can’t be categorized, the Band of Poets speak words from the heart and set it all to music.
Playwright and actor Danai Gurira will come to Langley next week for a one-night appearance at the Whidbey Island Theatre Festival.
You might say they are singing for their supper.
If you asked her when she was a child if she would become an artist, she would have laughed.
The Whidbey Island Music Festival continues Saturday with performances by the Novello Quartet and Debra Nagy, a classical oboe player, at St. Augustine in-the-Woods in Freeland.
Several Puget Sound area boats sailed into Langley Marina last week with the Aqua Chautauqua performers aboard. The circus performers burst into downtown langley with the Everybody’s Welcome Parade to kick-off the Aqua Chautauqua Festival at the Island County Fairgrounds. Visit www.southwhidbeyrecord.com to see it.
With this column I am pleased to announce the addition of several new co-columnists who, without their knowledge or permission, have successfully contributed to the comedic content of today’s offering.
One of our neighbors was chatting over the back fence about friends who were coming for dinner. She was trying to come up with a menu, which surprised me because she’s an excellent cook and I figured she’d have dozens of possibilities. Not so, because, as she went on to explain, the husband of the couple who were coming that evening was one of those tiresome folk who have a list longer than your arm of “I don’t eat that; I don’t like that; I never touch things like that.”
The early music gods are smiling on Whidbey Island again as the Whidbey Island Music Festival returns.
Shows open on two stages
When my shovel started turning up unusual purplish clams, I tossed them back in the hole with hardly a thought. But as the number increased and invasive species became news,
Janet Steadman’s busy hands have once again sewn up her place in the finals of the Pacific Northwest Quiltfest.
