Folk singer-songwriter sets Gardiner concert

Deidre McCall, a mainstay on the folk scene for nearly 50 years, comes to the Olympic Peninsula for a concert at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 9, at Gardiner Community Center, 980 Old Gardiner Road.

Event organizers note McCall is “a dread-locked singer-songwriter-guitarist for close to five decades …[a] Black woman, mother, lesbian, feminist, has long been in the forefront of the growing number of Black musicians reconfiguring perceptions of how Black folk do folk.”

Tickets are $20 and available at the door.

With five independent albums to her credit, including her most recent release “Endless Grace,” McCall has performed for audiences from Maui to Maine, church basements and college coffeehouses to Carnegie Hall.

For further information, email to dbrconcerts@yahoo.com.

OPAA October showcase set

The Olympic Peninsula Art Association, in collaboration with Dandelion Botanical Company, presents an October Showcase.

The exhibit will hang from Oct. 1-31 at Dandelion Botanical Company, 4681 Sequim Dungeness Way, and feature the works of OPAA members. All pieces are available for sale.

Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.

There will be an artists’ reception from 1-3 p.m on Sunday, Oct. 2, at Dandelion Botanical Company.

Featured artists include Lauren Blair Churchill, Barbara Diekfuss, Suzan Noyes and Karen Parker.

Artwork can be viewed and purchased at dandelion.opaashow.org.

For more information about Olympic Peninsula Art Association, visit opaagroup.org.