Chen in spotlight for OMF season’s final show
The Olympic Music Festival presents violinist Ray Chen and pianist/OMF Artistic Director Julio Elizalde to close out the 2019 OMF Season, Sept. 7-8, with a program titled “Art of the Violin II.”
Tickets ($33-$40, $20-$25 for students) are sold out for the Sept. 7 show but are still available for Sunday, Sept. 8, set for 2 p.m. at Fort Worden’s Wheeler Theater. Tickets are available online at olympicmusicfestival.org or on Brown Paper Tickets at 800-838-3006.
Chen, winner of the Yehudi Menuhin (2008) and Queen Elizabeth (2009) competitions, joins Elizalde for a program that continues the theme from the OMF Opening Celebration—repertoire for violin and piano. The program is the same both days and ranges from the lyricism of Grieg’s “Violin Sonata No. 2” to Bach’s “Chaconne in D minor” for solo violin.
Square dancing for beginners
The Rhody O’s Square Dance Club is offering beginning square dance lessons starting Thursday, Sept. 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Gardiner Community Center, 980 Old Gardiner Road. All are invited to a free ice cream social and introductory dance lesson.
Lessons are held each Thursday evening through the autumn and winter, with graduation in late spring. There is no experience necessary; the program is designed for those who have never square danced in their lives (or maybe years ago) but wished they had.
Attire is informal: The Rhody O’s is an informal group whose members dance in shorts and jeans and sometimes their gardening clothes.
For more information, call Trish at 360-683-2409.
Buck Ellard and co. play the grange
The Buck Ellard Band plays country favorites from 5:30- 8 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road.
Cost is $10 and includes dinner — a main dish, salad, dessert, coffee and water.
For more information, call 360-582-0100.
Sequim writing group publishes first anthology
The Sequim Seqribblers, a writing group formed in 2018, released an anthology of members’ works on June 18, 2019, marking the one-year anniversary of the group’s inception.
The 247-page trade paperback titled “Seqribblers Gone Wild!” includes fiction, memoirs, poetry, essays, short stories, and collaborative writing.
The anthology, titled Seqribblers Gone Wild!, is the culmination of months of non-stop writing, researching, planning, discussing and laughing,” group members say.
“Seqribblers Gone Wild!” is available on Amazon for $14.99. The book will also be available locally at markets and gift shows.
For more information about Sequim Seqribblers, visit www.sequimseqribblers.com.
