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AT THE LINCOLN Annual Lincoln Elementary School talent show set for Tuesday night PAGE E13

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THIS WEEKENDin the area CELEBRATE THE WORLD Celebrate cultural diversity at the Multicultural Family Festival from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 30, at the Gary Knutzen Cardinal Center and Phillip Tarro Theatre at Skagit Valley College, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. Enjoy arts and education from around the world, including a diverse range of performers, interactive cultural activities, international cuisine, a showcase of cultural arts and crafts and a children’s village where families can play games and participate in activities from around the world. Free admission. For information, contact Yadira Rosales at 360-416-7838 or yadira.rosales@skagit.edu.

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TEN STRINGS & A GOAT SKIN Ten Strings & A Goat Skin, winners of the 2015 East Coast Music Association award for World Music Recording of the Year, multiple nominees for the 2013 Canadian Folk Music awards and 2015 ECMA’s & Music PEI Awards, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 29, at McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. Playing Irish, Acadian, French and

original creations, infused with modern and world rhythms, the trio from Prince Edward Island, Canada, has created a “fiery, contagious and unique sound” for audiences in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, according to a news release. $20. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall. org.

Forest for scenic hikes in the forest lands around Anacortes. Dress for the weather and wear sturdy shoes. No pets. Free. 360-293-3725 or friendsofthe acfl.org. Next up ioos the Spring Fitness Hike at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 30. Meet at the parking lot on 37th Street and A Avenue. Join Friends of the Forest board members for a fast-paced spring fitness hike. This 7- to 8-mile intense workout hike, for the very fit only, will pass all the lakes and ponds of the Little Cranberry forest lands. Bring water and a snack. No dogs.

TRICK OUT YOUR TRIKE In honor of National Bike Month, the Mount Vernon Downtown Association will host “Trick Out Your Trike” on Saturday, May 30, in downtown Mount Vernon. Bike decorating starts at 1 p.m. at Tri-Dee Arts, 215 S. First St. At 2 p.m., participants and their families are encouraged to explore the Skagit Riverwalk on their decorated bikes. 360- 336-6131 or mountvernondowntown.org.

BEER, BRATS & MORE The Camano Island Chamber of Commerce will present The Art of Beer, Brats, Biz and More from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 30, at Freedom Park at Terry’s Corner, Camano Island. Enjoy live music, family fun, an appearance by Cinderella from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., a beer garden, bratwurst and chips, raffle drawings and more. Free admission. 360-629-7136 or camanoisland.org.

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MUSIC

U2 aims for intimacy, presence in latest tour By MIKAEL WOOD Los Angeles Times

SAN JOSE, Calif. — For U2, the lightbulb moment came in the form of an actual lightbulb. Brainstorming two years ago for a newly launched arena tour, the members of this venerable Irish band hit upon the idea of a stage illuminated by a single naked bulb. The image evoked Bono’s childhood bedroom in Dublin, where the frontman learned to play music, and it inspired the design of a relatively small-scale show that conjures the earnest but scrappy spirit of U2’s early days. The group’s capabilities — and its ambitions — have grown since then, of course: Not long after it opens under that swinging bulb, the concert expands to incorporate two additional stages and a billboard-sized screen flashing state-of-the-art visuals; the sound system, with speakers facing down from the ceiling, is another technological advancement. Yet the production, called the Innocence and Experience tour, shares an up-close intimacy with “Songs of Innocence,” the proudly autobiographical album U2 released last year. “What we’re trying to communicate is a kind of emotional outpouring, of lives that we’ve lived in the past and look forward to in the future,” Bono said. “We really want people to connect to the band’s performance.” The tour also gives U2 the opportunity to do public repositioning after its deal with Apple, which put “Songs of Innocence” in the iTunes libraries of an estimated half-billion people and led to a backlash among users who viewed the stunt as an invasion of their digital privacy. Bono later apologized — well, sort of — on Facebook, acknowledging that a “drop of megalomania” had driven the band, along with a “deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into over the last few years mightn’t be

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U2’s Edge (left) and Bono perform Tuesday in Inglewood, Calif. heard.” But the apology failed to combat a widening perception that U2, the once-punky outfit that put out its first album in 1980, had gotten too big, too cocky, too sure of its own importance. This tour, in telling contrast to the massive stadium outing that brought U2 to the Rose Bowl in 2009, seeks to correct that impression or at least to emphasize a different, more personal side of the group. Gathered with his longtime bandmates — bassist Adam Clayton, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. and guitarist the Edge — in a penthouse hotel suite, Bono challenged the notion that the new show represented an attempt at damage control. “There’s a point to the intimacy,” he said, his face bearing no visible mark of a bicycle accident that fractured his eye socket in November. “We have a tale we want to tell, and that is: What makes a person an artist? Why do you want to be in a band?” In the concert, U2 performs amid video that reflects some of the formative incidents of Bono’s adolescence, including the political violence that ravaged Ireland in the 1970s and the death of his mother when the singer was 14. The show also contains sonic and visual references to the music that influenced U2: Kraftwerk, the

Ramones, Johnny Cash. Like “Songs of Innocence” — which explicitly looks back on the band’s beginnings in tunes such as “Iris (Hold Me Close),” titled after Bono’s mother, and “Cedarwood Road,” the street he grew up on — the Innocence and Experience show argues that U2 hasn’t lost touch with those animating forces. “Irrespective of how this record was released, we would be touring it. We’d be playing the songs,” Mullen said. “That’s what we do.” Still, the musicians acknowledge that the concerts do offer a chance to reintroduce their new album. Despite its high-profile release, “Songs of Innocence” didn’t make the kind of impact U2 is accustomed to making; the music seemed to slip out of the cultural conversation with a speed all the more remarkable given the band’s recruitment of young writerproducers such as Ryan Tedder and Paul Epworth, who’ve worked with Beyonce and Adele. Part of the problem was Bono’s accident, which forced the band to scrap promotional plans including a weeklong stint on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Nearly nine months after the album came out, though, it also seems clear that “Songs of Innocence” was poorly served by its out-of-nowhere arrival. Sure, the record has its share of immediate

moments, none more in-your-face than its whoa-oh-oh-filled opener, “The Miracle (of Joey Ramone).” But much of the material — the dreamy “Every Breaking Wave” and “Song for Someone,” with a stately march beat — reveals itself more slowly. It needs the kind of time many iTunes users weren’t willing to dedicate to the album. “We build our songs so they don’t get worn out quickly,” the Edge said, “and often, that means that they take a little longer to connect.” The tour, he continued, “is a way for us to get under the skin of the songs.” The band is just figuring out now what it’s got, said Bono, who added that performing a song “in front of a crowd of people lets you know really quickly if it lands or not. And we’ve got a lot of songs that land. So the new ones had better.” Indeed, oldies like “With or Without You” and “Where the Streets Have No Name” inspired the usual singalongs in the band’s San Jose stop. But so too did “Every Breaking Wave” and “Iris,” the latter of which Bono dedicated to Sheryl Sandberg, the author and Facebook executive whose husband, Dave Goldberg, died unexpectedly this month. That wasn’t U2’s only nod to the technology world in which it’s increasingly sought to become a player. Later in the show, while he was encouraging donations to his AIDS prevention and treatment organization Red, Bono described Bill Gates as “the most profound influence on my life as an activist.” And for “The Sweetest Thing” the frontman invited a woman onstage to shoot the band’s performance for the live-streaming service Meerkat. Alas, it didn’t quite work. “Talk about embarrassing,” Bono said the next day with a laugh. “We’re in Silicon Valley and you can’t even get Wi-Fi in the building.” Asked why it’s worth pursuing such a goofy endeavor — especially in light of the risk of technical

difficulty — the Edge said it helps preserve a valuable bit of unpredictability in a show that, however personal its concept, still involves truckloads of expensive equipment and a sprawling road crew tasked with keeping it running. The same goes, he said, for varying the set list night to night and for bringing a kid who looked to be about 10 onstage, as Bono did last week, to help sing “City of Blinding Lights.” “There needs to be something random,” the frontman said. “Sometimes the random thing humbles us. And sometimes it takes the show to the next level.” In San Jose, U2 reached that next level — the place Bono said people come to U2 concerts to access — during a spine-tingling version of “Pride (In the Name of Love),” its reliable mid-’80s hit from “The Unforgettable Fire.” On one hand, the tune is a surefire crowd-pleaser, with a surging groove and a lyric that delivers U2’s signature brand of impassioned social awareness. Yet Bono insisted that the song, which he said the band hadn’t originally planned to play on this tour, worked as well as it did only because it came at the end of a lengthy multimedia sequence in which the group seemed to be making connections between Ireland’s decades-old strife and more recent unrest in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri. Dark but oddly hopeful, this part of the performance was fending off the nostalgia that might’ve weighed down U2’s conscious return to its youth. “The word ‘rhema’ in the scriptures, it means ‘the living word,’” Bono said in a moment of maximum Bono-ness. “I love the idea that a song is alive and can be made present again.” Perhaps that’s another way of saying an old song can remain useful? “Exactly,” the Edge said. “When we talk about staying relevant, that’s what we’re trying to maintain — that this music is still useful. And that we as a band are still useful.”

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OUT & ABOUT ART

NEW PAINTINGS: “SancIN THE ART BAR: Arttuary: Trees of Life” continwork by Dassy Shellenberg- ues through June 4 at Raven er is on display during May Rocks Gallery, 765 Wonn at the Lincoln Theatre Art Road, Greenbank. The Bar, 712 S. First St., Mount show features new acrylic Vernon. 360-336-8955 or paintings, pen and ink and lincolntheatre.org. watercolor work by Mary Jo Oxrieder, as well as new OILS & PASTELS: A watercolors by Windwalker show of oils and pastels by Taibi. For information, Amanda Houston continues including gallery hours and through June 2 at Scott Milo directions: 360-222-0102 or Gallery, 420 Commercial ravenrocksgallery.com. Ave., Anacortes. The show features Houston’s landLYNDEN ART EXHIBscape style in both pastel ITS: Check out several art and oil on canvas, in addiexhibits continuing through tion to her Northwest bird May 30, at the Jansen Art images. Also showing are Center, 321 Front St., Lynacrylics on canvas by Jenden. “Paintings by Quincy nifer Bowman, color phoAnderson” offers an explotographs by Randy Dana, ration of reflections on floral monoprints by Marie water inspired by the rivers Powell and impressionisof France, garden ponds tic oils by Donna Nevitt of Thailand and canals of Radtke, as well as a selecVenice. “Promising Futures: tion of jewelry, glass work, Whatcom County High sculptures and tables. The School Student Art” feagallery is open from 10:30 tures artwork by high school a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday students from across Whatthrough Saturday. 360-293- com County. The “Spring 6938 or scottmilo.com. Juried Exhibit” showcases the artistic talent of WhatOILS & ENCAUSTICS: com County and the sur“HOMAGE,” a show of rounding region. 360-354artwork by Sharon Kings3600 or jansenartcenter.org. ton and Eric Eschenbach, continues through May 31 “THE ART OF MARK at Smith & Vallee Gallery, IVERSON: A Friend 5742 Gilkey Ave., Edison. Remembered”: An exhibit Kingston is an oil painter featuring art created by who uses the properties of Mark Iverson continues her medium to create paint- through May 31 at the ings that look inward and Skagit County Historical outward — responding to Museum, 501 S. Fourth St., both the atmosphere of her La Conner. surroundings and the poetry Iverson’s friends and famwithin. ily have loaned the museum Eschenbach’s oils and a selection of paintings to encaustics explore our honor his memory. The changing landscape. He sees museum also is holding a Western Washington’s con- raffle for an original Mark stantly varying tidal zones Iverson painting. Only as the perfect metaphor 200 numbered giclee print symbolizing both the impact “tickets” are available at of man and climate change $50 each. Museum hours are and nature’s cycles of reju11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday venation. The gallery is open through Sunday. Admission: from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. $5 adults, $4 seniors and 360-766-6230 or smithandages 6-12, $10 families, free vallee.com. for members and ages 5 and

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“SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT: Sustainable Art”: The show of artwork featuring recycled/repurposed materials continues through May 30 at Schack Art Center, 2921 Hoyt St., Everett. Artists have scoured junk stores, second-hand shops, trash bins and surplus venues to source materials to create a selection of whimsical, sculptural and contemplative artwork, including lamps and clocks made from corrugated cardboard; baskets, hats, purses and life-size people made from plastic bags; masks and sculptures from old typewriters; and much more. 425-259-5050 or schack.org.

SKAGIT VALLEY ART ESCAPE: On the first weekend of each month, through October, the Skagit Valley Art Escape invites residents and out-of-area visitors to experience gallery art walks, music performances, artist demonstrations and more at participating locations: Mount Vernon: 5 to 8 p.m. first Thursdays. Anacortes: 6 to 9 p.m. first Fridays. Edison and La Conner: 5 to 8 p.m. first Saturdays.

The Anacortes Center for Happiness, 619 Commercial Ave., Anacortes, will host a screening of “The Way” at 7 p.m. Friday, May 29, at . Directed by Emilio Estevez and starring his father, Martin Sheen, “The Way” is about a father who heads overseas to recover the body of his estranged son who died while SPRING ART: “The Celetraveling the “El camino de Santiago,” and decides to bration of Spring” continues take the pilgrimage himself. Admission by donation. through June 14 at Matzke 360-464-2229 or anacortescenterforhappiness.org.

“Impressions in Fabric”: Denise Miller and Nancy Ryan create fabric landscapes reminiscent SKAGIT VALLEY ARTof the pointillism of the ISTS: A show of artwork neo-impressionist painters by Todd Horton and Karn Georges Seurat and Paul Kenaston continues at Signac. Where they used The Shop, 18623 Main St., dots of paint, Miller and Conway. Hours: 11 a.m. to Ryan’s quilting technique 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through uses tiny pieces of fabric. A Saturday. 360-391-2691 or second technique involves theshopconway.com. the use of fusible appliqué QUILTS/BEAD ART: Sev- to create floral designs, as well as parts of some of the eral new exhibits of quilts and bead art are on display landscapes. The show continues through June 28. at the La Conner Quilt & “Pastels and More: Textile Museum, 703 S. SecSelections from our Perond St., La Conner: manent Collection”: The “Revealing the Hidden: museum features a variety Contemporary QuiltArt Association”: The Contem- of quilts reminiscent of the colorful spring flowers in porary QuiltArt Association includes more than 100 the fields around Skagit Washington artists working Valley. The museum is open with fiber, thread and texfrom 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. tiles. Member artists have created a wide range of two- Wednesday through Sunday. Admission: $7, $5 students and three-dimensional artwork incorporating a variety and military with ID, free for members and ages 11 of techniques. The show continues through June 28. and younger. 360-466-4288 younger. 360-466-3365 or skagitcounty.net/museum.

Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park, 2345 Blanche Way, Camano Island. The show features work by stone carvers Sue Taves and Kentaro Kojima; paintings by Janie Olsen, Janet Hamilton, Mary Molyneaux and Donna Watson; prints by Karla Matzke; ceramics by Leon White and Ruth Westra; and new sculptures. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends, weekdays by appointment. 360-387-2759 or matzke fineart.com.

FIRST THURSDAY ART WALK: John Ebner will be the featured artist during the First Thursday Art Walk from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 4, in downtown Mount Vernon. Ebner’s artwork will be on display at the Front Gallery, 420 Myrtle St., Mount Vernon. Other artists will be featured at more than 15 participating downtown venues. 360-3363801 or mountvernondown town.org. GALLERY CLOSING SHOW: Anne Martin McCool Gallery will host a closing party during the First Friday Art Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 5, at 711 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. The party will include Stuart Torgerson playing the Hawaiian slack key guitar. Anne Martin McCool paintings and Tracy Powell sculptures will be featured during the closing show, which will continue from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 6-7. After the closing, McCool will be working from a private studio space but will welcome visitors by appointment. 360-293-3577 or annemartinmccool.com.

ANACORTES IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION: “All in the Same Boat: Anacortes in the Great Depression” is on display in the Anacortes Museum’s Carnegie Gallery, 1305 Eighth St., Anacortes. The yearlong exhibit depicts life in Anacortes after the 1929 stock market crash and the ensuing Great Depression, which dragged on for 12 years. The museum is PRINTS, PAINTINGS, open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. SCULPTURE: A show of Tuesday through Saturday new work by Kris Ekstrand and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. 360-293-1915 or Continued on Page E6

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OUT & ABOUT Molesworth, Elizabeth Tapper and Brian O’Neill will open with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 6, and continue through June 28 at Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave., Edison. Ekstrand Molesworth’s new work, for the most part, looks out over an estuarine landscape where cultivated farmland meets the saltwater tidelands, stitched together by power lines, manmade ditches, dikes, wire fences and the remnants of farm trees now set adrift by eroding dikes. Tapper’s prints include a retrospective of work from the past to the present — and it illustrates her technical virtuosity: prints in five different media including etching, silkscreen, woodcut, linoleum block and lithograph created during a studio career between 1981 and 2006. Most of O’Neill’s sculpture forms are vessels, though not always “functional” in the traditional sense. The visible form and the more hidden space inside is an anthropomorphic relationship O’Neill enjoys exploring. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. 360766-6230 or smithandvallee. com.

FESTIVALS

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EDMONDS WATERFRONT FESTIVAL: The 28th Edmonds Rotary Waterfront Festival will take place from 3 to 10 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, May 29-31, at the Port of Edmonds Marina, 358 Admiral Way, Edmonds. Enjoy music and entertainment, classic boats and yachts, hydroplane displays, arts and crafts, kids’ activities, free fishing for kids on Saturday and Sunday, beer and wine garden, food and more. Admission: $3, free for ages 12 and younger. edmondswater frontfestival.com.

FASHION SHOW: House of Style Boutique & Salon, 510 S. First St., Mount Vernon, will host a runway fashion show from 7 to 9 p.m. today, May 28. The event will feature the latest spring and summer styles and trends available at the boutique. Appetizers, cocktails, music and beauty services will be available. Free admission. 360-419-9672.

See how our ancestors added spice to their life. This special exhibit continues through July 12, at the Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St., La Conner. The exhibit features items from the museum’s permanent collection including more than 500 salt cellars. The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Admission: $5 adults, $4 seniors and children ages 6-12, $10 families, free for members and ages 5 and younger. 360-466-3365 or skagitcounty.net/museum.

Celebration from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 6, at Deception Pass State Park, Bowman Bay picnic area, Highway 20, Oak Harbor. The event will include canoe rides, song, drumming and dance, storytelling and demonstrations of traditional crafts. A salmon barbecue lunch will be available for purchase. Saturday is a state parks “free day”; the Discover Pass is not required for park entry. deceptionpassfoundation. org.

Celebrate the arrival of summer at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 19, at the Anacortes Center for Happiness, 619 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. $10, free for ages 16 and younger. 360-464-2229 or anacortescenterfor happiness.org.

ART AUCTION: The Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St., La Conner, will hold its 23rd annual Art Auction on Friday through Sunday, June 19-21. PUBLIC WORKS OPEN The museum’s largest funHOUSE: The City of Anadraiser of the year features cortes will host a Public “BLAZING PADDLES: more than 250 works by Works open house from A Paddling Film Festival”: artists of all talents and 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, FUNDRAISING EVENT: The third annual film fesmedia. Enjoy a silent aucMay 29, at the city’s award- The Little Black Dress tival showcasing paddletion, picnic and dance party winning wastewater treatGala & Art Auction will sports will take place at 7 on June 19; silent and live ment plant, 500 T Ave., take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 13, at auctions and an artisan dinLECTURES Anacortes. Students and p.m. Tuesday, June 2, at the Lincoln Theatre, 712 ner on June 20; and a Bid, community members can Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, S. First St., Mount Vernon. Brunch & Buy on June 21. AND TALKS ride in a street sweeper or 513 S. First St., La Conner. Action, documentary, For ticket pricing and more “NUCLEAR DISARMAgarbage truck and operEnjoy an evening filled humor and environmental information, visit monamuMENT: Does Anybody ate surveying equipment, with music, fun and a silent films will feature sea kayakseum.org, call 360-466-4446 Care?”: Tracy Powell, noted check out equipment used auction featuring offerings ing, whitewater kayaking, or visit the museum. Skagit sculptor and longfor locating buried pipes from local artists, busisurf skiing, canoeing, rafttime student of nuclear and utilities, and tour the nesses and members of the ing, stand-up paddle board“SUMMER IN THE disarmament, will be the wastewater treatment plant. community. Formal attire ing and more. $15. Proceeds GARDEN: Sips, Savories & speaker at the Fidalgo The free event will include enjoyed, but not required. benefit the Washington Sweets”: The La Conner Democrats meeting at 7 energy conservation exhibPresented by Washington Water Trails Association. Library Foundation will p.m. Tuesday, June 8, at the its and more. cityofana Federal in support of the 360-336-8955 or lincoln host a fundraising event Anacortes Public Library, cortes.org. American Cancer Society. theatre.org. from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, 1220 10th St., Anacortes. 360-399-1805 or anelias June 24, at Christianson’s A moderated question and STERNWHEELER OPEN kitchenandstage.com. ROCKHOUND SWAP Nursery, 15806 Best Road, comment period will folFOR SUMMER: The sternMEET: The Mt. Baker Mount Vernon. low. Bring a nonperishable wheeler W.T. Preston and WATERFRONT FESTIVAL Rock & Gem Club’s annual Pacific Horticulture donation for the food bank. the Anacortes Maritime DINNER: The Waterfront Rockhound Recycling Ren- Magazine editor and author 360-293-7114. Heritage Center, 713 Festival Kick-Off Dinner dezvous will be held from Lorene Edwards Forkner R Ave., Anacortes, has will begin at 6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Satwill present “We’re Better MORE FUN reopened for the sumJune 5, at the Port of Anaurday, June 13, at Bloedel Together – plant combiSPRING FILM SERIES: mer. The W.T. Preston is cortes Transit Shed Event Donovan Community Cen- nations, design tips and CAR SHOWS Enjoy free film screenings designated as a National Center, 100 Commercial ter, 2214 Electric Ave., Bell- unsung heroes of the garCLASSIC CARS: The fifth at 7 p.m. Fridays at the Historic Landmark, and the Ave., Anacortes. Enjoy ingham. Come to buy, swap den to inspire your summer annual Classic Auto DisAnacortes Public Library, Heritage Center features a hors d’oeuvres and drinks, or sell rock-related material landscape.” The evening play will take place from 1220 10th St., Anacortes. new exhibit exploring the catered dinner, music and including handmade and will include a garden and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Free. 360-293-1910, ext. 21, maritime community’s rich dancing, and the Quick ‘n’ fine jewelry, fossils, petriart silent auction, plant June 20, at Meerkerk Garor library.cityofanacortes. traditions and the evolution Dirty Boat Building Judge- fied wood, thunder eggs, shopping time, appetizers, dens, 3531 Meerkerk Lane, org. Next up: of the Anacortes watership Auction. $45 advance, mineral specimens from dessert bites and beverages. Greenbank. The Whidbey May 29: “Hachi: A front. Spring hours are 10 $50 at the door. 360-293around the world, lapidary Proceeds will benefit the A’s and Whidbey Cruzers Dog’s Tale” (drama): Stara.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and 3134 or portofanacortes. tools and equipment and new La Conner Regional clubs will be joined by vin- ring Richard Gere, Joan 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. com. more. Rent a vendor space Library project. For ages tage auto enthusiasts from Allen and Cary-Hiroyuki Admission to the Preston for $25 or come to shop. 21 and older. $50. Only Everett and Bellingham to Tagawa. Based on the true is $1-$3. Heritage Center NATIVE AMERICAN CUL- Free admission. 360-366100 tickets will be sold, display their classic cars. story of a college profesadmission is free. 360-293TURAL CELEBRATION: The 0121 or mtbakerrockclub. available at Christianson’s Admission: $5, free for ages sor’s bond with the aban1916 or museum.cityof Samish Indian Nation and org. and La Conner Regional 15 and younger. 360-678doned dog he takes into his anacotes.org. Swinomish Tribal CommuLibrary, calling 360-4661912 or meerkerkgardens. home, and the effect that nity will host the Salish Sea SUMMER SOLSTICE 3352 or visiting laconner org. bond has on his grandson “SALT OF THE EARTH”: Native American Cultural DRUMMING & HEALING: libraryfoundation.org.

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area May 28-June 4

TUNING UP Playing at area venues May 28-June 4

Thursday.28

FRIDAY.29

THURSDAY.28

MUSIC

Open Mic: 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. Sign-ups start at 6:30 p.m. 360-445-3000.

THEATER

“Best of Brass Monkey” (six short plays): 7:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door. 360-305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

Dedric Clark and the Social Animals (Americana, rock): 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, 513 S. First St., La Conner. 360-399-1805.

Friday.29 MUSIC

Devilly Brothers: 6 to 9 p.m., The Woolley Market, 829 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley. 360-982-2649.

THEATER

Falling Up Stairs, SiLM, Orphans, City Hall: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5. 360-7781067.

Ten Strings & A Goat Skin: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $20. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org. “Pirates of Penzance” (comic operetta): Opening night gala, 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $25. 360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL 1800 A Beethoven Band, with Jeffrey Cohan, eight-keyed flute; Stephen Creswell, violin and viola; and Martin Bonham, cello; 7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2117 Walnut St., Bellingham. $15-$25 suggested donation, free for ages 18 and younger. 360-733-2890 salishseafestival.org.

MUSIC

Finale Concert: Fidalgo Youth Symphony, 1 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $15 adults, $10 seniors, $1 students. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

“Pirates of Penzance” (comic operetta): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20. 360679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com. “Best of Brass Monkey” (six short plays): 7:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door. 360-305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

Society of Broken Souls: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. 360-445-3000.

WEDNESDAY.3

Satuday.30

THEATER

FRIDAY.29 MATNEY COOK AND MUDFLAT WALKERS 7 to 9 p.m., The Woolley Market, 829 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley.

FRIDAY.29

“Best of Brass Monkey” (six short plays): 7:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door. 360-305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

Spring Soloist Concert: Bayshore Symphony, featuring piccolo soloist Randi Sulkin, 7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 415 S. 18th St., Mount Vernon. 360-724-7300 or bayshoremusicproject. com.

WAYNE HAYTON 8 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-5881720.

The Hoe & The Harrow, Eddy and the Touks: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $6. 360-445-3000.

Tribute Concert for America’s Troops: Mount Vernon High School bands, 7 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $8 adults, $6 seniors, $4 students. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

Sunday.31

Tuesday.2

THEATER

VARIETY

“Pirates of Penzance” (comic operetta): 2:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20. 360679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

Lincoln Elementary Talent Show: 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. Free admission; donations welcome. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

Monday.1

Wedmesday.3

MUSIC

Finale Concert: Mount Vernon High School choirs, 4 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $6 adults, $4 students, $3 children. 7 p.m. $8 adults. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

Salish Sea Early Music Festival: 1800 A Beethoven Band, with Jeffrey Cohan, eight-keyed flute; Stephen Creswell, violin and viola; and Martin Bonham, cello; 7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,

Mia Vermillion (jazz, blues): 9 p.m., Benchwarmers Pub, 100 S. Barker St., Mount Vernon. 360-421-4499.

Jimmy Wright: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-4226411.

Matney Cook and Mudflat Walkers: 7 to 9 p.m., The Woolley Market, 829 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley. 360-982-2649.

Pretty Twisted (top 40 dance ’90s-’00s): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover.

Keith LaBounty: 7 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks Lodge, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon. 360-848-8882.

Prozac Mountain Boys (bluegrass): 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, 513 S. First St., La Conner. 360-399-1805.

Cat Bomb, Crossbows and Catapults: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5. 360778-1067.

Wayne Hayton: 8 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360588-1720.

SATURDAY.30

2117 Walnut St., Bellingham. $15-$25 suggested donation, free for ages 18 and younger. 360-733-2890 salishseafestival. org.

Thursday.4 THEATER

“Pirates of Penzance” (comic operetta): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20. 360679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

Q Dot (hip-hop): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $6. 360-4453000.

Jimmy Wright: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-422-6411.

Expertease (’80s, ’90s, contemporary top 40 rock): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. 877-275-2448.

CC Adams Band: 7:30 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-755-3956.

SUNDAY.31 Sunday Brunch Jazz, with John Savage and Duane Melcher (’40s & ’50s American jazz): 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., North Cove Coffee, 1130 S. Burlington Blvd., Burlington.

Snug Harbor: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-766-6266.

Gertrude’s Hearse: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, 513 S. First St., La Conner. 360-399-1805.

Totalizer, Incanus, WorldRunner: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $6. 360-778-1067.

THURSDAY.4 Gary B’s Church of Blues: Jam night, 6 to 10 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. 360-445-4733.

CC Adams and Friends Sunday Jam: 4:30 to 8:30 p.m., La Conner Pantry and Pub, 315 E. Morris Street, La Conner. 360-466-4488.

Orville Johnson: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-7666266.

“Morphic Dream”: Jessa Young and Aaron English, 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $8. 360445-3000.

Mike Bucy: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, 513 S. First St., La Conner. 360-399-1805.

Conway West: 6 to 8:30 p.m., The Woolley Market, 829 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley. 360-982-2649.

Black Mountain, Elephant Stone: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $12. 360-7781067.

Marvin J: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover. 360-3543600 or jansenart center.org.