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Tuning Up

Movie Review

Music Reviews

Wayne Hayton plays the Conway Muse on Friday night

Second trained ‘Dragon’ is less charming

Jack White, First Aid Kit, 50 Cent, José Jones

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NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK “True Detective”: Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey turn in flawless performances as a pair of detectives looking into a murder case in the Louisiana bayou country that has all the elements of being a cult killing. Their investigation not only uncovers a deep, dark secret but reveals the hidden sides of both men. The story’s told in flashbacks as Martin Hart (Harrelson) and Rust Cohle (McConaughey) talk about the case that unfolded in the mid-1990s. It’s through their recounting of the case that it becomes clear that these former partners might seem to be very different but have been drawn together by this gruesome case. The eight-episode season that aired on HBO also features superb writing by series creator Nic Pizzolatto and an often haunting score from Academy Awardwinning composer T Bone Burnett. The DVD set includes information about the development of the series, the importance of the music and never-before-seen footage from the series. Look for this series to be a big winner at future awards ceremonies. “Non-Stop”: A better name for the new Liam Neeson movie would be “Mistakes on a Plane.” Despite a valiant effort by the cast, the script by John W. Richardson and Christopher Roach relies so heavily on people acting stupid, ignoring all logic and making absurd decisions that all it would have taken is one moment of common sense to ground the flight shortly after takeoff. No such moment comes and the film soars through a plot that grows to preposterous heights. No matter how good the acting, the absurdities that stack up to keep the film moving ahead finally become too much. These gaffes are so noticeable because director Jaume Collet-Serra never creates the claustrophobic feel needed to elevate the tension. Toss in a handful of stereotypes, from a tough New York cop to the Middle Eastern passenger who everyone mistrusts, and the movie fails to find any semblance of originality. Correct that: One of the deaths on the plane is accomplished in such an outlandish manner that it looks like a sequence from the comedy “Airplane.” “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”: CIA analyst (Chris Pine) goes into the field when a global terrorist network is about to be activated. “The Secret Lives of Dorks”: Geek’s

YOUR ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATION GUIDE TO WHAT’S GOING ON IN SKAGIT COUNTY AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

Upcoming movie releases Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: JUNE 17 n Against the Wild n Almost Human n The Grand Budapest Hotel n Joe n The Lego Movie n 13 Sins n Walk of Shame

JUNE 24 n Blood Ties n Enemy n Jungle n Repentance n Rob the Mob n Some Velvet Morning n 300: Rise of an Empire n Winter’s Tale n Wolf Creek 2

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love life gets complicated. “Wordgirl: Monkey Business”: WordGirl fights crime and enriches vocabulary usage. “Devil’s Knot”: Mother must deal with the true story behind murder investigation. “Tiny Trouble”: Martin and Chris Kratt explore nature and meet with creatures from around the world. “The Great Bear”: A boy is kidnapped by a 1,000-year-old bear the size of a mountain. “The Chisholms: The Complete TV Series”: The 1979-1980 series stars Robert Preston, Ben Murphy and Brian Kerwin. “A Short History of Decay”: Life gets in the way of a writer’s plans. “Dinosaur Train: Adventure Camp”: Buddy, Shiny, Tiny and Don travel to different ecosystems. “Vendetta”: Special ops interrogation officer looks to avenge the death of his parents. “Amen”: A look at how much was known outside of Germany about exterminations in Nazi death camps. “Klondike”: Cable series that dives into the brutal world of the late 1890s gold rush. “Alan Partridge”: Steve Coogan reprises his role as the one-time talk show host. “Banner 4”: Mother tries to reunite a band to help heal a broken family. “Ray Donovan: The First Season”: Showtime series starring Liev Schreiber. “Perry Mason Movie Collection”: Each of three DVDs features two TV movies. “The Odd Way Home”: Two strangers go on a journey through the American Southwest. n Rick Bentley, The Fresno Bee

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Get Involved........................................ 6 Hot Tickets.......................................... 7 On Stage.............................................. 8 Tuning Up........................................... 9 Movie Review.................................... 10 Movie Listings, Mini-Reviews.......... 11 At the Lincoln.................................... 13 Out & About.................................14-15

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ON STAGE

Magical wit in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Skagit Valley Herald staff

arriage, mayhem and magical mischief come to life on a midsummer’s night, as Northwest Ballet Theater brings Shakespeare’s most enduring and beloved romantic comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” to life through movement on stage at McIntyre Hall this weekend. The romantic antics of humans as well as fairies are played out on one magical midsummer night, according to a news release. With music by Felix Mendelssohn, Northwest Ballet Theater (celebrating its 15th year) brings you a ballet that is witty, colorful and hugely entertaining. Artistic Director and choreographer John Bishop reprises his role as actor Nick Bottom, and Josh Deininger (most recently seen at NBT as the title character in “DracCharles Stevens photo ula”) commands the forest, and the stage, as Amber Johnson (left) and John Bishop perform as Northwest Ballet Theater presents "A Midsummer Oberon, King of the Faeries. Night's Dream" at McIntyre Hall on June 14-15. NBT regulars Chloe Johnston (Queen Titania), Hailey Forsberg (Hermia), Delci Syvertson (Helena), Ryann Lewis (Hippolyta), Ashley Henderson (Puck) and Julian Young (Lysander), are joined by Olympic Ballet’s Ryan Sims and Seattle’s Warren Woo (Demetrius).

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday June 14; 2 p.m. Sunday, June 15 Where: McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon Tickets: $24-$35. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org

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MUSIC

EW YORK — Sometime around 2004, Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, better known as Sting, a rock star with 16 Grammys and more than 100 million records sold, found himself with a severe case of writer’s block. It wasn’t that he stopped touring (he didn’t), making money (he still made plenty) or even recording (there were albums of other people’s songs and a new symphonic treatment of his past material), but he found, to his chagrin, he could not write any new songs. This went on for some eight years. He was, in the words of writer John Logan, “at an impasse.” The title of Sting’s intensely personal, strikingly reflective 2003 autobiography, “Broken Music,” had proven prophetic. “I just found myself thinking, ‘What’s the point?’” a scrunched-up Sting says, softly, matterof-factly, occupying as little space as possible at the back of a 42nd Street rehearsal studio here one recent afternoon. “I just didn’t have the desire or the passion. I was treading water as a writer.” Of course, Sting, born in 1951, also had by that time reached a certain age, tricky for a plaintive balladeer. It’s hard for a mature man to keep writing lines like “everything she do just turns me on” or “I won’t share you with another boy” without feeling, well, a bit ridiculous eventually. Although Sting had always been far more of a narrative songwriter than most, many of his hit pop songs were still restatements of a needy but sensual emotion — I love you this way, I miss you that way, please do this, I feel that — wherein the listener

With new musical, Sting’s ‘Ship’ comes in Story by CHRIS JONES Chicago Tribune Brian Harkin / Chicago Tribune via MCT

Sting, who scored the musical “The Last Ship,” talks with actor Jimmy Nail during a rehearsal in New York. had to believe in the veracity and vulnerability of the seemingly single and youthful songwriter. That was getting harder to pull off. And then Sting happened upon a magazine article about a proud shipbuilding community falling apart. Sting is himself from such a community. Haunted by one, in fact, ever since he got out of the failing English town of his childhood, headed to London and New York and became the leader of a band called the Police, and then a multihyphenate solo artist, an artist who never really went home. “The ships leaving the river would, in hindsight, become a metaphor for my own wandering life,” he wrote in “Broken Music,” “never to return.”

How could he really, after a certain point? To hang out on those old streets would have been perceived as an act of dilettantism, a rock-star circus. He didn’t even attend his parents’ funerals in the mid-1980s (they both died young), preferring to say goodbye while they still were alive and fearing that his presence would tempt tabloid coverage (although he wrote in his autobiography that he also was afraid to confront their deaths). During those long, more recent years of writer’s block, Sting found himself intensely focused on his childhood. “Sting,” Logan says, “has been grappling with his past since the day he walked away from Newcastle.” Somewhere around 2012, Sting hit on an idea.

What if he combined two stories: his unresolved feelings about the lingering personal attachments of his youth and his abandonment of his roots, and the soul-destroying demise of a shipyard and its impact on the workers? He had learned all about augmented and diminished chords by listening to his mother, a pianist, play the work of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Years before he had performed (as, of course, Macheath) in a 1989 revival of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera” (then rendered as “3 Penny Opera”) on Broadway. So what if he, Sting, wrote his own Broadway musical about a guy who goes back home to try to find some peace and reconciliation after the death

of his father? What if the theater were a home for his songs? What if the show was called “The Last Ship”? What if it was to try out in Chicago, a town that knows post-industrial pain? Sting was born in a terraced house in Wallsend (as in, the end of Hadrian’s Wall) in the North East of England, on the north shore of the River Tyne, close to Newcastle, hard upon Swan Hunter’s thriving shipyard, where almost everyone in the town worked in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Swan Hunter built giant, steel, oceangoing vessels and had a long history: Its workers had built the RMS Carpathia, which rescued survivors from the Titanic. Sting got out of Wallsend, of course. But most of his old friends and

neighbors — those not blessed with such singular musical talents — got stuck as Swan Hunter went down the toilet, a victim of a changed global economy. The story was not unfamiliar in postindustrial Britain or so different from what simultaneously happened, say, to the mineworkers of Doncaster (as told in the musical “Billy Elliot”) or the steelworkers of Sheffield (“The Full Monty”). There were struggles and ownership changes for Swan Hunter in the 1980s, receivership in the early 1990s and then layoffs and closings. The once-proud workers were fired or merely offered piecemeal work doing salvage or maintenance. A few years ago the famously colossal cranes of Wallsend finally were sold off. Shipbuilding, as Sting and Wallsend had known it pretty much all their lives, was finished for good. So Sting called a producer, Jeffrey Seller. Seller told Sting that he liked the idea because communities under siege tended to make very good musicals (“Fiddler on the Roof” is one such show). Plus — and Seller did not exactly need to point this out — Sting is Sting. Sting has a lot of fans. Seller said yes to Sting. The writer’s block was over. Characters appeared, based on the people Sting had known in Wallsend. Verses came to him in abundance. “Once I got that green light,” Sting says, “the songs just flooded out of me.” And that is why he is sitting in this New York studio with screenwriterturned-book writer Logan, director Joe Mantello and an old pal from Newcastle, actor-musician Jimmy Nail. See STING, Page 12

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THIS WEEKEND in the area “BARK IN THE PARK” The 10th annual Dog Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 14, at Storvik Park, 1110 32nd St., Anacortes. Bring your fourlegged best friend and enjoy dog contests, demos, games, adoptable dog parade and more, with prizes for the best costume, best tail wag, wackiest trick and other events. The first 200 dogs receive doggie goodie bags and bandanas. Admission: $5 donation per dog plus a $5 donation for each contest entry. Proceeds will benefit the Anacortes Dog Park. 360-293-1918 or cityofanacortes.org.

WINGS OF FREEDOM TOUR

The Port of Skagit is hosting a return visit of three restored World War II-era combat aircraft when the Wings of Freedom Tour touches down at Skagit Regional Airport from June 16-18. The warbirds, a B-17G Flying Fortress named “Nine-O-Nine,” a B-24J Liberator, “Witchcraft,” and a TP-51C Mustang, “Betty Jane,” are expected to arrive around 11 a.m. on June 16 and depart around 1 p.m. on June 18. The Collings Foundation, which owns and operates the aircraft, is selling flights and tours all day Monday through Wednesday. Visitors are invited to explore the aircraft inside and out — $12 for adults and $6 for

children under 12 is requested for access to up-close viewing and tours through the inside of the aircraft. World War II veterans can tour through the aircraft at no cost. Hours of ground tours and display are: noon-5 p.m. on Monday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Tuesday; and 9 a.m.-noon on Wednesday. The 30-minute flight experiences are normally scheduled before and after the ground tour times above. Flights in the B-17 or B-24 cost $450 per person. P-51 training flights are $2,200 for a half-hour and $3,200 for a full hour. For reservations and information on flight experiences, call the Collings Foundation at 800-568-8924.

CELEBRATE BIRDS The Whidbey Audubon Society will present “Bird in Hand: A close-up look at birds” from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 14, at Greenbank Farm, 765 Wonn Road, Greenbank. Check out the Society’s collection of museum-quality specimens of stuffed and preserved birds, skeletons and more. The hands-on display offers a chance to get a closer look at common birds like a Rufous Towhee, Black-capped Chickadee, Wigeon and others. The event will also include a display of owl pellets, live raptors with their falconers and a variety of bird paraphernalia for sale to benefit the Audubon Society scholarship fund. Free admission. whidbeyaudubon.org. BARREL RACING Check out incredible equine athletes and their riders at the bi-weekly Friday Night Lights Open 4D Barrel Races at 5 p.m. Fridays, June 13 and 27, July 11 and 25, Aug. 8 and 22, and Sept. 12, at the SedroWoolley Riding Club, 24538 Polte Road, Sedro-Woolley. The events start at 5 p.m. with racing at 7:30 p.m. Rider entry: $30 plus $10 office fee; $5 each additional horse. Award series and added money. For information, contact Kristen at 360-770-3383 or visit sedrowoolleyrodeo.com. ANACORTES IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION “All in the Same Boat: Anacortes in the Great Depression” will open with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 14, in the Anacortes Museum’s Carnegie Gallery, 1305 Eighth St., Anacortes. Learn about life in Anacortes after the 1929 stock market crash and the ensuing Great Depression, which dragged on for 12 years. See how life went on despite the hard times. Children played and couples courted. Festivals, parades, dances, football games, motion pictures — with sound! — as well as all sorts of clubs and events enlivened daily life. And, with everyone in the same boat, people worked together to get by. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. 360-293-1915 or museum. city

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GET INVOLVED AUDITIONS

“WHITE CHRISTMAS”: Theater Arts Guild will hold auditions from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 13-14, at Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church, 1511 E. Broadway, Mount Vernon. Callbacks (if needed) will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday, June 16. A variety of parts are available for actors, singers and dancers, from youth to mature adults. The show will run Nov. 26-Dec. 13, at the Lincoln Theatre in Mount Vernon. For information or to reserve an audition time, call Cally at 360-770-5444 or email tagwc2014@gmail. com.

2 to 5 p.m. Saturday and 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday, June 28-29, at Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. A variety of parts are available for men and women from their 20s to 60s. Prepare a twominute musical number from the “golden age” of Broadway, wear appropriate clothing for dance and prepare for cold readings from the script. Scripts are available in the ACT office. The musical will run Sept. 26-Oct. 25. To schedule an audition, call 360-293-6829.

RECREATION

SUMMER READING: Friends of the Skagit Libraries Summer Reading program will be offered at “INTO THE WOODS”: all six Skagit County librarAuditions will be held from ies. The Summer Reading 6 to 9 p.m. Monday, June 23, theme for 2014 is “Fizz, at the Whidbey Island Cen- Boom, Read!” and numerter for the Arts, 565 Cama- ous science, art, music and no Ave., Langley. Callbacks literacy programs. The will take place Tuesday, Friends of Skagit Libraries June 24. A wide variety of is an organization commitroles are available for ages ted to improving the lives of 14 and older. Auditioners our children by offering fun should prepare a song by and educational programs Stephen Sondheim (16-24 to the children of Skagit bars, any show/style, accom- County. Check with your panist provided) and a area library for details. contrasting monologue. The ADVENTURE CAMP: The musical will run Oct. 10-25. Skagit County Historical To schedule an audition, Museum will host Skagit call 360-221-8262. Treasures Adventure Camp, a day camp for children “THE ODD COUPLE” ages 5-12 for four weeks, (female version): Audibeginning June 23 at the tions will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, museum, 501 S. Fourth St., June 23-24, at the Whidbey La Conner. Weekly themes Playhouse, 730 SE Midway include Adventures of the Skagit Settlers; Cedar, Blvd., Oak Harbor. CallSalmon, Celebrations; Fish, backs, if needed, will be Forest Fauna; and Geolheld Wednesday, June 25. ogy, Flora & Fauna. Led Parts are available for six by experienced educators, women and two men, able to play ages from late 20s to camps will include field early 40s. The audition will trips, hands-on projects and involve cold readings from amazing stories. To register, call 360-466-3365 or email the script. Scripts can be checked out at the theater. museum@co.skagit.wa.us. 360-679-2237 or whidbey KIDQUEST CAMPS: playhouse.com. Burlington Parks and Recreation will host several “ANYTHING GOES”: Auditions will be held from summer camps for kids ages

6-14. Camps meet from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, beginning and ending each day at the Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave. For information or to register, call 755-9649 or email recreation@burlingtonwa.us. n Wild World of Sports: for ages 10-14: June 30-July 3. Enjoy two or three athletic activities each day including horseshoes, bowling, soccer, kickball, putt-putt golf w/barbecue, an epic hike, gymnastics, climbing wall, Absolute Air Play and the new Snohomish Aquatic Center. $150. Register by June 25.

June 13. Enjoy the great outdoors, get fit and have an adventure of a lifetime. For information or to register, call the United General fitness facility at 360-8567524 or visit trekfortreas ure.org.

FREE PARK ADMISSION: The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission will offer free admission to all state parks to celebrate National Get Outdoors Day on Saturday, June 14. On this day, the Discover Pass will not be required to enter state parks. The pass is still required to access lands managed by the Washington Department of Fish and BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS Wildlife and the DepartCAMPS: Registration is ment of Natural Resources. open for summer camps parks.wa.gov. offered through the Skagit n The U.S. Forest Service County Boys & Girls Clubs. will recognize National Get Programming from 7 a.m. Outdoors Day by waiving to 6 p.m. begins June 23 and fees for visitors to the Mt. runs through Aug. 15. Price Baker-Snoqualmie National is $100 per week, plus a $25 Forest on Saturday, June 14. monthly registration fee. Fees will be waived at most Families who qualify for day-use sites on the forest. free or reduced lunch may fs.usda.gov/mbs. get special rates. skagitrais esgreatkids.org. TRAIL TALES: Friends of Skagit Beaches will lead a SUMMER DAY CAMP: series of informative walks Kids entering grades K-6 along the Tommy Thompcan enjoy a variety of son Trail in Anacortes. For activities centered on each information, visit skagit week’s theme from 8 a.m. to beaches.org. 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Next up: Thursdays at Hillcrest Park, n Lunch & Learn: “Eco1717 S. 13th St., Mount nomic Development with Vernon. Two days: $75. Four Environmental Stewardship days: $115. Preregistration in Mind”: 11 a.m. to 12:30 required: 360-336-6215 or p.m. Tuesday, June 17, at the mountvernonwa.gov/parks. Port of Anacortes Transit n July 7-10: AdvenShed, 100 Commercial Ave. tures Abound: Hike Little Join Trail Tales docents and Mountain’s trails, climb on Port of Anacortes Executhe Eagle Rock Challenge tive Director Bob Hyde to Course, go on a treasure learn about the redevelophunt at Hillcrest Park and ment of the Pier 1 Dakota learn the basics of geoCreek shipbuilding yard caching. and the Port’s efforts to balance this with shoreline “TREK FOR TREASURE”: restoration. Bring a picnic The ultimate hiking challunch to enjoy while Hyde lenge is back for its third discusses projects along the year. Registration is open Guemes Channel waterthrough June 11; hikes start front, then walk to mitiga-

tion sites, ending at the newly restored Wyman tidal habitat, one-half mile away. Free. TRAIL WORK: The Skagit, Whatcom, Island Trail Maintaining Organization (SWITMO) seeks volunteers for upcoming trail work from April through October. The next work party will be held June 21. 360-424-0407 or jdmelcher@comcast.net. BARREL RACING: Put your equine athletes through their paces at the bi-weekly Friday Night Lights Open 4D Barrel Races at 5 p.m. Fridays, June 13 and 27, July 11 and 25, Aug. 8 and 22, and Sept. 12, at the Sedro-Woolley Riding Club, 24538 Polte Road, Sedro-Woolley. The events start at 5 p.m. with racing at 7:30 p.m. Rider entry: $30 plus $10 office fee; $5 each additional horse. Award series and added money. For information, contact Kristen at 360770-3383 or visit sedrowool leyrodeo.com.

a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 14, at First United Methodist Church, 1607 E. Division St., Mount Vernon. Dave Obee and Donna Potter-Phillips will be the featured presenters. Novice to advanced classes will include genealogy for beginners, genealogical proof standard, living here and researching there, your genealogy library in the cloud, understanding DNA and more. $35-$45 until June 1; $50 at the door: 360630-0170 or skagitvalley genealogy.org.

THEATER

YOUTH SUMMER THEATER: The Whidbey Playhouse Youth Summer Theater Program will present “The Invisible Village!: A Theater Workshop” June 17-28, at the Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. Young actors ages 8 to 16 will hone their theater skills, including theater acting, stage presence and more. The program begins with placement auditions at 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 17, with CRAB DASH: The Cama- additional auditions at 9 no Crab Dash 5K/10K a.m. Wednesday, June 18. Family Fun Run will take Rehearsal for some actors place Saturday, June 21, will begin from 9 a.m. to at Camano Center, 606 noon and 2 to 5 p.m. ThursArrowhead Road, Camano day and Friday, June 19-20. Island. Registration begins Rehearsals for all actors at 7:30 a.m. followed by will take place from 9 a.m. the race at 9 a.m. Medals to noon and 2 to 5 p.m. will be awarded to the top Monday through Friday, three male and female run- June 23-27. The workshop ners, with ribbons for the will culminate in three pertop three finishers in 13 age formances: 7:30 p.m. Friday, groups, as well as a prize June 27; and 2:30 p.m. and for the best team costume. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 27. Registration: $25 with shirt, $5 admission. $15 run only, $40 family (no The workshop cost is shirts). Free for ages 8 and $120 per child, $40 for an younger. 360-387-0222 or additional child from the camanocenter.org. same family. Every child will receive a T-shirt commemorating “The Invisible WORKSHOPS Village” as well as two free “GENEALOGY FOR tickets. Scholarships are EVERYONE”: The Skagit available. Apply by June 16. Valley Genealogy Society will present its 11th annual 360-679-2237 or whidbey playhouse.com. Summer Seminar from 8

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HOT TICKETS ONEREPUBLIC: June 12, Comcast Arena, Everett. 866-332-8499 or comcastarenaeverett. com. ALLEN STONE: June 13, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. THE FRAY: with Barcelona and Oh Honey: June 17, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888-9297849 or AXS.com. DIGITOUR: June 20, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES: June 20-21, Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Bow. 877-275-2448 or theskagit.com. SARAH McLACHLAN: June 20-21, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. RODRIGO AMARANTE: June 21, The Barboza, Seattle. 206-709-9442 or thebarboza.com. MERLE HAGGARD, EMMYLOU HARRIS: June 22, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville. 800-7453000 or ticketmaster.com. GAVIN DEGRAW AND MATT NATHANSON: with Mary Lambert: June 24, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888-929-7849 or AXS.com. YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: June 26, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com. ROBYN + RÖYKSOPP: Do It Again Tour: June 26, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888-929-7849 or AXS.com. EARSHOT JAZZ CONCERTS: June 26-28, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle. 800-838-3006 or brownpapertickets.com. FITZ & THE TANTRUMS: June 27, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com. MINUS THE BEAR: June 27, Columbia City Theater, Seattle. 800-838-3006 or columbiacitytheater.com. THE SOULSHINE TOUR: featuring Michael Franti & Spearhead, with SOJA, Brett Dennen and Trevor Hall: June 27, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888-929-7849 or AXS.com. AN EVENING WITH JOHN LEGEND: June 27, Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham. 360-7346080 or mountbakertheatre.com. PARADISO FESTIVAL: with Bassnectar, Above & Beyond, Zedd, Krewella and more: June 27-28, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. 800-745-3000 or LiveNation.com. CHER: June 28, KeyArena, Seattle. 800-7453000 or LiveNation.com. JOHN LEGEND: June 28, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. PETER MURPHY: June 28, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. STEVE WINWOOD: June 29, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. KISS, DEF LEPPARD: June 29, White River Amphitheatre, Auburn. 800-745-3000 or LiveNation.com. KRAFTWERK 3-D: July 1, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or tickets.com. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: July 2, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or tickets.com. MARK LANEGAN: July 3, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. CHEVELLE: July 5, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. STEELY DAN: July 5-6, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888-929-7849 or AXS.com. NEW ORDER: July 6, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or LiveNation.com.

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HEART: July 1, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888-929-7849 or AXS.com. ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL: with Avenged Sevenfold, Korn, Asking Alexandria, Trivium, Cannibal Corpse, Body Count featuring Ice T, Suicide Silence, Emmure, Miss May I, Mushroomhead and more: July 8, White River Amphitheatre, Auburn. 800-745-3000 or LiveNation.com. JURASSIC 5: July 9, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. SLIGHTLY STOOPID: with Stephen “Ragga” Marley: July 10, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888929-7849 or AXS.com. BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA: July 11, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org. RINGO STARR & HIS ALL-STARR BAND: July 16, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville. 800-7453000 or ticketmaster.com. THE GO-GOs, PATTY SMYTH & SCANDAL, MARTHA DAVIS & THE MOTELS, CUTTING CREW, NAKED EYES featuring PETE BYRNE: July 17, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville. 800745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND: with The Wood Brothers: July 17, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888-929-7849 or AXS.com. THE AQUABATS: July 17, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. LYLE LOVETT & HIS LARGE BAND: July 18, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville. 800-7453000 or ticketmaster.com. THE JOHN CONLEE SHOW (classic country): July 18-19, Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Bow. 877-275-2448 or theskagit.com. ANACORTES UNKNOWN MUSIC SERIES, Vol. IV: July 18-20, Anacortes Unknown. anacortesunknown.com. WINTHROP RHYTHM & BLUES FESTIVAL: July 18-20, Blues Ranch, Winthrop. 800-422-3048 or WinthropTickets.com. GOO GOO DOLLS & DAUGHTRY: July 19, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. JOURNEY, STEVE MILLER BAND: July 19, White River Amphitheatre, Auburn. 800-7453000 or LiveNation.com. CHEECH & CHONG, WAR: “Up in Smoke 2014”: July 19, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888929-7849 or AXS.com. JOAN BAEZ: July 20, Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham. 360-734-6080 or mountbakertheatre.com. CHATEAU STE. MICHELLE FESTIVAL OF JAZZ: with The Manhattan Transfer, Spyro Gyra, Lee Ritenour & Dave Gruisin, Jessy J: July 26, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville. 800-7453000 or ticketmaster.com.

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area June 12-22

TUNING UP Playing at area venues June 12-18 LOOKING AHEAD FRIDAY.20

THEATER “Enchanted April”: 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse. com. COMEDY “You Can’t Take It With You”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M St., Anacortes. $18. actheatre.com or 360-293-6829.

THURSDAY.12

FRIDAY.13

Trish Hatley: 6 p.m. Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720.

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

Chunky Wonder, Big Oil!: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5. 360-7781067.

The Groovetramps: 8 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-5881720.

SATURDAY.14 The Michelle Taylor Band (R&B, classic rock, blues): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No Cover. 877-275-2448.

Thieves of Eden, The Chasers: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5. 360-778-1067. Jukebox Duo: 7 to 10 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon. 360-848-8882.

Margaret Wilder Band (funk): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, Bard Room, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10. 360-445-3000. The Fenderbenders: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-4226411.

Fabulous Roof Shakers: 7:30 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-7553956. SmokeWagon: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Bow. No cover. 360766-6266.

Dirty Kid Discount, Rats in the Wall, Juicy Karkass, The Harrison B: 7:30 p.m., ConVaticxnts: 9:30 p.m., The way Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Shakedown, 1212 N. State Main, Conway. 360-445-3000. St., Bellingham. $7. 360-7781067. Cellist Louie Richmond, accompanied by Judith Matney Cook and the MudGordon (classical): 2 p.m., flat Walkers: 8 p.m., Big Country Meadow Village, Rock Cafe & Grocery, 14779 1501 Collins Road, SedroState Rout 9, Mount Vernon. Woolley. Free. 360-856-0404. bigrockcafe or 360-424-7872.

FRIDAY.13 WAYNE HAYTON 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. 360-445-3000.

SATURDAY.21

THEATER “Enchanted April”: 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse. com.

THURSDAY-SUNDAY.12-15 “YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU” Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M St., Anacortes. $18. actheatre.com or 360-293-6829. Check individual listings for times.

Thursday.12

Saturday.14

Sunday.15

THEATER

“Enchanted April”: 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

COMEDY

“You Can’t Take It With You”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M St., Anacortes. $18. actheatre.com or 360-293-6829.

Friday.13 THEATER

“Enchanted April”: 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

COMEDY

“You Can’t Take It With You”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M St., Anacortes. $18. actheatre.com or 360-293-6829.

“Enchanted April”: 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

BALLET

“Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Northwest Ballet Theater: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $24-$35. 360-4167727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

COMEDY

“You Can’t Take It With You”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M St., Anacortes. $18. actheatre.com or 360-293-6829.

“Enchanted April”: 2:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

BALLET

“Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Northwest Ballet Theater: 2 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $24-$35. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

COMEDY

“You Can’t Take It With You”: 2 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M St., Anacortes. $18. actheatre.com or 360-293-6829.

Thursday.19 THEATER

“Enchanted April”: 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

COMEDY

“You Can’t Take It With You”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M St., Anacortes. $18. actheatre.com or 360-293-6829.

MUSIC Trish, Hans & Larry Holloway: 2 to 3:30 p.m., Chandlers Square, 1300 O Ave., Anacortes. 360-2931300. COMEDY “You Can’t Take It With You”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M St., Anacortes. $18. actheatre.com or 360-293-6829.

SUNDAY.22

THEATER “Enchanted April”: 2:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse. com.

SUNDAY.15 David Smith (Americana, blues): 6 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10. 360-445-3000.

SATURDAY.14 THE CHRIS EGER BAND (ROCK, SOUL, BLUES) 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No Cover. 877-2752448.

Gary B’s Church of Blues: Jam Night: 6 to 10 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. 360-4454733.

Desperate Measures (classic rock): 6 to 10 p.m., Castle Tavern, 708 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley. No cover. 360-855-2263. Blues/rock jam with CC Adams and Friends: 4-9 p.m., La Conner Pantry & Pub, 315 Morris St., La Conner. 360-466-4488. Ron Bailey: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. 360-766-6266.

WEDNESDAY.18 Little Joe Argo: 6 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720.