Popular band returns to Red Bike
Bill Brown and the Kingbees will bring their high-energy free show to the Red Bike for a night of dancing at 8:30 p.m. Friday.
The band members have each been working on their own projects this year. Vocalist Bill Brown played for two months with several blues and rock bands in the Zihuatanejo, Mexico area. Bassist Leslie Shelton has been leading his band, Tonze, which includes John Gaborit on guitar, Tony Handy on drums, Steve Minzel on keyboard and Shelton on bass.
The popular group has been entertaining audiences in the Pacific Northwest since 1986.
The show is open to all ages until 11 p.m., then ages 21 and older only.
Art History Talks: Against the Grain
The new series of Vashon Center for the Arts’ Art History Talks will explore artists whose work went against the prevailing artistic trends of their times.
The first lecture, on Andrew Wyeth, will be at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the Kay White Hall.
Wyeth, who was born in 1917 and died in 2009, split his time between Maine and Pennsylvania. He was primarily a realist painter, and his favorite subjects were the land and people around him, which he meticulously rendered in watercolors and temperas.
The Seattle Art Museum will hold a major retrospective of his work this fall.
Tickets are sold at VCA and vashoncenterforthearts.org.
Fundraiser for Met Opera broadcast
It will be a five-year dream come true for Vashon Theatre owner Eileen Wolcott when the lights come down and the silver screen streams the theater’s first broadcast of The Metropolitan Opera’s “Norma” (Bellini) at 4 p.m. Sunday.
But unlike for the screenings of the Bolshoi Ballet and National Theatre shows, screenings of the Met productions require satellite equipment to the tune of $4,500. Sunday’s premiere screening is a fundraiser for the new equipment, and Wolcott hopes to have a full house.
Doors will open at 3:15 p.m. with Randy Bruce playing jazz piano. Tickets are $20 general admission and $18 for seniors, and are sold at the box office and vashontheatre.com.
