Asiya Korepanova

Virtuoso pianist, transcriber, composer, visual artist and poet Asiya Korepanova will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 28, at Vashon Center for the Arts. Her program will include her own composition as well as works by Beethoven, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, and Mussorgsky. Find out more and get tickets at vashoncenterforthearts.org.

Pete Droge

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Pete Droge will perform an intimate concert with his partner in music and life, Elaine Summers, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 29, at Vashon Center for the Arts.

In addition to fan favorites, Droge will premiere songs from his forthcoming album, “Fade Away Blue,” which was produced by Grammy-winner Paul Bryan, and will be released on Puzzle Tree Records later this year.

Visit vashoncenterforthearts.org to check ticket availability.

Art Talk

Join art historian Rebecca Albiani for an art talk at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at Vashon Center for the Arts.

In honor of Women’s History Month, Albiani will explore the work of Frida Kahlo, who has become an internationally known feminist icon. Kahlo took up painting after a devastating streetcar accident and wed Diego Rivera a few years later. She adopted a flamboyant persona, slugging tequila and taking lovers of both sexes, while using art as a way of combating her physical and emotional pain.

Workshop

Join Eva Papp, founder of the Active Authenticity path to well-being, for a full day workshop, “Relationship Boundaries and the Strategies That Make Them Work,” from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Sunday, March 30, at Open Space for Arts & Community.

Find out more and get tickets at openspacevashon.com.

UMO’s Squeeze

UMO Ensemble will have a run of its newest production, “Squeeze,” from April 4-13, at Seattle Public Theatre, located at 7312 West Green Lake Dr N, in Seattle.

The play, by award-wining playwright Trista Baldwin, features performances by Acrobatic Conundrum’s Terry Crane and Emma Curtiss, Seattle actor Rhys Daly, and UMO Ensemble members Meghan Ames, David Godsey, Janet McAlpin and Lyam White.

The production is directed by Elizabeth Klob.

The production — in development by UMO for the past three years — is described by the group as being a “dystopian fun-house,” concocted from a recipe to “take five lonely souls, three platforms, two acrobats, sprinkle ladders to top, mix with a good measure of displacement, scarcity and greed, blend on high and bake in an overheated climate … Through humor, grace and physical, “Squeeze” challenges its audiences to adapt and connect in a world on the edge.”

Get tickets and find out more at tinyurl.com/ywbtuhzw.

8th annual VIVA show

All island artists are invited to enter the 2025 Vashon Island Visual Artists members’ show, “Our Island, Our Home,” at Vashon Center for the Arts, May 2–25, 2025.

This exhibition invites island artists to explore the meaning of “home” through relationships — family, friends, community, and the land and sea, reflecting the close-knit spirit of Vashon life. The show is open to all current VIVA members — join or renew now to participate. The deadline to enter is April 11.

Visit vivartists.com for more details and to enter.

Concerts at the Vashon Havurah

The Vashon Havurah, 15401 Westside Hwy SW, will host two Celtic music performances this spring.

At 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 11, Bangers and Blunders, a a Boulder, a young, Colorado-based traditional Irish music duo, will take the stage. Members Shannon Muenchow and Graeme Danforth originally met at Irish sessions in the Denver/Boulder area are now bringing uplifting traditional tunes to life with twin-fiddle melodic interplay and driving rhythmic renditions on fiddle and Irish bouzouki. There will be an Irish music session after the concert, so bring your instruments. A $20 donation is requested at the door.

Scottish guitar master, Tony McManus, will play in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 17.

Hailed by John Renbourn as “the best Celtic guitarist in the world,” McManus has also been listed as one of the 50 transcendent guitarists of all time by Guitar Player magazine. His music draws on traditions from the entire Celtic world, along with still further-ranging flavors such as jazz and eastern European music. Long applauded for his ability to transpose the delicate, complex ornamentation characteristic of traditional bagpipe or fiddle tunes onto his own six strings, McManus is increasingly acknowledged as a pioneering figure in bridging the realms of Celtic music and other guitar genres.

There will be a requested donation of $25 at the door.

Reservations are recommended for both shows — email janstrolle@comcast.net.

UMO Ensemble’s “Squeeze” will have a run from April 4-13, at Seattle Public Theatre. (David Vitz photo)