The Red Bicycle Bistro & Sushi will initiate a “live acoustic showcase night” during the First Friday Gallery Cruise, starting at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, with singers Mary Win from Tacoma and Anna Coogan from Seattle.
Poetry band A high school poetry band from Bainbridge Island will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, at Café…
Celebrate Chinese New Year and the year of the ox with Orchid Ensemble, a trio from Vancouver, B.C., that expertly blends ancient musical instruments such as erhu, zheng and marimba with traditions from China, Persia and India.
Valentine’s jazz concert Seattle jazz vocalist Mercedes Nicole and a quartet of hot players will play straight-ahead jazz at the…
After nearly two years serving area quilters from a home nestled in the woods off Thorsen Road, Anja Shive Moritz, the owner of Island Quilter, plans to open the store next week in downtown Vashon, bringing with her roughly 4,500 bolts of fabric — and plenty of color.
Calen Winn was fascinated by the Civil Rights movement and hoped he could be present for an event that would hearken back to the 1963 March on Washington, when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech.
Creative outlets for all ages abound at Vashon Allied Arts; classes in dance, clay, drawing, music and metal arts start now.
Vince Conaway brings his hammered dulcimer music to Café Luna at 7:30 p.m Friday, Jan. 30, followed the next night, Saturday, Jan. 31, by folksinger/guitarist Rose Laughlin, who will perform from 7:30 to 10 p.m.
The Red Bicycle offers three groups this weekend — the Port Angeles hillbilly jam-grass band Deadwood Revival, country rock’s Scattergun and Vashon’s own 5:01 with its characteristic country rock tunes.
Norman Thayer, the 79-year-old lead character in “On Golden Pond,” completing its run this weekend in Drama Dock’s Blue Heron production, is not very nice to his family, let alone the rest of the world.
Oddly enough, Kathy’s Corner is nowhere near a corner. The roadside nursery boasts more than 100,000 plants on a straightaway south of town.
Jean Bosch’s quiet walk-in cabin is a striking counterpoint to her bustling civic life.
This weekend boasts a wealth of options for Island music lovers, including concerts by up-and-coming Seattle songwriters, favorite Island players and the return of Trolls Cottage, a band that began on Vashon and now tours widely.