Centrum's Acoustic Blues Festival 2013 by Port Townsend Leader

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Daryl Davis, Artistic Director

Fort Worden State Park Port Townsend, Washington Complimentary Program Guide

Centrum staff and volunteers will be on hand one hour before showtime providing free event parking passes for ticket holders and for the Free Fridays at the Fort concerts. These passes are only valid within designated event parking areas.

Welcome At Centrum, creativity and learning are one. From exploring the roots of American blues or jazz, to the traditions of American fiddle music or our internationally acclaimed writers’ workshops—for forty years Centrum’s summer festivals have transformed the majestic, inspiring setting of Fort Worden State Park into a unique arts destination, the envy of regions many times our size. On behalf of the entire Centrum community of artists, I invite you to join us to discover a full array of blues mainstage and club performances as we celebrate Centrum’s 40th anniversary in 2013. We are particularly excited about this year’s festival. Artistic Director Daryl Davis has assembled the finest cast of teachers and performers for your enjoyment. I urge you to see and hear what Centrum has to offer both at Fort Worden during our mainstage concerts as well as throughout downtown when our artists occupy nearly every restaurant and club in town. We gratefully present our programs in partnership with the Washington State Arts Commission, the Washington State Parks Commission and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. We thank you and the many donors and generous sponsors who support Centrum and its distinctive role in our community. Get closer to the arts this summer, and thank you for your continued support of Centrum! Sincerely yours,

Executive Director

Free Concerts for Kids

Free Fridays at the Fort

Admission Free

August 2:

Friday, August 2, 11 am

Acoustic blues with George Rezendes, Dave Meis, and Jon Parry

Fort Worden Chapel

Please join us for this lunchtime concert! This free performance takes place from noon to 1 Centrum thanks the Congdon-Hanson family pm on the lawn of the Nora Porter Commons for their support of youth programs at Fort Worden State Park. Bring a blanket, or chairs, and a lunch! Sponsored by Featuring Lightnin’ Wells and Jay Summerour

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Experience Centrum and its world-renowned artists! Discover more at www.centrum.org Order tickets for the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival On the web at www.centrum.org By phone at 800.746.1982 In-person at Centrum at 223 Battery Way, Port Townsend. Monday-Friday, noon to 4 pm except performance days. Tickets are also available at the box office at McCurdy Pavilion beginning one hour prior to show time. Children under 18 are admitted free with advance reservation. Programs and artists subject to change.

Centrum workshops: Registration is open for weeklong Centrum workshops. For more information, or to register for a workshop, please call 360.385.3102, x114 or visit www.centrum.org.

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“Acoustic blues, also ca lled traditional, pre-war, or country blues, is the original mu sic of rural African-Ame ric ans that originated in the south ern United States in the 19 20’s and 1930’s. Traditional blues hono rs the commonality of the human spirit and shares its so rrow and its joy. Centr um is honored to present musicians wh o are keeping the coun try blues traditions alive. We ha ve flown them in from across the country to share with you the he ritage of traditional blu es. Some, like Warner Willia ms, are National Herita ge Fellows. Others, like Dom Flemo ns of the Carolina Choc olate Drops, are Grammy Award winners . We will be hosting 33 blues musicians this year. All are outstan ding, world-class music ians. The Saturday, August 3, afternoon mainstage co ncert will offer a sampling of styles an d instrumentation from go spel to songs for sinners and everythi ng in between. “Blues in the Clubs” hosts a variety of listen ing environments, from intimate sitting rooms to raucous danc es in the American Legio n Hall. Sets will change every hour be tween 8pm to midnigh t bo th Friday and Saturday nights.”

Mary Hilts

Blues Program Manage

Acoustic

Showcase

McCurdy Pavilion Saturday, August 3 • 1:30 pm $20/30/40 • Gospel Choir with Angela Hill and Arthur Migliazza • Orville Johnson with Angele Hill, Boo Hanks, and Dom Flemons • Uppity Women: Gaye Adegbalola and Andra Faye with Clay Swafford • Women in Blues: Del Rey, Eleanor Ellis, Lauren Sheehan, and Mary Flower • Rich Del Grosso, Jonn Del Toro Richardson and Jon Parry • Zydeco Blues with Sunpie Barnes, Leroy Etienne, and Michael Harris • Leroy Etienne and Michael Harris • Warner Williams and Jay Summerour • Daryl Davis, Phil Wiggins, Billy Flynn, and Dean Mueller

IN THE CLUBS Friday, August 2

Saturday, August 3

8 pm–midnight; $25

American Legion (all ages venue) • Gaye Adegbalola and Andra Faye with Daryl Davis • Blues Dance with Daryl Davis, Dean Mueller, and Billy Flynn with Angela Hill and Jay Summerour

American Legion (all ages venue) • Gaye Adegbalola with Clay Swafford • Zydeco Dance with Sunpie Barnes and the Louisiana Sunspots, with Caitlin Romtvedt

The Boiler Room (all ages/free venue) • Eleanor Ellis • Jerron Paxton • Jake Heck and Maria Woodford

The Boiler Room (all ages/free venue) • Elijah Wald and Sandrine Sheon • Lauren Sheehan • Andra Faye

The Public House • Tim Sparks • Dom Flemons and Phil Wiggins • Orville Johnson and Grant Dermody

The Public House • Warner Williams and Jay Summerour • Rich Del Grosso, Jonn Del Toro Richardson, and Jon Parry • Billy Flynn, and Dean Mueller with Angela Hill

Alchemy Bistro & Wine Bar • Clay Swafford • Arthur Migliazza and Del Rey • Chase Garrett

Alchemy Bistro & Wine Bar • Chase Garrett • Jerron Paxton • Arthur Migliazza and Del Rey

Khu Larb Thai Restaurant • Lighnin’ Wells • Boo Hanks • Elijah Wald and Sandrine Sheon The Cotton Building • Mary Flower • Lauren Sheehan and Jon Parry • Rich Del Grosso and Jonn Del Toro Richardson

Khu Larb Thai Restaurant • Mary Flower • Jake Heck and Maria Woodford • Tim Sparks The Cotton Building • Dom Flemons and Boo Hanks • Orville Johnson and Grant Dermody • Eleanor Ellis and Phil Wiggins

1. American Legion 431 Water Street

2. Cotton Building 607 Water Street

3. Boiler Room

711 Water Street

4. Khu Larb Thai

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225 Adams Street

5. Alchemy Bistro

842 Washington Street

6. The Public House 1038 Water Street

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incomparable tasteful playing. His soft voice in conversation is a calming cover to the strong and steady singer and the explosive guitar player he is on stage. GRANT DERMODY – Harmonica Grant Dermody is a harmonica player, singer, songwriter, and teacher from Seattle, Washington. He has performed with blues legends Leon Bib, Honeyboy Edwards, Robert Lowery, Big Joe Duskin, John Dee Holeman, and Cephas & Wiggins. As a member of The Improbabillies, whose 1998 self-titled CD made a serious splash in the old-time world, Grant brought a unique blues sensibility and an innovative harmonica style to that genre. ELEANOR ELLIS – Piedmont Guitar

RICH DELGROSSO – Mandolin

BIOS GAYE ADEGBALOLA – Vocals

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Gaye Adegbalola has toured nationally and internationally, and has won numerous awards including the prestigious Blues Music Award (formerly the W.C. Handy Award – the Grammy of the blues industry). As of 2012, Adegbalola has 14 CDs in national distribution, including 4 on her own label, Hot Toddy Music. Gaye composes, sings and plays acoustic guitar, slide guitar, and harmonica. She is the mother of son, Juno Lumumba Kahlil. Motherhood is essential to her bio. BRUCE “SUNPIE” BARNES – Accordion / Zydeco Dance Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes is a veteran musician, park ranger, actor, former high school biology teacher, and former NFL player with the Kansas City Chiefs. His career has taken him far and wide, travelling to over 35 countries playing his own style of blues, zydeco and Afro-Louisiana music incorporating Caribbean and African influenced rhythms and melodies. He is a multi-instrumentalist playing piano, percussion, and harmonica–and he learned to play accordion from some of the best, including Fernest Arceneaux, John Delafose, and Clayton Sampy. With his musical group “Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots,” he has played festivals and concerts across New Orleans and the US, as well as internationally, and they have recorded five critically acclaimed CDs.

Writer/teacher/ performer Rich DelGrosso is widely regarded as the leading exponent of mandolin blues. For over twenty years he has written articles for Blues Revue, Living Blues, Mandolin Magazine, Frets, and Sing Out!, and has published mandolin and guitar instruction books on for Hal Leonard Pub. He has presented workshops across the U.S. and Europe, earning him a Keeping the Blues Alive Award from the Blues Foundation in Memphis. Rich’s many performances, recordings, and festival appearances have garnered him five Blues Music Award nominations. Four of the five were for Best Instrumentalist-Other for his mandolin work, and the other, in 2009, for his recording Live From Bluesville, which was nominated for Acoustic Album of the Year; a recorded live jam session with BMA nominees and winners Fiona Boyes and Mookie Brill at XM radio’s B.B.King’s Bluesville. JONN DEL TORO RICHARDSON – Guitar Jonn Del Toro Richardson is a blues guitarist from Houston, representing the strong defining sound of the Texas Blues. Inspired by his uncles he picked up the guitar in his early twenties and immediately started playing in the music scene around Houston. From starting his own bands to having the honor to play with many of the blues greats in Houston early in his career, Richardson discovered his passion in blues music. Richardson is widely known for his impeccable tone, as well as, his

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Louisiana native Eleanor Ellis has performed at clubs, festivals and concerts in the United States, Canada and Europe. She has also traveled and played with the late gospel street singer Flora Molton, bluesman Archie Edwards, and sometimes accompanied Delta Blues great Eugene Powell. She is a founding member of the DC Blues Society and the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation, and has written about the blues for several publications. A bluegrass jam session led to a musical collaboration with “Delta Rambler” Hazel Schlueter, and Eleanor later wound up playing stand-up bass in two bluegrass bands, the Green Valley Cutups and Bill Malone’s Hill Country Ramblers. LEROY ETIENNE – Drums / Washboard Leroy Etienne was born in St. Martinville and now resides in Lafayette, LA. Although everyone spoke Creole in his household growing up, Leroy learned much of the language from his mother, Odelia Porter Etienne. Leroy’s father, Lawrence Etienne taught Leroy the Bamboula or rumba rhythm commonly used in the older Creole musical forms of juré and la la music. Both juré and la la are musical predecessors to zydeco. Leroy has has a deep connection to this music and currently plays drums with Sunpie Barnes and the Louisiana Sunspots.

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BILLY FLYNN – Delta Guitar / Slide

MICHAEL HARRIS – Bass

Andra Faye hails from Indianapolis, and has been playing music since the sixth grade, performing in a variety of eclectic local bands. She was influenced early on by Howard Armstrong and fellow Hoosier Yank Rachel. Andra is known for her powerful vocals and her talents on stringed instruments (fiddle, upright & electric bass & guitar), especially the blues mandolin. She has recorded and performed nationally & internationally with Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women since joining them in 1992.

Over the last 40 years, Billy Flynn has played with a wealth of Chicago blues legends including Jimmy Rogers, Jr. Wells, Otis Rush, Pinetop Perkins, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Dawkins, Koko Taylor, Willie Kent and countless others. Billy’s encyclopedic knowledge and mastery of a wide array of guitar styles from the 1920’s though the present make him the go-to guy when bands and record producers want to recreate a certain blues guitar sound. Billy was tapped to play guitar for the soundtrack for the major motion picture “Cadillac Records,” which chronicled the heyday of the legendary Chicago blues label, Chess Records. As part of the soundtrack, Billy backed Beyonce in her 2010 Grammy Winning recording of Etta James’ “At Last.”

Michael Harris, a veteran New Orleans bassist, is well known in the city as a performer in the gospel, zydeco, and blues styles. Michael has been a professional bass player for more than twenty years, performing and recording with many great artists like Clarence “Frogman”” Henry, Tommy Ridgley, Walter “Wolfman”” Washington, Linda Hopkins and many others. Among other bands, Michael is in the Zydeco band Sunpie Barnes and the Louisiana Sunspots.

DOM FLEMONS – Banjo / Guitar Dom Flemons is a multiinstrumentalist and a songster. Playing in a broad range of old-time blues, country, string band, rock and jazz, he has impressed audiences with his outrageous performance style. As a member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Dom has toured all over the world going as far as Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Holland and Belgium. He is up for most any type of gig having played from coffee houses to street corners to house parties to the big-time venues. Dom has performed at such venues as the National Folk Festival, the Newport Folk Festival, The Grand Ole Opry, Prairie Home Companion, Merlefest, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, The Tavis Smiley Show, The Bob Harris show on the BBC, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Spoleto Music Festival, Bonnaroo, The Fillmore in San Francisco, and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, just to name a few. MARY FLOWER – Guitar

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Chase Garrett started playing piano at age nine and began playing professionally by age 17. He has performed all across the U.S. and Europe alongside some of today’s best boogie woogie, blues and jazz pianists such as Axel Zwingenberger, Joachim Schumacher, Julian Phillips and Michael Kaeshammer. Deeply influenced by Albert Ammons, Meade “Lux” Lewis, Otis Spann, Fats Waller and Oscar Peterson, Chase’s playing moves seamlessly between boogie woogie, blues, jazz, stride and swing. The “Chase Garrett’s Annual Blues & Boogie Woogie Piano Stomp,” is held each November at the Englert Theatre in downtown Iowa City, Iowa. The concert features four different pianists each year and always provides the most demanded leaders in blues and boogie woogie piano from around the world. BOO HANKS – Guitar James Arthur “Boo” Hanks was born and raised in Virginia, just over the North Carolina line. For the majority of his eightyfour years he has been a laborer, working the tobacco fields. Boo learned to play guitar from his father, singing traditional roots music in the Piedmont blues style. Until recently his performances have been limited to his southern home base and shared with family and friends. Boo Hanks, a descendant of Abraham Lincoln on his mother’s side, is the greatest Piedmont Blues rediscovery in many years. He sings and plays guitar in the style of the legendary Blind Boy Fuller. At the age of 79, he made his first recording and at 82 he has enjoyed performances around home as well as Lincoln Center and Belgium.

Said to be the best guitar player in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, Jake Heck continues to expand and mature his musical voice. He grew up on the recordings of great blues musicians and quickly developed a love for fingerstyle guitar. He has toured with various blues artists and represented the Lehigh Valley at the International Blues Competition in 2006. He is currently playing with Maria Woodford. ANGELA HILL – Gospel Choir / Vocal Angela Hill strongly believes in gospel music. Even as a young child, she played piano for church choirs, traveled the country singing in school choruses, and developed her songwriting and musical performance skills. Currently Angela serves as Musical Director and pianist for two churches in Maryland, and performs as a member of the metropolitan area based gospel group, UVP. While not performing music, she is devoted to children as a fulltime preschool teacher, and hopes that her artistry will be an inspiration to others through her music. ORVILLE JOHNSON – Slide Guitar Orville Johnson has a gift for finding the secret ingredient that makes a song sound letter-perfect, whether it’s an R&B tune from New Orleans, a country blues or a jazz ballad. He moved to Seattle in 1978, where he was a founding member of the much-loved and well-remembered folk/ rock group, the “Dynamic Logs.” Other musical associates include Laura Love, Ranch Romance, and the File’ Gumbo Zydeco Band; and he’s shared the stage with artists such as Doc Watson, Bonnie Raitt and John Lee Hooker.

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Mary Flower is renowned for a uniquely personal vision of roots music that blends ragtime, acoustic blues, and folk – technically dazzling yet grounded in the down-to-earth simplicity of early 20th century American music. With eight albums under her belt, Mary has earned rave reviews from critics and audiences alike for her unassuming vocals, and her mastery of the difficult Piedmont blues guitar style. She continues to be a highly regarded teacher whose knowledge and technical mastery have inspired students at the Augusta Heritage Center and the Swannanoa Gathering, among many other educational venues.

CHASE GARRETT – Piano

JAKE HECK – Band Lab / Guitar

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ANDRA FAYE – Vocals / Mandolin / Violin

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ARTHUR MIGLIAZZA – Piano Arthur Migliazza was born in Hyattsville, Maryland, and began taking classical piano lessons at age nine. Inspired by his immense talent, blues piano luminaries such as Ann Rabson, Mr. B, and the great New Orleans keyboard master Henry Butler have all taken Arthur under their collective wing. In 2005, Arthur was awarded the Tucson Area Music Award for Best Keyboardist, and in 2010 he was inducted into the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame. During the past several years, Arthur has been featured on the Cincinnati Blues Fest’s Arches Piano Stage multiple times, and has taught blues piano at Augusta Blues Week in Elkins, WV, and at Centrum.

DEL REY – Ukelele / Guitar

Dean Mueller is originally Chicago, and had played electric bass since he was a kid. He picked up the upright bass as an adult and now wows audience with either instrument. A fixture in the Pacific Northwest blues scene, Dean is key musician to the Port Townsend gathering.

Del Rey started playing guitar when she was four. At the age of fourteen she was introduced to the world of traditional acoustic music. Lou Curtiss, proprietor of Folk Arts Rare Records and artistic director of the San Diego Folk Festival introduced her to living artists like Sam Chatmon, Lydia Mendoza and Howard Armstrong, and to recordings, especially those of the great blues guitarist Memphis Minnie. Her guitar playing is influenced by country blues, stride piano, classic jazz and hillbilly boogie-all filtered through the sensibility of an autodidact trailor-park aesthete.

JON PARRY – Blues Violin

CAITLIN BELEM ROMTVEDT – Band Lab

Jon Parry was given classical training on the violin beginning at age seven by his mother Louise and by Walter Sundstein, then assistant concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony. As a child Jon developed a life-long love of the blues playing along with records his father brought home. Son House, Father Earl Hines, John Lee Hooker, and Huddie Ledbetter were some of the artists he immersed himself in as a youth. By the age of 15, he was opening shows for Taj Mahal, Big Mama Thorton, and B.B. King, among others. Jon has performed professionally as a sideman across America, at concert halls, festivals and clubs ranging from The Kennedy Center to the barrooms of New Orleans. He is a long time member of the legendary Goose Creek Symphony. Jon has recorded and performed with artists such as Hank Williams Jr. and Danny Barnes.

Caitlin Belem Romtvedt grew up in a house full of music in Northern Wyoming. She started playing the fiddle with her parents, saxophone in school, and later the guitar. She has lived and played music in Brazil and the Basque Country, spent time studying music in Cuba, and now plays a lot of Brazilian and other Latin American music along with old swing, jazz, and blues.

DEAN MUELLER – Bass

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the genre. He is the whole package. He’s witty, fast rhyming, poetic, fun, exciting, wonderfully skilled as a musician and a fine singer, he is the continuation of a proud tradition, literally and figuratively. Jerron is even the real-life son of Robert Johnson’s cousin, so you can say it’s in the blood. The charismatic bluesman, sometimes also called “J-Dog Paxton” or Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton, hails from a Creole family in Watts, South Central Los Angeles, but his people come from Louisiana. He is a capable multi-instrumentalist who picks banjo and guitar, plays harmonica, piano and other instruments.

JERRON PAXTON – Everything Jerron Paxton is a songster, busker and itinerant bluesman, the living embodiment of the true blues in the 21St Century. The young bard was born in 1989, but his vast talent rivals the greatest in

The first time she came to the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival, she fell in love with the music, the people, and the whole world of the blues. LAUREN SHEEHAN – Guitar / Band Lab With sandy-edged vocals and sparkling guitar, mandolin and banjo picking, Lauren Sheehan plays from an old Songster tradition, combining blues, country, folk, ballads and standards, along with popular as well as her own music. Her shows are unusual for their stylistic breadth and emotional range, masterfully delivered with warmth, humor and passion for the music and its history. Inspired by study with elders, oral tradition and scholarship, Lauren creates the intimacy of a back porch, where singing and playing were regular events. She clearly loves the music she performs, shape

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shifting through the moods of familiar and the obscure, howling with the werewolf and weeping with the willow. TIM SPARKS – Guitar Tim Sparks started picking out tunes by ear on an old Stella flat top during an illness that kept him out of school for a year. He taught himself to play the music he heard around him: traditional country blues and the gospel his grandmother played on piano in a small church in the Blue Ridge Mountains. At 14, Tim was nominated for a scholarship at the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts. There he studied the classics with Segovia protégé Jesus Silva while continuing to play all kinds of music, increasingly turning to classic jazz for inspiration. He adapted compositions by Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin, and Fats Waller to the guitar, frequently reducing piano arrangements to their essence. In recent years, Sparks’ musical focus has come full circle, returning to the country blues and classic jazz that served as a springboard for his worldwide guitar explorations. JAY SUMMEROUR – Harmonica Harmonica player Jay Summerour has been involved with music for well over 40 years. Beginning his musical education on the trumpet at age 7, Summerour learned the harmonica from his grandfather Smack Martin. Largely self-taught, Jay picked up bits and pieces from “folks he ran into”—folks like Sonny Terry, James Cotton and Magic Dick. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Summerour took the traditional harmonica into the popular arena, joining the Starland Vocal Band and playing with Nils Lofgren and his band Grin. Four of the Starland Vocal Band’s records went gold during Summerour’s tenure. CLAY SWAFFORD – Piano When Jerry Lee Lewis was asked what he thought about Clay’s playing he said “The boy can play, and is doing a damn good job of keeping this music alive.” Clay Swafford started playing piano at age 5, and now he is well respected as one of the top up and coming blues piano players today. The Clay Swafford band was formed in 2000 and has been playing blues and jazz clubs in Alabama every since as well being a big hit with the Birmingham Swing Dance Society.

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PHIL WIGGINS – Harmonica

Elijah Wald spent many years hitchhiking and performing all over North America and Europe, as well as much of Asia and Africa, including several months studying with the Congolese guitar masters Jean-Bosco Mwenda and Edouard Masengo in eastern Zaire. In the early 1980s, Elijah began writing for the Boston Globe, and was in charge of the newspaper’s “world music” coverage for most of the 1990s, as well as contributing articles to various other newspapers and magazines.His latest book is “How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music.” He has won a Grammy Award for his album notes to The Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Box, for which he was also nominated as a producer.

During the early years of his development as a musician, Washington, D.C. native Phil Wiggins was constantly playing with and learning from some of the most notable acoustic blues musicians in the Washington area, including Flora Molten, Wilber “Chief” Ellis, John Jackson, John Cephas, and others. He was mentored as well by many other musicians who frequented the D.C. area, including Sunnyland Slim, Henry Townsend, John Dee Holeman, Algia Mae Hinton, Howard Armstrong, Etta Baker, and others. In 1976 he met and joined with Chief Ellis on piano, John Cephas on guitar, and James Bellamy on bass, to form, Ellis and the Barrelhouse Rockers. Not long after, Phil and John Cephas formed the duo Cephas and Wiggins. As ambassadors of the Piedmont blues, Cephas and Wiggins took their music all over America and the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, and the White House. Phil is a highly sought after instructor, and was the Artistic Director of the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival from 2004-2009.

LIGHTNIN’ WELLS – Ukelele / Guitar North Carolina musician Lightnin’ Wells breathes new life into the vintage tunes of the 1920s and depression-era America. Lightnin’ produced the first commercial recordings of the North Carolina blues veterans Big Boy Henry, Algia Mae Hinton and George Higgs. He has traveled and performed extensively with these musicians and has documented their backgrounds and musical histories for future generations. Lightnin’ is a life-long student and devotee of the pioneering performers in the piedmont blues tradition which once thrived in the Carolinas, including such artists as Blind Boy Fuller, Rev. Gary Davis and Elizabeth Cotton.

WARNER WILLIAMS – Guitar Warner Williams has been plying his musical wares in and around the MarylandWashington, D.C. area for the past sixty-five years. Drawing on an endless repertory of blues, county, jazz, pop, gospel, rock, and even old-time classics, Williams imprints each piece with his own style, the mark of a true songster. Over the course of his life he’s picked up lots of songs and as long as it’s good music, he doesn’t

discriminate between genres. He grew up in a profoundly musical family, performing as a youngster at home, church, and on the streets. When he was old enough, he played in jooks and taverns, at times working with various bands. Three generations of family-based music provide context for his superb musicianship. His skills and musical choices provide a unique blend of rural and urban and black and white traditions. He admits a preference for older songs that date back as far as the country breakdown his father once played, but most stem from blues, jazz, country, pop, and rhythm and blues of the late 1940’s and 1950’s. MARIA WOODFORD – Band Lab / Vocals Maria Woodford is a lifelong musician and songwriter who has seen the world from the most prestigious of stages and the smallest of seedy back room venues. Throughout her years of playing the streets with an open guitar case to her more recent experiences playing Allentown’s Symphony Hall, Woodford’s sultry vocals, throaty growl, and disarmingly honest approach to songwriting has earned her many honors and awards including The B.E.A.M. grant for independent music (2001) and Best Independent Album of the Year (NJ Press- 2002).

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From a Local We are all here because we are not all there. And now that you, too, are here for a getaway – business or pleasure – please consider my Five Best Pieces of Advice.

Navigation & Cell Getting here is easy, over hill, dale, ferry and floating bridge. Best Piece of Advice No. 1 (two parts): Do not trust Google Maps for absolute directions in our rural county. We have South Discovery and Discovery Road and Old Discovery Road, and each stops and restarts. Fair warning. Likewise, terrain makes cell phone signals (depending on provider) sketchy in certain parts of Port Townsend (such as Fort Worden State Park) or the rural county. And, when crossing between Canada and the United States, check your cell phone and data rate or pay the international rate consequences. Your cell coverage near Cape Flattery could go Canadian so watch your bill for roaming charges.

Most Asked Here is Best Piece of Advice No. 2 to answer the two mostasked visitor questions: Where is a good place to eat? Where is a good place to stay? In terms of your appetite, our Best Foods article on page 10 is a good place to start. We are so fortunate to have a wide variety of eateries. For what it is worth, this month I have patronized Ajax Café in Lower Hadlock, Lanza’s in Uptown Port Townsend, Silverwater Café, Lehani’s and the Courtyard Cafe downtown, the Blue Moose for breakfast and Sea J’s for its fish and chips and sassy service. When it comes to your pillow, select from hotels, motels,

boutique hotels, bed and breakfasts, romantic getaways and beach cabins. Call the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce Visitor Information Center (360-385-2722) near the Port Townsend Safeway store. VIC volunteers track hotel/ motel vacancies. Hint: Reserve rooms in advance for key summer weekends, especially Centrum’s big jazz and blues festivals. Travel websites such as TripAdvisor or Yelp offer another insight on accommodations and eateries.

On The Water

You do not become the wooden boat capital of the West Coast by sitting on your … hands. This is a working waterfront, with boatyards and a shipyard to handle all types of vessel construction. Port Townsend’s haulout and moorage facilities have been improved (take a walk around the port and see for yourself). There are also sailing and rowing clubs and programs, and kayak rentals, so you, too, can get on the water. Best Piece of Advice No. 3: Never judge people here by the faded color of their Carhartts. This same sentiment applies to judging anyone by age, size, hairstyle, tattoos, type of car, etc.

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Speaking of cars, Port Townsend has the highest per-capita ratio of Toyota Prius cars in Washington state. We are a state leader in on-grid solar power. Bicycles for many are a way of life (so are Harleys and hot rods, but that is another story). Organic food is almost a religion. Our farmers market was voted best in the state. Health conscious would be an understatement around here, and we have the naturopaths to prove it – along with a public hospital and associated physicians. The county also has a high percentage of people who choose alternative medicine.

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In early July, the Leader launched its new website. The new site will be many times more extensive, useful and powerful than the one it replaces.

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triple. Pathways for local businesses, organizations and individuals to post their notices or commentary will expand. There are more tools for local videos, audio and photos. A robust events calendar and “Top 5” list of entertainment options will highlight the best choices each week. A powerful

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Repeat visitors will notice that many of our shops and storefront businesses have changed. (Yes, the Green Eyeshade is not the same Green Eyeshade). Wall Street’s shame has trickled to Main Street (actually, Port Townsend has no street by that name, but you know what I am talking about and so do the MoveOn and Occupy folks who have rallied outside financial institutions here in PT). Four years of city construction projects (roundabouts, rain gardens and this year, underground sidewalk tunnels) have tested everyone’s patience. The economy is improving, and housing sales are up although prices are down (like most everywhere else in the U.S.). Best Piece of Advice No. 4: No matter where you visit (from Quilcene to Kalaloch, Port Ludlow to Port Townsend), support the local businesses that contribute year-round to these places you appreciate.

Be Prepared Port Townsend is unique, in terms of architecture, natural beauty, a high volume of caring, giving people, and the vortex of energy some would say spurs creativity yet feeds negativity. Be prepared to meet a parade or festival (we love our costumes), to smell the Port Townsend Paper Corp. mill (papering the world since 1928), and to encounter city deer that love gardens and don’t mind traffic. Best Piece of Advice No. 5: Everyone is a tourist when out of their own backyards, so treat those you encounter while on your getaway as you would want to be treated. Article previously appeared in the 2012 Leader’s Getaway.

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