Contra Dance

3rd Saturday Grange Dance, Contra - 7-9pm at the SJI Grange Hall. Karen Marshall calling with Hands Four, Val White & Malcom Suttles on fiddle and guitar, Jim & Katy Nollman on mandolin and piano. No partners needed. All dances taught. No experience necessary. $10/person donation (students half price). Information, 378-3836.

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2012 SJ Children’s Festival coming In May

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(Vera Schoultz helped into life preserver by mother Alisa as SJI Sailing Club member Pete Risser observes)

The 22nd Annual San Juan Island Children’s Festival will take place on May 5th, so mark your calendars! The festival planning committee is hard at work and seeking activity providers to take part in this wildly popular community event. If your organization is interested in participating contact Sally Thomsen, Recreation Director, at 378-4953.

Please keep in mind this year’s theme: “Leap Off the Page” when planning your festival activities; this will be a wonderful opportunity to bring your favorite stories to life to share with local children.

Jan 10: Court Of Louis XIV Music On Lopex & SJI

ig_Bassoon-001 (45k image) the Cascade Early Music Festival will present “Music from the Court of Louis XIV” and other works showcasing the baroque bassoon in concerts on January the 9th on Lopez,(7:00 pm, Grace Church) and on January 10th in Friday Harbor (2::00 pm, St. David’s Episcopal Church). Suggested donation for the concert is $15. Youth 18 and under are encouraged to attend for free.

Baroque bassoonist Anna Marsh, baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan, baroque oboist Sand Dalton and lutenist John Lenti will perform using period instruments as well as unpublished and little-known musical manuscripts from the Library of Congress. Several pieces in the concert were prepared by André Danican Philidor l’ainé, Music Librarian to Louis XIV, and presented in 1695 to the Duke of Bavaria, Elector Maximilian II Emanuel.

Islanders will remember Jeffrey Cohan as featured flutist in a recent Chamber Music San Juans Concert. Sand Dalton, who lives on Lopez Island, is both an acclaimed baroque oboist and a renowned craftsman who makes baroque oboes by hand. He is one of the Lopez artisans presented in the book Hands at Work - Photos and Profiles of People Who Work with Their Hands.