Singer-songwriter-guitarist Molly Tuttle, gambling Tuesday in Olympia, changed into Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Awards and turned into the first girl to be nominated because the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Guitarist of the Year, an award she gained in both 2017 and 2018. Tuttle is playing Oct. 1 at the Capitol Theater in Olympia. ALYSSE GAFKJEN COURTESY PHOTO
Sept. 27
SAY IT WITH ART
The Gallery at South Puget Sound Community College wraps up its Art Faculty and Staff Exhibition on Friday with a reception together with artist talks and a risk to make a bit of your very own. The display consists of sculptures, pictures, artwork and drawings through Sean Barnes, Joe Batt, Liza Brenner, Colleen Gallagher, Nicole Gugliotti, Lisa Mellinger, Dan Meuse, Edgar Smith, Jane Stone and Bruce Thompson. The exhibition opens at midday at The Gallery, 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia, with the reception from 4:30 to six:30 p.M. Batt will communicate at five and Gugliotti at five:30, and Gugliotti — whose works on view consist of a grouping known as “Things That Shouldn’t Need To Be Said” — may have a restrained deliver of ceramic buttons to which gallery traffic can add their personal terms that shouldn’t need to be said. Find out more at 360-596-5527 or spscc.Edu/gallery.
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The Gallery at South Puget Sound Community College wraps up its Art Faculty and Staff Exhibition on Friday with a reception at four:30 p.M. COURTESY OF SPSCC
Sept. 27 to Oct. 20
FUNNY FAIRYTALE FANTASY
Imagination transports young Ruby to a magical fairyland in “The Delicious Revenge of Princess Rubyslippers,” establishing Friday at Olympia Family Theater. The ninety-minute comedy, directed through Pug Bujeaud and starring Amanda Stevens as Mum (it’s a British play), the Fairy Godmother and different denizens of the magic realm, takes place at 7 p.M. Thursdays and Fridays and a pair of p.M. Saturdays and Sundays thru Oct. 20 at the theater, 612 Fourth Ave E., Olympia. Tickets are $15-$20; for the Oct. Three performance, pay what you could. Get information at 360-570-1638 or olyft.Org.
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Led Zepagain has been paying tribute to Led Zeppelin since 1989. They’ll play at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts Friday night. Renee Silverman COURTESY PHOTO
Sept. 27
WHOLE LOTTA ZEPPELIN
Led Zeppelin, like drummer John Bonham, may additionally have climbed the stairway to heaven — the three surviving members of the mythical quartet final reunited in 2007 — however Led Zepagain has stored the tunes thundering for the reason that 1989. The Los Angeles-based tribute act, playing Friday in Olympia, has earned reward from Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, according to the Zepagain website. “It’s amazing how a whole lot you sound like us,” Page instructed the band after he attended a 2004 concert. “I can inform you men genuinely love our music.” Judge for your self at 7:30 p.M. At The Washington Center for the Performing Arts, 512 Washington St. SE, Olympia. Tickets are $45. Get tickets and information at 360-753-8586 or washingtoncenter.Org.
Sept. 27
GET GERMANIC
Senior Services for South Sound’s famous bingo nights aren’t just about bingo or only for seniors. They pull in crowds of younger folks — 21 and older most effective — with themed costume contests, a complete bar and humorous hosting by means of Olympia theatrical wonder Elizabeth Lord. Friday in Lacey, the subject matter is Oktoberfest. For those making plans to dress the part, dirndls and lederhosen might seem the plain desire, but dressing up as a beer stein might also work. (After all, winners are selected with the aid of target market applause.) Games begin at 7 p.M., with doors commencing at 6, at the Lacey Senior Center, 6757 Pacific Ave SE, Lacey. Tickets are $20, consisting of a recreation percent, and all proceeds gain Senior Services for South Sound. Get all the information (and make reservations for tables of 6-eight humans) at 360-407-3967.
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Nicholas Stephenson of Olympia peeks out from the mouth of FIN, a 25-foot fiberglass salmon on show all through the 2016 Nisqually Watershed Festival on the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. The annual pageant takes place once more on Saturday. Tony Overman OLYMPIAN FILE PHOTO
Sept. 28
GO FISH
Salmon are at the menu in greater ways than one at Saturday’s Nisqually Watershed Festival. You can consume them, study them and make a T-blouse published with one. (You can deliver your personal shirt or purchase one there.) You also can see one being dissected, if that gained’t spoil your appetite. The 30th annual pageant also capabilities track, storytelling, on foot tours, facts approximately raptors and wolves and insects, a chance to look an eagle’s nest and plenty greater. The unfastened pageant happens from 10 a.M. To 4 p.M. On the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, one hundred Brown Farm Road, Olympia. Festival parking is at River Ridge High School, 350 River Ridge Drive, Lacey; a loose trip will run between the college and the safe haven. Read extra about it at nisquallyriver.Org.
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Los Lobos brings its Grammy-triumphing blend of rock, blues, conventional Mexican tune and more to Olympia on Tuesday night time. COURTESY PHOTO
Oct. 1
NOT (QUITE) TOO LATE TO SEE LOS LOBOS
Los Lobos brings its Grammy-prevailing mix of rock, blues, conventional Mexican track and more to Olympia on Tuesday night, and there are a handful of seats remaining. The band — maximum famed for its chart-topping 1987 cover of Ritchie Valens’ “La Bamba” — is scheduled to take the degree at 7:30 p.M. At The Washington Center for the Performing Arts, 512 Washington St. SE, Olympia. Tickets are $35-$99. Get them, and research more, at 360-753-8586 or washingtoncenter.Org.
Oct. 1
SHE’S ‘READY’
Singer-songwriter-guitarist Molly Tuttle, gambling Tuesday in Olympia, commenced her profession with a bang. The bluegrass-and-past Tuttle — whose debut album, “When You’re Ready,” dropped within the spring — has been breaking limitations and receiving raves with her guitar-heroine chops and introspective lyrics. She changed into Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Awards and was the first woman to be nominated because the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Guitarist of the Year, an award she gained in both 2017 and 2018. Tuttle grew up with bluegrass, as did her commencing act, Olympia’s Sassafras Sisters — sisters Annie Davis, 14, a pupil at Nova Middle School, Ellie Davis, 16, a scholar at Olympia High, plus Ruby Neatherlin, 15, additionally at Olympia High. The track is ready to begin at eight p.M. On the Capitol Theater, 206 Fifth Ave. SE, Olympia. Tickets are $17-$25. Get the inside track at 360-754-6670 or olympiafilmsociety.Org.
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The Sassafras Sisters are Ellie Davis (guitar), sixteen, Olympia High School; Ruby Neatherlin (stand-up bass), 15, Olympia High School; Annie Davis (mess around), 14, Nova Middle School. They will open for Molly Tuttle Oct. 1 on the Capitol Theater in Olympia. COURTESY PHOTO
Oct. 3
‘WOMEN’S’ DAY
Harlequin Productions keeps its focus at the lady with Clare Booth Luce’s 1936 “The Women,” commencing Thursday. The conventional comedy of manners, with a forged of 15 ladies, focuses on the lives of wealthy socialites and showcases a good sized array of lavish costumes, many authentically antique. In a press release for the display, director Erin Murray of Seattle says the show will “deliver Fashion Week to Thurston County.” (Surely Olympia isn’t that many many years behind the instances?) Performances occur at 8 p.M. Oct. 3-5, nine-12, 17-19 and 24-26 and a pair of p.M. Oct. 6, thirteen and 20 on the State Theater, 202 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia., plus a pay-what-you-can overall performance at eight p.M. Oct. 9. Tickets for regular performances are $35, $32 for seniors and military, $20 for college kids and teenagers. 360-786-0151, harlequinproductions.Org
Freelance creator Molly Gilmore does her excellent to bring Fashion Week to Thurston County each day. Hear more from her about what’s occurring around the Sound every Friday on ninety five.3 KGY’s “Oly in a Can.”
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