Halloween Movie Treats

Poltergeist - 7th Street Theater -  Friday and Saturday,

 October  26-27 at 7:30

Alien Encounter - Timberland Regional Library -  Friday, 

October 26 at 6pm

Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy -  Live Theatre Pipe Organ Played by , Andy Crowe. 

Fern Hill Funeral Home - Free Admission & Free Popcorn
October 30 at 6:30 and 9:00

9th Annual Irish Festival

When you hear the following, what do you think of?

Molly's Revenge, Darby O'Gill, Sons of Malarky, Stout Pounders...

If images of tall frothy glasses of Guiness and rollicking fiddle music fill your imagination you are on the right track. 

This weekend the 9th Annual Irish Music Festival, the largest on the west coast, is set to commence.  There will be 3 fantastic venues on the Harbor, with 8 stages to enjoy the music, and 25 Irish bands to dance along with.  Starting on Thursday October 25 and continuing through Sunday the 28th, come out and check out the festival events in Ocean Shores and Hoquiam.

Ticket sales are available by cont Galway Bay Irish Pub at 360-289-2300 and the price for the All Venue pass is just $60.  Not to bad for an entire weekend of music and drinks!
(If you choose to go day by  day the schedule of pricing is available below.)

Day                 Galway Bay               Ale House
Thursday       5pm til close-$5         Dinner $25/person
Friday         11am til 5pm-$10         Free
Friday         5pm til close-$15        $5
Saturday       10am til 5pm-$15         $5 all day
Saturday       5pm til close-$20        $5 all day
Sunday         10am til 5pm-$5          Free

ShamRock the Coast!


Those Venues once more for the 9th annual Irish Music Festival for 2012:
Galway Bay Irish Pub - Ocean Shores, Washington
8th Street Ale House - Hoquiam, Washington
Ocean Shores Convention Center - Ocean Shores Washington
Cli here for the schedule of events!

Minors are not allowed at the 8th Street Ale House

Minors are not allowed at Galway Bay after 5pm on Friday, all day on Saturday, and Sunday before 5pm

Minors are allowed at the Ocean Shores convention center all days until 10pm
Bands are scheduled to come from Ireland, Canada, Illinois, Oregon, California, New York, and Washington

Hoptoberfest in October

Honoring Octoberfest, the two week beer festival in Munich, Germany, the East County Rotary Club is sponsoring Hoptoberfest 2012 .  This festival is featuring craft brews from Dick's, Fish Tale, Manny's, Mac & Jack's and many more.

Ocean Shores Quinault Beach Resort and Casino is hosting Hoptoberfest on Saturday October 20th from Noon to 10pm.  Stop by anytime during the festival to sample seasonal craft beers, food and hear live entertainment provided by Jackie Mitchell and Humptulips. 

The Mary Hill and Nicole's Red wineries will be represented as well.

Tickets will be available at the door as well as online at hoptoberfest.org.

Mardi Gras Night in Ocean Shores

When you hear of a Mardi Gras Night you know you are in for a treat and a fun-filled party.  Mardi Gras has a rich history that some say began in the US when the French explorers celebrated the holiday in New Orleans in 1699.  

If you do not own a time traveling machine, and cannot go back to this first Mardi Gras, there is an alternative. 

Saturday night, October 20 at 5:30, travel out to the Ocean Shores Convention Center to celebrate Mardi Gras Night.  Hosted by the Ocean Shores/North Beach Chamber of Commerce, Mardi Gras Night has all the trimmings of a celebration not to be missed. 

Tickets are on sale at the Chamber main office for $35, and all proceeds are going to help support the chamber and the work it does for our beach communities. 

Included in the evening festivities will be a live auction with local radio personality Luceman and weekend travel packages will also be available for bidding.

Enjoy delicious Creole and Cajun food including jalapeno corn bread, blackened salmon, and sweet potato souffle, while you dance with the Ocean Shores Pirates to Zydeco music from Charlie Baer's collection.  At the conclusion of the evening, the Business of the Year award will be bestowed on one of the monthly winners throughout the year.

10th annual Mushroom Festival

Webster dictionary defines a mushroom as

"an enlarged complex above ground fleshy fruiting body of a fungus ...

that consists typically of a stem bearing a pileus; especially : one that is edible". 

Sound yummy? 

To a mushroom enthusiast it sounds like the amazing Mushroom Festival at Lake Quinault Lodge

happening this weekend October 19-21. 

This yearly event is in its 10th year,

 and is packed full of events all weekend long that will make any fungi lover rejoice.

Beginning with a  welcome reception that includes a wine and cheese social to mix and mingle,

guests of the mushroom convention can enjoy chainsaw sculptures in the shape of mushrooms

 made by Jeff Coleman, and lectures from Dr. Steven Trudell and Heather Risher.

Saturday is the day for guided tours to forage, identify and collect native mushrooms including; chanterells, oysters, king boletus and chicken of the woods.

 

Demonstrations are happening all weekend, with cooking tips and recipes, a grow your own edible mushrooms class and lectures on the types of mushrooms that you can find here in the PNW.

Saturday ends with fungi-bingo

and all weekend long vendors will be peddling their mushroom goods.

Schedule of events Here.  Official website Here.

Debut Concert Comes to 7th Street

You have heard whisperings, it is showing up on your Facebook feed and you love the name of the band.  Now here we are to give you all the up close and personal information you need to be at the right spot on the 20th of October.

A live recorded Debut Concert at 7th Street Theater for Roy Reinertsen and The Oarsmen at 7 p.m. is where you need to be this Saturday night.  If you need more convincing check out these videos here, and here!

Roy Reinertsen is a Bluesy-Folksy-Country singer who also happens to play an amazing acoustic guitar.  Born near Pullman, Wa, Roy grew up playing in the school band, however it wasn't until High School that Roy picked up a guitar and the rest was history.  Those first guitar chords he learned because of Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, but Roy is also inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Bukka White, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, and Bob Dylan as well as by the places he has lived and traveled though over the years. He has lived all over the pacific northwest including Portland, Seattle and Aberdeen, but traveled extensively through Europe, Canada and Korea.  Roy and the band currently live in Olympia, Roy with his adorable dog Bart.  Roy's day job is a full time nurse at a retirement community in Lacey, but his passion is and will always be music as he plays at local festivals and fairs around Puget Sound, including our own Lake Sylvia Festival in Montesano.

Recorded last year was Roy's first studio Album entitled Roy Reinertsen, and he is hoping that the upcoming debut concert will give him the push he needs to become a full-time mainstream musician.  His songs are one part heartbreak, one part fun and most importantly they tell a story.  What is so unique about this debut concert that began as a Kickstarter campaign is that Roy will not only be performing his solo routine, which consists of songs from his first album, but The Oarsmen will be joining him and playing songs from their upcoming album of the band.

The special guest of the evening is none other than Kelsey Bergey of Bergey Voice Studio. A contralto and voice instructor and a personal friend of GoGo Grays Harbor, you can learn more about her here. She will be lending her amazing voice singing arias, expressive melodies for a solo artist, in Italian, French and English.

Tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets online and Grays General Store.  Tully's Coffee will be working on promotions and 7th Street Theater is putting on the production.  It is sure to be a wonderful evening, and remember it will be recorded live and the live production will be for sale after the show.  Come out and support local music and musicians while you dance the night away to great live music!

Music Monday: Ballad of Skinny Roy