PEARL DJANGO
May 1
with Connie Evingson
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts
7:30 pm
$20 all seats
That is what Connie Evingson says draws her to the style known as Gypsy swing and that is what she and Pearl Django are going to bring to Whidbey Island . Evingson’s creative take on the genre as well as her silky vocal phrasing and an indelible sense of swing is making her a celebrity outside of Minneapolis , Minnesota , where she’s based. She has appeared in clubs and concert halls across the United States , Europe and Japan ; performed with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony conducted by Doc Severinsen, and the Vocalessence Music Series with Bobby McFerrin; created the original stage production, Fever, A Tribute to Peggy Lee and has released seven CDs on Minnehaha Music. She was featured on the Smithsonian's "Jazz Singers" radio series, and on a number of compilation discs including Jazziz Magazine's Vocals on Fire and Sharper Image's New Sirens of Song along with Diana Krall, Norah Jones and Stacy Kent. Gypsy in My Soul, which features Pearl Django, was in the Top 50 of the Jazzweek chart for 10 weeks and the Top 20 for 4, reaching No. 8. Her latest release Stockholm Sweetnin' charted for 8 weeks in the top 50.
Hot club jazz, or Gypsy swing was born in the exciting and romantic cabaret society of Paris in the mid-1930s. Pioneered and made popular by the brilliant gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and the inspired French violinist Stephane Grappelli, the style has enjoyed a renaissance in both Europe and America in the last decade and Modern Hot Records recording artists Pearl Django have happily been a major player in the western world’s rediscovery of this exciting music. They have become a mainstay on the vibrant international Gypsy jazz scene and remain in demand in the Pacific Northwest and at festivals around the world.
Witness the Universe
May 1, 8, 15
Oak Harbor Library
7:00 pm
Nebulae: Birthing Places of the Stars - wonders of our universe (1st); Galaxies: Island Universes - wonders of our universe (8th); Super-dense Star Hulks, Black Holes & the Beginning and End of Time - wonders of our universe (15th)
First Fridays at the Farm!!
May 2
Greenbank Farm
Do Fish Really Talk? Meet David Schaal, wine maker of the new FishTalk Vineyards in Freeland. David will formally introduce Whidbey Island's First Estate Grown Pinot Nior and Pinot Gris. Be the first to try these amazing wines from the island. Tasting Room Donation of $10, wines paired with gourmet cheeses from Greenbank Cheese and Specialties.
There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom
May 2-11
Whidbey Children’s Theater
Tickets: $12 (adults)/$8 (students/seniors)
Family Friday Nights $6 all seats!
Special Mothers' Day party after show on May 11!
Bradley Chalkers is the class misfit and the school year is headed for disaster for him. Jeff is the new boy who wants to make friends. Carla is the counselor who becomes friends with each of them. Eventually Bradley learns to handle his fear of failure and to curb his constant urge to lie, and Jeff learns to deal with peer pressure when he has to choose between fitting in or being friends with Bradley.
The Cow Who Loses Its MOO
May 17-18
Whidbey Children’s Theater
10am and 2pm
A Magical quest for the lost moo that leads us all to our own Heart Song. An original musical play by Dawn Collins and Talia Toni Marcus producers of the much loved musical Red Riding Hood. An audience participatory event for children of all ages. A Great family show!
2nd annual 9-Hole Golf Tournament
May 3
Whidbey Golf & Country Club
1:30pm
Broad View Elementary PTA invites the community to their 2nd annual 9-Hole Golf Tournament Saturday, May 3 at the Whidbey Golf Course & Country Club. Entry fee is $70 per player and includes green fee, range balls, putting green with catered barbecue dinner and prizes. Check in is at 1:30 p.m. with a shotgun start at 3:30 p.m. Join us for a cash bar at 5:30 p.m. and dinner & silent auction at 6:00 p.m. Sign up your foursome today! Registration forms are available at Broad View Elementary or contact Cyndi Whelpley at 360-929-4823. Single players are also welcome to come and join the fun (final teams will be announced prior to shotgun start). Not a golfer? Come for the dinner and silent auction - it's only $30 per person. Deadline for registration and payment is April 22nd. For more information call Cyndi or email cyndiwhelpley@yahoo.com. Thank you! Cyndi Whelpley Broad View Elementary Co-Vice President 929-4823
AAUW Student Art and Fundraiser Show
May 3
Greenbank Farm
American Association of University Women's (AAUW) annual juried student art show. Come support the arts!! Proceeds from admission go toward student scholarships. Show runs from 1-4 pm for information call 360/678-6610
10th Annual Eagle’s Plant & Garden Sale
May 3
9:00AM - 4:00PM
May 4
9:00AM - 2:00PM
Eagles Club, Freeland
The Eagles are once again having their outstanding Plant & Garden Sale. Come early for the most outstanding plants direct from the growers. If you have been before, you know the Tomato Plants go first. They have hanging baskets, bedding and landscaping plants, grasses, Rhodies, herbs, Geraniums, Petunias, and much more. A huge raffle is on Sunday. The Eagles Club is located on State Route 525, just south of Freeland. For more information, call (360)321-5636.
Sunday Farmer's Market
May 4, 11, 18, 25
Greenbank Farm
-Find the market at the field's edge across from the barn. Look for banners welcoming you to the market at the heart of the Island. Organic produce, honey, art and crafts of all kinds. Hot food and coffee. Every Sunday 11am-3pm. Vendor sign up, contact Market Manager: 360/678-7710 or GBSundaymarket@whidbey.com
Also enjoy the Master Gardener Educational Clinic on Sundays to learn how to turn your black thumb to green! Lots of helpful tips and ideas straight from the experts!
www.island.wsu.edu/mastergardener/mginfo.htm
Plant Sale for Friends of Friends
May 10
10:00AM - 2:00PM
Tilth Farmers Market, State Route, 525 and Thompson Road, Langley
South Whidbey’s greatest gardeners have donated some of their finest plants to this sale, benefiting Friends of Friends Medical Support Fund. Buy a plant to brighten up your yard and support our local medical safety net at the same time.
WASF Pie Auction and Dinner
May 10,
6:00PM
Langley Methodist Church, Langley
Cost: $15
Join Whidbey AIDS Support Fund, bakers, artists and auctioneers Sun Frause and Jim Freeman in raising funds to help people living with HIV/AIDS in Island County. This annual event always proves to be deliciously fun. The dinner auction will be held in the Fellowship Hall of the church, located at Third and Anthes Streets. Doors open at 5:30PM for previewing the pies and upper crust art. Dinner begins at 6:00PM and dessert throughout the auction that starts at 7:00PM as individuals and tables bid for pies to share. A specialty Mexican Chocolate Pie will be auctioned with the winning bid including seven nights lodging in one of the Playa del Sol resorts located in Los Cabos, Puerto Vallarta or Nuevo Vallarta. This is a hot item - be ready to bid! Tickets are on sale at these outlets: Langley Methodist and St Hubert’s churches, Langley; Book Bay, Trinity Lutheran and St Augstine’s churches, Freeland; and Wind and Tide Bookshop, Oak Harbor. For more information or to reserve tickets contact WASF Pie Line: (360)321-8272 or (866)292-2680.
Harborside Parade
May 10
11:30AM - 12:00PM
Various locations, Freeland
The Freeland Chamber of Commerce Harborside Parade will feature David Day on the bagpipes, festive floats, fabulous clubs, the Stiltman, the Meridian Middle/High School Marching Band & Color Guard with 95 band members, NAS Whidbey with EA-6B and MH-60S flyovers and the Backcountry Horsemen.
There will be a flea market for shoppers and a after-parade plant sale benefiting Relay for Life at Sound Business Center.
A shuttle sponsored by Whidbey SeaTac Shuttle will run from Freeland Park up to Myrtle starting at 10:00AM. Parade will start at 11:30AM from Scott/Newman Roads and head down Main Street ending at the Skagit Farmer’s parking lot. Scott/Newman Roads into Freeland’s will close at 10:00AM; Harbor Avenue, East Harbor, and Main will close at 10:30AM. There will be limited access via Scott Road to the Professional Mall and inbound traffic to the Payless and Washington Mutual parking lots will be permitted using the turn lane. For more information, call the Freeland Chamber of Commerce at (360)331-1980.
Mother's Day Concert on the Lawn
May 11
Meerkerk Gardens
Noon-4pm
Admission: $12 per adult; Children over 5 years old: $3
Children under 5 years old, accompanied by an adult, admitted free.
Harper Tasche performs our traditional Mother's Day Concert weaving songs and tales on his collection of exquisite and exotic harps and stringed instruments. Visitors may bring a quilt or chair and enjoy the concert on the green, surrounded by rhododendrons in full bloom. Stroll through the Gardens and breathe in the fragrance and beauty. Light refreshments are available. Guests are welcome to bring their own picnic lunches. The Meerkerk Nursery is open with a fine selection of gift plants as well.
Penn Cove Water Festival
May 17, 18
11 am
The Penn Cove Water Festival features annual tribal canoe races, Native arts and crafts, demonstrations, storytelling, dance performances, artist demonstrations, authentic Native foods, children's activities, and environmental exhibits and displays.
www.penncovewaterfestival.com
WAIF Spring Fling
May 17
4:30 pm
Whidbey Animals Improvement Foundation (WAIF) 5th Annual Spring Fling
An Evening in Paris
Champagne, French Cuisine, Entertainment, Live and Silent Auction
4:30-10:30pm
$85, sold out last year
Over 200 silent and live items, entertainment by the Pawparazzi in the French Revue "A Tail of Two Kitties" featuring Le Chat Chanteuse
bistro cuisine with wine service
Purchase your "billet d' entree" by May 1
Tickets: www.waifanimals.org/auction or 360-678-1366
Mail checks to: PO Box 1108
Coupeville, WA 98239
www.waifanimals.org/auction
What’s on the Beach?
May 17
Coupeville Library
2:00 pm
Whidbey Island Beach Watchers present stories, games, artifacts, and information about the ecosystem of beach life on Whidbey Island. Held in conjunction with the historic Penn Cove Water Festival.
Men in Kilts
May 17
4:00PM - 8:00PM
Greenbank Farm: 765 Wonn Road, Greenbank
Cost: See below
Come enjoy an evening with a “Men in Kilts” fashion show. Beverly Graham, a popular folk/rock singer from Whidbey Island, will perform and emcee at this fundraiser for the Tartan Thistle. The event includes stand-up comedy by Rod Long, a beloved Northwest comedy headliner who has performed internationally and counts the Seattle Seahawks and Make a Wish Foundation among his clients. A silent auction will complete the festive event.
Tartan Thistle owners Maureen and Angus MacDonald never dreamed they would find a host of friends helping them in a time of great need. But friends are banding together to raise money in the wake of a devastating fire that destroyed a building and inventory of the MacDonald’s family nationally renowned business, which sells bagpipes, drums and Scottish kilts as well as hosting the annual Highland Games held each year at Greenbank Farm.
Tickets are $20 and available through the Tartan Thistle. Phone: (360)331-4688 or email: bagpipes@tartanthistle.com.
SING-A-LONG GREASE and Sock Hop!
May 17
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts
7:30pm
$10 adult, $5 youth
Wella wella wellla – Uh! Tell me more, tell me more.
(You just sang it didn’t you?!)
Our version of Grease has been “karaoke’d”!
So come dressed as your favorite T-Bird or Pink Lady, and sing and Hand Jive along with the movie!
You know the story: Life is sweet until bad boy Danny Zuko goes gaga for good girl Sandy Olson, a newly arrived and sweet-as-sugar exchange student. Love and music soon fill the air, but do these opposites really attract? In the end Sandy gets Danny by proving just how good she can be -- when she’s bad.
Word from the bird - Sing-a-Long Grease and Sock Hop is an evening that the whole family will enjoy!
What Animals Tell Us About Upcoming Earth Changes
With Gary Douglas
May 18
Thomas Berry Hall, Whidbey Institute
7-9pm
$40 per person. To register call 360-341-1884 or email info@whidbeyinstitute.org.
Unique outlook on communicating with horses for everyone who wishes to develop a deeper connection to the earth and all its creatures. Horse, animal, and people whisperer Gary Douglas knows animals can talk. He has taught people all over the world how to ask our four legged friends questions and get answers. Author of Talk to the Animals.
Meet Chris Bohjalian, Whidbey Reads 2008 Author
May 19
Clinton library
1:30 pm
Award-winning writer Chris Bohjalian is the featured author for this year's Whidbey Reads. Bohjalian is the author of the highly-regarded Midwives, as well as other bestsellers. His newest book, Skeletons at the Feast, will be published early May. Books will be available to purchase for autographing.
WorkSource Whidbey Job Fair
May 22
12:00PM - 4:00PM
The Elks Lodge, 155 NE Ernst Avenue, Oak Harbor
Over 35 employers are expected to participate. Janicki Industries is sponsoring the Job Fair, which includes employers such as Boeing, Schwan’s, New Leaf, Whatcom County Corrections and Aviation Technical Services. Employers will have the opportunity to meet applicants, hand out applications and/or interview on-site. Over 270 job seekers attended the last job fair. Participation is free!
WorkSource Whidbey has 2 Job Fairs each year in May and October. If you are an employer interested in meeting qualified potential employees, please contact (360)675-5966.
BSI—Bird Scene Investigation
May 23
Freeland Library
2:00 pm
Help protect our local birds with Whidbey Audubon Society. Learn to identify our feathered friends using sight and sound clues at this interactive event.
Coupeville Memorial Day Parade & Remembrance Ceremony
May 24
11am
Come to Coupeville for the 2008 Memorial Day Parade and Remembrance Ceremony to honor and celebrate's America's veterans, past, present and future. Last year, over 1,500 people attended the parade which included a US Navy flyover, the Navy Northwest Band, speakers, food and fun!!
Spring Wine Tasting and Market
May 24-26
Greenbank Farm
Join the fun at Greenbank Farm over Memorial Day Weekend. Local painters, photographers, handcrafters, growers and producers bring the creativity of Whidbey and the region to this market. Our barn will be filled with wonderful vendors, local artists and wines from the Puget Sound area. Taste, Nibble and enjoy gourmet food or stay for lunch. Sample wines from our Whidbey Island wineries and the farms own Loganberry Wine. Enjoy the hidden pleasures of wineries from Marysville to the San Juan Islands. More information and/or vendor sign-up call 360/678-7710 or events@greenbankfarm.com
GPS 201
May 31
Community Park
11am-4pm
$35/REI Members or $50 non-REI members
Join an REI expert for this how-to, hands-on class that literally walks you through the basics and advanced functions of your GPS. Beginners are welcome, though an understanding of the basic functions of your GPS unit is recommended. GPS units will be available upon request if need be, just notify us at time of registration. You can buy a $20 REI lifetime membership over the phone or online to receive the member rate.
Pre-register by: May 24
