When the Northwest’s Nick Vagarino takes to the Whittier stage on Saturday, February 20, get ready for some funky groovin’ blues. Bo Diddley said of Nick’s acoustic guitar playing: “That slide is naaasty!!” A fusion of Chicago and Delta blues, Nick’s style features slashing slide guitar, powerful vocals, funky licks, modern lyrics and “slop-jar Delta funk” blues–all full of passion and fervor. Nick has released three original CDs, has performed in thirteen countries and has been nominated for 27 Blues Awards (winning fourteen, including Best Slide Guitar, Performer of the Year, and Best Acoustic Blues Guitar 2009 from the Washington Blues Society).

* Location: San Juan Community Theatre, 100 2nd St., Friday Harbor
* Phone: (360) 378-3210
* Admission: Adult $24 – Student $12 – RUSH $5

This Retrospective from the Lambiel Museum Collection, Orcas Island, includes drawings, paintings, and etchings that span decades, 1917-1956. The spirit of Helen Loggie (1895-1976) lives in her mastery of the full range of values in drawing, and the dramatic energy communicated through etchings of shipping activities on Bellingham Bay, European paintings and etchings of Cathedrals and vignettes of ordinary working people in New York.  Upon returning to Bellingham and Orcas Island from Europe and New York, she dedicated herself to the depiction of her passion: the trees, mountains, islands, flowers, and sea tides around her.  One sees the full development and power of her art in this work.

* Location: Museum of Art, 28 First Street, Friday Harbor

Join us on Saturday nights for T~Flo,  Ed Wilson and Badd Dog Blues.
* Location: 175 No. First St., Friday Harbor
* Contact: Pazzo Vivo
* Phone: (360) 378-4118
* Admission: Free