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Published 12:36 pm Thursday, May 26, 2016
For Memorial Day weekend, you could be real casual and fire up the grill. Or you could be real casual, fire up the grill and ALSO do cool things.
Bizarre and divine meet in Whitney Lyman’s dream-pop music, City Arts Magazine decrees. The Seattle songstress performs at Rolling Bay Hall at 8 p.m. Friday, along with Afro-dance rock collective Northern Thorns.
Ashleigh Flynn might live in Portland, but she cut her teeth on local bluegrass music as a child of Kentucky. She’s said to evoke Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams and that other great folk singer, Patty Griffin. Flynn’s tour mate, Kathryn Claire, plays first, not second, fiddle. The seated Treehouse gig begins at 8 p.m.
Every lunar year, the king of Crete condemned seven Athenian youths and seven maidens to be eaten by a ferocious Minotaur. “Minos,” the final thriller in the Corey Logan trilogy, gives the story modern flair, as a troubled teenager finds herself wrapped up in a mythological universe. Hear more from former islander and author Burt Weissbourd at Eagle Harbor Book Company 3 p.m. Sunday.
Rainy weather got you down? Just pretend you’re under the sea. “The Little Mermaid” wraps up this week at Bainbridge Performing Arts with shows at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.
