Best Bets May 25-28 | The Bainbridge Blab

It’s the weekend again, Bainbridge, and you get a whole extra day this time around.

There’s plenty to do with those additional hours, too.

Here are a few of our Best Bets.

A special show at Rolling Bay Hall will see Motopony and Ezra Bell share the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 25.

Motopony is a popular Seattle-based “alt-psych-electro band” led by singer Daniel Blue.

Blue and company have been hard at work crafting new music, after nearly a year in the studio and collecting field recordings from around the world, the forthcoming album has grown to more than 30 individual tracks.

Ezra Bell is an indie folk act from Portland, Oregon featuring Jeremy Asay (keys and tenor guitar), Aaron Mattison (horns and arrangements), Darren Moore (bass) and Tom Trotter (drums) backing up Benjamin Wuamett’s story/songs and satirical jigs with organic precision.

Carving a wide path through the musical spectrum, Ezra Bell brushes up against folk, jazz, blues, rock, pop and R&B.

The island show is something of a celebration for Ezra Bell, as their first full-length debut was released on May 24.

“This is a pretty special event,” said the show’s organizer Chris Martell. “The bands are playing Thursday night at Crocodile in Seattle and then on Saturday night at Portland’s Mississippi Studios, so we decided it would be exciting for everyone to have a special show out on Bainbridge between these major shows.”

Tickets, $20 each, are available now via www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3428503.

LeRoy Bell & His Only Friends will return to Lynwood’s Treehouse Café at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 26.

Having performed with B.B. King, Van Morrison, Etta James, Al Green, Michael McDonald, Colin Hay, Mavis Staples, Keb Mo, Taj Mahal, Leon Russell, Sonny Landreth, Charlie Musselwhite and Los Lobos, not only has Bell grown as a touring artist, but the experience has given his music an edge that places him in a league of performers creating a sound that crosses many demographics.

In 2011, Bell applied for the The X Factor and finished eighth overall in the show’s inaugural season.

The show is for those 21-and-older only.

Tickets, $32 for a reserved table, $20 for general admission, are on sale at www.treehousebainbridge.com.

The first of a slated series of summer concerts at Eagle Harbor Wine Company will begin at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 26 and Sunday, May 27, featuring Westerly Sound, an acoustic trio from Bainbridge.

Wines by the glass will be available for $5.

The winery and tasting room is located at 8897 Three Tree Lane.

Visit www.eagleharbor.wine or call 206-842-4669 for more information.

More than a dozen years into his acclaimed career, singer/songwriter Chris Kasper has gotten back to the bluesy basics with his fifth album: “O, the Fool.”

Inspired by Delta blues, folk music, and the string arrangements of Hollywood film scores, “O, the Fool” was recorded on both ends of an 800-mile move that took Kasper from Philadelphia to Nashville. He’d already spent much of his adulthood on the road, traveling from city to city, building his fanbase one show at a time. Meanwhile, back at home, his friends were putting down roots and starting families of their own. Kasper couldn’t help but question his own choices, and it’s that swirl of contrasting feelings — uncertainty, determination and wanderlust — that fuels “O, the Fool.”

The Nashville transplant will bring his talents to the Treehouse Café stage at 8 p.m. Sunday, May 27 for a a 21-and-older concert event. The cost of a reserved table seat is $15. Visit www.treehousebainbridge.com to learn more and purchase.

The performance will include a fiddler and backing vocalist Kiley Ryan.

Memorial Day services sponsored by the American Legion’s Colin Hyde Post No. 172 will take place at two locations this year.

Both services are Monday, May 28.

The general public is invited to attend the memorial ceremony at Bainbridge High School, the purpose of which is to “honor our dead, remember the cause for which they fought and to affirm our trust in the future.”

Starting at 10:45 a.m., Legionnaires, Auxiliary and S.A.L. members, local veterans, and the public will gather at the Veterans Memorial Monument at Bainbridge High next to the gymnasium. A very brief service will be conducted and individual members will decorate the area surrounding the monument with flowers and flags. The public is invited to bring flowers for the memorial as well.

Immediately following this event, the public and all Legionnaires, Auxiliary and S.A.L. members and Boy Scout Troop 1564 are welcome and encouraged to proceed to Post Hall No. 172, located at 7880 NE Bucklin Hill Road, for the main program.

The program will start at 11:30 a.m. and last about half an hour.

The American Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 172 will provide refreshments following the program.

Finally, an honor guard from the post-sponsored Boy Scout Troop 1564 will raise the post flag at noon from half staff to full staff, concluding the day’s activities.

Besides their participation in the formal services, Legionnaires will also be responsible for decorating the graves of all known veterans with flags at the five Bainbridge Island cemeteries plus the St. Barnabas interium and the Bethany Lutheran columbarium.

Grave decoration will be on Saturday morning, May 26, and the flags will be removed on Monday evening, May 28. This will allow families to remember their loved ones during the full holiday period.

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