Lots of music will complement the arts at the 18th annual Art by the Bay festival this year, with concerts performed every hour.
The festival offers visitors wearable art, baskets, bead art, candles, ceramics, glass, jewelry and paintings, along with pieces in stone, wood and metal from more than 100 artisans.
There will also be lots of plants and garden art, a variety of food, and, of course, the live local music.
The featured performer during Saturday’s concert lineup is Camano Islander Michael Gotz, an improvisational jazz guitarist.
For the festival, Gotz has assembled a world music ensemble featuring singers and dancers, including Etienne Cakpo from Benin, West Africa, who is the director of the Gansango Music and Dance Co. in Seattle, according to press material about this concert.
The featured performer Sunday is Nick Vigarino, a Camano Island resident who has been named by the Washington Blues Society as best slide guitar, blues man of the year and entertainer of the year and who was recently added to their Blues Hall of Fame, according to his biography.
“Art by the Bay,” the Stanwood-Camano Festival of Art and Music, runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Stanwood-Camano Community Fairgrounds, 6431 Pioneer Highway, Stanwood.
The festival is free with free parking.
For more information, directions or a schedule of concert performers go to www.StanwoodCamanoArts.com.
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