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Surprises in the Gardens!

Sunday, July 9th, 2017

My Ticket to A Day of Surprises!

Wow!  In a surprise move by the Water Music Festival, tickets for Music in the Gardens went on sale yesterday – two days earlier than originally planned.  Since it’s not a “seating is limited” sort of deal, no worries, though.  You can buy tickets at any one of three venues here on the Peninsula – Bay Avenue Gallery, Ocean Park; Basket Case Greenhouse, Long Beach; The English Nursery, Seaview; or… online at  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2939656.

That $20 ticket investment entitles you to what I think of as ‘complete garden gluttony’ right here at the beach among our friends and neighbors.  Your ticket will include a map with the seven garden venues clearly marked – gardens from Chinook to Oysterville.  And, of course, as the name of the event implies, there will be music in every garden!  But… in another surprise move, the Water Music Festival remains silent on which musicians in which venues at what times!  It will be a wait-and-see (maybe a wait-and-hear) kind of experience.

Tom Trudell

According to this week’s Observer, musicians will include local favorites Tom Trudell (piano), Brian O’Connor (guitar/vocals), Barbara Bate (piano) and The Ocean Bay Trio (three members of the Mozart Chicks).  And, from afar… The Winterlings (indie folk duo), Terry Robb (blues guitar), Brad & Dave (bluegrass banjo, guitar and mandolin), and Gary Stroutsos (flute.)  I am considering a petition to change the name of the event to Mystery in the Gardens – but it probably wouldn’t be a popular move!

Which-music-where won’t be the only surprise in store for ticket holders!  There will also be artists in the gardens – Noel Thomas (painting), Susan Spence (weaving baskets) and Patricia Fagerland (displaying a variety of garden art.)  At one of the gardens, raffle prizes will be on display, among them a wooden garden bench by Dick Rodlun, a Noel Thomas painting; a beach basket by Susan Spence; and a collection of Don Nisbet items.  And, as if added eye-candy were needed, look for the restored 1966 Nova and a fern-green 1976 Mercedes Benz on display, one in a Long Beach garden and one in the Oysterville venue.

Garden Bench by Dick Rodlun

So, whether you go under your own steam or, for an additional $15.00, go by the special trolley with chauffeur and tour guide – you are in for a full day (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) of surprises during your Music in the Gardens experience on Saturday, July 15th!  Hope to see you along a garden path!