Langley was abuzz with Dionysian energy during the 14th DjangoFest Northwest this past week.
The festival, which took place Sept. 17-21, drew an estimated 3,000 people who relished in the musical artistry of Gypsy Jazz performers from around the world, including nightly shows, daily workshops and numerous impromptu jams throughout Langley.
South Whidbey High School music students will spread holiday cheer and encourage the spirit of giving with their annual plant sale next month.
Whidbey artists are sewing seeds of creativity in an art exhibition entitled “When Your Plow is a Paintbrush Two: Artists Interpret the Farm.”
From Friday, Sept. 19 to Sunday, Sept. 21, the M-Bar-C Ranch in Freeland will be holding its annual Barn Sale Fundraiser in partnership with the South Whidbey Lions Club.
Proceeds from the fundraiser will go towards the M-Bar-C Ranch programs such as the Day of Western Fun, South Whidbey Lions Club scholarships and hearing and sight programs and the Forgotten Children’s Fund. This year’s event will also include Barnyard Bingo at 9:30 a.m. Friday. Tickets for bingo cost $5 in advance.
When Nick Lehr proposed the idea of a two-band, two-day DjangoFest to Stacie Burgua in 2000, she thought he might be crazy.
The Pregnancy Care Clinic will host its annual 2-mile Walk for the Wee Ones at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 20 in downtown Langley.
The walk is a fundraising event to benefit the clinic, which provides free and confidential services to expectant mothers and families including ultrasound scans, counseling, classes and pregnancy testing.
Good Cheer Food Bank will ring in the weekend with their annual Harvest Party and Music Fest.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on South Whidbey will once again host its annual day of service and remembrance Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon.
Walking along First Street or Cascade Avenue in Langley recently, passersby may have noticed a colorful new 150-foot-long art installation.
For Langley resident Kim Tinuviel, colors have always struck a special chord.
The musician, photographer, multi-media artist and painter recalls a childhood filled with symphonic hues and multi-colored melodies, something she continued to experience as a young adult attending Juilliard and which she would later find to be called synesthesia.
Walking along First Street or Cascade Avenue in Langley this weekend, passerby may have noticed a colorful new 150-foot-long art installation. The Northwest Language Academy recently teamed up with the city of Langley to promote what Josette Hendrix, Northwest Language Academy founder and director, is referring to as a “global friendship art project.
One year ago, six ceramic and glass artists shaped six unique bowls which would pass through the hands of six poets and dozens of island residents, uniting the Whidbey community in gatherings and conversations about life, art, food and more.
School is in session at the South Whidbey School District.
Kids put away their swimsuits and donned their backpacks today, bidding farewell to summer break as a new school year began.
