BROWN-BAG IT WITH JOY JAM
Joy Jam - with Robin Brown on fiddle, Paul Englesberg on flute and concertina, Marc Leonard on whistles, Merry Teesdale on guitar, and Mixie Eddy on mandolin and piano - brings musical light to long winter days through traditional music from Ireland, Quebec and Cape Breton Island.
Enjoy their traditional jigs, reels, polkas, hornpipes and waltzes in a brown-bag concert at 12:30 p.m. Feb. 2 at Whatcom Museum's Old City Hall's Rotunda Room, 121 Prospect St. Suggested donation is $3; the event is free for museum members.
POLITICS A LAUGHING MATTER
It's beginning to look a lot like the season of politics, and what better way to take the edge off than seeing a performance by the Capitol Steps. The comedy ensemble began as a group of U.S. Senate staffers who set out to satirize the people and places that employed them.
Not all of the current performers are former D.C. employees, but taken together they have worked in 18 congressional offices and represent 62 years of House and Senate staff experience.
The ensemble performs at 8 p.m. March 10 at Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. For tickets, $20 to $42, call 360-734-6080 or go tomountbakertheatre.com.
'ANNE FRANK' COMES TO LYNDEN
Lynden Performing Arts Guild presents "The Diary of Anne Frank" from Feb. 15 to March 4 at Claire vg Thomas Theatre in Dutch Village Mall, 655 Front St., in Lynden. Ruth Posthuma directs the play, based on the diary the young girl kept while she was in hiding with her family for two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
Tickets are $12 adults, $10 students and seniors, and $8 for kids 3 to 8. Reservations: 360-354-4425.
PLANT SALE SPROUTS MARCH 24
The 24th Annual Fairhaven Plant and Tree Sale will be 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 24 in the lower gravel lot between 10th and 11th streets and Mill Avenue, just north of Fairhaven Village Green.
As always, edible fruit and nut trees will be available from Burnt Ridge Nursery, Tree Frog Farm and other growers and nurseries, as well as free gardening advice from those who should know. For updates, see Fairhaven.com or fairhavenneighbors.org.
WHATCOM READS! PRESENTS ELIZABETH GEORGE
Whatcom READS!, the communitywide reading and discussion program that encourages all Whatcom County residents to read the same book, welcomes Whidbey Island mystery novelist Elizabeth George, who will talk about her book "In the Presence of the Enemy" and her Inspector Lynley series in numerous events in libraries, community centers and at Western Washington University and Village Books this February.
The two main events, called "An Evening with Elizabeth George," will be 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21 at Blaine Performing Arts Center, 975 H St., and 7 p.m. Feb. 23 at Whatcom Community College's Syre Center, 237 W. Kellogg Road. For a complete list of events, see whatcomreads.org
