Ben Watson (Free Friday Concert)

Ben Watson is a local Bainbridge musician and Bainbridge High School senior with a passion for 70s and 80s music. Ben has performed regularly on Bainbridge Island at both public venues and private functions. As a rock piano player and singer, he brings his own personality to popular songs that we all know and love. Ben’s performances always include well-known rock riffs and dynamic instrumentation as he plays hits by Elton John, Billy Joel, and Ben Folds as well as a number of other classic rock anthems.

Ranger and the Re-Arrangers (Saturday Free Concert)

Seattle "Gypsy Jazz" band Ranger and the “Re-Arrangers” evoke the spirit of a Paris cafe and the raucous energy of a Romani campsite with their version of Hot Club Swing. “At the heart of their sound is Ranger Sciacca's sweet violin playing… his sense of melody and daring improvisations” (World Rhythm). The band’s repertoire includes swing standards, traditional European melodies, the music of Django Reinhardt, and Ranger's unique originals.

Live Music: Rachael Macquarrie

Seattle-based artist Rachael MacQuarrie is a singer-songwriter combining pop sensibility with folk roots to tell intimate stories driven by evocative melodies. Growing up on Anderson Island, a tiny island in south Puget Sound inhabited more by trees than people, Rachael learned young to let nature animate her music, expressing themes of love, loss, and renewal through metaphors of the natural world. While exploring these complicated personal themes through songwriting, she seeks to keep empathy and self-awareness at the heart of every song. Rachael is currently gearing up to record an album of original songs, threading childhood memories through the never-ending process of growing up.

Norman Baker (Free Friday Concert)

Norman Baker is a Seattle based artist rooted in Barrel Aged Americana, Lumber Rock, and Roots Music. Baker has played on over 35 albums, performs 200+ shows a year, and is releasing a new album soon co-produced by Jim Roth of Built to Spill. He was touring the Western US when the pandemic hit and can’t wait to be back on the road. He’s shared the stage with Brandi Carlile, Shooter Jennings, Father John Misty, Craig Morgan, Haley Heynderickx, The Head and the Heart, Don Carlos, Robin Eubanks, and Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons.

Ollella (Free Saturday Marketplace)

Ollella's career as a musician started early, when she sang before she could talk. Trained as a classical cellist since the age of nine, the Seattle indie-folk musician merges her technical background with authoritative vocals, live-looping, and improvisation. Described as “really outstanding” by NPR Music’s Bob Boilen and “so tastefully done” by Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast), Ollella blends the acoustic with the contemporary, folk with pop, and tenacity with softness. Her playing has been featured in films screened at Film Festivals such as Sundance and Aspen Film Fest, on recordings with others including Grammy-winning artist Peter Kater, and has shared the stage with popular Americana acts such as the Shook Twins and Rising Appalachia. She finds herself drawn to music because it unlocks a particularly organic flavor of humanity – one that fits the type of world she believes in.
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Jen Howard (Free Friday Concert)

Jen Howard is an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. Although coming from a blue-collar, religious and home schooled upbringing, Jen's music is a mix of Folk, Roots, Reggae and Sophisti-Pop. Her music's central themes include; human nature, love, courageous motivation and intentional compassion for ourselves and others. In 2019, Jen released the debut EP "Motion". Her follow-up EP will be released during 2023. Jen Howard has performed in Arizona, California, Colorado, Costa Rica, Florida, Germany, Hawaii, Iceland, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mexico, Netherlands, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Texas and Utah.

Roundabout Trio (Saturday Marketplace Concert)

Singer and guitarist Tony Petrillo has been performing in bands in the Puget Sound area for 40 years. His voice is most often compared to the baritone singers of the mid-20th century. Most recently on the Olympic Peninsula, his band, the Roundabouts, has been playing swing, early jazz, blues, bossas and sambas, some Gypsy, and a little bit of Rock’n’roll for a twist.

Jean Chaumont (Free Friday Concert)

A guitarist and composer of uncommon depth and purpose, both musically and socially, Jean Chaumont has emerged as a formidable presence on the international jazz scene. Join- ing forces with fellow guitarist Brian Monroney, who has toured, performed and recorded with likes of Tom Jones, Gloria Estefan, Natalie Cole, Barry Manilow, Nelson Rangell, Ilan Chester and many others. As a duo, they are a masterful clinic of musical prowess, and isn’t a performance to miss!