Plans are cooking in Trout Lake! At 98 degrees and rising, the Trout Lake Council of the Arts has planned the seventh annual Festival of the Arts for Saturday and Sunday, July 20 and 21.
The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both days with a menu of artists and musicians to please most anyone's palate. The ambience is wonderful -- old barn, lovely Victorian home, bucolic farms and the ever so majestic Mt. Adams.
The festival takes place at The Farm, a B&B at 490 Sunnyside Road, Trout Lake.
Among the 30 participating visual artists are 17 from Klickitat County: Therese Albert and Rowena Sanford, oil painters; Forest Bloodgood, jeweler; Jerry Fenter, watercolorist; Ron Fenter, potter; Diane Gadway, multimedia artist; Harry Horn, glass artist; Charles and Mary Kingery, potters; James Marson, blacksmith; Gail Hudson McCarthy, acrylic and manipulated Polaroid artists; Betty Jones, doll maker; Elizabeth See, potter, John Schultz, Adirondack furniture maker; Linda Steider, glass artist; Sherm Rouse, metal artist; Michael Stewart, carver; Ken Tiekotter, acrylic painter; and Bonnie White, watercolorist.
Music begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday with the Vance family fiddlers from White Salmon and continues with Kent and Joy Olson and Associates of Husum, playing at 11 a.m. At noon and again at 2 p.m., White Salmon's Sam Grotte and Gorge Winds concert band will play. Charles Crossman Jazz Duo of White Salmon plays at noon.
The Gadway's Lone Coyote plays at 10 a.m. on Sunday and Jack Roberts of Goldendale plays at 11. The Olsons and Spring Creek Strings play blue grass and rock and roll at 1 p.m., followed by Toby Ammon's Gypsie Ale. Debbie Allaway of Trout Lake closes out the weekend with music cool and soothing.
In preparation for the weekend, posters and other print materials developed for the festival were created by Marjorie Mitchell of Brinda Bella Graphics of Trout Lake.
Admission is free. Food and beverages will be available at the festival.
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