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What’s new at the 2016 FisherPoets Gathering T Shanghaied on the Willamette will perform at 8 p.m. Friday at the Fort George Lovell Showroom and at 9 p.m. Saturday at KALA. The Fort George Lovell Showroom is a performance-focused fi sherpoet venue open to minors and serving beer and wine to patrons 21 and older. Dave Densmore, of Astoria, reads a poem chastising young, cocky fi shermen during a per- formance at the Astoria Event Center at last year’s FisherPoets Gathering. This isn’t new: This year’s FisherPoets Gathering is the biggest ever. Again. The schedule is deckloaded with favorite familiar voices and a lot of fresh new ones. Some of them sing. Sarah Jane Braund and her muddy bottom boys Caleb Billmei- er and Matt Williams join us from Nushagak, Alaska. Down from Sitka comes Belly Meat, with Ernie Eggleston, Ted Howard and Gary Gouker. Larry Kaplan brings his bal- lads from the East Coast, and Mark Alan Lovewell brings shanties. Todd Overby and his crew, Ryan and Kyle Lutz, Jim Reiter and Alana Kan- saku-Sarmiento, bring original music from closer to home. 2WKHU ¿VKHUSRHWV MRLQ XV IRU WKH ¿UVW WLPH IURP IDU away. Sarah Treadwell from Massachusetts. Alaskans An- juli Grantham from Kodiak, Scott McCallister and Louis Flora from Juneau, Libby Fer- rara from Girdwood, Brittany Retherford from Craig. From California, David Beveridge; from Washington, Karen Ducey, Sophie Elan, Pe- ter Munro and Jim Kyle; and from Oregon, Doreen Dahl, Duncan Berry, Heather Talbot and Henry Hughes join us on WKHVFKHGXOHIRUWKH¿UVWWLPH And we’re delighted that, IRU WKH ¿UVW WLPH LQ D ORQJ while, Native American sto- ryteller and poet Ed Edmo is with us. The Astoria Event Center, from which KMUN broadcasts live both nights, boasts the most seats, raised theater seating in the back and a big stage. To assure room for all who might come, the Columbian Theater has opened its doors and offered its cozy seats as a reading venue this year. You can catch “Kung Fu Panda” another night. Emilie Springer invites families and children to the )3*¶V ¿UVW HYHU )LVKHU.LGV Gathering at Baked Alaska Saturday at 12:30 p.m. Corey Arnold will be pro- jecting photographs from his “Fish-Work” show on Astoria’s buildings Friday and Saturday nights. We’ve wanted to do something like this for years. WineKraft offers its river YLHZ DQG LQWLPDWH FRQ¿QHV DV our open mic venue this year and invites you to invite some friends to join you and come have a go. We’ve another new loca- tion for the FisherPoets Gear- Photo by Alex Pajunas Irene Martin, of Skamokawa, Washington, is a fi sherwoman, writer, and board member of Salmon for All and the Columbia River Maritime Museum. She will read during the 6 p.m. set Friday night at the Columbian Theater, and during the 7 p.m. set Saturday at KALA. shack, that pop-up bookstore that relies each year on the generosity of an Astoria land- lord, this year Kyle Johnson. Drop by 1254 Commercial. The rest of the 2016 Fish- erPoets Gathering should feel familiar to folks who’ve been with us a while. But, like so PDQ\¿VKLQJVHDVRQVWKLVRQH will be like no other. We’re glad you’re here. FisherPoets Gathering 2016 Thanks its Silent Auction Donors Come by the FisherPoets Gathering Gearshack at 1254 Commercial St. and have a look. Bidding starts at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26 and ends at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27 Andy Ciers Astoria Cargo Astoria Coff eehouse & Bistro Astoria Co-op Grocery Astoria-Warrenton Chamber of Com- merce Author Sibyl James The Blue Scorcher Bakery & Cafe Bridgewater Bistro Buoy Beer Co. Cannery Pier Hotel Clatsop County Historical Society Columbia River Eco Tours Columbia River Maritime Museum Columbia Riverkeeper Commercial Street Antiques Dave McMacken/Ratz & Co. Fernhill Glass FinnWare Fisherman Suites at Pier 39 Fishpeople Seafood Forsythea Fort George Brewery The Fox & The Fawn Fulio’s Pastaria Gimre’s Shoe Store The Glam Tram Godfather’s Books Laughing Duck Digital Pond Photog- raphy Hotel Elliott Imogen In the Boudoir KMUN Myhrrmade Jewelry Northwest Wild Products Old Town Framing Photographer Roger Dorband Purple Cow Toys Sen. Betsy Johnson Studio 11 Sweater Head Trillium Woodworks & Metal Art WineKraft February 25, 2016 | coastweekend.com | 19
