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35th NW Garlic Festival set for this weekend
Head to Ocean
Park to celebrate
the stinking rose
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Dead Tide will perform June 18 at the Olney Saloon.
Find country music
at the Olney Saloon
OLNEY — The Dead Tide
Country Band will perform
south of Astoria at the Olney
Saloon — aka the Big O —
at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 18.
There is no cover, and the
show is for ages 21 and over.
The Dead Tide Coun-
try Band plays songs that,
according to one small town
bar patron, “were even old
when I was a kid!”
The six-member Thur-
ston County group features
everything you’d hope for
from a honky-tonk dance
band: sweet harmonies,
wailing iddle, backstabbing
and heartache. Formed in
2015, The Dead Tide draws
on years of collective expe-
riences in old-time and blue-
grass bands, church choirs
and punk basements.
The Dead Tide Country
Band plays a ine night’s
worth of two steps and
waltzes for dancers’ (and
drinkers’) pleasure. So hold
your partner close and sway
to these tales of the good
times gone bad.
OCEAN PARK, Wash. — Fresh
air and garlic: One of these
things is not like the other,
yet the two are able to come
together at the 35th annual
Northwest Garlic Festival.
This year’s festival takes
place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday, June 18 and 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, June
19 at the Beach Baron’s Car
Club ield, located at 25815
Sandridge Road. Entry and
parking are free.
Festival attendees have
a quartet of entertainment
to carry them along as
they nibble and browse the
booths. Opening the festival
on Saturday is singer and
songwriter Greg Parke.
Accompanied by either his
acoustic or electric guitar,
his sound is smooth and
easy with a nod to some
old-time rock favorites. The
afternoon brings a local
favorite, the North Coast
Blues Band. If sun and food
have slowed you down, this
group will rev you right
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The 35th annual NW Garlic
Festival poster by Don Nisbett.
back up.
Sunday opens with the
talented Ilwaco High School
Jazz Band, moving through
a playlist of Latin, funk,
jazz, pop and rock. Sunday
afternoon belongs to a new
artist to the festival: Briana
Renea, a country singer and
songwriter from Oregon.
Although she records in
Nashville, the Northwest is
her touring home.
As would be expected of
a festival based on a tasty
little bulb, garlic is present
in just about every form,
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“Tempest Approaches” is a
block print by Rebecca Shel-
ton, a new addition to the
festival. Shelton has also cre-
ated a garlic block print along
with many other handcrafted
items of original design.
fashion, version, depiction
or style imagined.
Although booths are
illed with garlic sauces,
marinades, spices, oils,
rubs, pickle jars and the
like, they also contain a
wide selection of non-edible
garlic options. Soaps, can-
dles, ceramics, wreaths, art,
jewelry, photography, yard
art and gardening items are
only some of the categories
paying homage to the stink-
ing rose.
All booths must have
something inspired by the
festival namesake, but they
also offer merchandise and
other food options as well.
Park benches are scattered
throughout the ield, in
front of the bandstand and
along the food truck aisle,
a good option for lingering
over that garlic-stuffed
mushroom, enjoying a
crispy mini-donut or getting
the last little bit of crab
cake into your mouth. It’s
going to be good food, good
music, good shopping, great
people watching and a little
fresh air blowing through
the garlic haze.
For those collecting the
NW Garlic Festival posters,
they will be on sale at Pen-
insula Arts Association’s
tent.
Need more information
on the festival? Visit www.
nwgarlicfestival.org. To
contact the Ocean Park Area
Chamber of Commerce,
call 360-665-4448 or email
opchamber@opwa.com.
Hear metal and
rock bands at
Merry Time Bar
ASTORIA — The doctor
called and said you needed
some rock. Merry Time
Bar & Grill has got just the
thing.
The Astoria bar will host
a free live metal and rock
show with two bands on Sat-
urday, June 18. Music starts
at 10 p.m.
Broken Bodies are a
female-fronted Misits cover
band. The Misits are an
American rock band often
recognized as the progeni-
tors of the horror punk sub-
genre, blending punk rock
and other musical inluences
with horror ilm themes and
imagery.
Merry Time owners Terry
and Todd Robinett’s favorite
metal band from Oregon,
Dinner For Wolves, will also
perform.
Merry Time Bar & Grill
is located at 995 Marine
Drive. The show is for ages
21 and older only. There is
no cover.
