The 27th annual Oktoberfest transforms the Deming Logging Show grounds into a slice of Bavaria, with lederhosen, polka dancing and German food and beer, from noon to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 9-10.
Highlights include yodeling, alpine horns, and music by the Sylvia and Fjordsong Band and by the Polkatones, plus the traditional chicken dance. Breakfast is served at 7:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 11.
The Deming Logging Show grounds are at 3295 Cedarville Road, near Nugents Corner. Admission is $9 in advance or $11 at the door. For more information, call 592-3051.
Here’s a look at other events:
KILLER ON THE LOOSE
Award-winning writer Chelsea Cain, who lived in Bellingham as a child and graduated from Sehome High School, is the featured author at the Chuckanut Radio Hour, Village Books’ monthly radio program taped live for broadcast on the American Museum of Radio & Electricity’s radio station, KMRE 102.3. She’ll read from her latest serial-killer thriller, “Evil at Heart.”
Seating begins at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12; at the Leopold Crystal Ballroom, 1224 Cornwall Ave., and guests are asked to be seated at 6:45 p.m. for the 7 p.m. recording.
Guest poet Chad Helder, also a former Bellingham resident, is the Stoker Award-winning co-editor of “Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet.” Bellingham acoustic band King Ludd will play original old-timey and bluegrass-infused tunes.
Tickets are $7.50 and are available at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Call 671-2626 for details.
PIANO SERIES
Western Washington University’s Sanford Piano Series begins its 2009-10 season with a concert featuring Centralia native Charlie Albright at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, at Western’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall.
Albright has performed with cellist Yo Yo Ma, with the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Ensemble, the Seattle Philharmonic and other orchestras in the U.S. and abroad. He’ll conduct a free master class from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, in the Concert Hall (call 650-3130 for details).
Tickets for the concert range from $9 to $16 and are available in advance at Village Books, the Community Food Co-op, by calling WWU’s box office at 650-6146, and online at tickets.wwu.edu. Proceeds go toward piano scholarships at the university.
