Weekend Preview: festival fun

The big music festival of the weekend will take over Harmon Tap Room, The Hub, The Hub Events Space and Doyle’s Public House Friday through Sunday with more than 50 bands on the playbill throughout the weekend. The second-annual 253Heart Music and Arts Festival will benefit KGHP, the Gig Harbor and Peninsula High School radio station that is fully run by students. Donation of $10 is suggested. Anyone who is anyone in the local music business will either be there, performing there or has a darn good reason to be absent. Click here for the details.

Music lovers might also want to give TSO a look. Tacoma Symphony Orchestra will have a concert of Debussy, Youtz and Schubert Sunday afternoon at Tacoma’s Rialto Theater. Songs include: Debussy’s “Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun,” Schubert’s “Symphony No. 9” and Youtz’s “Duo Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra,” a world premiere commissioned by TSO.

More music will be on tap around Tacoma as well. Tacoma Musical Playhouse will get taken over by children for its Tacoma Children’s Musical Theater production of “Seussical the Musical,” a fantastical extravaganza that includes Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie and Jojo, a little boy with a big imagination. The show runs Saturday and Sunday for two weekends.

Rougher action can be found in Lakewood as the Dockyard Derby Dames open their fifth season with a roller derby bout Saturday night at the Pierce College-Fort Steilacoom Campus. The double header will pit the Marauding Mollys against the Femme Fianna and the Hellbound Homewreckers against the Trampires in a family-friendly event. A portion of the proceeds benefit the Lakewood-based Emergency Food Network.

Bloody ears, soothed souls, aching sides and bruised shins will likely greet you Monday morning if you attend everything available to do in the coming days, but that is what weekends are for anyway.