If youre headed from Seattle to the Olympic Music Festival via the Edmonds-Kingston ferry, which looks on paper to be the most direct route, be sure to schedule plenty of travel time. Youll need to get your car in line two or three ferries prior to the one you actually want to take, which I learned the hard way trying to get over to the peninsula for the Sequim Lavender Festival a few weekends ago. Traffic, perhaps, was extra-heavy that weekend, but the trip was four hours to Sequim and five back. Arrive late to the festival site (in a repurposed dairy barn off Route 104 among lavender fields and fruit stands) and youll miss a candy-box miscellany of music for clarinet, viola, and piano by Rossini, Schubert, and others. GAVIN BORCHERT
Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m. Starts: July 3. Continues through Aug. 22, 2010
