TUESDAY, FEB. 7: DICK HENSOLD
Bring your love of the bagpipes out of the closet and into full view this week when Dick Hensold, billed as "one of America's finest traditional bagpipers," drops in on Tacoma for a performance brought to us by the Old Town Music Society and Puget Sound Revels. Dabbling in Northumbrian smallpipes, reel pipes, seljefloyte, sackpipa and piborn according to promotion - in traditional and historical styles including Cape Breton, early Scottish, Northumbrian, Scandinavian, Irish and medieval - Hensold seems certain to blow the roof off the joint.
If you have no idea what any of that meant, maybe it's even more important that you show up. Pants optional. (That's a kilt joke.)
[Old Town Music Society, 7 p.m., $12 adults, $6 students/children younger than 17, 2101 N. 30th St., Tacoma, psrevels@aol.com]