The Music Committee at Emmanuel Episcopal Parish will present  Carl Berger at the final brown Bag concert of the season on Wednesday, Aug. 26. Berger’s musical experience began by learning chords on his dad’s ukulele. In high school he played the obligatory folk duo with his best friend. Music sustained Berger throughout his college days, grad school and the U.S. Army. Twenty years as a California State Park Ranger afforded him numerous chances to apply his quirky musical sense of humor and in writing/performing folk parodies about life as a “badged bureaucrat.”

Berger plans to pack a brown bag lunch and hopes all of you will pack a lunch and join him for more music on the lawn after his performance.

The concert begins promptly at noon, and it is important to be seated by then, as the doors will be closed when the concert begins.

There is no charge for the concert but donations are accepted for the Virgil Cleveland  Memorial Scholarship that provides the opportunity for a promising music student from Orcas to attend music camp in Bellingham.

“Thanks to the generosity of all who have attended this year’s Brown Bag concerts, the Music Committee of Emmanuel Episcopal Parish will once again be providing a scholarship to a deserving Orcas Island High School student,” say organizers.