Eclectic musical duo Alice Howe and Freebo are making their fifth concert appearance in Port Townsend, and their third at The Palindrome at Eaglemount Cidery, at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 29, courtesy of Rainshadow Recording.

“We literally can’t stay away,” said Howe, a singer-songwriter whom reviewers have referred to as “a rising voice” in the Americana genre.

“What’s so wonderful about the Port Townsend musical scene is that it’s all so interconnected and personal,” said the veteran rock, folk and blues bass player, who prefers to be known only as “Freebo.” “Everyone is so accessible. This community is like what a functional American town used to be.”

Freebo’s fondness for the local music scene’s “non-corporate” feel comes from years of experience in the industry, including a decade of touring and recording with Bonnie Raitt, as well as playing on records with Crosby, Stills & Nash, Ringo Starr, Dr. John and Neil Young, and appearing on Saturday Night Live, “The Muppet Show” and in concert with Spinal Tap.

Howe noted that they’ve had unique opportunities to build up a local fan base over the years, starting with an especially intimate home studio concert in the area in 2018, followed by them connecting with Everett Moran of Rainshadow Recording for another local performance. Since then they’ve appeared at The Palindrome each following year, 2022 and 2023, and again later this month.

“We started out with an audience of maybe 20 at the home studio concert, then sold out at a smaller venue with around 40-50 concertgoers, before selling out with close to 100 or more,” Freebo said. “The more exposure we get, the better we seem to do here.”

As for what types of music audiences can expect at those concerts, the duo see themselves as a study in contrasts, with differing but complementary approaches to their songs, which yields a variety of styles and genres for listeners to enjoy.

Freebo ascribed both “warmth” and an “organic” freeform spirit to their live performances, and pointed out that the relative intimacy of The Palindrome as a venue aids their shared aim to “share of ourselves, and connect with our audiences, enough that they can walk away, at the end of the night, and feel like they know who we are, and what we’re about.”

Freebo hopes their music will not only connect with concertgoers emotionally, as listeners perhaps relate to the content of their lyrics, but also entertain them, while Howe’s goal for their performance at The Palindrome is to take listeners “away from their lives for a few hours, to a whole new reality, before returning them to those lives, but perhaps with a slightly different perspective on things.”

Billboard has described Howe’s music as “dreamy,” while “Songwriters On Songwriting” characterized Freebo as not only “one of LA’s best players, (but) also a richly gifted and distinctive songwriter, as expressive in his writing as on a bass.”

Tickets for Alice Howe and Freebo’s June 29 Rainshadow concert at The Palindrome are available at ticketstorm.com or at the door.