Fort Worden is the site for two concerts in the week ahead, as the Rainshadow Recording Studio at Building 315 hosts multi-generational blues duo David Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach on Friday, Oct. 24, followed by Nashville-based singer-songwriter Maya de Vitry on Tuesday, Oct. 28, with both concerts kicking off at 7:30 p.m.

Jacobs-Strain and Beach have been performing together since 2010 and currently do between 70-100 shows a year on both coasts.

Jacob-Strain is a slide guitar player from Eugene, Oregon, who studied masters such as Robert Johnson, Taj Mahal and Jackson Browne.

He began playing on street corners and at farmers’ markets as a teen, and bought his first steel guitar with the quarters he saved up, before he dropped out of Stanford to play full time. 

Jacobs-Strain has appeared at MerleFest, the Telluride Blues Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Hardly Strictly, Bumbershoot and Blues to Bop in Switzerland.

On the road, he’s shared stages with Lucinda Williams, Boz Scaggs, Etta James, the Doobie Brothers, George Thorogood, Robert Earle Keen, Todd Snider, Taj Mahal, Janis Ian, Tommy Emmanuel, Bob Weir, T-Bone Burnett and Del McCoury.

Beach has worked as a professional musician for more than 40 years, as a harmonica player, singer and flautist, and vocals to a broad scope of genres.

A native Philadelphian, Beach worked in bands and musical projects from 1976 to 1997, while based in Pittsburgh.

As a sideman, Beach has recorded or performed with acts such as Ollabelle, Langhorne Slim, the Avett Brothers, Pat Wictor, Beaucoup Blue, Fruit and many more, and also served as a sound engineer at the World Cafe Live music venue for 15 years.

De Vitry hails from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and cites as influences songwriters such as John Prine, Gillian Welch and Townes Van Zandt, as well as vocalists such as Bonnie Raitt and Nina Simone.

After touring and recording as a member of roots-Americana trio The Stray Birds, de Vitry launched a solo career with her 2019 album, “Adaptations,” earning praise from Rolling Stone Country, NPR Music and No Depression.

Since then, she’s independently released four records, and has toured across North America and Europe, supporting artists such as the Wood Brothers, Aoife O’Donovan, John Craigie and Mighty Poplar.

De Vitry’s songwriting appears on albums by Molly Tuttle, Lindsay Lou, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and Steve Poltz, and her skills as a multi-instrumentalist and harmony singer have contributed to a number of Nashville recordings.

Her fourth full-length release in six years, “The Only Moment,” includes 10 tracks and reflects on her evolution from The Stray Birds to her solo career.

Tickets for both shows are available for purchase online, or for cash or check at the door.