The Quilcene Lantern is partnering with Live Life Loud Presents to host a series of musical performances intended to showcase some of the best punk and hard rock artists from around the region, with the next event taking place this coming weekend.

Erik Kingfisher of Live Life Loud Presents, who also goes by DJ E-Rok, described his outfit as “a small DIY local production effort” that’s been helping organize “heavy rock” shows in the Port Townsend area for roughly the past decade.

As for the Quilcene Lantern, the performing arts venue and event space operates within a 50-acre forest and farmland property, south of State Route 104 at 7360 Center Road, and whose barn hosted decades of classical music concerts under its previous owners, before changing hands earlier this year.

The current owners have hosted a wider variety of music and events, including the Tarboo Fest multi-day music and camping experience.

“The De Koch family has put a lot of love into the property and the barn,” Kingfisher said. “This venue is the kind of place that most artists are interested in performing at, partly because it’s a big difference from the concrete-surrounded clubs of the cities. It feels and sounds great.”

Kingfisher elaborated that the Quilcene Lantern has two barn stages; a side stage that’s recently been insulated, with a heater and wood stove for concerts during the cool-weather months, and a larger main stage, for concerts in the summer.

“We did a show in the beginning of June, their first loud show there, and it went really well,” Kingfisher said of Live Life Loud Presents’ June 9 event, which hosted the band Dead, from Australia, as well as the one-man band Thrones, from Seattle. “Anyone who was there will remember that night for a really long time.”

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16, for Live Live Loud Presents’ next all-ages show at the Quilcene Lantern, which Kingfisher promised will feature three “very good heavy rock” bands from throughout the local region: Dryland, from Bellingham; Key Party, from Poulsbo; and Tonight We Knife, from Bremerton.

Kingfisher praised the headliners, Dryland, for composing “heart-pounding heavy metal riffs” and lyrics that, “immerse the listener in an epic, fantastic world,” creating music that he identified as existing in a space between Motörhead, Nick Cave, Red Fang, Danzig and Black Sabbath.

Kingfisher characterized the three-piece band Key Party as specializing in “anxiety-ridden, head-nodding rock, blending sympathetic screaming vocals with driving bass, angular guitar noise riffs and crashing drums, taking you into the outer space of your mind and body.”

As for Tonight We Knife, Kingfisher touted it as “a new shredding-guitar-forward punk band” composed of longtime Pacific Northwest metal and punk musicians, with Dean Brittain, of the bands Trashfecta and In Droves, on “vocal chord-abuse duties.”

The show is $15, but according to Kingfisher, “No one will be turned away for a lack of funds,” and the Quilcene Lantern offers ample parking, with camping also available onsite, as well as a small beer and wine bar during concerts,with light food available for attendees in the barn.

Kingfisher added that the following Thursday, Nov. 21, would see the Quilcene Lantern host Chris Pureka and Avery Marshall, in the folk, indie rock and Americana genres, with doors opening at 6 p.m.