What has six legs clad in eclectic cowboy footwear, 31 strings, 196 teeth (and that’s just the saw) and sings in soaring three-part harmony? That definitely sounds like JP and the OK Rhythm Boys, headed to Lopez Woodmen Hall on March 8 to teach a pre-concert Texas Swing workshop at 2 p.m., followed by a concert with dancing room at 7:30 p.m. Learn to make toe-tapping, sweet tear-inducing sounds on your own fiddle, guitar or ukulele with artists JP Wittman, Gordon Koenig and Anita Orne. And, if you’re willing, join them on the concert stage that same evening for your Swing debut of the song you’ll learn in the workshop! Pre-register with the Lopez Island Family Resource Center, www.lifrc.org or 468-4117; $15 per person until Feb. 28, $20 thereafter. All levels welcome, 4th grade to adult— 4102 Fisherman Bay Road.

The musicians enthusiastically look forward to playing for the Lopez audience at 7:30 p.m. in Woodmen Hall. Concert tickets are available at the door, $15 Adults and $10 for 18 and under. Both the workshop and concert benefit the Lopez Island Family Resource Center’s summer music camp; the evening concert also benefits Lopez Island Senior Services Woodmen Hall upkeep.

Of their unique style so applauded by the Lopez audience at last fall’s Dump Backhoe Hoedown, JP explained, “We like to play together because we all like to be creative, yet we meld our styles into one cohesive offering. It’s a bonus when we have an audience to share in our fun!” Gordon reinforces: “This swing type stuff isn’t generally associated with string band instruments. It keeps us from being just another old-timey fiddle band and allows us to explore some wonderful music that isn’t heard that often anymore.”

Anita concludes, “I especially love our combinations, like mashing together Irving Berlin and an old fiddle tune, or Elton John and a klezmer tune. As JP says – we play such a wide range of stuff, you’re bound to like one of them!”

Catch them while you can, at Lopez Woodmen Hall on March 8 because they will soon be off in their 1941 Packard Gig Rig, bringing waltzes, swing tunes, jazz standards and originals to their many fans near and far. CD’s will be available at the concert.