Singer-songwriter Dan Navarro is no stranger to performing in Western Washington, since he still fondly recalls playing at the Backstage in Ballard, and being carried over the airwaves by KMTT 910 AM in Vancouver.

However, most of Navarro’s performances in the Puget Sound region occurred during the late 1990s and early 2000s, when he and his former creative partner, Eric Lowen, were touring as the acoustic duo Lowen and Navarro. Lowen retired in 2009 due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig’s disease and passed away in 2012.

In 2018 Navarro’s solo career yielded his first solo studio-recorded album, “Shed My Skin,” which he followed with “Horizon Line” in 2022. That output follows a career that saw him and Lowen co-write the Grammy-nominated song “We Belong,” released in 1984 by Pat Benatar.

Navarro has contributed to 17 albums, and both sang and voiced films (including Oscar-winners “Coco” and “Happy Feet”), TV shows, video games and commercials that he serves as national vice president for the recording artists and singers of the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).

More recently and locally, Navarro has done house concerts in Seattle, and participated in United by Music North America’s workshops at Wurlitzer Manor in Gig Harbor, and on June 19, he’ll be performing at the Rainshadow Recording Studio at Fort Worden, followed by a June 22 concert at the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center in Coyle, as part of its “Concerts in the Woods.”

“I’ve never played specifically in your neck of the Olympic Peninsula before,” Navarro said. “I’ve tried, but the timing never worked out until now.”

When asked what sort of musical experience audiences in Port Townsend and Coyle could expect, Navarro laughed and joked, “Two hours of the most depressing music you’ve ever heard in your life,” before he turned slightly more serious.

“It’s drawn from personal experience, including heartbreaks and challenging times, but it also includes hopes and dreams, and I’d like to think it leaves listeners on an uplifting note,” Navarro said. “It’s slice-of-life stuff, not really country or bluegrass, but sort of like what James Taylor and Jackson Browne were doing with folk back in the 1970s.”

Although Navarro acknowledged traditions of acoustic music that are reflected in his own songs but emphasized he attempts to keep his material fresh and original, even eschewing the same set lists for consecutive concerts.

“If you attend both the Rainshadow Recording concert on June 19 and the community center concert in Coyle on June 22, you can rest assured that you’ll be hearing two different shows,” Navarro said. “I’ve wanted to make music since I was 10 years old, so I’m not just going to go through the motions. I must have played more than 5,000 shows by now, and it’s never gotten old for me.”

Navarro relishes both the physical act of producing music and the physical sensation of the sound itself, and he hopes both will engage his audiences as much as he seeks to do through his lyrical storytelling.

“Music is an opportunity to create new experiences for people, through organic moments,” Navarro said. “Some places, you play and it’s like you’re part of the wallpaper. I’m always curious how a performance will feel, and how my actions might draw reactions for the audience.”

What to know:

The June 19 concert starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Rainshadow Recording Studio, in Building 315 on 200 Battery Way, in Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, and tickets can be purchased online or at the door.

The June 22 concert starts at 3 p.m. at the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center, at 923 Hazel Point Road in Coyle, and the fee is a suggested donation.