“Heart Worn Songs” will resound throughout the next performance of the Candlelight Concerts hosted by Trinity United Methodist Church.

Clay Bartlett, armed with a guitar and a gravelly voice, will perform his original music for the online series at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 25.

A musical mosaic of fact, fiction, and poetry melt together to create Bartlett’s “heart worn” songs. “Sometimes the sound of a saddle, sometimes the slam of the door, a lover’s moan, sometimes an empty hallway, with a melody and an acoustic guitar,” litter his brand of country-blues-rock-folk-punk.

A longtime fixture in the Northwest music scene, Bartlett has recorded with the likes of The Supersuckers, Gerald Collier, and his former band The Cheap Ones. He has opened for an array of artists like Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, X, Jerry Lee Lewis, and many more. He has also shared the stage with many musicians such as Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Pete Droge from The Thorns, and Willie Nelson.

He has released two albums during his solo career: “Fixin’ To Break Down” and “Born Bored.”

Bartlett also co-owns Seal Dog Coffee in Uptown Port Townsend with his fiancée Jeanette where they have managed to safely serve coffee to customers in the midst of the pandemic.

A parent, stepparent, entrepreneur, and musician, Bartlett claims that he’s “kind of boring these days but happy that he can still write beautiful music.”

Visit trinityumcpt.org to listen to his performance. Free-will donations will be accepted and half of the proceeds from the concert will be donated to the Dove House which provides services to those in recovery from domestic violence, homelessness, sexual assault, mental illness, addiction, general crimes, and other sources of trauma.

To learn more about Dove House, go to www.dovehousejc.org.