As a fiddler, Caitlin Warbelow had long known of Centrum’s Fiddle Tunes program. She’d never been to Port Townsend, however, so she’s looking forward to joining her piano partner, Washington state native Chris Ranney, in performing at Fort Worden this month.

Ironically, the relative scarcity of inhabitants of Fairbanks, Alaska, where Warbelow grew up, meant that she was exposed to an assortment of musical styles among the musicians who did happen to be there.

Even though Warbelow began training on the violin as a classical musician when she was 3 and fell in love with Irish traditional music after overhearing it at age 5, her music is influenced by a variety of American and Scottish styles, as well as “some touches of Broadway.”

Indeed, Warbelow served as the violinist and fiddler for the original Broadway cast of the Tony Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated musical “Come From Away,” in addition to becoming an All-Ireland winner and New England Fiddle Champion.

Warbelow now serves on the faculty of Manhattan’s Irish Arts Center, as the artistic coordinator for the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival’s Celtic program, and as an instructor at the Swannanoa Gathering and the Far North Fiddle Festival.

The current teacher’s own training took a sudden swerve at the age of 15, when a friend paid for a plane ticket for Warbelow to receive a musical education in Ireland, which ultimately led to her recording a live album of Irish traditional music in Manhattan pubs, titled “Manhattan Island Sessions,” which was nominated for an Independent Music Award in 2001.

More recently, Warbelow has been working to compose her own songs, in the Irish traditional style, that she previously felt she hadn’t accumulated enough experiences to write properly.

“My goal is to maintain fidelity to the Irish traditional sound, but the other styles I’ve been exposed to are still evident, in interesting keys and time signatures,” Warbelow said. “You might even hear a touch of Texas swing. I try not to deviate too much, for the fans of Irish traditional music, but those little twists do emerge in my music.”

Warbelow plans to explore a range of emotions through her sets with Ranney, who has studied piano since he was 6.

Ranney also has a history with “Come From Away,” serving seven years as its associate conductor and musical director in New York City, but has worked extensively in his home state as well, as a musical director and pianist for a number of productions at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre and Seattle Repertory Theatre, as well as at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in California.

Ranney’s career as a traditional musician began in 2016, when he picked up the button accordion while on tour with “Come From Away,” and ever since, he can be heard playing at Irish sessions around New York, as well as festivals throughout the United States, including the Alaska Folk Festival and the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ranney and Warbelow co-founded the online traditional music platform “Tune Supply.”

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for Warbelow and Ranney’s 7 p.m. concert Tuesday, Nov. 12, at Rainshadow Recording, in Building 315 on 200 Battery Way at Fort Worden.