Those who appreciate Earl Grey with crumpets; Harry P.; and Elizabeth, the Queen, will get their Limey fix at Bainbridge Performing Arts on Saturday (7:30 p.m.) and Sunday (3). The British Are Coming! with their cellos and trumpets and percussive machines. Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra kicks off its 2016-2017 season with works by William Walton, Vaughan Williams and Edward Elgar.

In other music, Tomo Nakayama and Whitney Ballen appear at the snug-cozy Rolling Bay Hall. If you’ve never been, it’s the best venue ever, since, no matter where you sit or stand, you’re no more than 15 feet from stardom. It’s like a concert in your living room, if your living room had cool lights and a photo booth and a bartender.

If you get giddy about books and rivers and spiritual things, salmon and the West and mining for meaning, then this conversation at Eagle Harbor Books with David James Duncan and Brian Doyle will be the bee’s knees. The thinkers/writers/environmental activitists, known for “The River Why” and “The Brothers K” and “Mink River,” among other glorious things, roll up to town at 7 p.m. Saturday. They will tolerate all your fawning, sign your books and deliver sweet thoughts for perpetual musing.