Hank Cramer is a folksinger who makes a living performing around the country, and he’s returning to the Orcas Grange on Sunday, March 15 at 7 p.m.

He is best known for his rich bass voice, accompanied by a vintage flat-top guitar and his humorous stories.

Cramer’s repertoire is a mix of original, traditional and contemporary folk music. Most of his songs and CDs tell the stories of cowboys, sailors, soldiers, miners, adventurors and drifters. That fits with Cramer’s life story: he has been an underground miner, a career army officer, a shanty-man on the square-rigged sailing ship “Lady Washington,” and a wrangler for a Winthrop outfitter.

He has performed and recorded with several of the Northwest’s best loved folk groups: Victory at Sea, the Rounders, the Cutters and the Ferryboat Musicians, and formed a historical shanty group who performs regularly in Baltimore on the restored Navy sailing ship the “USS Constitution.”

Cramer’s Winthrop neighbor Brian Maskew, a traditional Yorkshire singer, will also perform a few numbers during the March 15 performance. Admission is $12.

For more information, call Bill Buchan at 376-3613.