While all this rainy weather, dark days and blustery winds may make some think of curling up and sleeping until spring, it’s not time to hibernate just yet, not when there’s a full afternoon of music, storytelling and hot cocoa in front of a fire coming up at IslandWood Nov. 25.

The environmental education center on Bainbridge Island is celebrating autumn with the third annual Fall Family Afternoon, featuring self-guided tours, crafts, outdoor activities and a full slate of performers.

On the schedule, from noon to 4 p.m. are a cappella group Bella; jazz violinist Ranger Sciacca and his group, the Re-Arrangers; country folk band Natural Disaster, performing with dance group Heels of Thunder; Cajun/zydeco band Whozyamama; folk duo Amber Tide; guitarist Peter Spencer; jazz and blues trio Cuvée; the Bainbridge Community Singers, and stories by Kathy Dickerson. All that for just five bucks.

Bella is a trio of three women singing popular tunes a cappella: Susan Welch, Emily Groff and Georgia Browne. The trio is set to release their first CD, “Bare Feet,” and can frequently be found performing at festivals, concerts and private events in Kitsap County and Seattle. They made their first appearance at the Northwest Folklife Festival this spring.

Ranger and the Re-Arrangers is fronted by Ranger Sciacca, a young Bainbridge Island man who has been blazing a career in the footsteps of gypsy jazz violinist Stephan Grappelli and guitarist Django Reinhardt. Playing with Ranger is his father, Michael Sciacca, on guitar and a bass player and drummer. Ranger is a music student at Whitman College and he has just released his first CD, “Gypsy Moon.”

Natural Disaster and Heels of Thunder could be considered the “Lord of the Dance” of bluegrass. What Michael Flatley and his group of energetic dancers did for Irish music, Natural Disaster and Heels of Thunder do for bluegrass.

The group plays foot-stompin’ traditional bluegrass, newgrass and country/folk music while the clogging group Heels of Thunder dances up a storm. Audience participation is highly encouraged. If the urge to get up and dance strikes you, go for it.

If Heels of Thunder doesn’t get you off your feet, Whozyamama’s rollicking Cajun and zydeco music surely will. The Bainbridge group has become a mainstay at local festivals, playing in the Louisiana creole style.

The unusual name comes from a common greeting in the South, “who’s your mama?” which means that sooner or later they will figure out not if, but how they are related.

Whozyamama features Claudette Boudreaux on accordion and vocals, Tami Allen on rubboard, fiddle and vocals, Barbara Deering on guitar and vocals, Claudia Anastasio on bass and fiddle and Ian Turner on drums.

Amber Tide is the Seattle-based duo of Thaddeus and Sandahbeth Spae, who have been making music together for nearly three decades. Over the years they have developed a comfortable, intimate style with intricate harmonies, rocking rhythms, offbeat humor and a bit of theatrical arts.

Their acoustic music ranges from blues harp boogie and swing to modern folk and their own original tunes.

Fingerpicking blues and folk guitarist Peter Spencer can be found most Sunday nights at the Pegasus Coffee House open mic, but he also performs at venues in Kitsap County and the East Coast. He makes his Seattle debut Nov. 24 at the Hugo House.

Spencer toured the United States and Europe as a solo artist in the 1970s, and later was a co-founder of the influential Greenwich Village Musician’s Cooperative.

He has recorded three albums of folk and blues and just released “Gathering Light: Christmas Music for Solo Guitar.” A fifth album is in the works, set for an early 2007 release. He also produced and performs on “Midwinter Graces I and II,” seasonal offerings featuring Island Music Guild members.

Cuvée is a Bainbridge Island jazz trio playing light jazz, Latin and blues, featuring Allen Strange on bass, Dave Bristow on keyboards and Gary St. Martin on drums.

Storyteller Kathy Dickerson has selected eight all-ages stories using the theme of changing colors: colors in the landscape, the colors of good and evil, the colors of desire and longing and the colors of fun and adventure.

Stories include “The Queen with the Cold, Cold Heart,” “The Little Apple Tree,” “Young Raven and Old Raven,” “The Gift,” “Jellyfish, Jellyfish, Jellyfish, A Jelly,” “The Old Woman and Her Son,” “The Red Fish” and “The Cracked Pot.”

The Fall Family Afternoon at IslandWood takes place from noon to 4 p.m. Nov. 25. IslandWood is located at 4450 Blakely Ave. NE, Bainbridge Island. Performances will be held in the Great Hall, Dining Hall and the Friendship Circle.

The day of music, storytelling and more is $5 per person suggested donation, advance registration requested. To register visit www.islandwood.org or call (206) 855-4300.