Hank Cramer, a modern favorite troubadour in the Pacific Northwest, brings his distinctive booming bass voice and mix of folk, country, western and sea shanties to the Auburn Performing Arts Center for a 7 p.m. concert Sunday.

The Hank Cramer Trio performs familiar Kingston Trio songs mixed with equally familiar country and western-plus songs like “The Ballad Of The Green Berets”. An occasional Roger Whittaker tune, including “Durham Town”, will also be heard.

Hank Cramer was the 2011 recipient of the Humanities Washington Award that recognizes outstanding and exemplary achievement in the public humanities. He has recorded 20 CDs, including Way Out West that contained the No. 5 Cowboy Song of 2007, “My Sweet Wyoming Home”.

The Hank Cramer Trio includes singer/songwriter Mark Iler on six- and 12-string guitar and harmonica. Iler, a Seattle resident, frequently can be found as the emcee and producer for the Victory Music “open mikes” and song circles throughout the Puget Sound area.

Rob Thran completes the trio. A lifelong “working cowboy” who sings with an authenticity that springs from a life in the saddle, Thran was a finalist in the songwriting contest at the 2001 Tumbleweed Folk Festival.

Backing up the trio will be Davey Hakala on fiddle and harmonica and Ed Kramer on banjo and mandolin. Hakala lives in Olympia and is a dedicated Celtic music player, instructor and a member of Constellation’s Crew and Budd Bay Buccaneers. Kramer is a virtuoso five-string banjo player from Denver who has performed with a number of acoustic groups, including Bluejazz, Railroad Bill and the Rounders.

Opening for The Hank Cramer Trio will be Seattle’s own Clallam County who perform folk, pop and bluegrass songs.

The group also performs at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Highline Performing Arts Center in Burien.

Tickets for either show are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800-838-3006 or at the door on the day.

More information and sound clips can be found at greatwesternconcerts.org.