When I found out that Dave Rawlings Machine was playing at The Showbox on Valentines Day, I nearly fainted. Dave Rawlings is an amazing guitarist who has been playing and collaborating with Gillian Welch (my absolute favorite music artist) since the beginning of her career, but this past November, he came out with his first… [Read more…]
On March 28th, 2010 I went to a senior music show for Israel James Hunter at Poncho Concert Hall. The stage was set when we walked in, in fact it was full, there was two microphones on stands an electric bass, drum set, bongo drums, saxophone, two organ key boards, and amps with a bunch… [Read more…]
I went to go see a music show this weekend at cornish. It was Israel James Hunter’s Senior BFA music show. Reading over the program and set list for the night I noticed that there was two separate styles of music that he was going to play. In the first set it was all jazz… [Read more…]
Alberta Ballet recently performed a ballet to Joni Mitchell. The entire ballet consisted of an album that was released in the 80′s and was not well received. The ballet had a theme of war, love, poverty, and the environment. The intent of the ballet was to raise awareness of current issues in the world today,… [Read more…]
Location: Online Coffee House What’s heard: the muffled treble of the alternative music overhead, my the short sporadic bursts of clicks from my laptop keyboard, the nearly silent humming from various cpus, the soft flirtatious bass of the barista’s voice, low reverbs of various people’s feet bouncing/tapping/walking on the floor, the more hollow sounds of… [Read more…]
Alex, Julia, and I saw Lar Lubovitch’s dance company back in February (yes, February) at McCaw Hall. I was pretty excited to see the show because Lar Lubovitch is one of Doug Varone’s many mentors. If you don’t know who Doug Varone is, shame on you. Google him, go to his website, watch the videos… [Read more…]
April 19, 2009 by alexanderb430
Suor Angelica is a sleepy opera. It’s about nuns. It was written by Puccini. It’s one act. In other words – nap time! Suor Angelica is part of a triptych of Puccini one-acts: Il tabarro (“The Cloak”- peeps die in this) Suor Angelica (“Sister Angelica”-our opera at hand), and Gianni Schicchi (remembered for the pretty… [Read more…]
April 19, 2009 by juliawiebe
Who: Matt and Kim What: Alternative/Lo-Fi/Dance band Where: Chop Suey, Seattle, WA When: Jan 29th (9 days after their CD was released!) Why: “Grand” (their 2nd album) tour Though skeptic at first, only because I had no idea who Matt and Kim were, the minute they started playing my skepticism was replaced with more excitement… [Read more…]
April 10, 2009 by skreimendahl
Dressed in all white, David Byrne, along with his three back up dancers, two drummers, a keyboard player, and a base player entered the stage at Benaroya Symphony Hall. Being the only one there from the band The Talking Heads, Byrne sang a repertoire ranging from their classic hits to new songs from his recently… [Read more…]
This New Year’s Eve, I help dancer Tonya Lockyer with the performance/protest/ritual freedom of information. Conceived and performed in New York by Miguel Gutierrez, the event responds to the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Afganistan with a 24-hour solo improvisation. Tonya and other performers across the United States are blindfolded and ear-plugged in a contemplative… [Read more…]
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April 26, 2010 by ecw89
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