Nacha Mendez grew up in the tiny border town of La Union, in southern New Mexico. She is Chiricahua Apache and Mexican. She began singing and playing the guitar at an early age. She learned traditional Ranchera canción from her grandmother and performed in border towns near El Paso with her cousins, the Black Brothers, […]
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Zambuko (under the direction of Sheree Seretse) performs traditional and contemporary music from the continent of Africa. The group draws a large part of its repertoire from Zimbabwe, South Africa and Kenya. Zambuko has been together for over 20 years. Zambuko which means “bridges” aims to unite people of Africa descent to the roots of […]
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Gregg Dietzman (b.1958) is an emerging artist with an interest in music and sculpture. His projects explore the intersections between person, place, and time. He plays traditional music on a concertina arranged with ambient nature sounds, with a special emphasis on reverberant acoustic space. His sculpture has a maritime navigational influence, with plans for an […]
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Sheila Fox, a vocalist and clarinetist, has performed professionally for over 20 years. Her repertoire covers klezmer, Yiddish folk and theater songs, Ladino, Jazz, Swing and Latin. She is the lead singer of the Kosher Red Hots, has toured in Russia, New York, California, and the Northwest, and has recorded 2 CDs. Sheila has studied […]
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Tunog Pil-Am is a youth ensemble of 15 members playing Philippine traditional music and their contemporary Filipino American interpretations. The ensemble is directed by Pamela Costes, a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Washington who has studied for more than 10 years in the Philippine gong and drum ensemble called kulintang with master […]
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Matt Weiner lives in Seattle where he plays bass with Casey MacGill and the Blue 4 Trio, Miles and Karina, Holotradband, and others. In the past, he has played and recorded with many fine musicians and bands including Danny Barnes, The Yes Yes Boys, and Rani Arbo. Artist Support Program 2006 (with Del Rey): At […]
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Abel Rocha is a Mexico City-born folklorist, singer and multi-instrumentalist who performs music of Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Chile and Argentina. He is a foundational member of groups including Trío Guadalevín. Correo Aereo, and Los Flacos and was recently the subject of the KCTS 9 Seattle Emmy-nominated documentary, Los Artistas.
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Captain Gravel began their musical experiment in 2004 as a bluegrass band. One-microphone, suit wearing acoustic music. This format served them well for several years. Slowly over time the members of the band would be replaced and the sound would shift to a point where Captain Gravel no longer became recognizable to those formerly familiar […]
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Andrea Baumgarten spent most of her childhood in rural Missouri, where she felt the power of the ballad. Ballads are sung horror tales; they are confession, witness, and warning, wrapped in the resolution provided by ancient melodies that have flowed between continents and counties for hundreds of years. Formerly common, unaccompanied ballads have all but […]
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karinyo (they/them) is an independent singer-songwriter and producer of Filipinx, Salvadoran, and Mexican diaspora. karinyo’s powerful and chilling voice is attributed to their roots busking in the streets of Seattle and performing in community. Their sound features complex vocal layers, catchy melodies, reverb heavy electric ukulele, and punk basslines. Their single “When I Was Young” […]
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