Christian Asplund is a Canadian-American composer-performer based in Utah where he teaches at Brigham Young University. His interests have included the intersections of text/music, improvisation/composition, and modular textures/forms. He has received awards and grants from Genesis Foundation, Barlow Endowment, Artistrust, King County, ASCAP, Alpert Foundation and Jack Straw Foundation. Artist Support Program 1999: Recorded Liquid, […]
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Trumpeter Jim Knodle has been playing with jazz outfits since the early ’80s (initially on the west cast, before relocating to Ballard, Washington, where he now resides). Past groups have included Circular Cowboys, Inside Out, and This Room (with singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sue Ann Harkey), before launching his own solo career in 1999, with the Louie Records […]
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Cynthia Dillard is a member of the band Golden Tree Story. Long-time friends and collaborators, the band is composed of some of Seattle’s most active jazz and folk musicians. Their original sound is refreshing to those looking for well-crafted songs, lyrics, as well as instrumental playing. Over the years, the group has played live at […]
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Jesse Canterbury has played new music of many varieties for years: performances have ranged over jazz, new and old classical music, and free improvisation. He has performed on countless premieres of new works by emerging and established composers and has given concerts of some of the masterpieces of modern chamber music. As an improviser, he […]
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Kinski is a four-piece rock band from Seattle, WA. The band follows their instincts to explore pathways from visceral guitar rock, to sonic and heady avant-psych rock, and sparse, atmosphere-bending instrumentals. NME has described Kinski as: “Like Sabbath in a washing machine during a power surge.” Comprised of guitarists Chris Martin and Matthew Reid-Schwartz (Matthew […]
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Jill Cohen and The Radost Folk Ensemble are dedicated to the preservation of eastern European folklore, music, and dance. Their album Heirloom, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, documented instrumental and vocal music, including a Tamburitsa band playing Croatian choreographies, a traditional and modern-instrument Bulgarian band and women’s choir, and a string trio […]
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Trimpin is a German-born composer and sound artist who has lived and worked in Seattle since 1979. His sound sculptures, installations and set designs have been developed in collaboration with artists such as Merce Cunningham, Samuel Beckett, Conlon Nancarrow and the Kronos Quartet. His work has appeared at museums, galleries, and festivals across the Pacific Northwest. […]
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The Motherland Ensemble performed traditional klezmer, Romanian, and Turkish music. The members of the group were Paul Beck (cymbalon), Constantin Parvulescu (violin), Jason Munger (oud,clarinet), and Bill Moyer (percussion). Artist Support Program 1998 : Recorded several songs at Jack Straw including Ana el Owerka.
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Vicki is an active and passionate performer of all styles of music and plays all sizes of recorders. Her travels and performances have taken her across the United States as well as Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, England, Scotland and Germany. In the Pacific Northwest, Vicki is a returning soloist with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and […]
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James Whetzel is a Seattle based sarod player, palm wine guitarist, beat maker, percussionist, composer, producer, recording engineer, teacher. Whetzel is a DJ for the International Fountain at Seattle Center and a part of Mean Deep with Deepayan Acharjya AKA Shree Dee. He also plays the guitar for palm wine group Who Is John Smith […]
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