James Kelly Pitts spent his twenties crawling across the ideological divide, finally finding a nice vantage point from his Floridian Southern Baptist roots in Seattle. As a bartender he is no stranger to weird walks of life and often finds the stumbling figures he encounters inspiring his offbeat and eclectic songs. At heart a lo-fi […]
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Damiano Unique, American vocal artist, record producer, and entrepreneur was born Damiano Unique Austin. Growing up in an economically troubled & disadvantaged neighborhood, Damiano was attracted to the arts at any early age. In the seventh grade she became a member of her middle school marching band and participated six consecutive years and later went […]
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Charles Corey is an American composer holding a Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory from the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied with Mathew Rosenblum, Eric Moe, Amy Williams, and Trevor Björklund. His approach to composition exploits and subverts the relationships that exist between different tuning systems; the results of this process range from pieces […]
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Brandon Blake plays the bass guitar and the sansula. His music is a small offering to the lineage of the rich history of the variations of the African Kalimba/M’bira/Sanza in which he stands on the shoulders of giants who came before him. His music is aimed to help heal and connect, calm and entrance. He honors […]
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Born and grown on a small farm between Puget Sound and the Cascade foothills, Amanda Winterhalter makes songs at once elegantly crafted yet unafraid to show blood. Her songs walk the edges of unavoidable aches, desire and flirtation, and the uneasy paradoxes we carry. Amanda is a frequent performer with Seattle’s Bushwick Book Club, writing and presenting […]
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Equally at home on the concert stage or in the elementary school lunchroom, Agermos aims to return chamber music to its natural habitat: everyday life! Despite decades of formal academic training, the maestros of Agermos have preserved their spark of curiosity and fun, tapping their “inner child” to bring a fresh twist to centuries old […]
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Christos Govetas is a gifted multi-instrumentalist who brings his authentic voice and earthy clarinet style from his homeland in Eastern Macedonia. After moving to this country in his teens, Christos discovered his love of traditional music and went on to learn regional music from all over Greece, and beyond. In addition to the clarinet, Christos […]
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Indie singer-songwriter Aaron J. Shay is a Pacific Northwest native living in Seattle, where he’s been raising a ruckus on banjo and ukulele since 2011. His foot-stomping songs showcase a unique brand of lyrical craftsmanship, as well as an affinity for literature, technology, and science fiction. With an earnest and charismatic style of performance, Shay […]
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Cake “Alchemy!” engages with the worlds of music, performance art, and video and, in this complex of associations, they’ve devised an idea of poetic form that offers up everyday conversations and audience participation through the most far-flung music & live-event montages. Tim Coleman, master cake-alchemist, bakes up brutal percussive beats that align with the flaming […]
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FOX HUNT, a modern persona of an otherwise modest musician, was born out of the idea that you should be paying attention to his music and not him as an individual. His first album, Caviar Dreams, is a collection of songs based on delusional people. Using influences from the past 50 years, FOX HUNT writes […]
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