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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Accordion player Ronald Long is a founding member of Orkestar RTW, a five-piece band based in Seattle, Washington that started in 1987 as the house band for the Radost Folk Ensemble. Named in the tradition of post-World War II Balkan radio and television house bands (such as Orkestar Radio-Televizije Beograd), Orkestar RTW (Radio-Televizije Washington) plays […]
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Saxophonist Neil Welch is recognized as a major voice of the Seattle free jazz and experimental music fields. He is a co-founder and former performance curator for the acclaimed Seattle music series the Racer Sessions (2010-present), and is an organizer for the avant event organization Table and Chairs Music (2011-present). Neil tours extensively, performing in […]
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Chris Jeffries received The Stranger’s first “Genius” Award in Theatre and was twice a finalist for CalArts’ Alpert Award in the Arts. His award-winning credits include book, music, and lyrics for Vera Wilde; Moon of My Delight; Kaleidoscope Eyes; The Glory Booty Club; I See London, I See France; Radio Pirates; and The Fatty Arbuckle […]
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Harold Taw’s debut novel was Adventures of the Karaoke King; his writing has been featured on NPR, in a New York Times bestselling anthology, and in The Seattle Times; and his screenplay DOG PARK has received numerous accolades. He currently co-curates WordsWest Literary Series. Harold (book) and Chris Jeffries (music and lyrics) co-wrote Persuasion, a […]
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