Mark Polishook directed the music composition and theory programs at Central Washington University. He’s been a professor of jazz piano at the University of Maine at Augusta and a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the Crakow Academy of Music in Poland. Dr. Polishook has been a resident artist in the Aarhus Computer Science Department, at STEIM […]
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Bob Rees graduated from Eastern Washington University with degrees in Music Education and Percussion Performance and a Master’s degree in Music and Music Education from Anderson University. Originally from Spokane, Bob relocated to Seattle, where he’s been an integral part of the area’s music community for more than twenty years. Bob is a Yamaha national […]
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Amy Caron is an uber-multidisciplinary artist based in Salt Lake City. A gifted athlete, Amy spent her formative years excelling in gymnastics and figure skating. Shortly after she began underage drinking, Amy ditched the candy sports for the pure adrenaline rush of aerial ski jumping and went on to compete at the World Cup level […]
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Bill Moyer co-founded the Backbone Campaign in 2003 with friends from an artist affinity group. He has dual and intersecting paths as both an activist and artist. His involvement with social change work stretches back to the ’80s, when as a student he was deeply involved in the anti-nuclear movement and the anti-interventionist movement. After […]
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After a six-year run in New York City as the frontman of indie dance band LEGS, composer and performer Tito Ramsey is back in Seattle writing crisp pop songs tethering instruments to pedals and pairing falsetto flourishes with electronics until a web of machinery, movement, energy, and mood emerges. Tito draws on formal training and a […]
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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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Joshua Nucci is a 22 year old African American, Blackfoot Indian, Brazilian, Italian, and Portuguese visual artist, musician, and community organizer from Seattle, WA. “Making music is a passion of mine. Playing especially with others brings me so much joy because it allows me to free my consciousness and connect with others in both spoken […]
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Foleada is a group of seasoned musicians based out of Seattle that play Brazilian Forró. Forró is the heartbeat of Northeast Brazil, it draws on many musical styles but two of the primary influences are Afro-Brazilian music like samba and baião and European music such as schottisches and polkas. Forró dance also borrows from Cuban salsa […]
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Mario Layne Fabrizio is a composer, drummer, percussionist,visual artist, filmmaker and writer. Around the world, his work has been presented at places like the The Whitney Museum (NYC), Salzburg Jazz Festival (Austria), Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC & Shanghai, China), Panama Jazz Festival, Birdland (NYC), Kunming’s International Drum Festival (China) and The Kennedy Center (DC). […]
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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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