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CONCERT REVIEW: Diana Krall at Chateau Ste. Michelle
The title of Diana’s Krall’s current album is “Quiet Nights,” a phrase that also describes her two-night stand at Chateau Ste. Michelle.
The second show Sunday night was a low-key but very classy affair featuring the jazz singer and pianist and her talented band — drummer Jeff Hamilton, bassist Robert Hurst and guitarist Anthony Wilson — [...]
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Nickelback, Hinder, Papa Roach and Saving Abel at The Gorge
Weather forecast at The Gorge on Saturday: a chance of thunderstorms and precipitation.
Forecast on stage: 100 percent chance of thunder and lightning.
Hard-rock fans willl get a full-meal deal at The Gorge. The lineup for the 6 p.m. show includes headliner Nickelback, along with Hinder, Papa Roach and Saving Abel. This is one loud, kick-ass summer [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: The Pretenders at Marymoor Park
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders called it “ladies’ night” at Marymoor Park.
Three feisty, female-fronted bands — The Pretenders, Cat Power and Juliette and the Licks — rocked their hearts out at the Redmond amphitheater.
The Pretenders kicked off their set with the title song of the current album, “Break Up the Concrete,” an anti-development diatribe that [...]
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Private party for Alice in Chains fans
It was the hottest ticket in town, but it didn’t cost a dime.
Seattle rock band Alice in Chains celebrated the upcoming release of “Black Gives Way to Blue,” its first studio album in 14 years, with hometown fans at a free, but very exclusive concert Wednesday night at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: Elvis Costello at Chateau Ste. Michelle
Has Elvis Costello “gone country”?
Not quite. But there’s definitely a twang in his sound these days.
His current album, “Secret, Profane & Sugarcane,” explores American roots music — country, folk and bluegrass — with a deep respect for old-time styles.
Costello and his touring band, the Sugarcanes, a blue-ribbon, six-member group of Nashville studio musicians featured on [...]
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Vintage Elvis Costello plays the winery
Though he has a new album to promote, Elvis Costello will surely offer a generous tasting of his vintage songs Sunday night at the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery in Woodinville.
In addition to songs from “Secret, Profane and Sugarcane,” his current album, Costello will likely consider such gems as “Alison,” “Watching the Detectives,” “Accidents Will Happen” [...]
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What will become of ‘City of Music’?
Now that Mayor Greg Nickels has conceded defeat in the primary election, what will become of the two-term incumbent’s “Seattle City of Music” initiative launched last October?
And what will become of the Office of Film + Music that Nickels created in 2002 when he became mayor?
Hopefully the latter will keep humming along. But will the [...]
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Susan Tedeschi rocks the zoo
Susan Tedeschi celebrated the summertime blues at Woodland Park Zoo.
Wednesday night’s Zootunes concert, which included an opening set my fellow Floridians JJ Grey & Mofro, featured a slew of songs from Tedeschi’s most recent album, “Back to the River,” a soulful disc produced by George Drakoulias, the studio wizard to has worked with Tom Petty [...]
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John Legend heads to Chateau
Those lucky enough to have tickets to neo-soul singer and pianist John Legend’s concert Friday, Aug. 28, at Chateau Ste. Michelle, will be interested in this New York Times review of his recent show at Madison Square Garden.
Critic Jon Caramanica describes Legend as “a soul gentleman with a latent naughty streak.”
The concert opens at 6:30 [...]
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Remembering the Beatles
Beatlemania consumed Seattle when the Fab Four played its first concert in 1964.
The Edgewater Hotel, apparently the only Seattle hotel to accept them as guests, will celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Beatles’ stay at the hotel and the Fab Four’s first Seattle concert with a series of events Aug. 21.
Festivities begin at 9 p.m. [...]
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