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Peter Frampton, Jeff Bridges, B-52s heading to Chateau Ste. Michelle
The 2011 summer concert series at Chateau Ste. Michelle features a lot of top musicians and one movie star — Jeff Bridges — who performs songs from the movie “Crazy Heart” with his band Aug. 28 at the winery’s amphitheater in Woodinville.
The series opens with two previously announced shows — The Moody Blues June 4 [...]
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Paul Simon returns to Seattle with new album ‘So Beautiful Or So What’
By MIKEL TOOMBS
There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only two to see Paul Simon live in Seattle.
You can experience him in a theater, Clarita, or catch him in a club, bub.
The vaunted singer-songwriter was once, of course, half of Simon and Garfunkel, whose concert three decades ago in New [...]
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Quirky Tomten wins tenth annual Sound Off! competition at EMP/SFM
Playing the final set of the night as a “wild card” band, Seattle baroque pop group Tomten won the tenth annual Sound Off! competition for underage bands Saturday, March 5, at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum.
Voted into the wild-card spot by EMP’s Youth Advisory Board, Tomten stepped to the front of a [...]
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This Mountain Man doesn’t sport facial hair but plays ’simply good folk’
By MIKEL TOOMBS
You’d probably expect an act called Mountain Man to be a bearded guy in a flannel shirt.
Well, the first thing you’ll notice about Vermont’s Mountain Man, which opens for The Decemberists Friday night (Feb. 18) at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre, is that there is (er, are) three of them and, happily, none [...]
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The 22nd annual Earshot Jazz Festival announces adventurous lineup
Seattle’s Earshot Jazz Festival returns Oct. 15 and continues through Nov. 7 with more than 50 performances throughout Seattle.
The renowned jazz festival, now in its 22nd year, draws jazz greats from around the world to collaborate and interact with Northwest artists and audiences. Earshot also celebrates Seattle’s place in the jazz world, with concerts [...]
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