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Second annual City Arts Fest brings a hefty harvest of music and culture
By GENE STOUT
Sometimes it pays to think big.
Organizers of the 2011 Heineken City Arts Fest opening today, Oct. 20, and continuing through Saturday, Oct. 22, have assembled more than 150 local and national artists for a fall bash at more than 20 local nightclubs, theaters and other venues.
The second annual festival boasts a lineup featuring [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: Paul Simon still vital after all these years
By JO ANN RIGGS
It was a true Kodachrome moment.
Paul Simon, who’d played WaMu Theater in Seattle on April 15, debuted the club portion of his new U.S. tour here Sunday night, April 17, at the Showbox at the Market.
This was in many ways a snapshot of an earlier time, when the not-yet-headinin’ Simon haunted the [...]
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ZooTunes summer concert series opens June 27 with Jewel
The 2010 ZooTunes summer concert series kicks off June 27 with Jewel and Radney Foster.
Among the other performers: Steve Earle with Joe Ely June 30, Carbon Leaf July 14, “The Round 62 at the Zoo” with Star Anna, Damien Jurado and others) July 18, Jimmy Cliff with Trevor Hall July 21, Mary Chapin Carpenter and [...]
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The sounds of the southern Sahara drift through The Triple Door
By MIKEL TOOMBS
“Is Tinariwen the greatest band on earth?”
The online magazine Slate posed that question a couple years back, and the latest release by the band from the southern Sahara Desert (Tinariwen means “deserts” or “empty spaces” in the Tamashek language) adds more evidence for the affirmative [...]
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Sub Pop Records gets ‘The Best Ambiance’
Seattle’s Sub Pop Records and KEXP 90.3 FM radio host Jon Kertzer have formed a new world-music label, Next Ambiance.
Kertzer, creator and longtime host of KEXP’s “The Best Ambiance” world-music show, and Sub Pop have chosen “I Speak Fula,” an album by Mali’s Bassekou Kouyate and his band, Ngoni ba, to be released in digital [...]
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