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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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Bumbershoot is a wrap: the photographic evidence
The 2009 Bumbershoot festival came to a close with the last wailing guitar riffs from Modest Mouse Monday night at the Bumbershoot Mainstage.
It may go down as the wettest Bumbershoot of the last two decades, with showers and/or rain much of the weekend.
But festivalgoers braved the weather for some amazing performances, from Sheryl Crow to [...]
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PREVIEW: From Sheryl Crow to Bumbershoot-A-Go-Go!
The cultural smorgasbord is about to begin.
The 39th annual Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival opens Saturday and continues through Labor with hundreds of performances on 20 indoor and outdoor stages.
In addition to music, the festival is jam-packed with comedy, visual and literary arts, film, theater, dance and urban crafts on the 74-acre Seattle Center [...]
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REVIEW: Ladysmith Black Mambazo at Woodland Park Zoo
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Elvis Presley surely would have loved Ladysmith Black Mambazo — and not because of the group’s habit of greeting applause with the words, “Thank you, thank you very much.”
The gospel-loving Presley would have admired the surround-sound harmonies and call-and-response singing of the Grammy-winning, nine-member, South African vocal group famous for its light a cappella singing and [...]
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