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CONCERT REVIEW: Mary Chapin Carpenter finds her ‘Calling’ at zoo
Mary Chapin Carpenter has returned to the road in an age of miracles.
The singer-songwriter’s last concert tour, following release of her 2007 album “The Calling,” was interrupted by the diagnosis of a life-threatening pulmonary embolism, sidelining her career for several years.
But Carpenter is back on tour in support of “The Age of Miracles,” an album [...]
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PHOTO GALLERY: Neil Young takes a ‘Twisted Road’ to Seattle
Neil Young brought his solo, “Twisted Road” tour to Seattle this week, performing Tuesday (July 20) at the Paramount Theatre. (Bert Jansch opened the concert.)
Young didn’t provide review tickets to the sold-out show, but I was able to arrange a photo pass for Seattle photographer Jim Bennett, who captured these images near the beginning of [...]
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CONCERT PREVIEW: Mary Gauthier finds ‘emotional center’ on new CD
By MIKEL TOOMBS
Mary Gauthier, who appears Wednesday (July 21) at the Tractor Tavern, continues to do what she does best, crafting songs that resonate widely out of her own travails.
“I think the most personal things about us, those are the most universal things. What I look at as the artist’s job is to reveal those [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: Texas troubadours Steve Earle and Joe Ely at ZooTunes
By MIKEL TOOMBS
Wednesday (June 30) was the evening of the Texas troubadour at ZooTunes, the Woodland Park Zoo’s summer concert series whose 2010 season had been kicked off three days before (by the decidedly less gritty, if prettier, Jewel), and non-present company was not excluded.
Solo, acoustic sets by Steve Earle and Joe Ely were strong [...]
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Top Seattle singer-songwriters uncork an evening of wine tasting and music
Wine, Women & Song. Sounds like a perfect evening, doesn’t it?
A half dozen or more of the Seattle area’s top female singer-songwriters and rising stars are paired with eight women winemakers from around the state for the intimate wine-and-music event at 7 p.m. Friday (June 25) at the Palace Ballroom, 2030 Fifth Ave.
Tickets, $25, can [...]
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