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CONCERT PREVIEW: Bluesman Sid Selvidge will be ‘at home’ in Seattle
By MIKEL TOOMBS
When we talk Memphis blues and soul, Sid Selvidge’s name rarely comes up. And yet the singer-songwriter, a native of Greenville, Miss., released his 1969 debut album, “Portrait,” on the city’s fabled Stax Records (via its Enterprise imprint).
“His voice is an astonishing instrument,” New York Times critic Robert Palmer once wrote. “Cool and [...]
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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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Wine rocks — and so does the music at the Seattle Hard Rock Cafe
Food and wine pairs naturally, but when you add live music, you’ve got a “wine experience” of a different order. Especially when one of the musical “cats” is the region’s top wine critic.
The third annual Wine Rocks Seattle event is at from 7 to 10 tonight (June 3) at the Seattle Hard Rock Cafe. Tickets [...]
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2010 Austin City Limits Festival: The Eagles, Muse, Norah Jones and more
The Eagles, Muse, Phish, The Strokes, M.I.A., Flaming Lips, LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, and Norah Jones top the list of 130 acts announced for the 2010 Austin City Limits Festival Oct. 8-10 at Austin’s Zilker Park.
The ninth ACL festival also features Band of Horses, Monsters of Folk, Deadmau5, Sonic Youth, Gogol Bordello, The National, [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: Magic Carpet Ride rocks Seattle’s Hard Rock Cafe
The Hard Rock Cafe lived up to its name Friday (April 30) with a hard-rocking lineup of local bands led by The Magic Carpet Ride, featuring original Steppenwolf keyboardist Goldy McJohn.
Anyone who doubts the new Seattle Hard Rock Cafe’s viability as a concert venue should have been at the show.
The upstairs nightclub was packed with [...]
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