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Live at ShoWare Center: ‘Love on Ice’ promises to be unforgettable
By GENE STOUT
You might expect to travel to Los Angeles or New York to attend a live taping of a musical on ice featuring nine champion skaters, as well as Seattle-bred saxophonist Kenny G and Grammy-winning singer Gladys Knight.
But all these performers and more will perform during a taping at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: Sammy Hagar and the Wabos rock the Puyallup Fair
By GENE STOUT
Redheads love Sammy Hager, even if they’re bald, blond, brunette or silvery gray.
Like Jimmy Buffett’s Parrotheads, Hagar’s fans (dubbed Redheads) are party animals with a purpose. Dozens of Hagar fans – some wearing T-shirts that read KIND(RED) – formed a huge cheering section on a riser at the rear of the stage [...]
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‘Make Your Escape’ to the 2011 Puyallup Fair
By GENE STOUT
The theme for this year’s Puyallup Fair, one of the biggest of its kind in the United States, is “Make Your Escape.”
That’s the equivalent of saying, “Get out of town and head for the country.”
The Fair marks the end of summer and the start of fall, opening Friday, Sept. 9, and closing Sept. [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: Hall and Oates close Bumbershoot with rockin’ soul
By GENE STOUT
No music fan was too young or too old for Daryl Hall and John Oates’ Bumbershoot weekend finale Monday night, Sept. 5, at KeyArena.
The veteran rock and soul duo known for such hits as “Private Eyes” and “Kiss on My List” played to a packed house of concertgoers that spanned multiple generations.
This has [...]
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BUMBERSHOOT: A few images from Day One of the festival
Seattle’s 2011 Bumbershoot festival opened Saturday, Sept. 3, with dozens of musical performances on more than a half dozen stages (and a lot of sidewalks and open spaces).
The annual festival at Seattle Center drew large crowds on the first day of what has been forecast as a blazingly sunny weekend.
Among the bands and musicians highlighted [...]
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