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CONCERT PREVIEW: Seattle’s Jim Page supports Veterans for Peace
By GENE STOUT
Iconic Seattle folk musician and activist Jim Page will perform a benefit for Veterans for Peace at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, at Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse, formerly known at the Bathhouse Theater. Doors open at 7 p.m.
The Seattle Chapter of Veterans for Peace will use the event to raise public [...]
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CD REVIEW: Camille Bloom inspires with ‘Never Out of Time’
Endorsed by Gibson Guitars, Seattle singer-songwriter Camille Bloom may be an international star in the making. In fact, over the last six years, she has toured the United States, Canada and Europe, spreading her gospel of edgy acoustic rock and riveting balladry.
Her fourth release, “Never Out of Time,” is due Nov. 8, with a release [...]
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Songwriter Sam Phillips to receive prestigious Denise Levertov Award
By MIKEL TOOMBS
She’s been nominated for two Grammys, under both her Christian name Leslie and her self-adopted one, but Sam Phillips has never won the award.
Now, in a ceremony to take place May 5 at Seattle’s 415 Westlake (maybe you held your wedding reception there), Phillips will be the recipient of the eighth annual Denise [...]
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CD REVIEW: Paul Simon returns with ever-graceful ‘So Beautiful’
By MIKEL TOOMBS
As he has since at least 1956, when Simon and Garfunkel first became a duo, Paul Simon ponders the mysteries of the music that enthralls him: “Lord, is it Be Bop a Lula,” he asks at one point on his new album, “or ooh Papa Doo?”
In fact, the wonderful “So Beautiful or So [...]
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This Mountain Man doesn’t sport facial hair but plays ’simply good folk’
By MIKEL TOOMBS
You’d probably expect an act called Mountain Man to be a bearded guy in a flannel shirt.
Well, the first thing you’ll notice about Vermont’s Mountain Man, which opens for The Decemberists Friday night (Feb. 18) at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre, is that there is (er, are) three of them and, happily, none [...]
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