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Second annual City Arts Fest brings a hefty harvest of music and culture
By GENE STOUT
Sometimes it pays to think big.
Organizers of the 2011 Heineken City Arts Fest opening today, Oct. 20, and continuing through Saturday, Oct. 22, have assembled more than 150 local and national artists for a fall bash at more than 20 local nightclubs, theaters and other venues.
The second annual festival boasts a lineup featuring [...]
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Singer-songwriter Eilen Jewell is the retro queen of the minor key
By MIKEL TOOMBS
Eilen Jewell earns another retro grade “A” with her new album, “Queen of the Minor Key.”
Eilen fans (rhymes with “ceilin’ fans”) — and there are enough of them to earn the Boise-bred, Massachusetts-based singer-songwriter the headlining spot Friday, Aug, 5, at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern — should be delighted at the high-shelf blues here.
Meanwhile, [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: Eddie Vedder strums his stuff for hometown fans
By GENE STOUT
Eddie Vedder was clearly thrilled to be home after a long string of dates on his solo “Ukulele Songs” tour.
Speaking to the capacity crowd at the first of two shows Friday, July 15, at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall (the second was July 16), the Pearl Jam frontman said he was “anxious” to do laundry [...]
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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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