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UPDATE: Chateau Ste. Michelle announces summer concert series
Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery has announced its 2010 concert series, which is packed with familiar names as well as a few surprises.
Among the surprises: Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers, the comedian and banjo player’s bluegrass band; a pairing of The B-52s and Blondie; and a rare country concert, by Martina McBride. Returning are [...]
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Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery announces summer concert series
Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery has announced its 2010 concert series, which is packed with familiar names as well as a few surprises.
Among the surprises: Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers, the comedian and banjo player’s bluegrass band; a pairing of The B-52s and Blondie; and a rare country concert, by Martina McBride. Returning are [...]
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Kenny G plays homecoming show Tuesday; is he suddenly hip?
Saxophonist Kenny G, who performs a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 17) at the Paramount Theatre, has endured a lot of abuse from music fans who dismiss his music as soft and a little too pretty.
But the Seattle-bred saxophonist, who graduated from Franklin High School, has been back in the news thanks to his [...]
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“Lombardi’s Live” offers an intimate showcase for local jazz
I recently dropped by Lombardi’s Italian restaurant, where jazz artists from Seattle’s Pony Boy Records have been serenading diners with modern and retro jazz since early October in a series dubbed “Lombardi’s Live.”
The music series at the popular Ballard restaurant at 2200 N.W. Market St. began a month after Pony Boy’s sixth annual jazz picnic [...]
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Stanley Jordan: four nights at Jazz Alley
On tour following the release of his first major album (as a bandleader) in more than a dozen years, jazz guitarist and “touch virtuoso” Stanley Jordan is playing Aug. 27-30 at Jazz Alley, for a total of five shows. Tickets: $23.50 at Jazzalley.com or 206-441-9729.
Jordan’s new album is “State of Nature” from Mac Avenue Records; [...]
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