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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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CONCERT REVIEW: Charlotte Gainsbourg opens first tour in Seattle
By MIKEL TOOMBS
Last night the Crocodile Café turned into Seattle’s French Quarter, with plenty of conversations en français and a soupçon of striped shirts and berets, as Franco-British (or is it Anglo-French?) singer-actress (or actress-singer?) Charlotte Gainsbourg performed to a packed house.
In the first U.S. date of her first true tour, the soft-spoken Gainsbourg charmed [...]
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The sounds of the southern Sahara drift through The Triple Door
By MIKEL TOOMBS
“Is Tinariwen the greatest band on earth?”
The online magazine Slate posed that question a couple years back, and the latest release by the band from the southern Sahara Desert (Tinariwen means “deserts” or “empty spaces” in the Tamashek language) adds more evidence for the affirmative [...]
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A holiday music feast with Magical Strings
Singing, dancing, caroling, juggling, storytelling and then some. That’s what you get at a typical Magical Strings Celtic yuletide concert.
Now celebrating its 31st year of holiday concerts, Magical Strings is a family tradition started three decades ago by Phillip and Pam Boulding. The couple’s entire family has been along for the ride, creating a [...]
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‘Cut Loose for Laos’ with Visqueen’s Rachel Flotard and friends
Singer-guitarist Rachel Flotard of Visqueen, whose new album, “Message to Garcia” (Local 638 Records), has received a tsunami of favorable reviews, is throwing a benefit Dec. 1 to raise money for an elementary school in southern Laos.
Flotard and friend Justin Nonthaveth traveled to Laos a year ago, a trip that changed her life. Read her [...]
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