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Vashon Island Events: Red Bicycle Presents Nancy K.Dillard Dub Lounge International and Church of the Great Rain ~ Vashon Island Real Estate
NANCY K. DILLON (Americana/Roots/Folk)
March 27 at 08:30 PM – 21+. FREE COVER!
Nancy K. Dillon is an emerging Americana artist from the Pacific Northwest quickly making a name for herself. “An original new talent” mining a musical vein akin to Lucinda Williams or Kasey Chambers says respected UK country music journalist, Alan Cackett (Maverick-UK). Nancy is a gifted singer, songwriter and recording artist based in Seattle, WA. She masterfully weaves the textures and rhythms of American folk and country music into mythic road stories of “small town claustrophobia” and the “surreal euphoria” of traveling America’s byways. Her songs evoke the vistas and horizons of the sprawling American West.
DUB LOUNGE INTERNATIONAL (Reggae/Dub)
March 28 at 09:30 PM. 21+. FREE COVER!
Dub Lounge International evolved in the Seattle
CHURCH OF GREAT RAIN (Variety Show)
This event repeats on the fourth Sunday of every month until 05/31/2009 – Free Cover
So what the heck is The Church of Great Rain? Well, it’s not exactly a bunch of Lutherans from Minnesota. But it is a group of Vashon Island
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Vashon Island Event: Cafe Luna Presents Jump Track and Ken Jacobsen ~ Vashon Island Real Estate
On Friday, March 20, at 7:30 PM local musician and teacher Ken Jacobsen will perform an acoustic and electric evening with his students and special guests.
On Saturday, March 21, 7:30pm, Cafe Luna presents Jump Track – No Cover
Jump Track is an inovative duo that can be best described as “acoustic rock meets world beat”. Chuck vanNorman plays guitar and sings, and Geoff Johns plays hand percussion. While they have vastly different musical backgrounds, they have found a common ground that is rhythmically diverse, dynamic and intriguing.
Chuck writes about real life and relationships in songs of odd and mixed rhythms. He switches between steel and nylon string guitars, utilizes pure and unprocessed sounds, and employs techniques from a variety of styles. Between songs, Chuck amuses the audience with subtle and impromptu humor.
Global percussionist Geoff Johns plays exciting rhythms and drumming styles from around the world. He supports Chuck’s music with exotic sounds and catchy grooves played on a vast array of instruments, including Afro-Cuban congas & bongos, West African djembes, & tablas from India. Geoff serves as a link between cultures, using music to bring people together.
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Vashon Island Events: Vashon-Maury Island Chamber Orchestra – Vashon Island Real Estate
The Vashon-Maury Island Chamber Orchestra will perform its spring concert, “Music for the Dance, Film and Desert Islands,” at 7:30 PM on Saturday, March 21 at Vashon United Methodist Church. Tickets are $10 general and $7 for students and seniors and may be purchased at the door.
Included in the program are the themes from the 1960 horror film, “Psycho,” “Mock Morris,” and Mozart’s “Sinfonia Concertante.” The program was selected by violinist Karin Choo, who is leading the conductor-less ensemble this season.
Choo has invited two acclaimed soloists, Thane Lewis and Danielle McCutcheon, to appear during the program.
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Vashon Island Event: Vashon Theater Presents Soul Classics – Vashon Island Real Estate
On Friday, March 20 at 9 PM. the Vashon Theater presents an evening of classic 1960′s Soul Concert film curated by Peter Lucas. Performances include James Brown, Joe Tex, Lee Dorsey, Arthur Conley, Etta James, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Ike and Tina Turner, and many others. Says Lucas, “there’s nothing like seeing these performers on stage – belting it out, grooving hard and sweating through their tight suits and sequined dresses. This is an evening of real deal, non-stop, upbeat, funky soul in the raw.”
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Vashon Island Events: The Brainstormers ~ Vashon Island Real Estate
Vashon Island Music Studio presents The Brainstormers on Sunday, March 22, at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $12 general and $10 for students and are available at the Music Store. Call 463-0552.
The Brainstormers feature the father/son team of Tom Sauber and Patrick Sauber, joined Mark Graham on harmonica. The trio bills itself as “a hurricance of southern Old Time music . . . a perfect storm of instrumental power aand brilliant close harmony singing (in the style of the Delmores or Everly Brothers) illuminated by lightning flashes of lyrical and comic genius. Tom is a multi-instrumentalist on banjo, fiddle, guitar and mandolin. Son Patrick plays guitar, banjo and mandolin and accordion, accompanying on vocals as well. Mark Graham is known for his powerful blues-tinged harmonica style.
Tom Sauber does it all, and you won’t hear anyone do it better. He’s a master musician in a variety of styles, a multi-instrumentalist (banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin) and singer, well grounded in tradition, with a comprehensive grasp of style and an exceptional ability to teach.
In the 30-plus years Tom has devoted to playing traditional music, the cast of characters with whom he has associated reads like a who’s who in old-time, bluegrass, and Cajun music. He is particularly known for his long-time partnerships with Oklahoma fiddler Earl Collins (with whom he recorded the classic LP That’s Earl) and North Carolina banjo picker Eddie Lowe, both now deceased. Old-time fans have heard Tom’s music on his recently released CD with harmonica virtuoso Mark Graham (Thought I Heard it Blow), on his recording with Dirk Powell and John Herrmann (One-Eyed Dog), or through his performances with former Fuzzy Mountain String Band members Blanton Owen and Tom Carter. Bluegrassers know of his work with Byron Berline, John Hickman, and Alan Munde. He has also performed with cowboy musician Skip Gorman, and Cajun accordionists Joe Simien, Wilfred Latour, and Jo-el Sonnier. He has even appeared on a recent Weird Al Yankowitz recording.
Tom’s contributions to traditional music include hosting a radio show for 12 years on station KPFK in Los Angeles. He holds a masters degree in folklore, and contributed musical analyses to the notes for two landmark recordings: the anthology of Mississippi fiddle music Great Big Yam Potatoes, andEck Robertson, Famous Cowboy Fiddler. He is also an exceptional teacher who is in demand at the major traditional music workshops across the country.
Vashon Island Event: The Red Bicycle Bistro presents Katrina Wible, WAD, Murgatroyd and Turner Down – Vashon Island Real Estate
Friday, March 20, from 08:30 PM - 
KATRINA WIBLE (Jazz)
Free Cover – All ages until 10 PM
Katrina Wible has been involved in the music scene since 2001. Not only has she done public events, she has performed for the Jazz workshop for the Lake Washington Music Teachers Association for the past 3 years, a benefit concert for cancer, Camp Woscowitz a camp for needy kids as well as many weddings and private parties.
Katrina finished her degree at Cornish college of the arts as a Vocal/Composition major in the Spring of 2007. She has studied with such musicians as Randy Halberstabdt, Jim Knapp, Chuck Deardorf, Jovino Santos Neto, Jay Clayton and Greta Matassa. She has also done some recording with Daren Clendenin, Clipper Anderson and Steve Korne. She is currently working on a 2nd CD consisting of all original compositions with her band Soul Kata which includes Josh Rawlings, Willie Holiday and Nate Omdal who are all Cornish alumni.
Katrina’s influences are Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Erykah Baduh and Bonnie Raitt, just to name a few.
She has been said to have a “Smokey quality” to her booming voice. Her repertoire includes everything from Jazz standards, 70’s funk to popular R&B. She has written a wide array of musical styles including blues, waltz, rock and funk. Her style is continually growing with every step she takes through her musical journey.
Saturday, March 21, All Ages from 8:30-10pm for Murgatroyd, then 21+ at 10pm for Wad! Free cover! Rock & Roll at it’s finest, bring your earplugs if you can’t handle the heat. FREE COVER!
WAD & MURGATROYD – REZ’S BIRTHDAY BASH.
Wad debuted at Freefest, an outdoor festival on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, in the summer of 2001 as a noise rock trio. With only a half-dozen mostly written, slightly improvised songs, the initial three-piece formed around the wreckage of another project, MadPoet, a band critically flawed by the Spinal Tap-like series of imploding drummers.
The nucleus of the new project was singer/songwriter Forrest Jackson and bassist Tim Divine (Elchivo), with novice drummer, Chad Gaddis joining them. Jaded and noncommittal, the music they were writing soon convinced Forrest and Tim to take their new band seriously. The following year the band independently released their first album, “Clean Livin.” They knocked out several gigs a month in and around Seattle, producing memorable shows which frequently featured bloody band members and destroyed equipment.
A jazz-trained, Zappa aficionado with eclectic taste in music, Lari came to Seattle to escape the limitations of a remote British Columbia island. In addition to playing guitar, Lari has been a live performance sound engineer since 1989, and has recorded for the long running Spud Goodman Show, Channel 22 KTZZ, and at various locations with Crystal Park Mobile Recordings. He’s an enigmatic, experienced performer and an extraordinary musician.
Danny Zakos joined the group in late 2004. The drummer for several memorable Seattle bands, including Boomslang and the Fastbacks, his assaulting style, appreciation of nuance, and obsession with the effects of tempo in composition immediately set him apart from any drummer the others had worked with. A SubPop Records review said, “By all accounts, Zakos was an odd person, but also a great drummer who had a funny sense of humor and many unique theories about life.” In other words, Zakos was a perfect Wad fit in all the necessary ways. “Danny stuck with WAD for a couple years (a new record!), although in mid 2008 decided to pursue other interests.
With a festival gig lined up in August, WAD began the search for a new drummer. Mutual acquaintances brought Michael Robsen into the picture. After a handful of rehearsals Michael proved himself to be a talented and versatile performer, under adverse conditions (bad sound, borrowed gear, no sleep).”
Murgatroyd, formed in 2008 combines the talents of four long-time island musicians; Brett Bacchus, “Rez” Arnot, Morgan Snyder, and Doug Spencer. This union, brings together for the first time, all the talent, power, raw energy, personality and swagger, reminiscent of 1970’s arena rock. Anchored by the thunderous rhythmic combination of Bacchus and Arnot, Snyder and Spencer’s guitars rip at the fabric of the weak and together deliver the final one-two punch, leaving the audience bloodied, yet satisfied. Take no prisoners, make no apologies, Big Rock is back!
Sunday, March 22, from 07:00 PM. – All Ages. FREE COVER!
Local island musicians playing together since 2003, have a style all their own. From progressive rock and jazz to melodic country rock, these guys know how to have fun and entertain you as well. The lineup includes: Jack Barbash/piano, keys, vocal; Luke McQuillin/guitar/vocals; Doug Ringer/bass/vocals; Fletcher Andrews/percussion/noise effects.
Jack Barbash: Years of playing in orchestras, symphonic/pit bands (including conducting/arranging), fusion/rock/blues & flowertop-country-reggae bands have ensured that Jack would never again return to the straight and narrow. Currently he smiles while generating musical mischief with Turner Down & just about any other venue he can get himself involved in.
Doug Ringer: Doug holds down the low and keeps TD’s sound solid. He’s that guy that pulls us all back together whenever we go out on a musical limb.
Vashon Island Events: Cafe Luna Presents “Burning the Future – Coal in America,” Wine Tasting, Vashon Celtic Players
Thursday, March 12, 7:00
No Charge
Lunavision and Peter Ray will be screening “Burning the Future – Coal in America”
Following on the heels of the loosely defined February Lunavision theme of world consumer cause and effect, and in response to the clean and unclean coal campaigns currently doing battle on the airways, the first film for March on Thursday the 12th will be director David Novack’s 2008 documentary, Burning the Future- Coal in America. Here we take a trip to rural West Virginia and follow the efforts of a group of local activists, led by one Maria Gunnoe, in their fight against the destruction of their homes, drinking water and environment by the actions of the coal companies in their pursuit of the quickest and cheapest way of extracting coal in order to fuel our “need” for electricity. Here we are shown that even if coal fired plants were the clean coal white knights of the industry ad campaigns and political campaign claims, the devastation brought upon mining communities and surrounding wilds by mining through mountain top removal more than negates any mythological zero carbon emissions at the power end of the process. running time 89 minutes.
March 13, Friday
6:00 – 8:00
Second Friday Wine Tasting with Ron Irvine
Cost: $8
Cafe Luna will be offering Wine Tastings with Vashon Winery’s Ron Irvine on the second Friday of the month starting at 6pm before Luna’s Friday musical offerings. Each tasting will showcase five wines that are always reasonably priced, affordable by the glass and by the bottle. March’s wine tasting will feature Spring wines, including a rose, a couple crisp whites, and two flavorful reds.
Ron Irvine brings over thirty years experience in the wine business from retailer to winemaker. He enjoys wine as table wine from ordinary to sublime and understands the place of both. He wants people to drink wine like they drink coffee and tea. “Wine is a daily beverage that is healthful, social and educational; it is the earth talking to us when that wine captures a sense of place.” Ron Irvine
Sunday, March 15, 6-8pm
Vashon Celtic Players and Knitters
Here’s a Vashon institution that just happens to find its home at Cafe Luna each Third Sunday of the month. So, grab a beer and have a great time with these fun-loving folks; at least a dozen of the 70 musicians show up to play most of the merry melodies (mostly Irish, jigs, reels, and polkas) from memory. Beginners are welcome; staying with the beat is the only requirement. Get a head start with the 250 tunes on their website, home.comcast.net/~saustin98/lark/.
Knitters of all abilities are invited to bring their projects to the Café; knit, schmooze, and learn from each other, while the Celtic Players work their understated and very merry music. What a fabulous combination! For more information about the knitting, contact David Guion, 463-1680.
Vashon Island Events: Blue Heron Art Center Presents Shake Loose the Borders
Saturday, March 14, 7:30 pm
Tickets: $12/$14
A Celtic Celebration
Kat Eggleston, Wally Bell & John Dally
Bell, born and raised in the Borderlands, says he will offer historical perspective about how ballads, reels and jigs of Anglo Scottish lords moved into Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada and America. “The songs will be about shipbuilding and mining–stories of life. We’ll be playing some earlier versions of familiar songs, such as the English version of Billy Boy.” Bell, an active member of the Island Celtic community, plays cittern, an ancient precursor to guitar, similar to mandolin. He will add vocals to stories he loves to share.
Vashon native, Kat Eggleston, on dulcimer and guitar, will bring her beautiful voice to well-known Irish songs such as The Parting Glass. Back on the Rock for nearly a year, after living in Chicago for ‘too many years to count,’ Eggleston says she loves living on Vashon with her dad and enjoys her ‘day job’ at Seattle’s landmark music store, Lark in the Morning. One of the most accomplished and respected singer/songwriters around, she has recorded five solo CD’s. Several years ago she recorded a CD (Drawn from the Well) with internationally-known songwriter/fiddler Kate Mcleod, one of Kat’s favorite endeavors.
The Chicago Tribune said, “Kat Eggleston not only has the soul of a poet but the voice of an angel, not to mention that the lady can play a mean guitar.” She recently completed her fifth solo CD entitled Speak, comprised of original songs and one traditional tune. Eggleston teaches guitar and dulcimer on Vashon.
Bagpiper John Dally, irresistable in traditional tartan, has performed for private and corporate events since the age of fourteen. A master piper, Dally will play predominately smaller Border pipes and smaller yet, Northumbrian pipes. “It’s a highly skilled instrument, quite staccato and challenging.” says Bell. “John’s an amazing piper.”
Vashon Island Events: The Free Range World Music Choir
The Free Range Folk Choir will perform at 7 PM on Friday, March 13 at the Burton Community Church. The choir rehearses on Monday evenings and is open to anyone. For more information contact Director Shane Jewell at 463-0778.
The choir now has 35 members ranging from pre-teen to senior citizens. Concert goers can expect a lively, ambitious and wide-ranging repertoire, including Americana, gospel, Slavic, ancient Hebrew, and medieval French songs, as well as songs from the South African Freedom Movement.
Vashon Island Events: Salish Sea Presents Harpsichordist Schnoor and Albrecht
The Salish Sea presents a Happy Birthday to Bach concert featuring Hans Jurgen Schnoor on harpsichord and German sporano Maike Albrecht, along with Jeffrey Cohan on flute. The performance begins at 7:30 at Vashon Methodist Church on Saturday, March 14. An offering of $15 for those over 18 years old is suggested. Youths are free.
Vashon Islands Events: Red Bicycle Presents House Engine, Sidestreet Reny, and Marilyn Kay & Company
The Red Bicycle Bistro presents dance music with House Engine on Friday, March 13, at 9;30 PM. 21+
On Saturday, March 14, Sidestreet Reny takes the stage at 9:30 PM. 21+
Reny blends bluesy/funky finger-style and slide on National Resonator guitar, original poignant songwriting and solid straightforward grooves. Drawing mostly from pre-Wa blues, roots and folk music with a little old-school rap, calypso and dance hall reggae, Sidestreet Reny manages to forge an original sound and push musical boundaries in an era where many other musicians strive to sound the same.
The result is an organic blend of the elements, sewing 100+ years of American music into a rich trapestry of eclectic yet somehow familiar sounds. Like everything . . . and nothing . . . you’ve ever heard, all at once.
On Sunday, March 15, an all-ages show with Marilyn Kay & Company will play from 7 – 9 PM.
Vashon Island Events: Cafe Luna Open Mic, First Friday Photography, Singer Tamara Lewis
Thursday, March 5th, 7:00 PM – Open Mic with David Ray!
Here’s an evening that’s all Vashon; your friends and neighbors showing off what this Island has plenty of: talent, music, and fun. Sign up for your spot at the mic, or just sit back and enjoy the entertainment. No pressure…. this is casual the way Luna does it best; be the entertainment or be entertained. Either way, this is always a great night at Luna.
Friday, March 6th, beginning at 6:00 PM
First Friday Artist Reception - “The I of the Beholder”
Photographer, Richard Waits
“All of my photography shows are really about beauty, whether they’re portraits, people’s hands, or old rusty cars in a junk yard. In this case, it’s the beauty of vibrant, middle-aged women. Everyone who posed for this show is in their 40s or 50s. You can’t go wrong if you open up and always trust your sense of beauty.”
Come because you’re just a little bit curious.
Stay because the photographs are really that gorgeous.
Saturday, March 7th, 7:30 PM – Tamara Lewis
Country, Folk, and Bluegrass
Tamara Lewis writes primarily in the traditional folk syle with contemporary influences. Tamara is engaging and memorable with a voice that is, at once
comforting, crystalline, and guileless. Still not convinced?
Tom Peterson, Victory Review
Wildy’s World
Vashon Island Events: Blue Heron Arts Center Presents Carter Castle and John Browne, Art Hansen Watercolors
Gallery Show – March
Art Hansen, Watercolors, Etchings, Lithographs
Gallery opening: Friday, March 6
Print Sale
Saturday, March 7 noon-5
All proceeds benefit VAA
In addition to the exhibit, the Art Hansen Print Sale will offer unframed, unmatted etchings for very reasonable prices. About 140 etchings will be available for purchase–black and white as well as colored etchings of flowers, Island and Northwest landscapes, gardens, ponds, trees and people.
“This is the perfect way for anyone to acquire affordable artwork by a well-known Northwest artist while simultaneously supporting Vashon Allied Arts,” says Mallman. Frame of Mind owner Donna Kellum has graciously offered 15% discount on framing of all prints purchased at the Print Sale. In addition, she greatly discounted framing of Hansen’s pieces for the show. “I am so grateful to her because the savings in framing will be passed on to those who purchase my work.”
Carter Castle & John Browne
Saturday, March 7th, 7:30 pm
At: The Blue Heron
Tickets: $10 VAA members, students and seniors, $12 general
Tickets or call 206.463.5131
Island musicians Carter Castle and John Browne roll out an all-blues reunion concert , 8 p.m., Saturday, March 7th, at Blue Heron Art Center.
In addition to the tradition of Mance Lipscomb, John Hurt, Robert Johnson, John Prine and other legendary blues players, Browne and Castle will bring their own lifetimes of experience and expertise to the stage for this show. Each musician will play from his own repertoire solo in round-robin style and together.
Castle, who classifies himself more as a ‘folk-driven’ singer/songwriter, says his music definitely carries elements of blues. “Sometimes it’s about oppression and grief; other times it’s farcical. Blues was the foundation for so many other musical art forms to follow,” says Castle. “I like ‘roots’ music and blues is the ultimate roots music.”
Originally from Maryland, Castle played the 1980’s Greenwich Village music scene. He performed with the likes of Iris Dement and Rod MacDonald and soloed in Seattle area venues including The Tractor Tavern and Folklife Festival. He has also played in several gigs at the Blue Heron Art Center.
“When I first heard John Browne play, I thought now there’s a guy who really knows how to play the blues. He’s the real thing; he and Ricker both are very expressive masters of the blues,” says Castle of his fellow players. “They are historians of this type of music and play a lot; they’re both true storytellers.
Seattle native and Vashon resident for 25 years, John Browne has played guitar since his teens and picked up the harmonica in the mid-1960’s. He lived in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district in 1966-67, and played with a jug band called pH Factor. The group’s first paid gig was held at the Matrix where they opened for famous country blues guitarist, Lightnin’ Hopkins.
Experiencing the psychedelic moment, they toured with Big Brother and the Holding Company and opened for The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger, the Byrds, Mothers of Invention, Lenny Bruce and Jefferson Airplane. Their band, pH Factor, according to Browne, played 20’s and 30’s street music, a combination of jazz, blues and social protest songs. “It was culturally relevant and a lot of fun,” he says. Browne says they recorded an album, but before it was released, the record company was sold along with all its media property. A decade later, the album was released in England and coined as ‘an example of the San Francisco sound in the 1960’s.’ Browne has one of the few copies.
After dropping out of the high energy San Francisco music scene, Browne moved to the Oregon coast where he lived without electricity, started a garden and raised a family. A man of many talents, Browne has driven metro buses, worked as logger, commercial fisherman and for many years helped run Wax Orchard farm. He and his wife Vicki now own Judd Creek Nursery, specializing in native plants.
For the upcoming show, he plans to play some of the Memphis Jug Band tunes, some Gus Cannon and some original music. “I’ve written enough music to fill an evening myself,” he says. His guitar, harmonica and seasoned blues voice brings authority and generosity of spirit to every tune. Browne is a Vashon classic and rarely plays publicly these days. But he has been working on a CD and may have one available for this performance.
Art Hansen, Watercolors, Etchings, LithographsGallery opening: Friday, March 6
Saturday, March 7 noon-5
All proceeds benefit VAA
At: The Blue Heron
Tickets: $10 VAA members, students and seniors, $12 general
Island musicians Carter Castle and John Browne roll out an all-blues reunion concert , 8 p.m., Saturday, March 7th, at Blue Heron Art Center.
“When I first heard John Browne play, I thought now there’s a guy who really knows how to play the blues. He’s the real thing; he and Ricker both are very expressive masters of the blues,” says Castle of his fellow players. “They are historians of this type of music and play a lot; they’re both true storytellers.Vashon Island Events: Red Bicycle Presents Lisa Marshall and The Dirty Girls
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03/07/2009 from 09:30 PM – 21+ – Free Cover LISA MARSHALL & THE DIRTY GIRLS (Soul/Blues/R&B) Lisa Marshall is a Rhythm & Blues singer who is influenced by Motown, Soul, and Rock n’Roll. Vocally inspired by vocalist like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Mavis Staples and Janis Joplin. She is a self taught musician. In addition to vocals, Lisa also plays guitar, bass, flute, harmonica, drums and percussion. Her self taught nature and her adoration for strong, soulful female vocalist is experienced through her music which weaves gut belting call and answer style vocals through R&B, funky rhythms. |
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“Lisa Marshall is a singer and performer of incredible range, power and skill. She is one of a very select few vocalists that can take a song and breathe life and feeling into a performance that will take the listener on an emotional and joyful musical ride. She combines a solid foundation of old Motown R&B with a modern-day driving beat and then flavors it with a pinch of Southern rock. Her original songs are well crafted with intelligent lyrics, timeless melodies and a delivery that strips the song down to its raw emotions.” Kevin Fallon -owner and founder of Northwest Guitars, Bellevue, WA.
Marshall’s live performance delivers high energy with a sincere appreciation for her audience and genuine gratitude.
Lisa has rocked the Red Bike a couple of times in the last few months, once during the Backbone Campaign’s Rolling Stone Benefit and again at the Church of Great Rain and both times, she was absolutely amazing. This will be her first headlining appearance with her band, The Dirty Girls.
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Vashon Island Events: Very Special Performance by Ken Jacobsen
On Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 8:00 P.M., former Vashon resident, music teacher and artist Ken Jacobsen will perform classical guitar music of the Arabic and Hebrew world. ” This is classical guitar music from the intersection of the music and culture of the Middle East and North Africa.
The performance will be given at the studio space of the Vashon Music Store.
Ken Jacobsen classical guitar music of the Arabic and Hebrew world meets modern classical Classical guitar music influenced by music and culture of the Middle East and North Africa Saturday, Vashon Music Studio (upstairs from Vashon music store)
Vashon Island Events: Blue Heron Art Center Presents Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel
Blue Heron Art Center – Saturday, Feb 28 7:30 pm
Tickets $15/$17
Tingstad and Rumbel CD release concert
Grammy award winning duo, Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel return to Vashon with a brand new 2009 CD in tow, Leap of Faith. Internationally known for their perfect blend of finger style guitar, double reeds and ocarina, they have expanded the duo in this, their 19th recording. They will perform works from the new CD as well as previous recordings, including their 2003 Grammy winner, Acoustic Garden. They will be joined by one of the Northwest’s most sought after electric bass players, Gary Shelton.
Vashon Island Events: The Red Bicycle – Sugarcaine Mutiny, the Adrian Xavier Band and Church of the Great Rain
Vashon’s Red Bicycle Bistro presents Sugarcaine Mutiny and the Adrian Xavier Band this coming weekend:
Friday, February 20 at 9:30 – Sugarcaine Mutiny
According to the Red Bike, quoting the band’s myspace promotional materials, the band blends the dark humor and storytelling of Cracker or Wilco with the loud jangly pop of the Smithereens and Fastball. Writes Brad Allen of the Weekly Volcano, “these seasoned cats found a common thread – smart songwriting, stringent, catchy melodies and a dose of twang.”
Saturday, February 21 at 9:30 PM – Adrian Xavier Band - Free
- Jeff Echert – THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST INLANDER
Sunday, February 22 at 7:00 PM – The Church of the Great Rain – FREE
So what the heck is The Church of Great Rain? Well, it’s not exactly a bunch of Lutherans from Minnesota. But it is a group of Vashon Island performers who aspire to be the pacific northwest’s answer to A Prairie Home Companion.
Vashon Island’s Cafe Luna: A Valentine Weekend
Vashon Island’s Cafe Luna kicks off Valentine’s Weekend with a Wine and Jazz Event on Friday, February 13, from 6 – 8 PM. Admission is $8 for wine tasting. This is the first of a series of wine tastings to be held on the second Friday of each month. Each tasting will feature five reasonably priced wines. This inaugural event is host by Vashon Winery owner Ron Irvine.
The wine-tasting will be followed by a free jazz performance by the Hobson Person Trio, starting at 7:30 PM. The trio consists of Islander Jim Hobson on piano, Vashon native trumpeter Richard Person, and vocalist Lauri Hennessey.
On Sunday, February 15 at 6 PM
The Celtic Players Meet The Knitters!
Here’s a Vashon institution that just happens to find its home at cafe Luna each Third Sunday of the month. So, grab a beer and have a great time with these fun-loving folks. At least a dozen of the 70 musicians show up to play most of the merry melodies (mostly Irish jigs, reels, and polkas) from memory. Beginners are welcome; staying with the beat is the only requirement. Get a head start with the 250 tunes on their website, homecomcast.net/saustin98. [Editors note: the link to the site does not seem to work at present . . . but you may have better luck].
And then there’s the Knitters! Knitters of all abilities and persuasions are invited to bring their projects to the Cafe, knit, schmooze, and learn from each other while the Celtic Players work their understated and very merry magic. What a fabulous combination! For more information about the knitting, contact David Guion, 463-1680.
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Vashon Island’s Red Bicycle Bistro: Valentine’s with Baby Gramps, Fashion Show, Watermark
Friday, 02/13/09 Americana Roots — Free Show — 9:30 PM — 21+
The Starlings play music ranging from “pin-dropping ballads” to “foot-stompin’” barn-burners. The band, featuring Joy Mills and Tom Parker, features banjo, guitar and harmonica.
VALENTINES DAY with BABY GRAMPS (Folk/Americana)
Saturday, 02/14/2009 at 9:30 PM — 21+ FREE COVER!
The Red Bicycle Bistro presents Baby Gramps, an amazing amalgamation of everything that anybody’s ever heard including Mississippi John Hurt, Uncle Dave Macon, Charlie Patton, Blind Blake, Captain Beefheart, the Tuvan Throat Singers and Popeye. Baby Gramps has created a highly developed and completely original musical concoction that is easily the most intriguing synthesis to come out of the roots revival of the late 20th Century. He plays beautifully “betwixt the cracks in the piano” a la Ornette Coleman, can scat the blues three notes at once, and has invented his own guitar technique he calls “scribbling”. Gramps does amazing tricks with timing, timbre, tempo and pitch that no one can hope to imitate, and reinvents himself nightly, never performing a song the same way twice.
If the “Pirates of the Caribbean” film has any associative power, this may finally be the public moment for Baby Gramps, an eccentric, seemingly very old (though nobody seems to knows how old) singer and steel-guitar player based in Seattle, with a voice like Popeye after smoking an entire tin of Prince Albert. His performances on “Rogue’s Gallery” (Anti), a two-disc set of sea chanteys produced by Hal Willner, are among the album’s best, and that’s saying a lot: among the other contributors are Sting, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Bono, a gravel-voiced Bryan Ferry, a midnight-voiced Nick Cave, a twee Van Dyke Parks and Bill Frisell with a beautiful guitar track.
Baby Gramps performed on The Late Show with David Letterman Aug. 28, 2006 backed up by Tony Garnier (Bob Dylan’s band leader and bass player), The Akron Family, and Jason Krekel from “The Mad Tea Party”.
Baby Gramps finger picks an old steel national guitar and sings in a wild, extemporaneous gravel vocal style with phenomenal vocal rhythmic improves and a guitar technique that borders on early ragtime. He combines early jazz, blues, ragtime, and good-time novelty music… Most important for Gramps is not his obvious musical genius, but the ability for having fun; and this is all pure delight…
Come witness Baby Gramps unique Valentine’s songs for bugs and other loveable creatures & critters…..you’ll love it! A very special Valentines Day show for Vashon, get your tickets early because this is a very rare visit from a legendary musician.
Island Artisan Couture – Runway Fashion Show and Sale
Sunday, 02/15/2009 at 02:00 PM.
$10 Cover. Doors open at 1:30pm – Curtain goes up at 2:30pm. Advanced tickets on sale now call the Red Bike at 206-463-5959, 11am to 5pm.
Come enjoy Vashon’s own “Project Runway” featuring our local textile artists’ latest creations in Wearable Art.
Hand Dyed Clothing and Costumes by: Dova Silks, Dorthy Dunniclif – Art Projects & Design, Patricia Toovey. Designer Clothing by: Cicada, Elizabeth Klob – Elemental Stitches, Tess Crocker – Wild Like CLothing Co., Sally Shivers. Original Hand Bags by: Re Genr 8, Roxy Hathaway – Nancy Scott Wienkler. Jewelers: Ciszek Designs, Ginny Ciszek – Danielle Carbone, Kristen Ford, Anne Gordon, Jade Grace
Sunday, 7:00 PM Vashon’s own Watermark.
WATERMARK is:
Roger Taylor – guitar and vocals
Kevin Almeida – bass and vocals
Larry Lawson – flutes
Charles Reed – guitar and vocals
Vashon Island Events: Mercedes Nicole at the Blue Heron
Mercedes Nicoleperforms her smooth jazz stylings at the Blue Heron Art Center with her romantic set and jazz quintet. The evening will include favorites by Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, Bette Midler and Nancy Wilson.
Nicole’s contralto voice has been compared to Nina Simone and Nancy Wilson. She has performed at the Triple Door, Crown Plaza, Columbia City Theater, Tacoma Art Museum, and elsewhere.
“Mercedes Nicole has a very winsome way with a song, and she quickly brings your listeners into the message she has for them.”
(Concerning Jazz Vespers) “Mercedes, you had them with your very first tune, and you couldn’t do anything wrong from that moment on… Your voice is so rich and warm, so warm I want to wrap myself in it over and over again.”
Harvey Siders—Jazz Times, 2008
Nicole has released four albums.
Tickets are $13/$15 and include champagne, appetizers and chocolate. To reserve, call 463-5151.
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