Black Fret Seattle Announces 2020 Grant Recipients
MUSIC NON-PROFIT TO AWARD $50,000 IN GRANTS TO SEATTLE AREA MUSICIANS.
Read moreMUSIC NON-PROFIT TO AWARD $50,000 IN GRANTS TO SEATTLE AREA MUSICIANS.
Read moreIn 2016, The Seattle Public Library launched an online Seattle music collection called PlayBack and the growing collection of albums by local artists are available for free download and streaming.
Read moreLanegan became particularly close to Cobain, and Layne Staley as well, and his grief at their deaths is still palpable. What’s especially sad is that the bond between these three artists was not only due to their shared love of music, but also their shared love of doing drugs.
Read moreGreater Seattle area Artists, for the past week I’ve been posting lots of resources to help get you through these tough times over on my National Seat Filling Group page.
Read moreWhile we’ve been using our social media channels to boost tons of streaming events that musicians have put on to help weather the storm as well as fundraisers set up to collect money for the most vulnerable in the artist community, there’s more we can do.
Read moreTo say this has been a challenging week for our sisters and brothers in the greater northwest music scene would be a huge understatement and trust us, it’s hit us extremely hard too.
Read moreWith little pieces of our beloved community disappearing on a regular basis, it is essential for us to do our part to save what is important to each of us and what is most important to this writer is music.
Read moreEven tattoo aficionados should come away from “Body of Work” having learned something new. It’s an exhibit that takes more than a surface look at its subject, and, in the words of the curators, is designed to introduce tattooing to the kind of wider audience that comes through MoPOP
Read moreWhat would Christmas be without music? And live music in particular? It can enhance the experience, or be reworked into a startlingly new creation. Recently, I got to experience both sides of the coin.
Read moreAnyone with even a cursory interest in grunge rock acts of the ‘90s has seen Karen Mason Blair’s photographs. Did you pick up a 7-inch of Soundgarden’s “Room a Thousand Years Wide”? That’s Blair’s picture of the group on the sleeve, grinning/grimacing at the camera.
Read moreSankai Juku’s extraordinary performances take you into another realm. The dancers, stripped to their bare essence, explore the agonies and the ecstasies of being human, and their striving to find a balance between the dark and the light is captivating. It’s an experience you emerge from feeling more fully alive.
Read moreExpect a cross section of Neil Young’s music from his most intimate acoustic songs to his over the top explorations into electric guitar feedback and fury interpreted by Seattle musicians who revere Young’s work as the gospel.
Read moreIn conjunction with Northwest Music Scene, House Of Cannabis is committed to assisting local musicians in publicizing the passion – their art. And while they already play plenty of northwest musicians over the speakers in each of their three locations, they want to add more
Read moreWe’ll be kicking the segment off on September 23rd, so make sure you check back then and every day going forward to get your fix of great local music.
Read moreHere’s a new one from Ohio native and current inhabitant of the northwest, Aaron Semer. It’s a tongue in cheek song and video about armchair online activism, that touches upon many of the current events of the day, not the least of which is the person in the White House.
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