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Posted on May 18, 2012 By: genestout

Los Angeles singer-songwriter LP offers an intimate set at Seattle’s W Hotel

By GENE STOUT With ukulele in hand, fast-rising Los Angeles recording artist LP made a stop May 10 at Seattle’s W Hotel for a Symmetry…

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Posted on May 17, 2012 By: genestout

Actor-musician Will Oldham brings his road show to Wolf Haven

By MIKEL TOOMBS Will Oldham, best known as iconoclast indie musician Bonnie “Prince” Billy (bonus points for the superfluous quote marks), established his Pacific Northwest…

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Posted on March 27, 2012March 27, 2012 By: genestout

Seattle not-for-profit launches live music therapy for hospitalized kids

By GENE STOUT Imagine a live, personalized concert for a sick child – a very direct form of music therapy — delivered right to the…

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Posted on March 26, 2012March 26, 2012 By: genestout

PREVIEW: Anais Mitchell stages her ‘Hadestown’ folk opera in Ballard

By MIKEL TOOMBS Seattle’s Tractor Tavern is going to Hades this week. Fortunately, or perhaps not, it’s just for one night (Thursday, March 29). That’s…

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Posted on March 8, 2012 By: genestout

CONCERT PREVIEW: New Multitudes pay tribute to Woody Guthrie

By MIKEL TOOMBS If you like Woody Guthrie (and isn’t it un-American not to?), this band is your band. Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket front…

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Posted on November 18, 2011 By: genestout

CONCERT PREVIEW: Seattle’s Jim Page supports Veterans for Peace

By GENE STOUT Iconic Seattle folk musician and activist Jim Page will perform a benefit for Veterans for Peace at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19,…

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Posted on November 8, 2011November 8, 2011 By: genestout

CD REVIEW: Camille Bloom inspires with ‘Never Out of Time’

Endorsed by Gibson Guitars, Seattle singer-songwriter Camille Bloom may be an international star in the making. In fact, over the last six years, she has…

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Posted on April 16, 2011 By: genestout

Songwriter Sam Phillips to receive prestigious Denise Levertov Award

By MIKEL TOOMBS She’s been nominated for two Grammys, under both her Christian name Leslie and her self-adopted one, but Sam Phillips has never won…

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Posted on April 14, 2011 By: genestout

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…

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Posted on February 17, 2011 By: genestout

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…

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Posted on November 3, 2010 By: genestout

Rising Texas singer-songwriter Sahara Smith has a really haunting sound

By MIKEL TOOMBS When Sahara Smith was introduced to me as a “222-year-old rising Texan artist,” I knew I had to check her out. Pretty…

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Posted on July 2, 2010 By: genestout

Lilith Fair cancels dates, but the show will go on at The Gorge amphitheater

Organizers of the 2010 Lilith Fair tour have announced that nearly a dozen upcoming concerts have been canceled, but Saturday’s show (July 3) at The…

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Posted on July 2, 2010 By: genestout

CONCERT PREVIEW: Singer Bobby Long is emerging from the ‘Twilight’ zone

British singer-songwriter Bobby Long, who got a phenomenal boost when a song he co-wrote was featured in a scene in the 2008 hit movie “Twilight,”…

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Posted on June 20, 2010 By: genestout

CONCERT REVIEW: Steve Martin and band show their pluck at Chateau

Talk about pickin’ and grinnin’. In a concert Saturday night (June 19) at Chateau Ste. Michelle, Steve Martin (yes, the comedian) and the Steep Canyon…

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