Biography Chassez has been playing ballroom dances for years. Recently they have been performing and recording tunes from pioneer Pacific Northwest music manuscripts from which dance bands played community dances in the PNW. These manuscripts were discovered and published by Vivian Williams, now acknowledged as the foremost historian of dance music of the pioneer west.
Biography With his latest CD, First Song, singer songwriter Stanley Greenthal, stretched musical borders from Celtic Scotland and Brittany to Greece and the Balkans. He sings and plays a constellation of strings - the guitar, bouzouki, laouto and lavta (Greek and Turkish lutes). Stanley has spent many years playing Breton music and meeting musicians from Brittany and the US.
Biography We're Western Washington's #1 polka band and have performed around the US and Canada at top venues like Branson, Missouri; the International Polka Fest at Ironworld in Minnesota; and the Kimberley International Old-Time Accordion Championships in British Columbia.
Biography Since 1999, the Valse Cafe Orchestra has been playing together with the sole purpose of playing music for dancers. Since then, their scope has expanded to include musical theatre and performance art. This year they produced their first CD.
Biography Ines and Marchette have been playing music together for several years, they discovered their common passion for 20th century Parisian music and would love to share their joy with you.
Biography My name is Peter Williams and am a Seattle native, a local cello performer and the Cello Director at the Suzuki Institute of Seattle. I am a member of the Tacoma Symphony, principal cellist of the Northwest Symphony, and have played and performed with the Bellevue Philharmonic, the Tacoma Opera, the Seattle Choral Company and the Seattle Modern Orchestra amongst many others. Additionally, I have performed with Natalie Cole, Chicago, Alice in Chains, Kenny Rogers, Heart, and have toured wth the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I founded the Seattle Cello Experiment two years ago which is a cello choir composed of my advanced students. We have given many performances in the area - most recently a Christmas concert at Northgate Mall. Stylistically, we cover many musical genres including classical, heavy metal, pop, fiddling, jazz and perform video game and movie favorites.
