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Friday, May 25
 

4:00pm PDT

Northwest Scottish Fiddlers
Scottish Fiddlers and Friends

Friday May 25, 2012 4:00pm - 4:30pm PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre EMB -- British Isles-Ireland - MUSIC
  • URL
  • Biography The NW Scottish Fiddlers, originally formed in the 80's by Calum MacKinnon have been enjoying a revival since 2006 with a growing membership of fiddlers and friends. They play at events around the NW and sponsor an annual winter workshop featuring Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas. The club is mostly based in Edmonds where they hold monthly meetings and they welcome new members interested in traditional Scottish fiddling.

4:45pm PDT

Accordions Anonymous
12 Steps to Accordion Awarenes

Friday May 25, 2012 4:45pm - 5:15pm PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre NT -- New Traditions
  • URL
  • Biography Accordions Anonymous is the Northwest's first and foremost 12-step group for accordion awareness. They have been facing the music one note at a time since 1998, bringing their quirky brand of musicality and eclectic mix of dance tunes to accordion lovers everywhere.

5:25pm PDT

onefourfive
Georgian polyphonic folksongs

Friday May 25, 2012 5:25pm - 5:55pm PDT
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  • Genre FRW -- World-Intl Folk - MUSIC
  • URL
  • Biography We sing ancient folksongs from the Republic of Georgia. Some of our members have been to Georgia multiple times to bring back these unique harmonies by studying with revered songmasters there. We started out singing a cappella folk music from multiple backgrounds and decided to focus solely on Georgian singing since its many regional styles are so diverse.

6:00pm PDT

Jonny Hahn
Hot Political Piano

Friday May 25, 2012 6:00pm - 6:30pm PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre SS -- Singer-Songwriter
  • Biography I've been performing original music featuring songs of social commentary and political satire as well as instrumental piano pieces at Seattle's Pike Place Market for over 25 years. Prior to performing at the Market, I was in several rock bands featuring various, cheesy 40's rock and roll, as well as the music of the Grateful Dead. To hear sample of Jonny's music go to CD baby.com

6:30pm PDT

Stage Down
Friday May 25, 2012 6:30pm - 7:00pm PDT
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7:00pm PDT

Natalie Hall
Cellist

Friday May 25, 2012 7:00pm - 7:10pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Legacy of NW Impovised Music
  • Genre JAZZ -- Jazz
  • Biography Natalie Hall studies cello performance with Professor Toby Saks, working towards her Bachelors of Music at the University of Washington. She is the cellist of the Eros Piano Trio, the Sequoia Ensemble and the Quantum String Quartet, winners of the 2010 UW Chamber Music Competition. She is a member of the UW Modern Band coached by Professor Cuong Vu. Natalie performs with Macklemore, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, the American String Project, the Degenerate Art Ensemble and the Seattle Rock Orchestra. Last month she performed a sold out show with Noah Gundersen at the Triple Door and on Nancy Guppy’s televised show, The Art Zone, with Kris Orlowski and the Passenger String Quartet. Natalie performed a sold out show at the Key Arena for the Bumbershoot Music Festival and at the Sasquatch Music Festival. She performed in Neil Welch’s Sleeper Ensemble which was released in November on the Table and Chairs record label. She has collaborated with slam poet Ken Arkind, saxophonist Tim Berne and bassist Scott Pingle of the San Francisco Symphony. Over the summer Natalie attended the School for Improvised Music in New York. In addition to Toby Saks, her mentors include Okkyung Lee, Heidi Lehwalder, Cuong Vu, Lori Goldston, Tony Malaby, Melia Watras and Ralph Alessi. Natalie regularly performs free-improvisation at Café Racer’s The Racer Sessions.

7:10pm PDT

Paul Hoskin
Contrabass Clarinet Solo

Friday May 25, 2012 7:10pm - 7:20pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Legacy of NW Impovised Music
  • Genre JAZZ -- Jazz
  • Biography Paul Hoskin investigates solo language. He has performed solo contrabass clarinet, one of the lowest reed instruments, for over 25 years.

7:30pm PDT

Smallface
Ghosts-Disembodied-Radio-Noise

Friday May 25, 2012 7:30pm - 7:45pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Legacy of NW Impovised Music
  • Genre JAZZ -- Jazz
  • Biography Aaron Otheim (Heatwarmer, Speak) and David Balatero (Operation ID, Song Sparrow Research) are frequent participants in Seattle's pop, rock and experimental circles. Both Otheim and Balatero help run the Cafe Racer Sessions and record label Table & Chairs. Smallface is a collaboration that draws on the duo's mutual background in classical chamber music and shared affinity for new and avant-garde music.

7:45pm PDT

Gregg Keplinger & Simon Henneman / WA
Energy Music

Friday May 25, 2012 7:45pm - 8:00pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Legacy of NW Impovised Music
  • Genre JAZZ -- Jazz
  • Biography Kelli, I have to track down a bio from Gregg. SHould I do this whole thing over or can I just send it when I get it? Sorry we are late on this thing and thanks for the link!

8:10pm PDT

Kromer
Avant-improv Trio

Friday May 25, 2012 8:10pm - 8:30pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Legacy of NW Impovised Music
  • Genre JAZZ -- Jazz
  • URL
  • Biography Kromer is an acoustic trio of Saxophone, keyboards, and drumset playing original compositions. The music is tense, bizarre and beautiful with heavy influences from free-improvisation, jazz, and the local Table & Chairs music scene in Seattle.

8:30pm PDT

Heaney, Parris + Rea Guitar Threesome
Improvisational Guitar Trio

Friday May 25, 2012 8:30pm - 8:50pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Legacy of NW Impovised Music
  • Genre MI -- Misc Instrumentals
  • URL
  • Biography Three of Seattle's most adventurous guitarists team up for wide-ranging instrumental improvisations touching on jazz, rock, experimental, and world music. Includes members of such acclaimed ensembles as Ask the Ages, Sunship, Moraine, and the Monktail Creative Music Concern.

9:00pm PDT

Burn List
Seattle's New Music Scene

Friday May 25, 2012 9:00pm - 9:30pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Legacy of NW Impovised Music
  • Genre JAZZ -- Jazz
  • URL
  • Biography Burn List, a new collaboration from Seattle’s scorching new music scene features trumpeter Cuong Vu, tenor saxophonist Greg Sinibaldi, keyboardist Aaron Otheim, and drummer Chris Icasiano. Marking the meeting of two distinctive generations of creative new music in Seattle, each member of Burn List have uniquely contributed their musical DNA to the city’s musical lineage. Having been on the forefront of the scene as established veterans, Vu and Sinibaldi each offer unique compositional approaches and styles that have helped shape the newest generation of musicians in Seattle. Icasiano and Otheim are, in part, products of those contributions and they form Burn List’s paired- down rhythm section combination of keyboard and drums pushing to create a new sonic approach to the music and group improvisation. Burn List’s unique interface with improvisation and original compositions draw from wide musical influences ranging from Ligeti to Albert Ayler to Aphex Twin to Meshuggah and many things in between. Siphoned through the band’s collective aesthetics, the music freely crisscrosses genres resulting in a new musical sound that is thoughtful, energetic, current and original.

9:30pm PDT

Wally Shoup Quartet
Free Jazz, Free Improv, Jazz

Friday May 25, 2012 9:30pm - 10:00pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Legacy of NW Impovised Music
  • Genre JAZZ -- Jazz
  • Biography American jazz alto saxophonist and painter. Based in Seattle, Washington since 1985, Shoup is a mainstay of that city's improvised music scene. Seattle Metropolitan named him one of the 50 most influential musicians in that city's history.
 
Saturday, May 26
 

11:00am PDT

Seattle Mandolin Orchestra
Mandolins of All Sizes

Saturday May 26, 2012 11:00am - 11:35am PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre MI -- Misc Instrumentals
  • URL
  • Biography The Seattle Mandolin Orchestra has been delighting audiences with mandolin ensemble arrangements of folk, Italian, contemporary and classical tunes for over 30 years. Under the current direction of Dr. Joseph White, the orchestra regularly performs with internationally known mandolin soloists and local vocalist Julie Finch.

11:50am PDT

Brandon Vance and Mark Minkler
Celtic Fiddle

Saturday May 26, 2012 11:50am - 12:25pm PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre EMB -- British Isles-Ireland - MUSIC
  • URL
  • Biography Brandon Vance, Two-time U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion, and multi-instrumentalist folk and jazz musician Mark Minkler have been collaborating in the Northwest for more than a decade now, and have released a beautiful album called "Beyond the Borders," an intimate album comprised of both original traditional music rooted strongly in the Scottish and Irish traditions, while allowing subtle harmonic and stylistic influences from Jazz and Classical music to seep into the fabric.

12:35pm PDT

Hot Club Sandwich
Gypsy Jazz

Saturday May 26, 2012 12:35pm - 1:15pm PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre JAZZ -- Jazz
  • URL
  • Biography Hot Club Sandwich plays gypsy jazz.

1:30pm PDT

Katie and The Lichen
Pop-verisimilitudes/sister/pop

Saturday May 26, 2012 1:30pm - 2:00pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Our Indoor Campsite: K
  • Genre CFMI -- Contemporary Folk Music - Indie
  • URL
  • Biography A 5 piece pop-verisimilitudes/sister/pop-verite, all female band. Playing ukes, and melodicas, guitars and drums, and more, they focus on the anti-pop-anti-folk aspects of the lo-fi music universe, this includes crunching class divisions and endorsing and eating feminism. They are unladylike. They are encouragable, endearing and effing adorable. katieandthelichen.bandcamp.com

2:10pm PDT

Kendl Winter
Contemporary Folk

Saturday May 26, 2012 2:10pm - 2:40pm PDT
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  • Genre CFMA -- Contemporary Folk Music - Americana
  • URL
  • Biography Kendl Winter is a dreamer of dark clouds, has a drawer stuffed full of stolen socks, and picks banjo and guitar like a hillbilly in the Ozarks. Born in Arkansas and based in Olympia, Washington, Kendl performs as a solo artist with a loop pedal, guitars, banjos. She twists those instruments into captivating melodies, crossing into the realm of country music. Kendl writes and plays with various touring bands from the Pacific Northwest, including the Blackberry Bushes, the Pasties, Southern Skies and It’s All Gotta Go.

2:50pm PDT

The Softies
K records recording artists

Saturday May 26, 2012 2:50pm - 3:20pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Our Indoor Campsite: K
  • Genre ZZZ -- Uncategorized
  • Biography The Softies recorded 3 albums for K records between 1995 and 2000. After an 11 year break we have come together again.

3:30pm PDT

The Hive Dwellers
Contemporary Music

Saturday May 26, 2012 3:30pm - 4:00pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Our Indoor Campsite: K
  • Genre CFM -- Contemporary Folk Music
  • URL
  • Biography Artists HIVE DWELLERS, THE Biography Photos Tour Press A biographical sketch: The streets of Olympia ring with that boot heels-on-cobblestone sound as the Hive Dwellers traverse the township east to west on way to their next musical adventure. Spawned in the late double-O decade by Calvin Johnson at the Dub Narcotic Studio, the Hive Dwellers is a band, a combo (as in combination) of disparate individuals who share a common love of rock’n’roll, library cards and railroad travel. The assorted cacophony of membership slides around, and currently includes Gabriel Will and Evan Hashi. Past members have included K.E. Sixx (The Vibrarians), Brian Weber (Dub Narcotic Sound System), Faustine Hudson (The Curious Mystery), Spencer Kelley (Wallpaper, Basemint), Karl Blau, Brett Lyman, Fred Thomas (City Center, Saturday Looks Good to Me), and Michelle Mae. When they emerge from the froth and frumble of their active bicycle-powered lives to make music, the Hive Dwellers emit a pelt of bright, shiny (NOW) with a love of pop music underground and it’s more vacuous mainstream distant cousins. Dance. Smile when you say that. Raw freedom dance. In 2009, the Hive Dwellers launched an expansive Pan-American tour seeing for themselves how it is to be a slave to the rhythm hive active; 2010 saw the release of “Get In” (KLP223). As the future unfolds into the conscious mind and continues to fade gently into the past, the Hive Dwellers are present tense, bearing witness to the maraca wilderness of the modern Basement State.

5:00pm PDT

Seirm
Scottish Gaelic Songs & Tunes

Saturday May 26, 2012 5:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre EMB -- British Isles-Ireland - MUSIC
  • URL
  • Biography Seirm is the main musical porgram of Slighe nan Gaidheal, Washington's Scottish Gaelic language and cultural society. The group began in November 1996 as a 4-part a cappella choir in order to participate in Mod Vancouver 1997, where it won the Sons of Scotland shield for mixed choirs. Seirm continued to compete and win honors at Mod Vancouver until the biennial Gaelic singing competition ended in 2007. Seirm changed formats, adding tradition- friendly instruments to accompany songs and play tunes fosr Scottish ceildh dances. Seirm performs at various Scottish aand community events, promoting interest and awareness of the Scottish Gaelic language, music and song tradition. Website: www.slighe.com

5:40pm PDT

Wu Ziying
Chinese zither (guqin) soloist

Saturday May 26, 2012 5:40pm - 6:10pm PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre EMA -- Asia - MUSIC
  • Biography Wu Ziying is a master of the guqin 古琴 (Chinese seven-string zither) and pipa 琵琶 (Chinese four-string lute). He studied with the 20th-century’s foremost Chinese masters of these instruments. Of particular influence on him were the great guqin players: Wang Jiru 王吉儒,Wu Jinglue 吳景略, Zha Fuxi 查阜西, Sun Zongpeng 孫宗彭, Xu Lisun 徐立蓀, and Gu Meigeng 顧梅羹. Wu Ziying was a professor of traditional Chinese music at Shanghai Normal University and the Director of the Shanghai Qin Association. From 2001-3, he was a Visiting Artist in Ethno-musicology at the School of Music, University of Washington. He is a 2006 and 2010 recipient of the Jack Straw Artist Residency in Music. Wu Ziying resides in the Seattle area where he teaches, performs, and repair instruments.

6:20pm PDT

House of Tarab
Arabic Music Ensemble

Saturday May 26, 2012 6:20pm - 6:50pm PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)

6:55pm PDT

The Valley Four
Americana Vocal Quartet

Saturday May 26, 2012 6:55pm - 7:25pm PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre CR -- Choirs-Vocal Groups
  • Biography We're good friends who have a good time singing together! We enjoy sharing lively Americana vocal traditions - folk, gospel, doo wop & more.

7:30pm PDT

Alicia Amiri
Dark Classical Folk

Saturday May 26, 2012 7:30pm - 8:00pm PDT
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  Music Performance, It Takes Two: Duos Showcase
  • Genre SS -- Singer-Songwriter
  • URL
  • Biography Born and raised in Seattle, Alicia plays dark classical guitar ballads with pretty lo fi vocals.

8:10pm PDT

Kin to Stars
Urban Folk Pop Super Duo

Saturday May 26, 2012 8:10pm - 8:40pm PDT
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  Music Performance, It Takes Two: Duos Showcase
  • Genre CFMFR -- Contemporary Folk Music - Folk Rock
  • URL
  • Biography After years of performing as solo indie musicians, Scott Andrew (guitar, vocals) and Jerin Falkner (piano, vocals) have joined forces to co-write songs about rooftop dancing, buying the moon, and being alright with life.

8:50pm PDT

Elk and Boar
Soul Folk

Saturday May 26, 2012 8:50pm - 9:20pm PDT
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  Music Performance, It Takes Two: Duos Showcase
  • Genre CFMI -- Contemporary Folk Music - Indie
  • URL
  • Biography Elk and Boar is Kirsten Wenlock and Travis Barker, two individual artists who joined up in 2010 to create music that celebrates their vocal polarity and common loves. Thier first full length CD "Room To Start" released in March of 2011, is a soulful collection of emotional songs that hope and lament.

9:30pm PDT

Teacher Teacher
Ozzy meets Woody Guthrie

Saturday May 26, 2012 9:30pm - 10:00pm PDT
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  Music Performance, It Takes Two: Duos Showcase
  • Genre SS -- Singer-Songwriter
  • URL
  • Biography Local singer/songwriter Carl Faucher (Foe-shay) has teamed up with vocal acrobat Rebbeccah Emanuel. Forged from folk and metal, this dynamic duo will rock the house and the cradle. Teacher Teacher has a Facebook page.
 
Sunday, May 27
 

11:05am PDT

Mike Evans
Stories in Rhyme

Sunday May 27, 2012 11:05am - 11:30am PDT
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  Narrative-Storyteller, Family Stories
  • Genre ST -- Storytellers
  • Biography I share tales from the writings of some of my favorite storytellers: Stephanie Davis, Robert Service, Tom Paxton.

11:35am PDT

Leslie Slape, storyteller
Exciting the imagination

Sunday May 27, 2012 11:35am - 12:00pm PDT
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  Narrative-Storyteller, Family Stories
  • Genre ST -- Storytellers
  • URL
  • Biography When Leslie Slape was a little girl, she sneaked into the bedroom her younger sisters shared and told them stories she made up on the spot. On rainy days, she used to pull out her well-thumbed "Blue Fairy Book" and read the dialect stories in the back aloud to herself. As a journalist and playwright, Leslie interweaves Story into her life everywhere she can.

12:05pm PDT

Robert Rubinstein
storyteller

Sunday May 27, 2012 12:05pm - 12:30pm PDT
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  Narrative-Storyteller, Family Stories
  • Genre ST -- Storytellers
  • URL
  • Biography Robert Rubinstein has performed at the New York Public Library; Boston Public Library, Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle, schools in Atlanta, traveled with 41 storytellers from across the nation to China, and presented workshops at the National Storytelling Conference in Denver. He has made four recordings, published five books, and had, for 20 years, directed Eugene's Multi-Cultural Storytelling Festival.

12:35pm PDT

Colleen Squier
Colleen loves a good story!

Sunday May 27, 2012 12:35pm - 1:00pm PDT
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  Narrative-Storyteller, Family Stories
  • Genre SW -- Spoken Word-Poetry
  • Biography Colleen has performed at Folklife in 2010 and 2011. She is a board member of the Seattle Storytellers Guild, and loves a good story!

1:00pm PDT

Helene Eriksen and Friends
Couples Dances of the World

Sunday May 27, 2012 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
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2:15pm PDT

Juliana & PAVA
Ancient Russian Folk Songs

Sunday May 27, 2012 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre EME -- Central-Eastern Europe & Balkan - MUSIC
  • URL
  • Biography Juliana is a Russian folk singer and ethnomusicologist who formed the group PAVA in Seattle in 2008 to perform songs collected by her in expeditions to remote Russian villages. The ensemble performs frequently on various multicultural events in USA and abroad. In 2010 PAVA performed at the first postwar international music festival in Baghdad, Iraq, by invitation of the Iraqi Ministry of Culture. This is their fifth Folklife (and sixth for Juliana).

3:00pm PDT

The Castaways
We Play Uke Music

Sunday May 27, 2012 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Ukenalia Showcase

3:35pm PDT

Thornton Creek Elementary School 5th grade
Thornton Creek Ukulele

Sunday May 27, 2012 3:35pm - 3:55pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Ukenalia Showcase
  • Genre EMS -- School Ensembles
  • URL
  • Biography These are new students of the ukulele and Hawaiian dance from Thornton Creek Elementary School

4:05pm PDT

SUPA: Seattle Ukulele Players Association
Ukulele Elvis = the King on Uke

Sunday May 27, 2012 4:05pm - 4:25pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Ukenalia Showcase
  • Genre EMF -- Polynesia-Hawaii - MUSIC
  • URL
  • Biography SUPA was founded in 2003 to promote fellowship, entertainment, performance and education amongst ukulele enthusiasts in the Puget Sound region. All ukulele players are welcome at our monthly sing-a-longs.

4:35pm PDT

Canote Brothers
Those Musical Twins

Sunday May 27, 2012 4:35pm - 5:00pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Ukenalia Showcase

6:00pm PDT

Seattle Kirtan Singers
Blissful Sacred Hindu Chanting

Sunday May 27, 2012 6:00pm - 7:50pm PDT
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  Music Performance, Kirtan Singing
  • Genre EMA -- Asia - MUSIC
  • Biography A group of local singers that find bliss in chanting the name of God while celebrating Indian culture.

8:05pm PDT

Doug Banner, Storyteller
Stories from around the world

Sunday May 27, 2012 8:05pm - 8:30pm PDT
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  Narrative-Storyteller, Ghost Stories
  • Genre ST -- Storytellers
  • URL
  • Biography Storyteller for 25 years, Co-founder of the Bellingham Storytellers Guild, World Folklorist, artist, and musician.

8:35pm PDT

Norm Brecke
Storyteller

Sunday May 27, 2012 8:35pm - 9:00pm PDT
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  Narrative-Storyteller, Ghost Stories
  • Genre ST -- Storytellers
  • URL
  • Biography Norm Brecke is a spirited storyteller who revels in telling a good story. His music, zeal, and humor add to any occasion. When Norm tells … people listen, and often join in. Norm specializes in folktales which he spices to make unique. His personal stories always reflect his Northwest roots. Norm is often accompanied by his guitar but sometimes plays ukulele, banjo, or mouth harp to add to his stories. Norm taught kindergarten for many years before moving to 4th grade. He tries to tell a different story in class every day. He also teaches storytelling to children after school. He has taught tall tales to cub scouts and placed 2nd in the Seattle Liar’s contest twice. He also teaches adults how to tell stories. Norm has told at bookstores, churches, parties, schools, retirement homes, campfires, stores, and Tellebrations. He’s a regular at the Northwest Folklife Festival.

9:05pm PDT

Mary Anne Moorman
Auntmama

Sunday May 27, 2012 9:05pm - 9:30pm PDT
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  Narrative-Storyteller, Ghost Stories
  • Genre ST -- Storytellers
  • URL
  • Biography Mary Anne Moorman tells stories on KBCS.FM radio every week, hosts Auntie's Seattle Storyteller's Guild Starbuck's Story Corner, performs in businesses and on stages throughout the east coast.

9:35pm PDT

Ken Iverson
Tales for a long, dark night

Sunday May 27, 2012 9:35pm - 10:00pm PDT
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  Narrative-Storyteller, Ghost Stories
  • Genre ST -- Storytellers
  • URL
  • Biography A lively mix of stories, both original and folktales, told with audience participation in many of the stories.
 
Monday, May 28
 

11:00am PDT

Red Eagle Soaring Native Youth Theatre
Native Youth Theatre

Monday May 28, 2012 11:00am - 11:30am PDT
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  Narrative-Storyteller, (if applicable)
  • Genre TH -- Theater
  • URL
  • Biography Red Eagle Soaring is a Seattle-based Native Youth Theatre integrating contemporary theatre with traditional performing arts. Our ensemble members are urban Native teens ages 11-19.

11:45am PDT

Mlodzi Poland (Young Polanie)
Young Polanie

Monday May 28, 2012 11:45am - 12:15pm PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)

12:30pm PDT

Vivat Musica
Choir sings Polish Folksongs

Monday May 28, 2012 12:30pm - 1:00pm PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre EME -- Central-Eastern Europe & Balkan - MUSIC
  • Biography We sing folksonfs and national songs from Poland in Polish. These are songs that have been sung for generations in Poland. They are sung whenever Polish people get together. These songs were collected by artists from the villages themselves and performed by national folk groups. Our choir heard them growing up and now would like to share them with others. This keeps the traditions alive in our families and communities. The Poles have a saying, "I've travelled all over the world, but haven't found any music that could match what we have in Poland."

1:15pm PDT

Seattle Cello Experiment
An experiment in Cello

Monday May 28, 2012 1:15pm - 1:45pm PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre EMH -- Western Europe - MUSIC
  • 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.

2:00pm PDT

Bread and Roses Commemoration: 100 Years of Struggle for Justice and Dignity
Featuring Rebel Voices, E.T. & the Boy, Pastor Pat Wright,and Jacque Larrainzar

Monday May 28, 2012 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
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5:00pm PDT

Mahonyera Mbira Ensemble
Mbira Music from Zimbabwe

Monday May 28, 2012 5:00pm - 5:35pm PDT
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  Music Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre EMD -- Africa - MUSIC
  • Biography Members of Mahonyera Mbira Ensemble have all been studying Shona mbira music for at least 15 years and as much as 40 years!

5:45pm PDT

Melody Institute
Melody Dance

Monday May 28, 2012 5:45pm - 6:15pm PDT
Center House Theatre: Sponsored by KUOW 47.62170, -122.35049
  Dance Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre EDA -- Southeast-East Asia - DANCE
  • URL
  • Biography Comprised of dance students at the Melody Institute, active in the Pacific Northwest for more than 17 years, the Melody Dance Group has performed in a number of events including, but not limited to, the Folklife Festival, Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts, Seattle Center's Chinese Arts and Culture Festival, and Winterfest. The group also actively volunteers by performing for senior centers, schools, and community centers. Almost all the dances were choreographed by Melody Xie, such as ribbon dance, fan dance, umbrella dance.

7:25pm PDT

Sampada Bhalerao
Sitar by Sampada Bhalerao

Monday May 28, 2012 7:25pm - 8:00pm PDT
Center House Theatre: Sponsored by KUOW 47.62170, -122.35049
  Music Performance, (if applicable)
  • Genre FRW -- World-Intl Folk - MUSIC
  • URL
  • Biography I learned to play sitar from my mother in Indian Classical Music Tradition. I have also received vocal as well as sitar training from other renowned teachers. I grew up in India and now settled in Seattle for past 15 years.
 

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