Another Rainy Saturday

I can’t express how excited I am to give away tickets to this show. Wanda Jackson and Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside are playing together at Neumos on Friday, April 20. Wanda Jackson is the coolest old lady in the world. I saw the first lady of rockabilly open for Adele last year and she blew [...]

This will be a great show that one would be ill-advised to miss. Country singer Rachel Mae, one of my favorite singers in Seattle (see my feature on her from December here) is paying tribute to the late Etta James with a show at Columbia City Theater on Saturday, April 14. The show will also feature “special [...]

If you’ve noticed our front page in the past week or so, you’ve noticed that we have a lot of tickets to give away to readers. Here is a list of the shows we have free tickets to give away, with links to the complete details: Heartless Bastards at the Crocodile, Monday, April 9 Rachel Mae’s tribute [...]

  The Portland Cello Project, cleverly abbreviated as PCP, is exactly that. There is no false advertising in the name. They are a collection of cellists from Portland who often cover pop songs as classical pieces. See, for example, the below (downloadable) cover of Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “H.A.M.” They have a new album out May 1 [...]

   The last Little Big Show happened in February and it reportedly raised over $13,000 for nonprofit Arts Corp with Pickwick and Fly Moon Royalty. It’s a semi-frequent series, sponsored by the good people at Starbucks at STG, that puts on benefit shows every so often (I think four times a year) and the next one is [...]