Bumbershoot - September 4, 2010

Wheedle's Grove

Pat Thomas on Black Panther Party influence on music

Liis Todd & Kathleen Donnelly Sing With Dan Sales Trio

Kathleen Donnelly gave Liis and me a ride up to Carolina Smoke, a barbecue restaurant in Bothell, Washington, for a performance by the Dan Sales Trio. Liis and Kathleen provided vocals on a couple of tunes.



Dan Sales

Chuck Kistler

Liis Todd, vocalist

Kathleen Donnelly, vocalist

Carolina Smoke owner David Hayward in photo

Carrie Wicks, Aria Prame & Billy Brandt at Lucid

On September 1, 2010, jazz vocalists Carrie Wicks, Aria Prame and Billy Brandt performed at Lucid, in Seattle’s University District.

Carrie Wicks

Billy Brandt

Aria Prame

Summer Night in Belltown

The scene on an August night in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle reminds me ever so slightly of my own youthful nights on the Sunset Strip. Call it Sunset Strip Lite. Very Lite.

SAM Remix - Olympic Sculpture Park - August 27, 2010

An edition of SAM Remix, a quarterly Seattle Art Museum event, took place on August 27, 2010, at the Olympic Sculpture Park. Activities included:

• The Seattle Percussion Collective providing a sunset soundtrack in front of Richard Serra’s "Wake"
• Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock discussing his brand new installation for the PACCAR Pavilion
• Truckasauras rocking the party with an explosive lo-fi live set
• Susie Lee presenting a dance, music and digital drawing project
• Writer Amber Flame responding to the work of Trenton Doyle Hancock
• The band Library Science rousing the senses with aural and visual delights
• SunTzu Sound presenting a cosmic blend of urban cultures and organic rhythms
• A collaboration with visual artist Mandy Greer using recycled materials
• Dancing under the stars to the global beats of DJ Manpreet and R.I. Productions of I Heart Shiva
• Contributing to a massive collaborative comic drawing with the Bureau of Drawers
• A spontaneous one-line poetry form activity derived by Allen Ginsberg from haiku
• And My Favorite Things Tours with artists Jenny Heishman and Jesse Higman, writer Michael Dylan Welch, The Seattle Weekly’s Victoria Ellison, The Stranger’s art critic Jen Graves, The Stranger’s Pick Lucas Deon Spivey and others