April 2012
4/02
SEATTLE CONDUCTION BAND
The Royal Room
5000 Rainier Ave S
8pm
Led by Wayne Horvitz featuring Beth Fleenor, Samantha Boshnack, and other fine fixtures of the Seattle music community including Steve Moore, Craig Flory, Luke Bergman, Kate Olson, and more.
Information: www.theroyalroomseattle.com
4/04
SCRAPE with Bill Frisell
Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N
8pm
Scrape, in association with Open Space for Arts, presents three incarnations of this special event. The adventurous 16-string orchestra with harp, known for performing the music of inimitable composers Eyvind Kang and Jim Knapp, will feature new compositions by Bill Frisell. Scrape will perform four suits from his recent Sign of Life and Kaddish series, in addition to featuring him as a guest soloist in compositions by Kang and Knapp.
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/236262
Additional performances: 04/05 (Seattle) & 4/07 (Vashon) see below
Information: www.jimknappmusic.com
4/05
SOUND OF SILENTS WITH A SIDE OF SCHTICK
featuring SEATTLE JAZZ COMPOSERS ENSEMBLE
in collaboration with SIFF, SCA and Moisture Festival
SIFF Cinema at the Uptown
511 Queen Anne Ave N
7:30pm
Travel back to a bygone era when cinema and vaudeville shared the bill for a brief moment in history..revel in an exceptional collection of early cinema shorts ranging from 1907-1934. Each film is accompanied by a newly written original score by members of Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble and the Seattle Composers Alliance, including Beth Fleenor, Michael Owcharuk, Nate Omdal, Catherine Grealish, Eric Nielsen, and Jeff Tolbert, performed by a 7-piece ensemble. In between films, a carefully curated and curious collection of vaudeville acts.
Tickets: www.siff.net
Information: www.seattlejazzcomposersensemble.com
4/05
SCRAPE with Bill Frisell
Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N
8pm
Scrape, in association with Open Space for Arts, presents three incarnations of this special event. The adventurous 16-string orchestra with harp, known for performing the music of inimitable composers Eyvind Kang and Jim Knapp, will feature new compositions by Bill Frisell. Scrape will perform four suits from his recent Sign of Life and Kaddish series, in addition to featuring him as a guest soloist in compositions by Kang and Knapp.
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/236262
Additional performances: 4/04 (Seattle) & 4/07 (Vashon) see below
Information: www.jimknappmusic.com
4/07
SCRAPE with Bill Frisell
Open Space
18870 103rd Ave SW
Vashon Island
8pm
Scrape, in association with Open Space for Arts, presents three incarnations of this special event. The adventurous 16-string orchestra with harp, known for performing the music of inimitable composers Eyvind Kang and Jim Knapp, will feature new compositions by Bill Frisell. Scrape will perform four suits from his recent Sign of Life and Kaddish series, in addition to featuring him as a guest soloist in compositions by Kang and Knapp.
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/236262
Additional performances: 4/07 (Vashon) see below
Information: www.jimknappmusic.com
4/10
DOUGLAS DETRICK CARTOGRAPHY QUARTET
Egan's Ballard Jam House
1707 NW Market Street
9pm
Douglas Detrick, an Oregonian working in the New York music scene, brings together a jazz quartet of old and new friends to play music inspired by the many channels of the American folk tradition. Douglas Detrick (trumpet, voice, composition), Bill Marsh (guitar), Keith Lowe (bass), Paul Kikuchi (drums).
Information: www.douglasdetrick.com
4/13
FIGEATER
Hollow Earth Radio
2018 E Union St
9pm
Beth Fleenor's neo-chamber avant noise jazz outfit - FIGEATER on point for a Hollow Earth in studio - with Scumeating, Microbabies, and Chung Antique.
Featuring FIGEATER conFIGuration POWER FIG with Fleenor on clarinets/voice/electronics with Jeff Huston (guitar), Paul Kemmish (bass) & Tom Zgonc (drums).
Information: www.hollowearthradio.org
4/16
SEATTLE CONDUCTION BAND
The Royal Room
5000 Rainier Ave S
8pm
Led by Wayne Horvitz featuring Beth Fleenor, Samantha Boshnack, and other fine fixtures of the Seattle music community including Steve Moore, Craig Flory, Luke Bergman, Kate Olson, and more.
Information: www.theroyalroomseattle.com
4/18
WAYNE HORVITZ: SWEETER THAN THE DAY &
ROBIN HOLCOMB BAND
The Royal Room
5000 Rainier Ave S
8pm
Wayne Horvitz's original acoustic quartet featuring Tim Young, Keith Lowe & Andy Roth with the Robin Holcomb Band. Tapestries of Americana beauty.
Information: www.theroyalroomseattle.com
4/25
BOBBY PREVITE - IN A SILENT WAY: THE MUSIC OF ELECTRIC MILES
The Royal Room
5000 Rainier Ave S
7pm
Percussionist Bobby Previte leads a 12-piece ensemble through some of Miles Davis' classic electric repertoire, including tracks from Bitches Brew and In A Silent Way.
Information: www.theroyalroomseattle.com
4/27 & 28
CONFLUENCE/INFLUENCE: A Composer/Choreographer Pairing presented by Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble and Karin Stevens Dance
Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N
8pm
SJCE has joined forces with Karin Stevens Dance to present and evening of new work created through an idiosyncratic Composer/Choreographer pairing. Four composers and four choreographers join forces to generate work from the ground up.
Karin Steven Dance + Composer Michael Owcharuk
UMAMI Performance + Composer Beth Fleenor
Amy Weaver + Composer Catherine Grealish
Khambatta Dance Company + Stephen Fandrich
Information: www.seattlejazzcomposersensemble.com
May 2012
5/01-03
(____) enough.
James Washington Foundation
1816 26th Ave
7pm
FREE
The latest performative installation by sound/physical artist Paris Hurley, exploring shame and its role in a woman's perpetuation of her own oppression.
Information: www.parishurley.org
5/07
SEATTLE CONDUCTION BAND
The Royal Room
5000 Rainier Ave S
8pm
Led by Wayne Horvitz featuring Beth Fleenor, Samantha Boshnack, and other fine fixtures of the Seattle music community including Steve Moore, Craig Flory, Naomi Seigel, Kate Olson, and more.
Information: www.theroyalroomseattle.com
5/17
CRYSTAL BETH
with WEREBEARCAT
Rendezvous Jewel Box Theater
2322 2nd Ave
Crystal Beth (Beth Fleenor's solo project) spins sound using voice, clarinet, loops, and effects, weaving a participatory aural ritual that encompasses Fleenor's body of urban tribal chants & improvisations, alien disco breaks, and robot love songs. Crystal Beth is a psychoactive stimulant that increases alertness, concentration, and energy, and in high doses, can induce euphoria, enhance self-esteem, and increase libido. She opens for Werebearcat on this action packed evening.
Information: www.thefrankagency.org/beth
5/18
SAM BOSHNACK QUINTET
The Royal Room
5000 Rainier Ave S
8:30pm
An explosive quintet featuring the music prolific composer/trumpeter Samantha Boshnack (trumpet) with Beth Fleenor (clarinets), Dawn Clement (piano), Isaac Castillo (bass), and Max Wood (drums). Boshnack will premiere 5 new works alongside a three-movement suite composed for the Royal Room opening gala.
Ari Joshua closes out the night.
Information: www.theroyalroomseattle.com
5/27
SEATTLE CONDUCTION BAND
The Royal Room
5000 Rainier Ave S
8pm
Led by Wayne Horvitz featuring Beth Fleenor, Samantha Boshnack, and other fine fixtures of the Seattle music community including Steve Moore, Craig Flory, Naomi Seigel, Kate Olson, and more.
Information: www.theroyalroomseattle.com
5/28
FRANKLY MONDAYS (can be awesome)
AMY DENIO / BETH FLEENOR: PYRODUO
TONE DOGS REUNION PERFORMANCE
The Royal Room
5000 Rainier Ave S
8pm
The Frank Agency has teamed up with the Royal Room to highlight Frank artists & affiliates in a monthly sonic presentation. A split bill the last Monday of each month will feature a range of projects, artists, ideas & perspectives. Taking advantage of the "project room" nature of Columbia City's new space, you can expect that the sounds will be ever changing monthly, while the level of quality, expressiveness, and exploration stays invigorating. Listen, talk with artists, commune...Frankly Mondays, can be awesome...
Information: www.theroyalroomseattle.com
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Beth Fleenor
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Paris Hurley
Figeater
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