Music

Total Experience Gospel Choir

Wallingford United Methodist Church (42nd and Bagley) invites the neighborhood to celebrate and honor Martin Luther King, Jr. this Sunday, January 20, at 11:00AM., featuring the Wallingford United Methodist Church choir and The Total Experience Gospel Choir, under the direction of Rev. Patrinell Wright. The Total Experience Gospel Choir was founded in 1973 at the Mt. Baptist Church here in Seattle, initially comprising students from Roosevelt and Franklin High Schools. Over the years, the choir has toured throughout the United States and in…

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Christmas light show extravaganza

Boy, I'll tell ya, Greenlake resident Jeff Rodenburg has a thing about Christmas lights. Since 2001, Jeff has put on a nightly Christmas light show in front of his home that dazzles NE 57th Street throughout the month of December. He's got a whopping 30,000 lights in all, with 19,000 of them used for a huge Christmas tree. The lights are synchronized to music that you can listen to on your car radio (or portable, if you walk), tuned to 102.1…

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Wallingford Weekend: Solstice and Christmas Concerts

Here are some events happening in the neighborhood this weekend:   Unsilent Night Friday, Dec 21 - Winter Solstice   HELLO FRIENDS and HAPPY WINTER! The Seattle Composers' Salon and Nosequitur are excited to be co-hosting (along with composer Josh Parmenter) this really fun event on December 21st. Details:6:30 PM The night starts at the Chapel Performance Space (link) up on the 4th floor, where we will all meet and organize the neighborhood path that we will take. From there, we will all…

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Sip Cider and Dance

Join the Burke-Gilman Trail Urban Orchard Stewards on Sunday from noon to 3 pm at their 2nd Annual Cider Pressing event. The Orchard Stewards take care of 23 public fruit trees on the Trail between the University Bridge and just west of Gasworks Park. The one pear and 22 apple trees are thriving after many work parties this past year. In snow, rain, and even sun, volunteers removed blackberries, Scotch Broom, cherry laurel and English Ivy, spread wood chips and Zoo…

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Re-Channeling Edith Piaf

In case you missed her back in January, or during the Stone Way Community Party a few weeks back, Wallingford's Fathia Atallah is back by popular demand to perform her musical tribute to Edith Piaf this Saturday, June 9 at 8pm at Creative Music Adventures (4501 Interlake Avenue #2): Come hear the songs of Edith Piaf as they were meant to be sung, by native French speaker Fathia Atallah. With a voice that captures the spirit of 'the little sparrow,' Fathia brings…

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Stone Way Community Party

Neighbors who live at the Stone Way Building (1215 N. 45th St.) are throwing a "Community Stone Way Party" this Saturday, May 26, from 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM and everyone is invited. Here are the details from Fathia Atallah (Wallingford's Edith Piaf incarnate): Our Spring Party is a always a lot of fun for the residents and our neighbors who live around and near the Stone Way Building to spend time with each other in the lovely garden behind our…

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Tomorrow is May Day so get up and dance

Reader Kimberly C dropped us a note to let us know that her Morris dance troupe, The Sound and Fury Morris Dancers will be greeting the sunrise on tomorrow morning at Gas Works Park. Interested in watching or joining in the fun? Here's the 4-1-1: May Day and Morris dancing go back centuries to Olde England, which has a similar climate to Seattle. So spring doesn’t really arrive until sometime in May. At some point centuries ago, Morris dancers realized that if they would…

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