Music

This Saturday, August 13th from 11 am - 10 pm is the second of two (unrelated) music festivals happening in August in Wallingford at Meridian Park: The Goddess Festival. Spearheaded by Tara Shuttleworth (also the Wallingford Art Walk coordinator for the past year), it's being billed as a fundraiser for local charities in addition to a rockin' good time: FREE and Open to the Public Three stages Local musicians, live art, theatrical performances and dancers Over thirty arts, crafts and food vendors…

There are two, count them two, music festivals by local musicians in Meridian Park (4649 Sunnyside Ave N) in the next two weeks. This coming Sunday, August 7th from 11 am - 7 pm, is the Wallingford Music Festival. That's their poster at right, and we know what you're thinking: homage to the Egyptian revolution by kindergartners, or reminisce from a DMT trip spent watching the TeleTubbies? Difficult to say. Don't worry about it too much. Here's the point: nine local bands, many based…

All week long, MTV online is running a series called Death Cab for Cutie: Seattle Sonics, in honor of the band's latest album, Codes and Keys. The article talks about the band's origins, which began in Bellingham; but did you know that when they packed up and moved to Seattle in 1999, front man Ben Gibbard took up residence in the brick apartment building on Corliss? It's true! And you can watch the clip below where they stand in front of…

HONK! Fest West returns to Seattle for its fourth year this weekend.  The traveling festival will visit  Georgetown on Friday; Gas Works Park on Saturday, May 14; and Seattle Center on Sunday. What is Honk! Fest West?  Well, it's not a gaggle of geese or a google of gooses.  Nor is it a festival designed to celebrate my Roman nose.  It's about horns & percussion & dancing.  To quote the Honk! Fest organizers themselves: HONK! Fest West is a free, three-day,…

Our buddies over at Green Lake Moms have a great deal on piano lessons this week with Wallingford-based Musicality (4910 Burke Ave. N):  $49 for 1 introductory lesson, plus 4 group lessons, and materials. Musicality teaches the Simply Music method which they define on their website as: The largest playing-based music education institution in the world, with educators at 520 locations throughout the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It presents a revolutionary, Australian-developed piano and keyboard method for those who…