Maia Brown is a Yiddish musician and dance-leader, writer, translator, visual artist and educator. Brown has a background in oral history and fine art, including a Watson Fellowship to study storytelling and advocacy in South Africa and the North of Ireland. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. She […]
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There are few sounds more quintessentially Japanese than the shakuhachi, an end-blown bamboo flute. Kodō Araki the 6th is a living connection to this music dating back to the middle of the 18th century. For the Araki family, the shakuhachi is more than a musical instrument; it is a conduit handed down through his family […]
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Andy Frankel is an event promoter who spent 20 years in the music industry developing African recording artists all over the world and doing record production. In 1989 Andy started Rakumi Arts, a Seattle-based non-profit organization that promoted the arts and culture of Africa. He also founded a record label called IndigiDisc which has issued […]
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Hank Bradley and Cathie Whitesides are traditional folk music masters. Hank’s Southern style fiddling began with time spent with Otis Burris and the Mountain Ramblers of Galax, VA in the ’60s. He is also adept on Greek bouzouki, Croatian tamburitsa, mandolin, guitar, and banjo. His Poison Coyote Kid LP began his reputation as song and […]
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The Black Cat Orchestra (horn player Don Crevie, cellist Lori Goldston, saxophonist Scott Granlund, accordion player Kyle Hanson, vocalist Jessika Kenney, drummer Emily Marsh, and double bassist Jeff Teitelbaum) was formed in Seattle in 1991. Their repertoire spans a wide range of styles, including music from Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia as well as […]
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Originally from New England, Fred Hoadley studied music at Hampshire College and Berklee College of Music, where his teachers included Jaki Byard, Vishnu Wood, and Charlie Banacos. He founded the Seattle salsa band Bochinche in 1983, produced the band’s first album, and founded the Seattle based Afro-Cuban Jazz band, Sonando, whose 1994, 1998, & 2006 […]
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David Wright is a pianist and Sacred Harp singer who currently resides in Seattle. His work is influenced by traditional folk singing styles and poetic genres, and he is a collector of field and traditional recordings. He graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2000, where he studied composition with Brenda Hutchinson and Randolph […]
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Andrew Schloss studied at Bennington College, the University of Washington, and Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1985 working at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics). He has taught at Brown University, the University of California at San Diego, The Banff Centre for the Arts, and currently at the University […]
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Sandra Layman, violinist and violist, studied violin with Werner Lywen (then concertmaster, Washington DC National Symphony), Paul Zukofsky (at the New England Conservatory), Martin Friedmann (longtime member, Seattle Symphony), Stanley Ritchie (then first violinist with the Philadelphia String Quartet; now early music specialist at Indiana University), and with Petre Lefterescu, Octavian Ratiu, and George Manoliu […]
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Nacha Mendez grew up in the tiny border town of La Union, in southern New Mexico. She is Chiricahua Apache and Mexican. She began singing and playing the guitar at an early age. She learned traditional Ranchera canción from her grandmother and performed in border towns near El Paso with her cousins, the Black Brothers, […]
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