Armin Barnett was born in Chicago in 1948. At the age of ten he was galvanized by hearing an instrumental recording of The Stanley Brothers on the radio, and took up the banjo shortly thereafter. In his junior year of college he met and heard Franklin George, Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, and Oscar Jenkins at […]
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Andrew Weathers (b.1988) is a composer and improviser originally from Chapel Hill, NC, currently based in Littlefield, TX. His music engages with notions of place, tradition, repetition, and spirit. He studied composition at UNC-Greensboro and electronic music at Mills College in Oakland, CA. A consistent presence in the underground music scene over the past decade, […]
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Kevin Simmonds is a musician and writer originally from New Orleans. He studied music at Vanderbilt University, Middle Tennessee State University and completed the Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina. He founded Tono International Arts Association, an international arts presenter in northern Japan (Iwate Prefecture). Kevin received a Fulbright fellowship to Singapore where he […]
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The exotic dance style called charanga may have originated in Cuba, but one of the genre’s finest bands is the Seattle, Washington, USA-based Yerbabuena. While charanga is their musical speciality, Yerbabuena is very adept at other exotic dance genres as well, including son, cha-cha-chá, guaguancó, and danzón. This large group of musicians has been together […]
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Del Rey, a guitarist since age four, became fascinated with the ukulele about six years ago, after being surrounded by ukesters chanting “Four strings good! Six strings bad!” at the Ukulele Freedom Front. She and Matt Weiner played in the old-time jazz group the Yes Yes Boys and she plays uke in a duet with […]
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Sandy Diamond studied literature at Brandeis University and earned a BFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts as a Painting Fellow. Her life motifs are manic depression and a fractured spine; she traded painting for poetry, writing about the broken body and mind. Her first book, “Miss Coffin & Mrs. Blood: Poems of Art […]
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Seattle Kokon Taiko is a performing group based in the local Seattle Japanese American community. SKT traces its roots to the Seattle Taiko Group, which formed in April 1980 following a dynamic performance by Ondekoza at the Seattle Cherry Blossom Festival. In 1987, three members left STG to form Kokon Taiko Ensemble and focus on […]
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Grand Hallway is a chamber pop band from Seattle, Washington. Led by singer/multi-instrumentalist Tomo Nakayama, Grand Hallway has released 3 full-length albums since 2007. They have toured throughout the U.S. and Japan, including performances at SXSW, Sasquatch, CMJ, Bumbershoot, and Capitol Hill Block Party. Their music has been featured on NPR, KEXP, and Amazon. Tomo […]
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Jim Page was born in California in 1949 and grew up in the heyday of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960’s. The political and social awareness of those times was a part of all artistic expression and it has stayed that way in Jim’s music ever since. Jim arrived in Seattle, where he […]
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Jes Raymond is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who writes lyric driven Americana songs. Artist Support Program 2008 : Recorded her album Even the Trees
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