Seattle and Brooklyn-based Jessica Lurie is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser, performing on saxophones, flute, voice, accordion and electronics. She calls on a wide range of musical influences, including, funk, jazz, Americana, gospel, Klezmer, Balkan, Latin, and Afro-Cuban music, as well as a great love for free improvisation. She has performed at festivals, universities, […]
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Seattle-based guitarist Bill Horist has played on dozens of records and has performed throughout North and Central America, Europe and Japan; collaborating with numerous leading lights in a beguiling range of genres. Perhaps best known for his prepared guitar treatments, his work is widely regarded alongside masters like Fred Frith and Keith Rowe. He has […]
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Abel Rocha is a Mexico City-born folklorist, singer and multi-instrumentalist who performs music of Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Chile and Argentina. He is a foundational member of groups including Trío Guadalevín. Correo Aereo, and Los Flacos and was recently the subject of the KCTS 9 Seattle Emmy-nominated documentary, Los Artistas. Artist Support Program 2024 (with Trio […]
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Till the Teeth is an interdisciplinary art collective founded by Jonathan Rodriguez and Sandesh Nagaraj. Engaging sound, movement, and visual media, their work spans performance, sculpture, and multimedia installation. Grounded in the cultural and contested landscapes of the U.S.-Mexico border and southern India, Till the Teeth serves as a lens for framing sonic and spatial […]
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Athr (pronounced ah-ther) is an audio visual artist based in Seattle, WA. Working at the intersection of music, art, and technology Athr is a social activism empowered music project who makes music to empower marginalized communities. Their 2020 debut album Childhood’s End received critical acclaim from Seattle Met Magazine who described it as “industrial-futurist R&B/hip-hop […]
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Vibhuti Kavishwar has been learning music since the early age of 5. Her father, Late Shri Lakshman Chausalkar, was her first guru and a great composer. She is currently taking vocal lessons from Srivani Jade in Seattle. Vibhuti runs her own music institute, Swarsadhana School of Music, where she teaches both kids and adults. Her […]
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So’le Celestial (they/them) is a Trans Non-Binary, Queer, and Gela’ CHamoru multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, performer, and producer. Born and raised on Guahån in the Mariana Islands, So’le moved to the Puget Sound Salish area in 2013 with their family. Their work honors the existence and sacredness of Indigenous CHamoru and Trans Non-Binary, Queer, and […]
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Michael Hamm is a Seattle-based composer focused on stories that invite a homecoming to the body and a curiosity about the natural world. He has worked in collaboration with musicians, science educators, poets, filmmakers, and stage artists to produce shows that blend myth and science. In 2019, Mike’s electroacoustic ensemble Cosmozoa created a full-length album […]
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Nada Rosa is an otherworldly audio/visual experience and band led by artist, filmmaker, and performer, Brandi Diaz. A blend of psychedelic rock and soul that takes roots in latin rhythms, ’60s-inspired garage, and surf, Nada Rosa delivers a spiritual and interdisciplinary dreamscape that fuses elements of ecstatic dance during performances to bring sonic layers to […]
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MANtrio is an improvising trio with Sage Romey (piano), Sarah Yates (bass) and Melanie Sehman (drums/percussion) that uses the standard trio format as a laboratory for exploration, performing improvised music and original creative work. With radical listening as a guiding principle, their work breaks down conventional stylistic barriers and ensemble roles, blurring the line between […]
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