A conservatory-trained classical pianist and vocalist who fell into creating electronic music shortly after a stint playing Baroque lute, Kaley Lane Eaton’s music is colored by this eclecticism, expressing a preoccupation with harmony, improvisation, storytelling, emotion, physical gesture, and vocal virtuosity. Her work has been performed across the US and internationally, in venues ranging from […]
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Kimya Dawson is a Grammy winning, platinum selling singer songwriter most widely known for her work on the JUNO soundtrack and her former band, The Moldy Peaches. She has released 6 solo albums, including a children’s album, Alphabutt. She has been featured in Rolling Stone, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, NY Times, NME, Q, AOL, and more. […]
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Singer-songwriter J.R. Rhodes believes that music heals and that love is real. From her first open-mic performances at the O.K. Hotel, Seattle, to her latest album I Am, these beliefs in the transformative power of song are distilled into gems of quiet intensity that traverse blues, jazz, folk and rock. Rhodes earned her B.A. in music […]
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Alicia Jo Rabins is a musician, composer, writer, ritualist, and Torah teacher. The New York Times calls her voice “gorgeous”; the San Francisco Chronicle calls her writing “a poetry page-turner, both sexy and humble.” She has released three albums with Girls in Trouble, her indie-folk song cycle about women in Torah; is the author of […]
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Jeffrey Moidel’s song cycle Neruda Love Sonnets received “First Place for the Nation: USA” representing Washington State in the International Ravel Composition Competition held in Bergamo, Italy in 2015 and was advanced to the Semi-Finals. His song, “And now you’re mine . . .” was singled out by the NATS Art Song Composition Award panel […]
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Benjamin Hunter is an award winning multi-instrumentalist—violin, mandolin, guitar, percussion, voice—whose interests lie in roots music from around the world. Born in Lesotho, raised predominantly in Phoenix, with stints in Seattle and Zimbabwe, Ben was raised classically on violin, but now plays a variety of styles—roots, folk, jazz, blues, gospel, world. Ben plays in the […]
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Randy Hathaway released a double CD of his compositions, Classical Guitar In America, which has received international reviews and generous radio play across the US, Canada and UK. He was the co-founder and director of the Seattle School of Music and graduate of Cornish College of the Arts. Randy resides in Yakima Washington. Randy, classical […]
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Peter Colclasure graduated with a degree in piano performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004, before going on to spend a decade touring, recording, and performing with various bands. He lived in Seattle from 2007 to 2012, where he became involved in dance accompaniment, playing piano and writing music for Dance Fremont, Spectrum Ballet, […]
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Singer and songwriter Juan Barco, born in Lytle, Texas, brings an enormous wealth of experience to the Tejano folk music for which he is so well-known in the Northwest and his native Texas. His songs are colored by his childhood experiences in the migrant labor camps of the South and the Midwest, his service in […]
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Chang Hye-Jin, a kayagum (12 string zither) performer, was born in Korea where she attended the National High School for Korean Traditional Music, and received her B.A. in kayagum from Hanyang University in Seoul. Hye-Jin has performed for radio broadcasts in Seoul and has played contemporary compositions, shinawi (instrumental improvisational performance), and court music and […]
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