Arni Adler crosses arts disciplines regularly. As a long-ago graduate of Bennington College (known for its “institutionalized creativity”), Arni has worked in theater, music, film, visual art, multi-media, and creative writing. As a stalwart fan of the trio format, she is a founding and current member of the super-harmony trios Uncle Bonsai and her ninth […]
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Sheila Fox, a vocalist and clarinetist, has performed professionally for over 20 years. Her repertoire covers klezmer, Yiddish folk and theater songs, Ladino, Jazz, Swing and Latin. She is the lead singer of the Kosher Red Hots, has toured in Russia, New York, California, and the Northwest, and has recorded 2 CDs. Sheila has studied […]
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Tunog Pil-Am is a youth ensemble of 15 members playing Philippine traditional music and their contemporary Filipino American interpretations. The ensemble is directed by Pamela Costes, a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Washington who has studied for more than 10 years in the Philippine gong and drum ensemble called kulintang with master […]
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KT Niehoff is an artist whose focus is the complex relationship between bodies and space. She creates multi-sensory, multi-dimensional, immersive performance environments, with highly crafted audience participation. These experiences both integrate and transcend choreography, music, design, film and technology, narrative and audience/artist proximity. In 1992, KT was invited by choreographic pioneer Pat Graney to perform […]
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Emma Zunz is Annie Lewandowski (accordion, guitar, voice) and Cristin Miller (voice, guitar). Cristin and Annie first collaborated as members of Switch, an experimental electro-acoustic sextet, in which Annie played accordion and musical saw and Cristin was the vocalist. They began Emma Zunz in winter of 2003. They toured with the Dead Science, Calvin Johnson, […]
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Lesli Dalaba is recognized as one of the most distinctive trumpet players in improvised music, combining a mastery of unorthodox playing techniques with a delicate, moving lyricism. She began performing in California in the 1970s with Wayne Horvitz. In 1978 she moved to New York, where she formed her own quartet and performed for 10 […]
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Tiny Manhood are Kendra Wight on ukelele and vocals, Jenessa Wight on bass and vocals, Blaine Sizemore on drums, and Aaron Long on trombone, toy instruments, and backing vocals. They are based in Seattle, Washington. Artist Support Program 2006: a CD of original pop songs performed on unusual acoustic instruments and toys.
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Christa Wells has been a performer for many years. She has played electronic/DnB/Dubstep music with KJ SAWKA (Destroid, Pendulum, Impossible Records) and released several records featuring songs she wrote under that name. Christa has recorded music with The Afghan Whigs, Carrie Akre (Hammerbox, Goodness), The Long Winters, C-Leb and the Kettle Black, Trick Deck, & […]
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One World Taiko, founded in 1990 in San Francisco, is led by founding members Gary Tsujimoto and Nancy Ozaki. OWT presents a contemporary style of Japanese drumming that incorporates dynamic and fluid movement. Their repertoire includes traditional pieces, which were taught to them by the world-renowned groups Kodo and Ondekoza from Japan, and their own […]
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Joe Diebes (b. 1972) creates works that converge around the categories of concert music, installations, and conceptual art. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1995, where he studied composition formally with Jonathan Berger and Michael Tenzer while pursuing a degree in Literature and Philosophy. He also studied at Juilliard with Stanley Wolfe and […]
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