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Author Archives: parker
Raveena – July 11, 2025
Raveena – Westlake Park, Seattle – July 11, 2025 Downtown Summer Sounds, the organization behind these concerts gets major rotten tomatoes for adding an unannounced warmup act for the featured Raveena. It was some DJ whose talent was pressing buttons … Continue reading
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Busking Port Townsend (David Whipple) – July 10, 2025
Busking Port Townsend (David Whipple) – Tyler St. @ Water St. – July 10, 2025 Not being sure what to expect for the day’s work, and semi-planning for watercolor, I was without my usual pen & pencil assortment, so resorted … Continue reading
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Busking Seattle (Kalimba Cos, Parth Shah) – July 6, 2025
Busking Seattle (Kalimba Cos, Parth Shah) – Ballard Farmers Market – July 6, 2025 Cosmo is lately a Farmers Market fixture, smilingly swaying and bopping along to his wordless stream-of-consciousness kalimba jam. Shah was busking for the first time, getting … Continue reading
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Folichon Cajun Band – June 28, 2025
Folichon Cajun Band – Sunset Hill Community Hall – June 28, 2025 I was running the PA board for the performance stage at SHCH’s annual summer BBQ, so I figured that watercolor sketching could be doable, at least for the … Continue reading
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Busking Seattle (Alexei Kendall-Bray) – June 22, 2025
Busking Seattle (Alexei Kendall-Bray) – Ballard Farmers Market – June 22, 2025 Kendall-Bray had the compact busker-shlep-on-wheels setup that delivered a quite adequate sound, and an engaging presentation that included nailing the falsetto of the uber-pop There She Goes by … Continue reading
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Johnny McBride – May 4, 2025
Johnny McBride – Fisherman’s Terminal, Seattle – May 4, 2025 Much as I would like to get out with USk more often, it’s usually only the geographically convenient sessions for me. A concurrent event at the Fisherman’s Terminal was the … Continue reading
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Ladies Musical Club of Seattle – April 14, 2025
Ladies Musical Club of Seattle – University House Wallingford- April 14, 2025 The theme here was “Composer’s Concert”; of the composers present I was able to sketch Steve White, who also performed his two works on piano, and Patrick O’Keefe, … Continue reading
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Ladies Musical Club of Seattle – April 9, 2025
Ladies Musical Club of Seattle – Seattle Public Library, Central Branch – April 9, 2025 The two-part program consisted of Michelle Huang’s offering of piano works by Brahms and Mazzoli, and a recital of vocal music by local composers, by … Continue reading
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Busking Seattle (Jon Andrew Franklin) – March 23, 2025
Jon Andrew Franklin – Ballard Farmers Market – March 23, 2025 Franklin is an energetic performer who’s got all of the bases covered: the fiddling, the singing, the rig, the pedals, the stickers, the patter. He was undeterred by some … Continue reading
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Loud & Smart & In Color book tour – March 6, 2025
Loud & Smart & In Color book tour – Push/Pull – March 6, 2025 Push/Pull (https://www.pushpullseattle.com/) is a combination art supply store/gallery/workshop that also hosts events, such as this one catering to the Comix community. A number of creators were … Continue reading
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