Shaina Shepherd – Seattle Center – July 25, 2025
Music took place as part of the weekend-long “Bite of Seattle” food festival at Settle Center. The layout of SC continues to baffle my navigational mojo. Does a sign, “Fisher Pavillion”, prominent on a building, indicate that the pavillion event is indoors or outdoors? In keeping with my not-with-it (or is it curmudgeon?) theme, I now walk away from punishingly loud bass that discombobulates my insides, a disturbing modern trend; so I won’t even mention the first band that I was there to see. Likewise with the alternative that I gravitated to, more moderately audio-ized, but for about 20 subsequent minutes of web searching cannot find any trace of identification of individuals in the band. Redemption of the day was the sublime Shaina Shepherd with her astonishing range of vocal palette, here as a solo accompanying herself on keys. Sorry to say, the out-of-his-league PA arrangement continued the sabotage mission.