Sustainable Ballard Festival – Loyal Heights Community Center, Seattle – September 27, 2025
The title says it all, and music was only one facet of the overall festivities. Mimosa String Quartet played a lot of arrangements of modern pop songs. Since I am not fluent in what’s happening in that world, I recognized them only as well-arranged string quartet works, to my ear, indistinguishable from legit classical pieces. Rosevar’s set list was varied, and included a few numbers of his own composition, that were created for some of the environmental programs that he participates in. He also played Paul Simon’s “April Come She Will”, also on my own set list, leading to a “gotcha” moment regarding the album on which it appears. Deaver, who is also a luthier, was uncharacteristically solo, as he usually performs as part of the group Old Coast.
Mimosa String Quartet
Asher Deaver
Sheldon Rosevar