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2023-10-04 Hardly Raining The 35th annual Earshot Jazz Festival begins on Friday, October 6, 2023. The nearly month-long festival will offer live performances across the jazz spectrum. Concerts will take place in venues throughout Seattle, and some will also be live-streamed. Headliners include Hiromi’s Sonicwonder, The Bad Plus & Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, säje, Sona Jobarteh, […]
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2023-08-25 Hardly Raining THING Festival returned to Fort Worden for its third year on August 25-27, 2023. The nonprofit Seattle Theatre Group and Sasquatch! founder Adam Zacks produced the event. Overview The three-day festival featured a worldwide selection of musical artists, with an emphasis upon the U.S. Pacific Northwest. This year’s headliners included indie-folk Seattle
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2023.09.23 Hardly Raining Protesters rallied in the Chinatown–International District on September 23, 2023 to demand justice for Jaahnavi Kandula. Kandula, a 23-year-old graduate student, was killed by a police vehicle in January 2023. Body-camera footage released this month revealed that a Seattle Police Department officer had made callous remarks about Kandula’s death, prompting local and
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2023-08-25–27 Hardly Raining The third THING Festival takes place in Port Townsend on August 25-27, 2023. Based at Fort Worden, the three-day event features “music & arts & other things.” (For an overview, read last year’s festival review.) Headliners include indie-folk Seattle natives Fleet Foxes, Atlanta hip-hop artist Lil Yachty, electropop duo Sylvan Esso, R&B
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2023-08-17 Hardly Raining Seattle natives vocalist Sara Gazarek and trumpeter Thomas Marriott closed out the 2023 Summer Series at the Amphitheater. The series featured six free outdoor concerts in Seattle’s Volunteer Park. Gazarek’s group included a NYC lineup of Julian Shore (piano), Matt Aranoff (bass), and Jared Schonig (drums), along with special guest Tatum Greenblatt
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2023-07-12 Hardly Raining Seattle Americana group The Dusty 45s performed at Nectar Lounge on July 12, 2023. The group included Billy Joe Huels (vocals, guitar, trumpet), Robin Cady (bass), Kohen Burrill (drums), and Rod Cook (guitar). DJ Sean Jewell spun country records between live sets. Sponsored by Elysian Brewing, the event was free to attendees
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2023-07-01 Hardly Raining South African pianist, vocalist, and composer Nduduzo Makhathini performed at the Royal Room on July 1, 2023. His trio included Francisco Mela (drums) and Zwelakhe-Duma Bell Le Pere (bass). Makhathini released his latest album, In the Spirit of Ntu, in 2022. The show was the final event in the Earshot Jazz Spring
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2023-06-25 Hardly Raining Queer/Pride Festival returned to Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood last weekend. The three-day outdoor event featured LGBTQIA+ centric music and drag performances along a closed-off street outside festival sponsor Queer/Bar. The Sunday headliner was Australian-American dance-pop artist Betty Who. Flanked by two sometimes-shirtless background dancers, the out bisexual artist performed to an enthusiastic
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2023.06.22 Hardly Raining The East–West Trumpet Summit performed at The Royal Room on June 22, 2023. Personnel included Thomas Marriott (trumpet, flugelhorn), Ray Vega (trumpet, flugelhorn), Roy McCurdy (drums), Michael Glynn (bass), and Tim Kennedy (piano). Seattle multi-instrumentalist Jay Thomas sat in for the final number. The event celebrated the release of their album, Coast
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2023-06-17 Hardly Raining The Steve Lehman Trio performed at Raisbeck Auditorium on June 17, 2023. A jazz alto saxophonist and composer, Lehman was accompanied by Damion Reid (drums) and Matt Brewer (bass). In 2019, they released The People I Love. The trio completes a five-date tour tonight in Los Angeles, joined by tenor saxophonist Mark
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