Sean Jewell – The 22nd installment of the Capitol Hill Block Party is underway. As you gear up for the second day of action, here’s some quick festival advice: Hydrate. Eat something. Don’t forget your earplugs. Be patient, be kind.
Friday, June 1 marks the opening day of the 2018 Upstream! Music Fest, a three-day musical gathering that takes place at a series of outdoor stages and indoor venues in and around Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood.
This year, our intrepid Sasquatch one man media node, Grandpa Andy Bookwalter, will be flanked by two other wonderful NadaMucho.com contributors he doesn’t really know when he’s enjoying and describing this year’s festival at the Gorge Amphitheater. The three of them will provide updates on their own social media handles as well as our Instagram, Flickr and Twitter pages.
Nine years ago I gave my little buddy Tim TBASA Basaraba a night at Mars Bar, the small Eastlake Club where me and some co-conspirators booked the majority of the shows for a four year period, for him to do start something he believed in: a recurring night where he invited local musicians to come play intimate sets, primarily acoustic and always stripped down.
Sam Hardy – Imagine you’re sitting there with Ian Parton in his parents’ kitchen in Brighton, way back in 2004, watching him piece together what would become his band’s debut album, Thunder, Lightning, Strike.
