Off the Wall School of Music teacher, Leah T will be performing a very special set at the Fremont Abbey on Thursday, June 28th, 8pm-10:30pm. She will be making her Abbey debut featuring Steve Ryals on trumpet, clarinet, flute, and saxophone. This will be a night filled with entirely original music beginning with Heather […]
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So, by now, we should all know now that Pearl Jam exploded and it all started 25 years ago this very week. And they went on and made more records and had more fun and then they…came back! And, when they did, the gritty alternative grunge band had become mainstream. […]
On October 22, 1990 – 25 years ago today – a little band called Mookie Blaylock nervously performed its first concert at the old Off Ramp Café on Eastlake Avenue. Within a few months, a name change would rechristen them Pearl Jam. Within the decade, the world would christen them […]
Today, Cameron Crowe is a Hollywood hotshot, but in the early 1990s, he was coming off of his debut movie, “Say Anything” and he was looking for something new. He found it in Seattle’s burgeoning grunge scene and started filming “Singles,” with Matt Dillon playing a member of a local […]
It was early October, 25 years ago. Just weeks after Nirvana’s debut. And many more bands were coming up through the grunge music pipeline. Alice in Chains. Temple of the Dog. And Mother Love Bone, who had lost their charismatic front man Andrew Wood, six months earlier to a heroin […]
Pearl Jam’s released their debut album “Ten” in 1991 so others will wait until 2016 to celebrate the band’s 25th Anniversary. Not us. It’s because we know something really cool happened in October 1990. Actually, during THIS VERY WEEK. That’s why we’re celebrating. Keep up with our Pearl Jam blog […]
Ok, we get it. Not everybody is into music festivals. They are loud. They are crowded. They can be pricey. Your kids learn new words and trot them out at inopportune times. So, yea, music festivals aren’t perfect and they aren’t for everyone. So what to do? Here are some […]
Here’s the scoop: The Fab Four visited Seattle only a couple times and it so happens that both those times were during this week in August (’64 & ’66.) Uncanny! I couldn’t have planned it better had I tried! Check out this Beatles interview when the band first visited here on August 21, […]
So many parties, festivals, and soirees, but, seemingly so little summer…. Here are a couple music-related things to do! And you don’t even have to venture very far. 1) Wallingford Center Celebrates 30! They get top billing this weekend because we think Wallingford is awesome. Saturday 1-6PM! Food, Drinks and […]
Are pirates your thing? Maybe Legos? A couple cool lists of local weekend summertime happenings: 1) Here’s a good list from Seattle’s Child, which includes things like a Seafair Pirate Landing and an edible garden tour at West Woodland Elementary school, which is a few minutes northwest of our school. […]