Seattle Sun Newspaper - Vol. 7, Issue 5, May 2003
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LIVE IN NORTH SEATTLE!
School jazz bands to perform
By CLAYTON PARK
Maple Leaf Lutheran Church will host concerts by two award-winning Seattle middle school jazz bands in May.
Eckstein Middle School Jazz Band will perform on Saturday, May 17. Washington Middle School's jazz band will perform on Saturday, May 24.
Both concerts are from 7:30-9 p.m. and are part of an ongoing jazz music series that the church is hosting and which are open to the public.
Admission is a suggested donation of $10 for adults and $5 for students. Proceeds will benefit YATMA (Youth Advancement Through Music and Art), a Sand Point-based nonprofit organization that uses music and art to help youths learn to communicate in positive ways. YATMA is based at Sand Point.
Maple Leaf Lutheran is located at 10005 32nd NE in the Meadowbrook neighborhood. For more information about the concerts, call the church at 524-2448 or visit its Web site at www.reachoutchurch.org.
'Art' you can tap your feet to
The eighth annual Greenwood-Phinney ArtWalk on Friday evening, May 9, and Saturday afternoon, May 10, will offer treats for the ears as well as the eyes.
In addition to paintings, sculptures and photos by local artists that will be displayed all along Greenwood and Phinney avenues during the event, the ArtWalk will also offer live entertainment by several local musicians.
Woodland Park United Methodist Church will feature performances by the Seattle Mandolin Orchestra on Friday, from 7-8 p.m., and classical guitarist Jeff Hansen, also on Friday, from 8-8:30 p.m. On Saturday, the church will offer music by classical pianist Connie Voget, from 1-2 p.m., pianist Glenn Tate (who will perform "Love Songs A-Z"), from 2-3 p.m., and Acme Chamber Music (Shelley Reiss and Brad Stevens), from 3-4 p.m.
Pretty Parlor will feature Window Cabaret on Friday, from 6-10 p.m.
Rosewood Guitar will feature live classical guitar on Friday, throughout the evening.
Pema Kharpo will feature mandolinist Randy Neal on Saturday, from 1-4 p.m.
UW hosts concerts
The University of Washington School of Music will host the following concerts in May.
On Saturday, May 10, it will be an evening of jazz standards, arranged and performed by two student vocal groups, the UW Women's Jazz Ensemble and UW Vocal Jazz 1 Ensemble. Dave Cross will be the director. The concert begins at 8 p.m. and will be held at Brechemin Auditorium on the UW campus. For more info, call 685-8384.
On Wednesday, May 21, classical pianist Craig Sheppard will perform the third concert in what he describes as "a chronological journey through Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas." "This concert shows Beethoven in his experimental mode the first movement of Opus 26 in variation form, and the two of Opus 27 in the loose form of a fantasy, ...'"
The concert will be held at Meany Theater on the UW campus, beginning at 7:30 p.m. For more info, all 543-4880.