Seattle Sun Newspaper - Vol. 7, Issue 10, October 2003
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Seattle Sun Out and About briefs
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players return
North Seattle's favorite musical family, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, return to the neighborhood for a Sunday, Sept. 28 show at Ballard's Sunset Tavern.
The group, featuring Jason Trachtenburg (keyboards, vocals, and a former music columnist for this newspaper), wife Tina Piña Trachtenburg (vintage carousel slide projector), and their 9-year-old daughter Rachel Piña Trachtenburg (drums) uses discarded slide collections and original songs to create what they describe as "pop-rock visual exposes."
The group's new interactive CD, "Vintage Slide Collections From Seattle, Vol. 1," was released on Sept. 23.
The band, which relocated from Lake City to New York City, has been featured on the covers of Pollstar and Music Connection magazines, and earned writeups in Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, Spin, the Village Voice, the Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Daily News. Earlier this year, the band became one of the very few unsigned musical acts to ever appear on NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" television show.
This show (and a University of Washington gig the previous evening) will kick off the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players' month-long tour. The Sunset Tavern show is at 10:30 p.m. at 5433 Ballard Ave. NW. Tickets are $10. For more information, call 784-4880.
Phinney Ridge concert series
Singer/songwriter David Francey and fiddle virtuoso Jamie Laval will headline October's "Saturday Night on Phinney Ridge" concerts presented by the Seattle Folklore Society.
Laval will perform on Saturday, Oct. 4 and Francey on Saturday, Oct. 11. Both concerts will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will be held at the Phinney Neighborhood Center Community Hall, 6532 Phinney Ave. N.
Laval, the current U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion, studied at the Victoria Conservatory of Music and now lives in the Skagit Valley. Guitarist Hannsjoerg Scheid and bassist Jon Hamar will accompany him in concert. Also sharing the stage will be a trio of dancers from Seattle's Tony Comorford School of Irish Dance, featuring Kelly Nagen.
Francey will be accompanied by guitarist and vocalist Dave Clarke.
Tickets for the Laval show are $12/$6 children under 12; tickets for the Francey show are$14/$7 children under 12. Tickets may be reserved by phone at 528-8523 or over the Internet at www.seafolklore.org.
Senior Center FallFest, Oct. 4
The rocking chairs will be rockin' for a good cause at the Wallingford Community Senior Center FallFest on Saturday, Oct. 4. The center will hold rocking chair races matching teams from local businesses and organizations including Microsoft and Children's Hospital and Regional Medical. Also competing will be the ever-tenacious Senior Team, made up of center members.
The "races" consist of 15 minute heats, with the number of "rocks" monitored by a computer. The team with the highest number of rocks tallied wins the race.
Team members have collected pledges from friends, family members and co-workers, which will benefit center operations and activities.
Also featured at the FallFest activities will be a silent auction, live entertainment, a raffle, plus a bake and craft sale with handmade items made by center members and professional craftspeople.
The Wallingford Community Senior Center is located in the basement of the Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. For details, call Ruth Herold at 461-7825.
Civic Light Opera kicks off season
Civic Light Opera recently began its 26th season with its production of Cole Porter's musical comedy "Kiss Me Kate," which will continue its run through Oct. 5. The musical theater company, which recently moved from its longtime home at the old Jane Adams School in the Meadowbrook neighborhood, now holds its shows at the Shoreline Conference Center at 1856 1st Ave. NE.
"Kiss Me Kate" tells the story of two divorced stars trying to bury the hatchets in one another during a touring musical version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."
CLO's production stars Amanda Brown, Glenn Guhr, Brittany Jamison and Bill Calhoun, among others. John Patrick Lowrie is the director.
The Shoreline Conference Center offers plenty of free parking, comfortable seats and great acoustics, says CLO's producing artistic director Greg Morales. For ticket prices and show times, call 363-4807.
Sand Point Antique Market returns, Oct. 5
More than 150 merchants will participate in this month's Sand Point Market on Sunday, Oct. 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Sand Point/Magnuson Park.
Antiques, arts and crafts, produce and flowers will be available in the historic airplane hangar on Lake Washington. Plenty of free parking is available. For more information, call 1-800-809-4063 or visit the market's Web site at www.nwantiquemarket.com.
Cabaret night at Gaspare's
Gaspare's Ristorante Italiano, located at 8051 Lake City Way NE , has launched a monthly live music night, with the next show set for Wednesday, Oct. 22, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The evening, billed as "Dianne's Night Music Cabaret," will feature a performance by vocalist (and the restaurant's co-owner) Dianne Trani and her 3-piece jazz combo: Andy Carr on keyboards, Don Berman on drums and Dennis Steaskowki on bass. Also performing will be The Fenderskirts, a vocal trio featuring Trani, and longtime friends Ginnilinn Hawkins and Kaetche Miller. The trio will sing pop tunes from the 1960s. There is no cover charge, but dinner reservations are required to attend. Info: 524-3806.
Jack Straw hosts Robin Holcomb
Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum will host Robin Holcomb, a national recording artist/composer/singer-songwriter, on Wednesday, Oct. 8. Holcomb, who lives in Seattle, will preview her new work, "O, Say a Sunset," a song cycle, for chamber ensemble and two actresses, inspired by the life and work of American environmentalist Rachel Carson, which will be performed at On the Boards on Oct. 10 and 11. Holcomb will also introduce current work in progress as well as perform songs and solo piano music from her Nonesuch recordings. The free event, which begins at 7:30 p.m., is part of a monthly Composer Spotlight series held at Jack Straw Productions, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE. For details, call 634-0919.