Jean-Paul Builes photo by Jake Hanson BY ERIC OLSON In 2021, as a reliably drab spring burst into summertime and newly vaccinated Seattleites eked free of winter’s many confinements, I found myself at a July Fourth celebration on the southern banks of the Duwamish...
Adriana Giordano photo by Daniel Sheehan BY ALEXA PETERS Singer and promoter Adriana Giordano, born in Porto Alegre, one of Brazil’s southernmost cities, and raised in São Paolo, wants Seattle to understand and enjoy the richness of her culture as she does....
Freddy Gonzalez photo by Daniel Sheehan BY PAUL RAUCH In the Seattle jazz community, we have often lamented the departure of our best young jazz musicians for New York and elsewhere — them not seeing the opportunity to advance their careers here. What is less...
Chris Littlefield photo by Daniel Sheehan BY M.V. SMITH Trumpeter Chris Littlefield drapes himself across an armchair in the lobby of Georgetown’s Seattle Drum School, describing the elementary school band demonstration that eventually led to his life in music. “I was...
Robin Holcomb photo by Ernie Sapirio BY JONATHAN SHIPLEY In the John Berger poem “Kerchief,” he writes, “In the morning / Folded with its wild flowers / Washed and ironed / It takes up a little space in the drawer.” It continues, “Shaking it open / She ties it round...
