SE:UM - Korean Folk meets Western Jazz
Vashon Center for the Arts
Wednesday, May 1 • 7:30pm

Jazz lovers and world music enthusiasts will be equally enthralled when they step into the unique world of SE:UM. This powerhouse quintet of Western jazz and Korean folk music virtuosos use traditional Korean percussion and stringed instruments (like the gayageum and janggu) alongside traditional jazz instruments like sax, trumpet, and bass to create boundary-breaking music that dismantles barriers between genres to craft a unique musical tapestry.

SE:UM has enjoyed a meteoric rise in Korea after their debut album, earning nominations for Best Crossover Album and Best Jazz & Crossover Performance at the Korea Music Awards in 2015. Recognized as a Choice Artist by prominent international performing arts markets like PAMS and APaMM, their captivating stage presence enchanted audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, earning an outstanding five-star review. Venturing across continents, SE:UM has broken musical barriers, diving into diverse collaborations that redefine innovation in music.

SE:UM is led by award-winning Joon Lee (gayageum, Korean percussion, music director), Jaeha Lee (contrabass & electric bass), Jongsang Park (trumpet, flugelhorn), Minhyung Lee (Korean percussion, voice), and Hachul Song (alto & soprano saxophones)

“Bringing jazz and Korean traditions together, SE: UM has found the perfect recipe in their atmospheric show…. The artistry of the instruments playing is astounding; from saxophone to traditional stringed instrument gayageum, these musicians know how to manipulate the audience’s emotions.” — Broadway Baby

Dogs & Drinks
Dig Deep Gardens
Thursdays
5-8pm
21+ only

Come bring your best friend and let them learn to socialize with their own kind. And you get to drink beer and hang with fellow dog lovers. You don't even need your own dog!

Snapdragon Trivia
Every Thursday
Home Sweet Home at Snapdragon
6:30pm

Come on over to Snapdragon and challenge yourself and your neighbors at Snapdragon Trivia with host Michael Whitmore! Grab a friend and build your team! Prizes and surprises and the whole friggin' shebang!

Marcus Rezak
Open Space for Arts & Community
Thursday, May 2
Show at 7:30pm
Doors at 7:00pm

Road warrior Marcus Rezak returns May 2 with a set ranging from his high-octane Grateful Dead tribute to his most recent work, Guitar Head, a hybrid of jam and his “Home of the Blues” Chicago roots.

Rezak produced Guitar Head in collaboration with GRAMMY-award-winner Paul Nelson.

Back on Vashon for One Show Only!
DOORS 6:30PM | SHOW 7:30PM
General Admission: $25 | Youth Free
Unless the show is sold out, “Pay What You Can” tickets will be available at the door.

Mind Set Apothecary Flea Market
17917 Vashon Hwy SW
3pm-8pm Friday, May 3rd

This months First Friday hosts a community flea market, food, and live music! 13 Flea Market Vendors, Aeggy’s Farm food stand, Sweet Alyssum Farm bouquets, and The Colette Jones Band! Mind Set Apothecary has locally crafted herbal allies, artisan made jewelry and baby gifts, candles and incense, bath and beauty items, nutraceuticals, and a Community Herbalist all in one tiny shop!

With extra special pre show show at 5pm by Camp Cobain. A live performance music appreciation clinic for people who missed the 80s and 90s. Presented by West McLean.

A Taste of Open Space
Cocktail Hour Cabaret
Open Space for Arts & Community
Saturday, May 4
5:00pm-6:30pm

5:00 Welcome! —Sip your first of 3 signature tasting cocktails (with or without spirits) along with a perfectly paired bite!

5:30 Take your seat for A Taste of Open Space Cocktail Cabaret and an invitation to support Vashon’s one & only Open Space.

Cocktail Cabaret highlights include:

CIRCUS with aerialists and duet balancing | SONG with JD Hobson | DANCE with Sara Elizabeth Howard - plus a vignette from a beloved O Space production and visits from favorite O Space personalities

6:30 Raising a toast to art. heart. soul. we bid farewell —just in time for dinner!

$75 General Admission Ticket | $150 Patron Ticket
Tickets include 3 craft, tasting cocktails, 3 perfect bites, and the delights of cabaret.

Vashon Weird Music Night
Snapdragon
Saturday, May 4
Doors at 7pm

Join us for the 4th Vashon Weird Music Night. Always a fun night.

Our lineup:

Sean Kelly plays Radio Waves

Aaron Hendon plays the Bicycle

Caroline Robin plays Cello and Electrons

Roccodbunny plays a Swarm of Sound

Ela Lamblin plays his Sculptures

Make Waste plays Loops and Bloops

ellefläädt plays Uncomfortable Stuff

The Scotty Johnson Trio
Dig Deep Gardens
Saturday, May 4th
7-10pm

Playing music for your listening and dancing pleasure!

Scotty Johnson, Loren Sinner & Danny Cadman.

KAT EGGLESTON, TRACY SPRING, AND JANIS CARPER
May 5 at 7:00 P.M.
Suggested donation, $20.
Vashon Havurah
15401 Westside Hwy SW, Vashon, WA
For more information or to reserve seats, contact Kat Eggleston: kat@kateggleston.com

Kat Eggleston is proud and delighted to share a stage with two of her good friends and favorite performing songwriters at the Vashon Havurah on May 5, in a round-robin evening of song sharing.

Kat is well known to Vashon audiences, most recently in Vashon Repertory Theatre’s “Kissing the Joy as it Flies, The Wit and Wisdom of Brian Doyle” at Vashon Center for the Arts, where she wrote and performed the music for the play.

Northwest performing songwriter Tracy Spring is known for her rich, compelling vocals and versatile guitar playing. She writes full spectrum 4-minute novels, poetry and music all rolled into one. A seasoned performer, she has played in folk venues and festivals throughout North America and Australia, often combining her musical life with social justice work. Combining folk, blues and jazz influences she displays a style all her own.

Janis Carper has an ability to craft lyrics and melodies that reach into the heart and mind. Her solid guitar playing supports songs that grip the listener—from the somber and reflective to the light and humorous. Carper's singing style reflects influences like Bonnie Raitt, Rosanne Cash, and Lucinda Williams. Carper's compact disc No Place to Land was chosen as one of the top twelve independent recordings by Nashville's The Performing Songwriter magazine. In addition to solo performances, Janis has built a reputation as a fine backup vocalist and guitarist on stage and at local recording studios.

Kat, Tracy, and Janis have known each other for decades, and their lives and careers have often spun together over the years. Janis and Tracy co-wrote the song “Of This World” with Becca Christel, recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary on their final album, In These Times. Kat and Janis were both 1990 finalists in the Sing Out! sponsored New Folk songwriter competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, and both sang backup with David Bromberg on his Northwest tour.

Janis Carper toured throughout the United States with the Missouri Repertory Theatre as guitarist in Peter Glazers musical "Woody Guthrie's American Song,” a piece recently produced by Vashon Repertory Theatre. Kat worked on the same show at

Chicago’s Briar Street Theatre in the 1990s, and Vashon audiences who saw Kat’s play “The Cyclone Line” may recall that the play was directly inspired by “American Song” and the music of Woody Guthrie. www.TracySpring.com

Renaissance Psalms, Irish Baroque & Folk
Salish Sea Early Music Festival
Church of the Holy Spirit Vashon - Episcopal
Monday, May 6 at NOON

“Renaissance Psalms, Irish Baroque and Folk: Three Centuries of Folk Song” features Oleg Timofeyev and Jeffrey Cohan in a performance of three centuries of European, Scottish and Irish folk music, both sacred and secular, from the Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic periods on the plucked instruments and transverse flutes of three centuries. This is the sixth program in this year’s Salish Sea Early Music Festival bringing period instrument performances of early music to Vashon Island.

The program, in three parts, opens with settings of Psalms and variations on folk melodies by early 17th-century flutist Jacob Van Eyck, lutenist Nicolas Vallet and others performed on renaissance lute and flute. Then, baroque flute and the rare English Guitar of the 18th century will be heard performing the folk tunes of Scotland and Ireland as interpreted by the early 18th-century composers Francesco Barsanti, Turlough O'Carolan, James Oswald and others. Finally, an Eastern European 7-string guitar made in 1820 and an eight-keyed flute made in London in 1820 will be heard performing variations on folk music by the virtuoso flutists and guitarists of Beethoven’s day.

Presented in collaboration with the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, the concert takes place on Monday noon, May 6, 2024 at 12:00 PM at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit at 15420 Vashon Highway SW on Vashon Island. Admission is by suggested donation (a free will offering) of $20 to $30. Those 18 & under are free. For additional information please see www.salishseafestival.org/vashon.

About the Artists:

OLEG TIMOFEYEV is an American guitarist, lutenist and musicologist, best known for his pioneering work in the discovery, promotion, interpretation, and authentic performance of the repertoire for the 19th- and 20th-century Eastern European seven-string guitar. He began his study of the classical guitar in the early 1980s under the tutelage of Kamill Frauchi in Moscow. In 1989 his musical interests brought him to the U.S., where he studied with Patrick O'Brien, James Tyler, and Hopkinson Smith. He holds an M.A. in Early Music Performance from the University of Southern California (1993), and a Ph.D. in Performance Practice from Duke University.

Timofeyev has performed and taught widely in Europe and the United States. A recipient of numerous scholarly awards, including IREX and Fulbright fellowships, he has taught and lectured at Maimonides State Academy (Moscow), Duke University, the University of Kansas, Northwestern University, Princeton University, the University of Iowa, Grinnell College, and the Smithsonian. His publications include a range of articles on the guitar in Russia, including entries in several standard musical reference works. One of the most prolific Russian guitarists living outside of Russia, he has to date released 12 CD recordings on international labels.

JEFFREY COHAN, who according to the New York Times can “play several superstar flutists one might name under the table”, has performed throughout Europe, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and for the USIA Arts America Program in the South Pacific, South America, Turkey and Portugal. First Prize winner of the Olga Koussevitzky Young Artist Competition in New York and recipient of grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music and the French Government, he has received international acclaim both as a modern flutist and as one of the foremost specialists on transverse flutes from the renaissance through the early 19th century. He is the only musician to have been awarded both the highest prize in the Concours Musica Antiqua in Bruges, Belgium, which he won together with lutenist Stephen Stubbs, and the Erwin Bodky Award in Boston - two of the most prestigious prizes for performers on period instruments. He is artistic director of the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.

Upcominging 2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival performances at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit:

— Monday, May 27 at 12:00 NOON:

• Baroque Concerti • harpsichordist Jonathan Oddie, violinist Carrie Krause, violinist Elisabeth Phelps, violist Victoria Gunn, cellist Martin Bonham & Jeffrey Cohan on baroque flute

— Monday, July 1 at 12:00 NOON:

• Johann Sebastian Bach • harpsichordist Irene Roldan and flutist Jeffrey Cohan

Dogs & Drinks
Dig Deep Gardens
Thursdays
5-8pm
21+ only

Come bring your best friend and let them learn to socialize with their own kind. And you get to drink beer and hang with fellow dog lovers. You don't even need your own dog!

***SOLD OUT***
Chris Pureka
With Lo Pony
Snapdragon
May 9th
7:00pm

It’s rare for an artist to bridge the divide between critical acclaim and dedicated fan engagement. Chris Pureka is a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose body of work has resonated deeply with these seemingly disparate milieus. Their music has straddled the folk, americana and indie rock genres over the course of their 20-year career, and over that time, their bold vulnerability in processing the intimacies of life in song has struck a chord with those listeners who crave authenticity and depth.

Chris’s elegant emotionality as a vocalist and their flair as a lyricist have garnered them favorable comparisons to Chan Marshall, Bruce Springsteen, and Patty Griffin. Over many years of touring on both sides of the Atlantic, they have shared the stage with such diverse and esteemed artists as The Lumineers, Gregory Alan Isakov, The Cowboy Junkies, Haley Heynderickx, and Ani DiFranco.

Lo Pony is a queer folk group based in Portland. Their sound is composed of delicate harmonies discussing loss, nostalgia, and a slow appreciation for the beauty of everyday life. Lo Pony’s music stems from years of steadfast friendship since meeting in college in 2008.

The Duration
Dig Deep Gardens
Friday, May 10th
7:00pm

The Duration is a Vashon-based rock n' roll band that plays original tunes with energy and conviction. Formed in 2021, band members include Shawn Carkonen, Teryn Citino, Ryan Gray, and Kevin Kim-Murphy. All amazing musicians come prepared to have your mind blown. A Fantastic Band. On the Big Stage!!

Saint Ophelia
Snapdragon
Friday, May 10th
7:30pm
$10 at the door

The PNW-based Alt Folk-Rock band, Saint Ophelia is a five-piece ensemble fronted by vocalist/guitarist Rebekah Kuzma, singer songwriter Joe Panzetta, and pedal steel magician Dan Tyack. With a killer rhythm section of Wesley Peterson on drums and Chuck Keller on bass, their original songs seem to move through them rather than from them. Everyone in this band has put in their ten-thousand hours and then some on song-craft and musicianship, and you can feel the pulse of life in their music–the wide embrace of love, the heavy clouds of grief, the resolute ache of longing and the sacred sounds of healing. Their songs fluidly move from folk rock to psychedelia, country to jazz.

They have released two albums: “Saint Ophelia” 2018, and “Love Deserves the Crown” 2022.

https://saintophelia.com/

Puccini’s Madama Butterfly—REVIVAL
Live in HD: May 11, 2024 at 9:55AM
Vashon Theatre
Tickets $20/$18

In her Met debut, Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the trusting geisha at the heart of Puccini’s tragedy. Tenor Jonathan Tetelman is the callous American naval officer Pinkerton whose betrayal destroys her. Mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong is the steadfast maid Suzuki, and baritone Lucas Meachem is the American consul Sharpless.

Acclaimed maestro Xian Zhang makes her Met debut conducting Anthony Minghella’s vivid production.

Runtime 195m
Brunch buffet served during first intermission - $10

Richard Moore Presents:
"Two Drink Minimum Comedy Show"
Dig Deep Gardens
Saturday, May 11th
7:30pm
$10 at the door

They're BACK! Come out to participate in one of the funnest nights of the year! The best and the brightest will have you in stitches! This always such a magical evening.

Special Guest: Amanda Knox

Featuring:

Cara Rosellini

Paul Goodwin

Steffon Moody

Haley Mosteller

Warren Hines

Billy Campbell

Ben Weber

Hosted by Richard Moore.

Comedy Night with Drew Dunn
Saturday, May 11th at 7:30PM
Vashon Theatre
Tickets on sale now at vashontheatre.com

Crowd favorite and winner of the 2018 Seattle International Comedy Competition, Drew Dunn returns to Vashon Theatre for one night only. Duane Goad hosts this hilarious stand-up comedy event.

Mother's Day Brunch
Camp Burton Lodge
Sunday, May 12th
9:30am-1:30pm

🌼 Your special lady deserves some delicious food - that she doesn’t have to prepare! 😉 No: lines, crowds or kid wrangling. Yes: tables for large groups or just the 2 of you, amazing views, space for the kiddos to explore.

RSVP ASAP
https://www.campburton.net/community-events

The Vashon Island Heritage Museum presents:
Dr. Megan Asaka "Maritime Histories of Race and Labor"
May 15, 2024 12:00 PM
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7PHlY4U3RzmD9kWsgiPDvw

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Tracing histories from unheralded sites such as labor camps, lumber towns, lodging houses, and so-called slums, Dr. Asaka will discuss how migrant laborers worked alongside each other and forged unexpected alliances within the marine and coastal spaces of the Puget Sound. By uncovering the historical presence of marginalized groups and asserting their significance in the development of the region, Megan Asaka offers a deeper understanding of Seattle's complex past.

Seattle from the Margins was made possible in part by a grant from 4Culture's Heritage Program.

Snapdragon Trivia
Every Thursday
Home Sweet Home at Snapdragon
6:30pm

Come on over to Snapdragon and challenge yourself and your neighbors at Snapdragon Trivia with host Michael Whitmore! Grab a friend and build your team! Prizes and surprises and the whole friggin' shebang!

Vashon Island Pet Protectors presents
THE BIG HAIRIEST FURBALL™EVER!
Party like its 1984!
Open Space for Arts & Community
May 18, 2024
4:30pm-8:30pm

Tickets on sale now for Vashon Island Pet Protectors Big HAIRIEST FurBall™ Ever! to celebrate our 40th Anniversary at the Open Space for Art and Community on May 18th. Gather your friends around a Table Of Eight, or come duo or solo and sit with like-minded animal lovers.

VIPP is also currently accepting donated items and experiences. Please use the QR code or visit VIPP.org and click on the EVENTS tab.

Cheap Scenery
Snapdragon's Black Cat Cabaret
Saturday, May 18th
8:00pm

Cheap Scenery plays punk and post-punk classics from the U.K. to the U.S.A. They are modern lovers of old punk and new wave who will blitzkrieg bop till you drop your sex pistol. The hard hitting rhythm section of Jesse Whitford on drums and Andre Sapp on bass lays a tight-fisted foundation. That leaves plenty of room for guitarists Jeff Minzel and Rick Vanselow to fill out 3-minute masterpieces.

Jenny Don’t & the Spurs, Kimmi Bitter, Miller Campbell in concert
Open Space for Arts & Community
Sunday, May 19
Doors at 6:00pm | Show at 6:30pm

Known for their high-energy Country Western style and charismatic stage presence, Jenny Don’t and the Spurs have garnered a global following with their infectious enthusiasm and extensive discography. Their new show features Jenny Don’t classics along with Western-by-way-of-PNW cuts from their new album, “Broken Hearted Blue,” set to release this spring.

Like a wild horse spurred by a crack of lightning, the album’s first song “Flyin’ High,” blends the band’s garage-rock origins with their distinctly western sound. From go, this album asserts itself with a high-octane, rockin’ western delivery that sets it apart from the herd.

Inspired by classic country legends like Johnny Paycheck and George Jones, Jenny’s inner rebel and authentic outlaw spirit pointed her straight to Country Western music. Growing up poor in a tiny rural Washington community, Jenny spent her summers herding cows and catching garter snakes in the tall grass, dreaming of traveling to exotic destinations as a musician. Her song “You’re What I Need” is a love song to the fans who make it all possible.

Driven by a hyper-obsession with the 1960s, Kimmi Bitter & the Westside Twang create a soundscape that blends old-school country with surf rock, psychedelic, and a touch of mod. A love letter to the Countrypolitan golden age, her 2024 debut album “Old School” hit the ground running, blending a healthy dose of reverb-drenched twang with some rock-n-roll swagger thrown in for good measure. Ballads “My Grass is Blue” and “I Dream of You” return listeners to the era when Patsy Cline with The Jordanaires owned the radio airwaves.

“Traveling the world as a musician and experiencing the enthusiasm of our fans who come to see us is an incredible feeling that’s difficult to put into words,” says Don’t. “We all feel immense gratitude.”

Kin to the legendary Glen Campbell, Billboard Charting Americana Artist Miller Campbell salutes her southern roots with an incandescent new show. Praised by the likes of American Songwriter Magazine, she’s been named a “Daily Discovery” featured artist by American Songwriter, a “Next Woman of Country” by Women of Country, and winner of a Billboard “Heatseekers” award. From festivals and rodeos to country bars and honky-tonks, fans are giving themselves over to an act that writes from the heart and sings from the soul.

Tickets at OpenSpaceVashon.com
Tickets $25 online, $30 at the door. Youth Free. PWYC at the door unless sold out in advance.

This is a co-production of Open Space and Debra Heesch.

Von Wildenhaus
Mike Dumovich Record Release Show
w/Hunter Lea & Anne Marie Ruljancich & legendary producer & musician Steve Fisk
Snapdragon
All-Ages show
Friday, May 24th
7:00pm doors, 8:00pm show
$15 cover

Von Wildenhaus, hailing from the fog-drenched US Pacific Northwest, is an apocalyptic avant-pop lounge act, a bizarro rock and roll band as comfortable working in American folk idioms as covering Henry Purcell x Klaus Nomi. Ben von Wildenhaus leads a cast of shadowy conspirators in conjur- ing this darkly sonorous music, most notably, the spectral presence of singer Billie Bloom, who delivers ecstatic melodies with fearless and riveting devotion that have found admirers in Spin, The Quietus, and Iggy Pop. https://vonwildenhaus.art/biography/

“Von Wildenhaus [works] his influences — modern primitive folk, cassette hiss, Angelo Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks score — into a tight confluence of meditative anti-shredding.” – Jessica Hopper, Spin

“Wildenhaus anti-prismatically recombines the worlds of David Lynch, Marc Ribot, Jad Fair, and Luis Bacalov into an oddly familiar new whole.” – Tristan Bath, The Quietus

“From country twang and psych-rock whirls to Eastern modes and pondering tones, there’s a delightfully fluid, dreamlike quality to this bizarre book of tunes.” – Elliot Sharp, Magnet

“He’s doing his own thing in his own way.” – Iggy Pop, Iggy Confidential

“..what Sun City Girls might be doing if they’d continued after Charlie Gocher’s death.” – Dave Segal, The Stranger

“…a creative crevice from which no one wants to escape.” – Calvin Johnson, K Records

Mike Dumovich is a singer-songwriter from Vashon Island, Washington, who has been making music for over 30 years. His music is a blend of folk, indie, and psychedelic influences, with a dark and melancholy tone that reflects geography, relationships, and self-inquiry. He has collaborated with many renowned producers and musicians, such as Tucker Martine, Bill Frisell, Eyvind Kang, Karl Blau, Chris Ballew, Luke Bergman, and Laura Veirs. He has opened for artists such as Mark Lanegan, Jesse Sykes, and many others over the years playing in the NW. He has released five albums, the latest being Real Shoring, which was recorded remotely with Light in the Attic producer Hunter Lea over the course of two years. Real Shoring is a collection of songs that chronicle his life events in that period: losing a mother, raising stepsons, and coping with the pandemic.

“Mike Dumovich is amazingly unique. Whatever rules exist in the music world, Mike threw out the ones that didn’t work for him long ago. Mike creates original soulful tunes that take the listener to uncharted territory. Mike’s music and lyrics have depth and relevance that can be experience on many levels.” -Band in Seattle

“Dumovich sings pensive songs, delivering them in a matter-of-fact voice and radiant guitar plucking that can put you in a trance. His lyrics are weighted down with chilly imagery and a very Pacific Northwest gloominess. Dumovich is an idiosyncratic character whose music and personality cannot be neatly boxed up which is to say, he’s a true artist in a music scene full of phonies.” -Brian Barr Seattle Weekly

“...This is plucked mosaic shibboleth blues, where you're willing to follow the weathered vocalist's story anywhere, delighted by each shuffle of twilight imagery and montage of dreams and wilderness. Dumovich has almost unbearable confidence, really seducing the listener into the labyrinth of his storytelling. His visions however more abstract, are no less sensual…” - Chris Estey Three Imaginary Girls

“It wasn’t but a few months ago when I ran across Mike during one of my late night searches via internet when I stumbled across a couple of tracks … my mouth hit the floor and my heart broke immediately upon hearing title track “Acres”. “Who is this, and why hadn’t I heard of him?” I thought. Lyrically his music is heartfelt, but not impossible to grasp. A wonderful labyrinth of lyrical seduction. Musically, Mike’s guitar work is nothing short of brilliant, and poised. The weight of his fingers hitting the strings with precision. But its songs like “whiteout” that really capture the brilliance of his musical ability on every level. The construction of layering within that song had me mesmerized as if I were experiencing some sort of sensory “whiteout” myself. It was a storm of sound all somehow making beautiful sense. Starting out with a rhythmic pulse of a spaghetti western vibe…something you’d hear out of a Robert Rodriguez film, then slowly evolving into a beautiful of sound. Breathtaking.” -Seismic Sound

It is impossible to talk about the unmistakable sound of Pacific Northwest rock music without including the name Steve Fisk. A legend in the Northwest and renowned the world over, Fisk has made an indelible mark on the scene as a producer, engineer, teacher and performer. From the underground to the mainstream, from alternative to indie-pop, artists have been benefiting from his keen ear, superior technical skills, and inventive sound for nearly four decades.

Steve Fisk’s career is a perfect balance of serendipity, ingenuity and hard work. In 1980, after he’d left his hometown of Lakewood in southern California, Fisk found himself in Olympia, WA at the Evergreen State College where he linked up with Bruce Pavitt, who had started a fanzine called Sub/Pop which would become Pavitt’s springboard for Sub Pop, a record label that continues to launch epic careers today. Fisk would go on to graduate from Evergreen with a degree in music composition and a focus on audio engineering and he wasted no time establishing his name in the industry.

Fisk had caught an early wave in a bubbling underground scene and committed himself to both his own creative projects and to helping shape sounds of his peers. By 1983, Fisk joined the experimental, instrumental, alt-rock group, Pell Mell, and played with them while forging ahead in other aspects of his career. He produced for groups like Screaming Trees, Beat Happening, and Soundgarden. By 1990, Fisk had made his way to Seattle where he went on to record several tracks for Nirvana’s Blew EP. In ‘93 he joined forces with Shawn Smith to form Pigeonhed, a highly regarded experimental, electro-funk, soul duo. He has worked with Soundgarden since their second release Fopp in 1988 and in 2010 he remixed their single, The Telephantasm (Resurrection Remix).His list of credits are as diverse as they are plentiful. In 2005, Fisk co-wrote and produced the score for the award winning Kurt Cobain documentary About a Son with Ben Gibbard. To date, he has composed 5 multichannel immersive soundscapes for exhibits at MoPOP (Museum of Pop Culture). He also produced Teens of Denial (2016), the first studio album for Matador recording artist, Car Seat Headrest and he mixed Ben Gibbard's Teenage Fan Club cover album, Bandwagonesque (2017). In 2015, he received The Stranger Genius Award in Music.

Mike Dumovich Music

TU-NER
former members of King Crimson & Stick Men
Open Space for Arts & Community
Saturday, May 25
Doors 6:30 | Show 7:30

Formerly of King Crimson & Stick Men: tu-NER is a trio with musicians Trey Gunn, Markus Reuter, and Pat Mastelotto celebrating King Crimson’s Double Duo era (1998 to 2003) and the bands TU (Mastelotto and Gunn), KTU (Mastelotto, Gunn, and accordionist Kimmo Pohjonnen), TUNER (Mastelotto and Reuter), TUNISIA (Mastelotto and thereminist Pamelia Stickney), The ProjeKcts (featuring Gunn and Mastelotto as well as other KC members) and Stick Men (Mastelotto, Reuter and King Crimson’s stickist Tony Levin).

$25 in advance | $30 at the door
Youth Under-18 Free
Pay What You Can tickets at the door unless the show is sold out

tu-NER will perform their original music, improvs and honor as well their King Crimson/ProjeKcts DNA, as well as also bring to the stage some of the material produced by TU and TUNER during the past two decades. The music of those projects is known for being innovative yet accessible in nature, drawing on elements of rock, jazz, prog, funk, and other genres.

All the different influences coming together through these three artists are notable for their endlessly creative approach to music, and for the highly skilled musicianship of the players involved. The music produced by all these precedent projects is highly rewarding for those who are willing to listen with an open mind. After three decades of partial collaborations in pairs, and two decades since Trey introduced Pat to Markus, they have created pieces like Face, Absinthe, Pole, Műűt, Untamed Chicken, Flinch, Fandango, and Deception of the Thrush, all having become part of the classic neo-progressive rock catalogue of the 21st century. Together with staples from the King Crimson songbook such as EleKtriK, Level Five, Vrooom Vrooom, and FraKctured, all co-written by members of this outfit, these three amazingly talented friends guarantee an evening of mind-expanding music of the highest standards of virtuosity, innovation, and melodicity.

Of course, the creative impulse of these three musos would never be fully satisfied by simply revisiting their back catalogues, as if it were a mere trip down memory lane. Far from it, audiences will be treated to new pieces, as well as their characteristic improvisations, which, instead of consisting of simply jamming and noodling, in their case always comprise “instant compositions,” where the three musicians are constantly listening to each other with their ears and with their souls, in the telepathic fashion of a true R&D small intelligent unit. Because Trey, Pat and Markus are the best musicians at creating magic musical concoctions on the spot, away from the rock or jazz traditional rules of improvisation.

Listeners who are fans of King Crimson, and progressive music in general, will soon realize this new trio incarnation of TUNER is the musical collaboration of the decade. Twenty years since the disbanding of the Double Duo, the spirit of the ProjeKcts is finally back on the road with Gunn, Reuter and Mastelotto.

Caught A Vibe Karaoke
Howl at the Moon!
Vashon Eagles Club
Every last Friday of the month!
Friday, May 31st
7:30pm

Every last Friday of the month, with your hosts Katt Rouse-Riley & Christine Patterson.