Archive for 'Seattle Presents'
Last week Mayor Mike McGinn welcomed the Seattle Symphony and new music director Ludovic Morlot to City Hall. Nearly 350 people gathered in the lobby for a free lunchtime concert featuring Weber’s Overture to Der Freischütz and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. Read the mayor's blog post about it here.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012 under Art Beat, Events, Seattle Presents.
Tags: City Hall, free concert, Mayor McGinn, Seattle Symphony, symphony
Ludovic Morlot, music director, Seattle Symphony. Photo by Ben VanHouten. Don't miss this! The Seattle Symphony will perform a free community concert at City Hall, 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 25. Ludovic Morlot, the symphony’s new music director, will lead the orchestra in a program featuring Weber’s Overture
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Posted: January 23rd, 2012 under Art Beat, Events, Seattle Presents.
Tags: City Hall, concert, free concert, Ludovic Morlot, Seattle Presents, Seattle Symphony
Ludovic Morlot, music director, Seattle Symphony. Photo by Ben VanHouten. A great New Year's resolution is making more time for music. So take note and mark your calendar. The Seattle Symphony will perform a free community concert at City Hall, 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 25. Ludovic Morlot, the symphony's
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Posted: January 12th, 2012 under Art Beat, Seattle Presents.
Tags: City Hall, concert, Ludovic Morlot, Seattle Symphony, symphony
Get down to new soul sounds from one of the funkiest bands in Seatown this Thursday at City Hall. The 10-piece funk band Doctorfunk echoes the legendary passion of famed horn band Tower of Power but brings its own sizzle, pop and scream to the scene. The performance, from 12 to 1:30
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Posted: August 23rd, 2011 under Art Beat, Events, Seattle Presents.
Tags: concert, free, Seattle Presents
The internationally acclaimed band Show Brazil brings Brazilian rhythms, dancers in full costume and samba sounds to City Hall’s outdoor plaza this Thursday. Soak up the sun and listen to the joyful sights and sounds of Brazilian Carnaval in this special show directed by Eduardo Mendonça. . The performance, from 12 to
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Posted: August 16th, 2011 under Art Beat, Events, Seattle Presents.
Tags: concert, free, Seattle Presents
Chill to groove-heavy reggae by beloved local boys Kore Ionz, noon to 1:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 11 outdoors on the City Hall plaza. Honolulu Weekly proclaims “Kore Ionz should not be missed. If not for the reggae, for a lesson in love." The band has been hard at work on its forthcoming
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Posted: August 9th, 2011 under Art Beat, Events, Seattle Presents.
Tags: concert, free, Seattle Presents
Seattle Public Schools just announced a $1 million planning grant to enhance arts instruction in the schools. We opened two calls for artists. The 2011 Mayor's Arts Awards are coming up soon. The Seattle Mural at Seattle Center’s Mural Amphitheatre is getting a facelift. And Pioneer Square’s Occidental Square has turned into
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Posted: August 8th, 2011 under Art Beat, Arts Education, Calls for Artists, eNews, Events, Mayor's Arts Awards, News, Public Art, Seattle Presents.
Tags: artist-in-residence, Arts Education, ARTSPARKS, Calls for artists, City Hall, City Hall galleries, concerts, conservation, exhibition, grant, Mayor's Arts Awards, Occidental Square, Only in Seattle, Public Art, public art roster, Seattle, Seattle as Collector, Seattle City Light, Seattle Comprehensive Plan, Seattle Mural, Seattle Presents, Seattle Public Schools, Vitality Index, Wallace Foundation
Need something sweet and upbeat this week? Seattle’s Curtains for You plays on City Hall’s outdoor plaza this Thursday. The group performs “retro-pop that's as primed to melt hearts as it is to put a bounce in one's step," says Sound on the Sound. This five-piece band serves up “delicious melodies and
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Posted: August 2nd, 2011 under Art Beat, Events, Seattle Presents.
Tags: City Hall, City Hall plaza, concert, Curtains for You, live music, music, Seattle Presents, summer concerts
Shake up your lunch hour this Thursday. Bring your dancin’ shoes to the City Hall plaza and sway to the sounds of Sexteto Tradicuba. Pedro Vargas' newest project, the hot six-piece band plays Cuban son, guaracha and other traditional styles with modern twists. The performance, from noon to 1:30 p.m., is part
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Posted: July 26th, 2011 under Art Beat, Events, Seattle Presents.
Tags: concert, free, Seattle Presents, Sexteto Tradicuba
You don’t want to miss banjo virtuoso Danny Barnes performing a free lunchtime concert at City Hall, noon to 1:30 p.m. this Thursday! Barnes is a genre-bending banjo man, guitarist and singer who rocks with electronic loops. Rolling Stone declares, “Barnes is a clever lyricist with a punk-rock past who understands the raw
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Posted: July 19th, 2011 under Art Beat, Events, Seattle Presents.
Tags: concert, Danny Barnes, Seattle Presents
