Led by Director Scott Brown, a dedicated educator and accomplished jazz artist, Roosevelt Jazz is considered one of the top high school jazz programs in the nation, consisting of four instrumental big bands and one vocal jazz group, all supported by the Roosevelt Jazz Booster Club.

Students from all ensembles come together for an afternoon of music and jazz jam. Hosted by our Jazz 2/4 director and trumpeter, Michael Van Bebber, and Jazz 3 director and saxophonist, Mark Taylor.

Open to the public.

Learn more about Roosevelt Jazz — www.rooseveltjazz.org

Led by Director Scott Brown, a dedicated educator and accomplished jazz artist, Roosevelt Jazz is considered one of the top high school jazz programs in the nation, consisting of four instrumental big bands and one vocal jazz group, all supported by the Roosevelt Jazz Booster Club.

Students from all ensembles come together for an afternoon of music and jazz jam. Hosted by our Jazz 2/4 director and trumpeter, Michael Van Bebber, and Jazz 3 director and saxophonist, Mark Taylor.

Open to the public.

Learn more about Roosevelt Jazz — www.rooseveltjazz.org

The Ballard Alps return to the Stone Way Café.  No Cover, all ages.  You know the songs, come by and sing along.  We can take a lovely melody and drive it into the ground.  It’s not the notes we play, it’s the ones we don’t.  It’s twang blues harmonic melodic acoustic folk Americana geezered contemporary old tyme classic rock music for all tastes. 

Tuesday and Thursday Nites in Fremont express your interior in its vibrant fullness at WIDEopen Mic at Stone Way Café. It's FREE and Fun and Full of immense treasures, oddities & tongue-whirling concoctions. Come check it out and perform some new work or just soak up Seattle's underground artistic scene. Music + Art + Poetry! All creative forms welcome! Performers, arrive by 6:45 to sign up • 7 - 10PM!

Tuesday Nites in Fremont express your interior in its vibrant fullness at WIDEopen Mic at Stone Way Café. It's FREE and Fun and Full of immense treasures, oddities & tongue-whirling concoctions. Come check it out and perform some new work or just soak up Seattle's underground artistic scene. Music + Art + Poetry! All creative forms welcome! Performers, arrive by 6:45 to sign up • 7 - 10PM!

Tuesday and Thursday Nites in Fremont express your interior in its vibrant fullness at WIDEopen Mic at Stone Way Café. It's FREE and Fun and Full of immense treasures, oddities & tongue-whirling concoctions. Come check it out and perform some new work or just soak up Seattle's underground artistic scene. Music + Art + Poetry! All creative forms welcome! Performers, arrive by 6:45 to sign up • 7 - 10PM!

Quick Thinkers is an engaging yet informal Rock Trio playing a potent and compelling blend of genres while having a ton of fun doing it. We're the sideways motion in your funmaker!

Merlyn Ember: vocals, bass
Arthur Nez: guitar
Garrett LaMarca: drums

https://quickthinkers.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/QuickThinkersBand/

Tuesday and Thursday Nites in Fremont express your interior in its vibrant fullness at WIDEopen Mic at Stone Way Café. It's FREE and Fun and Full of immense treasures, oddities & tongue-whirling concoctions. Come check it out and perform some new work or just soak up Seattle's underground artistic scene. Music + Art + Poetry! All creative forms welcome! Performers, arrive by 6:45 to sign up • 7 - 10PM!

Led by Director Scott Brown, a dedicated educator and accomplished jazz artist, Roosevelt Jazz is considered one of the top high school jazz programs in the nation, consisting of four instrumental big bands and one vocal jazz group, all supported by the Roosevelt Jazz Booster Club.

Students from all ensembles come together for an afternoon of music and jazz jam. Hosted by our Jazz 2/4 director and trumpeter, Michael Van Bebber, and Jazz 3 director and saxophonist, Mark Taylor.

Open to the public.

Learn more about Roosevelt Jazz — www.rooseveltjazz.org

Tuesday and Thursday Nites in Fremont express your interior in its vibrant fullness at WIDEopen Mic at Stone Way Café. It's FREE and Fun and Full of immense treasures, oddities & tongue-whirling concoctions. Come check it out and perform some new work or just soak up Seattle's underground artistic scene. Music + Art + Poetry! All creative forms welcome! Performers, arrive by 6:45 to sign up • 7 - 10PM!

Tuesday and Thursday Nites in Fremont express your interior in its vibrant fullness at WIDEopen Mic at Stone Way Café. It's FREE and Fun and Full of immense treasures, oddities & tongue-whirling concoctions. Come check it out and perform some new work or just soak up Seattle's underground artistic scene. Music + Art + Poetry! All creative forms welcome! Performers, arrive by 6:45 to sign up • 7 - 10PM!

Tuesday and Thursday Nites in Fremont express your interior in its vibrant fullness at WIDEopen Mic at Stone Way Café. It's FREE and Fun and Full of immense treasures, oddities & tongue-whirling concoctions. Come check it out and perform some new work or just soak up Seattle's underground artistic scene. Music + Art + Poetry! All creative forms welcome! Performers, arrive by 6:45 to sign up • 7 - 10PM!

Tuesday and Thursday Nites in Fremont express your interior in its vibrant fullness at WIDEopen Mic at Stone Way Café. It's FREE and Fun and Full of immense treasures, oddities & tongue-whirling concoctions. Come check it out and perform some new work or just soak up Seattle's underground artistic scene. Music + Art + Poetry! All creative forms welcome! Performers, arrive by 6:45 to sign up • 7 - 10PM!

Tuesday Nites in Fremont express your interior in its vibrant fullness at WIDEopen Mic at Stone Way Café. It's FREE and Fun and Full of immense treasures, oddities & tongue-whirling concoctions. Come check it out and perform some new work or just soak up Seattle's underground artistic scene. Music + Art + Poetry! All creative forms welcome! Performers, arrive by 6:45 to sign up • 7 - 10PM!

Thursday Nites in Fremont express your interior in its vibrant fullness at WIDEopen Mic at Stone Way Café. It's FREE and Fun and Full of immense treasures, oddities & tongue-whirling concoctions. Come check it out and perform some new work or just soak up Seattle's underground artistic scene. Music + Art + Poetry! All creative forms welcome! Performers, arrive by 6:45 to sign up • 7 - 10PM!

Tuesday and Thursday Nites in Fremont express your interior in its vibrant fullness at WIDEopen Mic at Stone Way Café. It's FREE and Fun and Full of immense treasures, oddities & tongue-whirling concoctions. Come check it out and perform some new work or just soak up Seattle's underground artistic scene. Music + Art + Poetry! All creative forms welcome! Performers, arrive by 6:45 to sign up • 7 - 10PM!

YOUR DOWNSTAIRS NEIGHBORS
Coming from the garages of Seattle and bringing an endearing style of d.i.y. folk with a strong communal vibe.

Noah Byrd
Folk songs with a strong undercurrent of emo and 90s rock, Noah and his band The Flock deliver what some fans have described as “a therapeutic experience.”

VEGnTUNA
From Riverside, CA making his Seattle debut

SHAKA
Armed with a one-string African “berimbau,” Portuguese native Joaquim de Brito returns to Seattle bring us the “Shaka’s Lo-Fi Experience” – a tribute to Jimi Hendrix’s groundbreaking electric sound, fuzed with afro-Brazilian grooves.

FEATURED SONGWRITERS:

Michelle Morado

Michael Zernia

Sleepy Cub

Cal Moon

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Please come out and join us for a night of amazing music! Come support these talented stars on the rise! Grab a seat and listen to the lyrical genius of four unique songwriters. From hip hop to acoustic originals this night is sure to amaze you with poetic, mind blowing, inspiring and relatable lyrics written straight from the souls of these powerful artists! These songwriters are some of the best the city has to offer and we can't wait to show you what they've been working on. This powerful performance will be a night you'll never forget! Can't wait to see you there! NO cover! All Ages! Music starts at 7:00!

Heff is a Seattle singer-songwriter act formed all the way in Tampa, Florida. Started by friends Zach Patchen and Geoff Freeman, they've self-produced two albums and recorded one studio EP since 2018. Their music consists of soft rock & pop in a style influenced by Jack Johnson and Nirvana's unplugged album. In 2020 as a young and new Seattle act, they began playing shows around the Seattle area at venues such as Skylark, Vera Project, and Stone Way Cafe. 

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/31CLu9yOXagEMv8ZZRJqkD

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/hefftheband/

YONDER HOUSE

Matthew T. Fosket began his musical career as the bass player for the brother lead musical group Brightwood. They self recorded and released “The Love Antidote” in 2006, and “Wake” in 2008. The band splintered after achieving moderate success in 2009. Between 2009-2016 Matthew continued to write, record and perform while simultaneously advancing his career as a Sommelier. 

In December of 2016 Matt joined fellow musicians Jason Ehrlich, Donnie Vizzini, and TJ Smith at Yonder Studios in Newberg, OR and “Yonder House” was born. By the end of 2017, the group had written and recorded over 25 songs. Matthew and his wife Rachael moved to Los Angeles, while the group continued their work on the record. The album is now a finished a 12 song collaborative and breathtakingly personal story; all mixed to tape and mastered to vinyl. The result of their work is so nostalgic, so familiar, and yet entirely singular and unique. An accumulation of four artists who love each other as much as they do the music.

http://www.matthewtfosket.com/

https://www.sonicbids.com/band/matthew-t-fosket/

PETE BUSH AND THE HOI POLLOI

Catchy dynamic rock with indie roots and a jazz foundation

Backed by punchy riffs, intricate transitions and slinky jazz melodies, the new record by Pete Bush and the Hoi Polloi, A Beginners Guide to the End offers an honest look at life that so many of us are afraid to share. We are all full of faults and final conversations, those had and those so unfairly stolen from us. Pete Bush embraces those emotions, refusing to hide in a soft focus. The moments he shares are what defines him; the memories he holds closest.

Life can't be scrubbed clean, and by capturing these songs live in the moment the Hoi Polloi preserves the raw emotion of Bush's words. These songs are presented as is, opting for purity over polish. The trio maybe be separated by distance - Bush is located on the West coast with Jesse Prentiss and Troy Cramer firmly entrenched at the confluence of the three rivers - but working through each song and emotion has brought them together and made these songs a true band effort.

When we close our eyes for that last time, The Beginners Guide to the End asks us to forget about the mistakes we made. The band refuses to let us fixate on how'd we'd do it differently. No, these seven songs are a reminder that our most precious moments are not the ones that let us rewrite the past but the ones that remind us that ours is a life truly lived

https://www.facebook.com/petebushband/

ALEJANDRO GARCIA

Seattle meets Haga - Balkan jazz style

The concert will start at 7PM  with guest Ludmil Krumov who will be joined by local Bulgarian musicians Vasil Denev on kaval, Rossen Atanassov on drums and Dimitar Toromanov on bass guitar.

“Ludmil is a musician of amazing quality. His musical skills are in a high level and his perception of Harmony and Rhythm is unique. Moreover, he is familiar with the Bulgarian folk music styles which add more to his Jazz guitar style and taste. Finally, he is quite open in new projects and he belongs to this rare type of musicians who really enjoy music when they play.”

— MICHALIS CHOLEVAS, WORLD MUSIC MUSICIAN (ATHENS, GREECE/ THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS)

At 8PM local favorites “Osem i Devet” take the stage for more Balkan fun.

The group is headed by Michael "Osem" Lawson and David "Devet" Bilides who will play many dancing tunes with Bulgarian vocalist Tedy Dimitrova and vocalist Dina Trageser joining them. 

Suggested donation for the entire evening is $10 (all proceeds go to the musicians). 

The Mary Ann’s — Serafima, Skylar, Elijah, Skylar, & Ben — are an Americana/folk ensemble based in Bellingham, just last month they’ve were nominated for the What’s Up Magazine 2019 Awards in the Best New Band category. Opening the show will be Portland’s Arran Fagan, playing solo. Come on out!

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/themaryanns/

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/4cYbnTzvjikpzLyTt4P1TW?si=dx4D4NQuRxqD2dCKShgA_w

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/themaryanns/

AARON FAGAN

A product of the grassroots music movement of Southern Oregon, Medford artist Arran Fagan has spent the greater part of his life pursuing music, working his way into the northwest folk scene by playing countless coffee shops and house shows for college classmates and eventually opening for northwest favorites like Leif Vollebekk, HorseFeathers, Kris Orlowski, and Jeffrey Martin. In 2015, Arran recruited fellow University of Portland students Jack Pfeffer and Jonathan Wiley, and the three worked to perfect a sparse, melodic sound influenced by their individual backgrounds. Fueled by introspective lyrics and nostalgic melodies provided by the intimate combination of viola, bass, and acoustic guitar, his music explores themes of loss, growth, and the passage of time with fresh eyes. Arran’s third album, Weight of Time, was released in January of 2018 and was followed by countless west coast tours. The "Warmth / Death" EP was released in Early 2019. For the duration of 2019l, Arran has been on Hiatus while conducting a Fulbright Grant working as a secondary English teacher in a rural school in Sarawak, Malaysia on the island of Borneo.

WHOLE MILK

Whole Milk is a surf jazz duo from Denver, Colorado. The group has toured extensively, having played over 250 shows on 15 back to back tours across 26 states over the past 2 years. With two voices, guitar and bass, Alec Reid and Mariah George create an intimate soundscape influenced 1960’s surf, bossa nova & spaghetti western.

Listen here: milkfactory.bandcamp.com/album/rockmelon

Bandcamp: https://milkfactory.bandcamp.com

Instagram: @wholemilk.mp3

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholemilkshredz

Press: 303magazine.com/2019/10/whole-milk-interview/

SLOW RIVALS

Flickering in the memory of a previous life, a similar but different band (Graham Travis) poured their hearts into the sounds of Seattle, charged by the excitement of hope and life to come. 

Now a few years passed, and with the joys and complexities of an arrived life the music has evolved. marked with the revelation that while perspectives change, heartbeats remain. Slow Rivals is what happens when you cut your teeth, write, and play care-free in your youth, fall in love and make all the responsible choices while becoming an adult, and then find your footing and first love after a long break from being a band. 

The music is as sincere and varied as it ever was, lofty and reaching harmony driven pop-rock at times, and anchored, earthy story-telling at others. Sometimes it rings of Band of Horses, Phoenix or Wilco, and other times it’s nostalgic like Neil Young and Springsteen. At the center of it all is melody, structure and story.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2BJnJOU3I2P83KfWrzXaoF?si=KOspTYVRQ--owWiCgcJbDA

LACEY BROWN

Lacey Brown is a Seattle based artist, singer/songwriter, and producer with influences of folk, pop, and electronica. Follow Me Out is the long awaited third album in her discography. She is also the songwriter for a band called Poor Clare.

Brown’s voice is a treasure. If anyone could sound evocative and innocent at the same time, it is Lacey Brown. Playful but in control, it’s Lacey Brown. Bothered but constrained, Lacey Brown again. She has the type of pure, vibrant voice that one never gets tired of hearing.

~ Andy Ingram, Poptek Records

The records ooze love and sincerity, which is a rare thing. 

~ Joel Hartse, The Stranger

https://laceybrownmusic.bandcamp.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3KDX9KvEp0i43QQltzKCUQ?si=0AY0aM66T6yEtQFoPXYXSw

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/lacey-brown/356758657

LEFT NEGLECT

Former members of: Pedro the Lion, Roadside Monument, Action Bastard, and Other Desert Cities.

We are getting back to our roots, playing music for fun. We are influenced by late 90's indie rock and it has heavily molded our musical tastes. We play music for us because it's good for our souls.  

https://leftneglect.bandcamp.com/releases

FRECKLE

Freckle is a band made up of singer-songwriter Zach Caldwell, and flute player, Mikaela Henderson. Zach brings an acoustic guitar and raspy, evocative vocals and songs a blend of classic folk and acoustic punk, and Mikaela delivers a high, melodic clarity to tie it all together. They were named after their matching freckle, which has led some people to suspect they are twins. We can confirm that they are best friends, a band, and live in the same house, but no genetic tests have been taken to discover more

https://www.facebook.com/freckletheband.music/

CLAIRE CONWAY

Claire is a 20-year-old singer/songwriter from Charleston, South Carolina, currently residing in Seattle.  

An ambitious up-and-coming artist, she has been playing guitar since the age of 12, playing piano since she was 8, and songwriting from the time she was 10. In 2016 she released her first EP, Ocean’s Edge. She spent a year living in Belgium before returning to the US and moving to Seattle. At the end of 2018, Claire recorded a second EP titled Missing, released in March 2019.

http://www.claireconwaymusic.com/

SONG OF SALMON

Check them out here:

https://songofsalmon.bandcamp.com/

Come indulge yourself in a night a night of showcased talent! All local artists handpicked by our own Wide Open Mic host Lana Sparks!

Ethereal Kicks was conceived from a need to find the beauty in darkness. The duo of Tyler and Rob accomplish this via acoustic driven folk-pop.

Ethereal Kicks released their debut EP, “A Sea Of Disarray” in September 2018, much to the joy of fans who financed the album through a Kick Starter Campaign.  The album takes a strange trip through sweeping cello hooks and earnest, alt-rock balladry. 

Rob joined the band while the album was being recorded and quickly became its other half. Their shows have become a grab bag of folky ballads, twisted tales, and covers with a fresh spin.