Mar 27 Friday
March’s Women in Jazz Month comes alive as award-winning singer-songwriter Eugenie Jones lights up the Royal Room with her national Women in Jazz Month Tour. Traveling through Denver, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Seattle, this tour joins a worldwide tribute to the women who shaped jazz, honoring trailblazers such as Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and Ella Fitzgerald.
At the Royal Room, Jones will blend beloved songs from female jazz legends, her own Jazz Week #4 ranked originals, imaginative spins on vintage jazz, and timeless rhythm and blues. She’ll be joined by the remarkable talents of pianist Peter Adams, bassist Osama Afifi, and drummer Maria Wulff.
As the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame inductee, first vocal recording artist to receive Earshot Jazz’s Album of the Year award, a two-time Vocalist of the Year winner, and a Jazz Journalists Association’s Jazz Hero Award winner, Jones has received high praise for her vocal prowess. Paris Move magazine describes Jones as “One of the most beautiful voices in the United States. A consummate interpreter who slips effortlessly into the soul of her songs.”
Welcomed by KNKX. Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world’s top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, John Lewis, Tommy Emmanuel, Lionel Hampton, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his “Five Most Admired Guitarists List:” for the Wall Street Journal.
His dynamic genre-spanning music has brought him to 21 countries on three continents – and still growing – performing in some of the world’s most illustrious venues, including the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, New York’s Lincoln Center, The Blue Note, and the world’s oldest indoor concert hall, Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy.
Pasquale Grasso - It was the kind of endorsement most rising guitarists can only dream of, and then some. In his interview for Vintage Guitar magazine’s February 2016 cover story, Pat Metheny was asked to name some younger musicians who’d impressed him. “The best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life is floating around now, Pasquale Grasso,” said the jazz-guitar icon and NEA Jazz Master. “This guy is doing something so amazingly musical and so difficult. “Mostly what I hear now are guitar players who sound a little bit like me mixed with a little bit of [John Scofield] and a little bit of [Bill Frisell],” he continued. “What’s interesting about Pasquale is that he doesn’t sound anything like that at all. In a way, it is a little bit of a throwback, because his model—which is an incredible model to have—is Bud Powell. He has somehow captured the essence of that language from piano onto guitar in a way that almost nobody has ever addressed. He’s the most significant new guy I’ve heard in many, many years.”
Join us for the Puget Sound Jazz Orchestra directed by Jeff Chang.
The School of Music welcomed Chang as director of jazz orchestra in fall 2024.
Tune in live at: https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/music/schneebeck-live
Again, There Is No Other (The Remix) is a dark and joyful ritual merging street dance forms and contemporary dance. The work interrogates fear of the Feminine in patriarchal culture, asking: If perceptions of race and gender are inseparable, can we be a post-gender society when we are far from a post-race society? Through hybridizing the nightclub, the cypher (the circle), and the theater, five physically multilingual, femme-identified dancers explore touch, support, the imperative of connection, the tensions of identity, and the embrace of difference.
Mar 28 Saturday
The National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) is the world’s largest, most influential film festival for emerging filmmakers returns for its 19th edition, showcasing the best short films from filmmakers 24 and younger. The festival celebrates and elevates work by women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and other young persons from traditionally marginalized communities who are building a more equitable and inclusive film industry. This year's festival weekend will feature 235 short films from 41 countries and 30 states. The four-day festival includes professional development sessions, networking opportunities, masterclasses, parties, and more. Previous editions included early work of Sean Wang (Dìdi) and Chappell Roan; you never know who you'll discover!
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival, one of the largest and longest-running film festivals in the Pacific Northwest and Jewish film festivals in the country, returns March 14–29, presenting powerful independent and international films that illuminate Jewish life, culture and global stories for everyone. For the 31st, SJFF invites audiences to explore how roots—family, faith, tradition, culture and community—and cinema foster connection and conversations that sustain and unite us.
The Roots + Reels lineup offers festivalgoers a rich blend of tasty special events, guest conversations, and narrative features, documentaries and a curated shorts program, “It Takes a Shtetl!” —bringing people together to share stories, both personal and universal.
Opening Night film is ONCE UPON MY MOTHER, a crowd-pleasing and heart-felt French megahit about a devoted immigrant mother whose fierce love moves mountains for her child, followed by a Paris ’60s DJ set and dessert party. AMC Pacific Place, March 14, 8:15 p.m.
Presented by KNKX. Backed by her ace all-female rhythm section, and joined as usual by a stellar group of guest artists, including Elena Pinderhughes (Herbie Hancock), and Karriem Riggins (Diana Krall), Kandace delivers her most heartfelt and personal record yet. The songs range from an early gem, “Look,” that Kandace actually wrote with her father, to the album’s feature track, “Run Your Race,” written in late 2022, which is a touching tribute to her college track star dad’s journey through life. A couple of classic standards, “Wild Is The Wind” (made famous by Nina Simone) and “What a Wonderful World,” make their appearance as well, as they were songs that Scat introduced to his daughter in her formative years. “He opened the door for me of a whole musical world, I went in and I’ve never left.”
In celebration of its 30th anniversary, the Washington State Historical Society invites you to explore the history of building the State History Museum. 30 Years and Counting: The Making of the Washington State History Museum is a special exhibition that uncovers the vision, effort, and community spirit that brought this iconic Tacoma landmark to life.
Discover the bold ideas and architectural ingenuity that shaped the museum’s distinctive look. From early sketches to final blueprints, see how the building’s design reflects both innovation and reverence for Washington’s past. Go behind the scenes of the museum’s construction. Through photographs and artifacts from the building process, witness how a dream took shape—brick by brick, beam by beam.
Staff Picks: 30 Objects for 30 Years
In a special feature area, museum staff share their favorite objects from the collection—each one a personal reflection on the power of history to inspire, surprise, and connect us.
Childhood's End Gallery presents "Atmospheres". Featuring new work by Mitchell Albala, Kim Eshelman, and Christopher Mathie. "Atmospheres" is a celebration of color, gesture, and pigment in two-dimensions. Witness the shifting light, air, and hues of these three PNW artists and their most recent creations.
Feb 27- April 19.Artist Reception: Feb 28, 4-6PM
FREE
Childhood’s End Gallery222 4th Ave WOlympia WA 98501
360-943-3724
info@childhoods-end-gallery.com
