Seattle City Of Music The Seattle City of Music initiative was created to celebrate and further enhance our renowned culture of music. Watch the City of Music kickoff event A celebration of Seattle's musical achievements.

About: Seattle City Of Music
The Seattle City of Music initiative is about leveraging our community's accomplishments in music for an even brighter future. The success of City of Music will be built around three core components: a City of Musicians, a City of Live Music, and a City of Music Business.

It will take broad participation across the private, not-for-profit and government sectors to truly develop Seattle as a City of Music. We must realize our untapped potential to enhance music as an economic, educational and recreational force in meeting the needs of the city. The City of Seattle encourages all cross sections of music interests and entities, from indie pop to classical and from small music labels to major for-profit and not-for-profit corporations, to identify Seattle as a City of Music. Join our effort to build Seattle's role in music nationally and internationally. Learn more about Seattle City Of Music


Watch: Seattle Channel Music Video Collection

Front Row: Zubatto Syndicate
The Zubatto Syndicate is a 12-piece ensemble under the direction of composer and guitarist Andrew Boscardin. Featuring a unique synthesis of reed instruments and electric sounds, brass and stand up bass, Zubatto Syndicate is a highly original take on the Big Band jazz tradition. Seeking to find the musical place where Maria Schneider meets the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and the Roots meet Radiohead by way of Mingus, Zubatto combines detailed arrangements and inventive harmonic ideas with rhythmic settings and idioms atypical of the jazz orchestra, as realized by the some of the top improvising musicians in Seattle.

Front Row: Men`s Chorus Holiday Concert
For thirty years, Seattle Men`s Chorus has sung traditional carols spiced with something new and zany. The parody medley "Heavy Christmas" begins the show with music by the likes of Strauss, Wagner, Grieg, Verdi, Bizet, Khachaturian and Tchaikovsky, with lyrics, and accompanied by Benaroya Hall`s Watjen Concert Organ. This concert is a full bag traditional classics plus surprises from Captain Smarty Pants and the jubilant "Bolly Jolly Holiday," which plays like Bombay Dreams of a white Christmas. Of course, the wacky will be balanced with the sublime as the Chorus` more traditional fare that creates a sound as heavenly as the season. To learn more about the Seattle Men`s and Women`s Choruses, go to: flyinghouse.org

Singer/songwriter Josh Ottum
Watch Singer/songwriter Josh Ottum`s Art Zone appearance, then plan to see him live, with Rosie Thomas, at Town Hall on Saturday, December 19th @ 8:00 pm.

Front Row: Toni Hill
The R&B songstress performs music from her new album "Only Love" with an eight-piece band featuring special guests Syndel of Sirens Echo and DJ B-Girl. Seductive and soulful, Hill`s music will move your body and may even stir a summer romance. Taped at Seattle City Hall Plaza.

Front Row: Seattle Women's Chorus - Cris Williamson
Decades before indie labels were the norm, and years before women had any real access in the industry, Cris Williamson was busy changing the face of popular music. Her lyrics appear on a regular basis in books and thesis papers. Thousands of people who may not even know her name join their voices in "Song of the Soul" around campfires and places of worship. Finally, the stage had been set for women, and particularly for lesbians, to write, produce, record, and issue their own material -- on their own terms.

Music of Remembrance
This poignant, uplifting documentary about Seattle-based chamber music organization, Music of Remembrance, is the story of a priceless musical legacy, a woman with a vision, and the community that formed around a mission of remembrance.

An Evening With: Al Kooper
Enjoy an interview with songwriter, record producer and musician Al Kooper. Kooper organized the group Blood, Sweat & Tears and has recorded with several distinguished artists, including Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Who, B.B. King, and Cream. Kooper recently updated and released his memoir, Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock'N'Roll Survivor, which chronicles his many misadventures as an experienced musician. He currently teaches songwriting and recording production at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Art Zone In Studio with Nancy Guppy
Welcome to yet another week of fab-oh artsy fun! The wonderful Marcie Sillman tours Seattle’s impressive portable art collection ... our favorite movie master, Robert Horton, talks movies ... we profile painter/photographer Thuy-Van Vu ... and we light up the studio with the high octane sound of Manooghi Hi!

Art Zone In Studio with Nancy Guppy
We've got a doozy of a show this week! Jason Parker brings his trumpet, and his quartet, to our studio ... we go behind the scenes of Vashon Island's UMO Ensemble ... KEXP's Sharlese Metcalf talks up a few of her favorites local bands ... and solo writer/performer Keith Hitchcock bring us up to date on his fast approaching one-man show, "Muffin Face".

The Local Music Show on the Seattle Music Scene
In a special episode of The Local Music Show, John Richards checks in on the new direction of the Seattle music scene with Former Mayor Greg Nickels, James Keblas, David Endicott, Susie Tennant, and Ben London.

Hip Hop Conference 2009
Dr. Sujan "Supreme Understanding" Dass is a community activist and expert on what we call "the struggle." A lifelong resident of America's ghettos, the author has been involved in the rap game, the drug game, the street hustle game, the pimping game, before advancing the many "legit" games most hustlers never learn. The author has amassed a number of academic degrees to supplement the "hands-on" learning mentioned above, ranging from a Bachelor's degree in History to a Doctorate in Education with at-risk youth. He has also traveled the globe, researching, organizing, and conducting lectures, workshops, and motivational speeches. Supreme Understanding's ability to combine intellectual awareness with insight from the "real world" of America's ghettos has made him a staunch critic of the many failed measures to reach our urban youth. After studying the weaknesses of dozens of program, policies, and philosophies, the author realized something else was needed.

Art Zone In Studio with Nancy Guppy
Hey everybody, it’s showtime! Our charming featured art is from collage artist, Kate Endle ... Chris Ballew, of The Presidents of the United States fame, unveils a brand new music project ... our favorite literary giants, Phyllis Fletcher and Lyall Bush, drop by to talk books ... and the super talented Ivory Smith brings her gorgeous hair and her fabulous band, “Ivory In Ice World”, to the studio.

Art Zone Feature: Chris Ballew
Caspar Babypants, the alter ego of Chris Ballew, (lead singer of the Presidents of the United States of America), has just released "Here I Am", a delightful album of "simple sing-along music for baby brains and parent ears".

Art Zone Feature: Seattle Symphony 2009/2010 season
Seattle Symphony Music Director, Gerard Schwarz, visits the studio of Art Zone w/Nancy Guppy to chat about the symphony's awesome upcoming 2009/2010 season!

Front Row: Songs of Sevdeh
Sevdah, a word of Arabic origin meaning love, describes the poetic traditional urban music of old Bosnia and Herzegovina. Artists from Bosnia, Croatia and more perform the beautiful and melodic Ottoman-influenced love songs accompanied by a variety of traditional instruments including saz, tamburica, and the modern accordion. Presented by Sevdah North America.

The Local Music Show at Neumos
Catch host John Richards at Neumos interviewing The Dutchess and the Duke, and showing videos from Fleet Foxes, Danien Jurado, and Throw Me the Statue.

Art Zone in Studio with Nancy Guppy
Hey ladies and gents -- it's showtime! This week on Art Zone In Studio we meet artist Tim Marsden... pick the brains of our literary gurus, Lyall Bush and Phyllis Fletcher... meet a very cool and local shoemaker... celebrate Dudley Manlove Quartet the best cover band in the universe... hang out with some super cute ballet fans... and check in with solo performer Keith Hitchcock on the progression of his brand new play, Muffin Face.

Jazz Alley
For almost three decades, Dimitrou's Jazz Alley has been a West Coast "must" for all the towering figures in the world of jazz - stars such as Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Betty Carter, and Bill Evans have played there. Join local jazz singer Kabibi Monie for a trip behind the scenes at Jazz Alley to learn what has made this Seattle icon such a success.

Front Row: Seattle Women's Chorus - Vixen Fiction
The Seattle Women's Chorus goes back in time to the provocative days of racy pulp fiction and the history of women's music. Taking a fond and campy look at the spicy novels that captured the attention of the underground lesbian community in the '50s and '60s, Vixen Fiction includes love songs, torch songs and songs of forbidden desire. According to one writer, Ann Bannon never considered that her stories would become legends, inspiring countless fledgling dykes to flock to Greenwich Village, dog-eared copies of her books in hand, to find their own Beebos and Lauras and others who shared that unnamable love.

The Local Music Show at The Cha Cha Lounge
John Richards hits up the Cha Cha Lounge where he talks with Kerry Zettel of See Me River, and shows their video along with videos from Ms. Led, Common Market, Natile Portman's Shaved Head and Blue Scholars.

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