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Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present ten concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the gorgeous Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center (which sits on the traditional homelands of the Duwamish people): contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics. Watch a video clip about us on the Seattle Channel.
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In the Chapel Performance Space on the fourth floor of the Good Shepherd Center.
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N.
Seattle WA, 98103
(SW corner of 50th & Sunnyside in Wallingford. Nearest Metro bus stops: 62, 44, 26)Email:
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$5 - $20 suggested donation at the door
Trillium String Quartet: Crossing Paths
The Trillium String Quartet strives to program works that reflect the breadth of the artistic communities we have had the privilege to be a part of and influenced by. Using an educator’s lens to demystify the act of musical performance, we curate accessible concert experiences where we share our personal connection to the music that we play.
Crossing Paths … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation at the door
NW Experimental Guitar Orchestra + Daniel Reyes Llinás + Waxing Gibbous Quintet
Doors open 7 PM.
The Northwest Experimental Guitar Orchestra is an ensemble of musicians from diverse performative backgrounds, with members in Seattle, Bremerton, Portland, and surrounding regions. They perform new works that explore alternative methods of scoring, conducting, and technology integration, favoring methods that avoid traditional Western music notation, making participation accessible to everyone, regardless of background, training, or … Read More
$20 in advance / $25 at the door
Jason Kao Hwang’s Human Rites Trio
Presented by Continuum Culture & Arts
Jason Kao Hwang – violin, viola, compositionsKen Filiano – bassAndrew Drury – drum set
With origins reaching back to the Asian Arts Movement and New York Loft scenes of the 1970s, and work in ensuing decades in Jazz, opera, film, and with artists such as Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, Butch Morris, Wadada … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation in advance or at the door (NOTAFLOF)
NonSeq: Kassa Overall & Corey D. King
QUIET TIME is an immersive live experience by Kassa Overall and Corey King, inspired by the Chapel at Good Shepherd Center. The idea traces back to a familiar childhood moment: long car rides, restless energy in the back seat, and a parent finally calling, “OK… quiet time.” Following the unexpected power outage during Overall’s 2025 Earshot Jazz Festival set … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation at the door (NOTAFLOF)
Rory Somers Quartet
Rory Somers is a Seattle-based trumpeter, composer, and improviser working in jazz and improvised music. He is joined by drummer Ethan Horn, guitarist Cole McKittrick, and saxophonist Coen Rios for an evening of original compositions and collective improvisations.
Coming through the UW Improvised music program together, the four have explored wide ranges of music-making, from acoustic chamber jazz … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation in advance or at the door (NOTAFLOF)
The Force of Listening #5
The Force of Listening #5 presents six sonic and visual works presented by artists from across the US and Mexico to create an evening of experimental ambience, music, and sound art coming on the heels of this year’s Campbient session, organized by REALMOREREAL. Artists include Lisa Ann Schonberg (Brookyln, NY), NINA NINA (Veracruz, Mexico), Mary Edwards (Brooklyn, NY), Kafele Williams … Read More
Thomas Abrahamson & Libby Phelps
Classical pianist and composer Thomas Abrahamson teams up with violinist Libby Phelps to perform original compositions in the style of contemporary classical. Harmonies and structures of all shapes and sizes coalesce into something familiar yet new. Is it classical? Is it Jazz? Is it a movie score? Or an amalgam of all that came before? Come be serenaded in the … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation in advance or at the door (NOTAFLOF)
NonSeq: Scott Robinson + Neil Welch
Free jazz legend Scott Robinson makes a rare Seattle appearance to present a wide-ranging solo performance on a variety of instruments, including the seldom-heard C melody saxophone, featured on his unaccompanied album Solipsisms (2020). He will also engage with local phenom Neil Welch in a duo format.
Neil Welch opens with two works for solo saxophone, each … Read More
$10 - $20 sliding scale in advance
Melanie Radford + Sheridan Riley
Bassist/vocalist Melanie Radford (Built to Spill, Blood Lemon) celebrates the release of her debut solo album For the Sake of Stillness, an inventive reimagining of lush ambient folk delivered with her singular touch. It was recorded during and in-between tours, coming together over a stretch of two years as a centering practice and statement of self. Constantly in … Read More
$10 - $20 suggested donation in advance or at the door
Julie Slick + Kitsune + Dave Webb
Julie Slick is one of the most compelling bassists working today. Known for her wide array of unique tones and substantial melodic invention, she tours and records with the Adrian Belew Power Trio and her own bass duo-fronted band EchoTest, and has joined Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew’s Remain in Light project celebrating the music of Talking Heads. … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation at the door
Small Alien’s Ceremony of Gratitude
Small Alien is a man and his machines making music. The solo project of local musician and music teacher, Paul Ehlen, Small Alien’s music explores the full range of sonic and emotional timbres offered by synthesizers and their kin. Small Alien employs all hardware electronic instruments to erect improvised soundscapes of both epic and delicate proportions. (You won’t … Read More
$20 suggested donation at the door
Elijah Bossenbroek
Elijah Bossenbroek, despite taking ten years of piano lessons, he has consistently gravitated towards composing his own musical compositions rather than performing existing works. At the age of 18, he enlisted in the Marines, where he continued his musical endeavors, even bringing a keyboard with him to the desert of Kuwait during the Iraq War.
Currently in his … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation at the door
The Hegramatics + Lotus Lungs
This unique concert will bring together five of Seattle’s finest improvisors, as the trio The Hegramatics and duo Lotus Lungs, in a tribute to the late Carol J Levin.
Amy Denio, Heather Bentley and Greg Campbell are multi-talented musicians, each with a range that defies logic. Amy improvises freely using her voice, saxophone, clarinet and accordion. Heather is … Read More