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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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$10 at the door
Christopher Burns + househusbands + Aaron Michael Butler
An evening featuring the music of Philadelphia-based composer Christopher Burns and househusbands, his duo with composer/improviser Carlos Cotallo Solares. Percussionist Aaron Michael Butler will lead an ensemble of Seattle musicians in a performance of Burns’ composition “Quant Theseus” and play solo, followed by an improvised set by househusbands.
Christopher Burns is a composer, improviser, and music technologist. “Quant … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation at the door
Lori Goldston & Christina Crowder
Seattle cellist Lori Goldston joins eminent klezmer accordionist/scholar Christina Crowder for the latest installment of their ongoing collaboration, exploring traditional Eastern European Jewish repertoire in a way that welcomes the past into the present. For this iteration they will be joined by violinists Mae Kessler and Shulamit Kleinerman.
Lori Goldston plays written, traditional and spontaneous work on cello, … 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
$15 suggested donation at the door
Seattle Collaboration Society
Seattle Collaboration Society presents an evening of interdisciplinary free improvisation. The program begins with a 30-minute improvised performance featuring movement artist, choreographer, and educator Natalie Grant alongside jazz pianist, improviser, and Seattle Collaboration Society founder Jack Ramsey. Drawing on their distinct artistic practices, Grant and Ramsey will create a spontaneous dialogue between movement and sound in real time. … Read More
$15 at the door
The Red Pants Collective
The Red Pants Collective, an improvised movement and sound project formed by father/daughter duo Giordana and James Falzone, are joined by movement artists Alia Swersky and Jadi Carboni (Graz, Austria), and sound artists Tom Baker, Heather Bentley, and Greg Campbell.
Alia Swersky: movementGiordana Falzone: movementJadi Carboni: movementTom Baker: guitar, theremin, electronicsHeather Bentley: viola and celloJames Falzone: clarinet, pianoGreg Campbell: drums, … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation at the door (NOTAFLOF)
Celebrating Stuart Dempster at 90
Coming together to listen deeply; to move and to sound playfully, and to attend to a performance in tribute to beloved master musician and teacher, Stuart Dempster. (Please note that the celebration takes place over the course of several hours. No food or drink will be offered at the event, so please plan accordingly. Stuart requests that you bring … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation in advance or 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
$5 - $20 sliding scale at the door (NOTAFLOF)
Neal Kosaly-Meyer: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Part II, Chapter 3
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Part II, Chapter 3Performed with acute attention to musical detail, by Neal Kosaly-Meyer
The gargantuan eleventh chapter of James Joyce’s final novel, performed in its entire 4 1/2 to 5 hour length (including multiple intermissions), in an adventurously wild and musical performance, taking full advantage of the dramatic and liturgically suggestive qualities of … Read More
$5 - $20 suggested donation at the door (NOTAFLOF)
Marielle Jakobsons + David Wesley Golightly + Raica
Violinist and composer Marielle Jakobsons (Thrill Jockey) performs selections from her new album The Patterns Lost to Air, pianist and composer David Wesley Golightly (Midday Veil, Hair and Space Museum) returns to Seattle with original compositions for solo piano, and synthesist and composer Chloe Harris as Raica, performs original ambient dreams.
Marielle V. Jakobsons is an award-winning composer … 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
