UPDATE: Due to multiple cases of COVID in Vashon Center for the Arts staff members, several shows have been postponed. The Seattle Cabaret Festival (hosted by Arnaldo! Drag Chanteuse) on Sunday, May 29, has been POSTPONED, and a new date will be announced next week.

The ongoing Saturday series, The Jam in the Atrium – Live Jazz with Bruce Phares will be ON HIATUS for the next two weeks and resume on Saturday, June 11.

POSTPONED: Jazz legends jam on Saturday

Jazz bassist Bruce Phares was to have hosted an extra-special performance with world-class saxophonist Rob Scheps, who was coming to play with Phares in a free jam session on Saturday, May 28, in VCA’s lobby atrium.

Phares describes Scheps as “an extraordinary musician, powerful, muscular, and virtuosic, with an encyclopedic repertoire of jazz.”

Find out more at robschepmusic.com and follow news about this and other upcoming sessions at tinyurl.com/JaminTheAtrium. Sessions will begin again on June 11.

POSTPONED: Cabaret fills the Kay White Hall

Vashon Center for the Arts was to have been the venue for Seattle Cabaret Festival for its closing night event, at 7 p.m.Sunday, May 29. The performance will be rescheduled at a future date.

The evening was to have been emceed and feature performances by Seattle’s own New York Cabaret Bistro Award Winner, Arnaldo! Drag Chanteuse, accompanied by musical director Eric Lane Barnes. The cast includes The Sirens of Swing, featuring Karen Kay Cody, Joanne Klein and Jayne Muirhead; Seattle theatre legend Faye B Summers; the David Duvall Trio, led by Emmy award-winner for Best Original Music, David Duvall; Indiana’s own American Songbook master, Roger Schmelzer; eclectic jazz from The Ward Trio; LGBTQ IA+ cultural icon Mark Finley; Siren + Sinewave, featuring Carla Hildebrand and Ted Lim; and dynamic theatrical husband-and-wife Ben Gonio and Heather Gonio.

Get tickets for the cabaret extravaganza and find out more about rescheduled dates at vashoncenterforthearts.org.

Labyrinths Podcast Live coming up

A popular podcast, “Labyrinths: Getting Lost with Amanda Knox,” hosted by islanders Amanda Knox and Christopher Robinson, will be presented live at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 10, at Vashon Center for the Arts.

The podcast, which delves into fascinating stories of getting lost and finding oneself again, has featured guests including Andrew Yang, Malcolm Gladwell, John Ronson, Yasmine Mohammed, Dave Navarro, LaVar Burton and Michael Pollen.

The live podcast on June 10, the podcast will feature an all-Vashon lineup of guests, including Elizabeth Shepherd, Amy Carey, Craig Beles and Truman O’Brien, telling their own stories of being lost and found.

Amanda Knox knows first-hand about finding her way out of a labyrinth of lies, emerging vindicated and free.

Knox was famously and unjustly jailed for four years in Italy on murder allegations of roommate Meredith Kercher while studying abroad in 2007.

Unfairly vilified in the tabloids and legal system, Knox was finally fully exonerated by Italy’s highest court in 2015. Returning to Washington, Knox settled down on Vashon where she and Robinson, a noted novelist and poet, are raising their child, Eureka Muse, writing and creating their hit podcast together.

Find out more about Labyrinths, and support it at knoxrobinson.com/labyrinths.

Get tickets to the live show at vashoncenterforthearts.org.