Tip the Scales with Kate MacLeod
Songwriter and fiddler Kate MacLeod will be joined by island musicians Rebekah Kuzma and Kat Eggleston at a Tip the Scale house concert at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16.
MacLeod’s music, planted in Americana folk, incorporates a broad base of styles that show the influence of her classical training and love of Celtic music. She tours extensively, frequently collaborates with other musicians and has released a number of recordings. This year, she dropped her first violin-inspired recording, a collection of original pieces inspired by landscape and nature.
RSVP to Kat Eggleston at kat@kateggleston.com to reserve a spot for the concert and find out its location. Admission is by suggested donation of $20 at the door. Tips the Scales is a local organization dedicated to the presentation of music in intimate settings and fair pay for musicians. Find out more about the organization and its upcoming concerts on Facebook.
Storytelling series launches at brew pub
Mic Drop, a new semi-monthly series featuring island residents, storytellers, comics and musicians telling 15-minute tales about life on Vashon, will have its first outing at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, at Vashon Brewing Community Pub in Vashon Village.
Stories by Kelvin Goliday, Sarah Howard, Dona Bradley and pub owner Cliff Goodman are on tap for Nov. 15. Mic Drop performances are also scheduled for 7 p.m. on Nov. 30, Dec. 14 and Dec. 28. Islanders appearing in future presentations include Tami Brockway Joyce, Chuck Roehm, Richard Franklin Moore, Leila Khatapoush, Truman O’Brien and many others. The series is curated by local actor, director and chef Chris Boscia. Storytellers with ideas for future installments should contact Boscia at bosciaemail@gmail.com.
Mike Dumovich hops the pond
Islander Mike Dumovich, widely hailed as a songwriter’s songwriter by many critics and fans, will play a show with headliner Laura Viers and area artist Whitney Ballen at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, at the Alma Mater in Tacoma. Dumovich will sing songs from his new album, “The Copper Thieves.” Tickets, $15 in advance at ticketf.ly/2PS2CiF, cost $20 at the door.
Laugh it up at comedy competition
The Seattle International Comedy Contest will come to the island at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 21, at Vashon Theatre. Billed as “America’s largest touring comedy festival,” the annual SICC features 32 comedians from the U.S., Canada, UK and Japan, competing for $15,000 in cash prizes. Some of the content of the show is sure to be salty, and not for children. Tickets, $25, are available at vashontheatre.com and the box office.
Flameco coming to Vashon
Seattle flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes will bring her latest show, “Pasajera,” to the island at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, at the Ober Park performance studio. Savannah will be joined Spanish-Romani guitarist Pedro Cortes and singer/percussionist/dancer Jose Moreno. Tickets, ranging in price from $8 to $20, are available at brownpapertickets.com/event/3897018.
See art, write a poem
In connection with the Vashon Center for the Arts’ current art exhibit, Wordless Stories, a closing party/event called “Fantastic Ekphrasis: Poetry Inspired by the art of Wordless Stories,” is slated for Thursday, Nov. 28. The night is curated by Vashon poets Cal Kinnear and Susan Lynch. During the month-long show, Vashon poets are invited to compose verses in response to the work, a process referred to as “Ekphrasis,” from a Greek term meaning the description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical exercise.
Said Kinnear, former Vashon poet laureate, “This show … is a natural fit for this style of writing. It gives island poets a chance to interact with island painters, adding words to wordless stories.”
Guidelines: Poems should not exceed one page and must be submitted in PDF form by midnight on Nov. 18. Attach your PDFs to an email addressed to both susan.lynch@goddard.edu and calkinnear@gmail.com with EKPHRASTIC in the subject line. Note on the PDF which artwork inspired the piece.
