Straight from several shows at SXSW and an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, London Grammar played at a sold-out show at Neumos on Saturday. Fronted by Hannah Reid (vocals), Dan Rothman (guitar) and Dominic ‘Dot’ Major (keyboard, drums) add some great harmonies. They are currently touring the US in support of their album, […]
Always happy for their return to Seattle, Celtic Woman brought their Emerald World Tour 2014 to the Comcast Arena last week. With a slight change in members since last year, vocalists Susan McFadden, Máiréad Carlin and Lynn Hilary, along with fiddler Máiréad Nesbitt, delighted the audience with a broad variety of modern-day numbers and customary […]
Grammy-winning Lorde from New Zealand played at a sold-out show at the WaMu Theater on Monday. This was her third Seattle performance in five months and she had the 5000+ crowd on their feet from beginning to end. Born Ella Yelich-O’Connor, the 17-year-old captured the audience with her lion mane hair and twitching stage presence […]
Jagjaguwar-signed artist Angel Olsen was here in Seattle to headline Barboza on March 7th. Olsen comes from Missouri (here I thought she was one of the many Scandinavian artists running through our town) and just released her latest, Burn Your Fire For No Witness, in February. Kirk Stauffer contributed these lovely shots of Olsen! ~Dagmar, […]
Always a must-see when she’s in town, Nicole Atkins returned to Seattle on February 28th for a show at the Nectar Lounge. She’s in the middle of her US tour in support of her amazing new album, Slow Phaser. I’ll likely wind up with an “Atkins Overdose” next week when I see several of her […]