Photos: Sofia Isella @ Showbox

Sofia Isella @ Showbox – 11/13/2025Photos by Kirk Stauffer Sofia Isella headlined at the Showbox in Seattle near the end of her current You’ll Understand More, Dick tour.  The intimate performance was just Sofia and the engaged audience – no backing band – while she supplemented her prerecorded songs with guitar, violin, bass, and piano.  The connection with […]

The Saints ’73 – ’78 at the Neptune Theatre

I don’t believe I’ve ever quoted Sir Bob Geldof before and I’ll likely not do so again but the aging rockstar/activist got it right years ago when he said “Rock music in the seventies was changed by three bands: the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and the Saints.” It’s entirely possible that some fans out there […]

Lukas Nelson at the Moore Theatre

Lukas Nelson brought his current tour in support of his new release, American Romance, to Seattle’s Moore Theater Monday evening. The album and tour are Nelson’s first outing in some time without his established band, Promise of the Real. Nelson (son of beloved country music icon Willie Nelson) is a true triple threat with exceptionally […]

Shoalsfest – Florence, Alabama

I do the bulk of my concert going and music photography in and around Seattle but had the opportunity to attend Jason Isbell’s ‘Shoalsfest’ in Florence, Alabama in mid October. This year’s festival included performances by Jackson Browne, Waxahatchee, MJ Lenderman, Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, Garrison Starr, Patterson Hood, Chris Tompkins, and Isbell, both solo […]