2014 BRIT Awards winner for Best Female Solo Artist Ellie Goulding played a sold-out show at the Paramount Theatre last week. Complete with a six-member band and three backup singers, the Seattle stop was in the middle of her spring tour in support of her most recent album, Halcyon. Ellie Goulding
ZZ Ward and her band – Erick Walls (guitar), Shadarrius Shields (bass) and Chris Patt (drums) – played at a very packed Neptune Theatre this week. The Seattle stop was one of many sold-out shows during their current Last Love Tour, in support of the debut album, Til the Casket Drops. Born Zsuzsanna Eva Ward, […]
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 […]
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 […]