Happening This Week
Mon. 12/31 8:00 pm
New Years’ Eve – Brazil Comes to Belltown
$125.00
Block 41 (Belltown)
“An evening of live music by Latin Grammy nominee Jovino Santos Neto and his Quinteto with special guest vocalists Gail Pettis and Adriana Giordano.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Tues. 12/31 8:00 pm
New Year’s Eve with The Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band
$51-181.00
Jazz Alley (Downtown)
“Conguero Poncho Sanchez stirs up a fiery stew of straight-ahead jazz, gritty soul music, and infectious melodies and rhythms from a variety of Latin American and South American sources.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Tues. 1/1 11:00 am
Polar Bear Plunge
Free
Matthews Beach (Lake City)
“Start off the New Year with a splash! The plunge starts at noon sharp.”
#Community
Thurs. 1/3 10:00 am
WordPress Freelancers Meetup
Free
Good Shepherd Center (Wallingford)
“We’ll focus on Reflections from last year 2018 and Business Goals for 2019.”
#WordPress
Thurs. 1/3 5:00 pm
Jazzukha
Free
Triple Door Musiquarium (Downtown)
World jazz with Farko Dosumov (bass), Etienne Cakpo (percussion), and Michael Gotz (guitar).
#SeattleWorldBeat
Thurs. 1/3 8:00 pm
Bombazo with Grupo Bayano
$10-12.00
Royal Room (Columbia City)
“Named after a Maroon community in what is today Panamá, Grupo Bayano continues in the spirit of collaboration, strength, and unity.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Thurs.-Sun. 1/3 – 1/6 8:00 pm
Los Lobos
$50-95.00
Triple Door (Downtown)
“American rock meets Tex-Mex, country, zydeco, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, cumbia, boleros and norteños.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Thurs. 1/3 8:00 pm
Moth StorySLAM
$10.00
Fremont Abbey (Fremont)
“INTENTIONS: Prepare a five-minute story about best-laid plans. To do lists, apologies, New Years resolutions. Making something happen through sheer will. What I meant was …”
#SEATalks
Sat. 1/5 8:00 pm
Mississippi Records American Tour 2019
$7-12.00
Northwest Film Forum (Capitol Hill)
“This presentation attempts to tell the entire history of recorded music in 90 minutes from the first star being born to the current age of bizarre technology. A psychedelic and entertaining approach is favored over anything academic.”
#HauteSeattle
Next Week
Tues. 1/8 5:00 pm
Mambo Cocktail Hour
No cover
Triple Door Musiquarium (Downtown)
“Traditional rhythms of Cuba and South America are given flight with jazz arrangements and sensibility. The songs breathe with a deep lyricism, inviting the audience into a rich and unpredictable musical landscape, where cha-cha-cha, vals, and swing meet like old friends on the dance floor.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Tues. 1/8 6:00 pm
New Tech Seattle
$7-25.00
Thinkspace (South Lake Union)
“New Tech is the Northwest’s largest tech community. We’re the place where you make meaningful connections, learn from the industry’s best, and have a fun night out.”
#Tech
Tues. 1/8 6:00 pm
Public Speaking for Designers
$15.00
HBO (Denny Triangle)
“Leave this workshop with tips for feeling confident when giving a public talk, or speaking on stage, and practice presenting!”
#Design
Wed. 1/9 5:00 pm
Mochima
Free
Triple Door Musiquarium (Downtown)
“Mochima is a trio dedicated to the spread of joropo, merengue, parranda and all other Venezuelan musical styles.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Wed. 1/9 6:00 pm
WordPress Developer Meetup
Free
Impact Hub (Pioneer Square)
“Let’s get the developer meetup going! In this session we’ll get to know each other and brainstorm how we want the meetups to be structured.”
#WordPress
Wed. 1/9 7:00 pm
Via-BOOM: Innovation in Transportation
$5.00
Pacific Science Center (Seattle Center)
“A discussion with local experts and community leaders about the role science, technology, and engineering can play in addressing the transportation-related challenges we are facing in this region.”
#Civics
Thurs. 1/10 6:00 pm
Quantified Self Show + Tell
Free
Seattle Children’s Center for Global Infectious Disease Research (South Lake Union)
“Let us know if you want to present: What did you do, how did you do it, and what did you learn.”
#Science!
Thurs. 1/10 7:00 pm
UX Book Club
Free
Ada’s Technical Books (Capitol Hill)
“Discuss ‘Lean UX’ by Jeff Gothelf. The Lean UX approach to interaction design is tailor-made for today’s web-driven reality.”
#Design
Sat. 1/12 10:00 am
WordPress Contributor Meetup
Free
Uptown Espresso (South Lake Union)
“Come hang out with other WordPress users, designers and developers and contribute to the WordPress project.”
#WordPress
Sat. 1/12 8:00 pm
Alma y Azucar with SuperSones
$15.00
Royal Room (Columbia City)
“Alma y Azúcar masterfully integrates beloved Latin rhythmic styles – Cha Cha, Latin Jazz, Mexican boleros, Son and Salsa – with contemporary influences, resulting in ‘Latin music for everyone.’ SuperSones play the sublime music known as Son – the acoustic dance music of the Cuban countryside that inspired modern Salsa.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sun. 1/13 2:00 pm
When Women Ruled the World
$28-48.00
Benaroya Hall (Downtown)
“Join Dr. Kara Cooney, professor of Egyptology, for a look at a time in ancient history when women ruled the world.”
#SEATalks
Sun. 1/13 8:00 pm
Dakh Daughters with DJ Darek Mazzone
$23-28.00
Nectar Lounge (Fremont)
“Seven actresses take musical instruments into their hands in order to create a life-affirming performance about love, freedom and beauty which at the end of the day – will save the world.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Noteworthy Upcoming Events
Thurs. 2/7 8:00 pm
Tcheka
$20.00
Royal Room (Columbia City)
“A Cape Verdean original, a singer/songwriter/guitarist who has mastered the traditional idioms of his musically rich island nation, and channeled them into an expressive style all his own.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Thurs. 2/28 7:30 pm
Ignite Seattle
$5-15.00
Egyptian Theater (Capitol Hill)
“An evening of fast-paced talks on a wide range of interesting, inspiring, and challenging topics. The simple premise: Enlighten us, but make it quick.”
#Community
Thurs.-Fri. 2/28-3/1 8:00 pm
Antibalas 20 Year Anniversary Tour
$25-45.00
Nectar Lounge (Fremont)
“Antibalas (Spanish for ‘bulletproof’) is an American, Brooklyn-based afrobeat band that is modeled after Fela Kuti’s Africa 70 band and Eddie Palmieri’s Harlem River Drive Orchestra.” Link above goes to a page where you can get a ticket for both nights. One-night tickets available for the the Thurs. and Friday shows.
#SeattleWorldBeat
Thurs. 2/28 6:30 & 9:00 pm
Habib Koite and Bassekou Kouyate
$32-40.00
Triple Door (Downtown)
“Modern troubadour Habib Koité and ngoni master Bassekou Kouyate exemplify responsibility and shared experience associated with the historical, cultural, and unifying properties of Malian music.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Mon. 3/18 7:30 pm
Pedrito Martinez Group
$15-20.00
Town Hall (First Hill)
“The Pedrito Martinez Group is a powerhouse arrangement of performers steeped in Afro-Cuban musical traditions.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Thurs. 3/21 8:00 pm
Fatoumata Diawara
$18.50
Neptune Theater (U District)
“Boldly experimental yet respectful of her roots … Fatoumata Diawara is the voice of young African womanhood – proud of her heritage but with a vision that looks confidently to the future and a message that is universal.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Thurs. 3/28 8:00 pm
Bombino
$25.00
Crocodile (Belltown)
“Bombino is known as being emblematic of the next generation of Tuareg, a new voice of the Sahara and Sahel, fusing traditional Berber rhythms with the energy of rock and roll and songs about peace.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Fri. 3/29 7:30 pm
Lorraine Klaasen
$15-20.00
Town Hall (First Hill)
“Lorraine’s performances showcase her stunning vocal prowess and versatility, and she is known for singing in the Tsonga, Sotho, isiZulu, and Xhosa languages of South Africa as well as English and French.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Tues. 4/2 7:30 pm
Zakir Hussain Masters of Percussion
$41.50 – $50.00, as a part of a season subscription; general sales not yet open
Moore Theater (Downtown)
“An international phenomenon and one of the greatest musicians of our time. A classical tabla virtuoso of the highest order, his consistently brilliant and exciting performances have established him as a national treasure in his own country, India, and as one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Fri. 4/26 7:30 pm
Mokoomba and Chimurenga Renaissance
$15-20.00
Town Hall (First Hill)
“Local Zimbabwean-American artist Tendai ‘Baba’ Maraire joins Congolese-American guitarist Hussein Kalonji to form Chimurenga Renaissance, merging hip-hop and Congolese guitar with classic African musical traditions. Mokoomba blends Afro-fusion and traditional Tonga rhythms.”
#SeattleWorldBeat