Happening This Week
Mon. 2/18 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
Mon. 2/18 9:30 pm
Capitol Cider Jam Session
No cover
Capitol Cider (Capitol Hill)
Shalane Miller hosts tonight.
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Tues. 2/19 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. 2/19 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. 2/19 6:30 pm
WordPress Help Desk Meetup
Free
Smart Buildings Center (Beacon Hill)
“Want Help with your WordPress site, or want to help others? This is the place to come for learning and help getting over a hurdle.”
#WordPress
Wed. 2/20 6:30 pm
History Café: The Seattles that Might Have Been
Free
MOHAI (South Lake Union)
“Seattle voters have rejected multiple visions of Seattle. These decisions of how Seattle is—or might have been—shape the way we navigate and inhabit our city today.”
#Community
Thurs. 2/21 5:00 pm
Marco de Carvalho
Free
Triple Door Musiquarium (Downtown)
“Marco de Carvalho has been a performance guitarist, composer and arranger for thirty years. He plays an extensive repertoire of music from Rio de Janeiro as well as his own compositions.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Thurs. 2/21 6:30 pm
Let’s Talk about Research Ops
$8; free for PS SIGCHI members
Moz (Downtown)
“So what is Research Ops? What is Research Ops trying to solve? How do we start on Research Ops? Do we need it?”
#Design
Thurs. 2/21 7:00 pm
Fresh Ground Stories
Free
Roy Street Coffee (Capitol Hill)
“February’s theme is ‘Left Turn – Stories of life going sideways.'”
#SEATalks
Thurs. 2/21 7:00 pm
Lord Shambleton
$8.00
Skylark (West Seattle)
“Seattle-based instrumental group, bringing together jazz, calypso, and other Afro-Caribbean styles.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Thurs.-Sun. 2/21-24
Arturo Sandoval
$36.50
Jazz Alley (Downtown)
“Arturo Sandoval is one of the most dynamic and vivacious live performers of our time. He was a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning group Irakere, whose explosive mixture of jazz, classical, rock and traditional Cuban music caused a sensation throughout the entertainment world.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Fri. 2/22 7:00 pm
Anar Dana Cultural Evening
$15 suggested donation
Studio Deep Roots (Greenwood)
“Chaikhana: an evening in an Oriental Coffee House. Potluck and Cultural Evening at Studio Deep Roots. The focus of this evening is Romanian Dances from Transylvania.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Fri. 2/22 8:00 pm
Kurdish Rhythm & Free Improvisation
$5-15.00 donation
Good Shepherd Center (Wallingford)
“An evening of free improvisations based on Kurdish rhythms featuring percussion virtuoso Ahmad Yousefbeigi joined by Arrington de Dionyso and Amy Denio.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Fri.-Sun. 2/22-24
Frank Olivier’s Twisted Cabaret
$20-40.00
Hale’s Palladium (Fremont)
“The stage is set for the big comedy varieté show, the theater is packed, the band is ready – but the tour bus with all the performers has broken down! Now Frank Olivier must pull off the show of his life and perform all 16 twisted variety acts himself.”
#HauteSeattle
Sat. 2/23 10:00 am-6:00 pm
Pacific Northwest Regional Yo-Yo Championship
Free
Armory (Seattle Center)
“The premier yo-yo event in the Pacific Northwest. PNWR attracts top talent from the region and around the country.”
#HauteSeattle
Sat. 2/23 10:00 am
DIY User Group for Bloggers
Free
Wallingford Community Senior Center (Wallingford)
“This is a new WordPress Meetup for those who are DIY (do-it-yourselfers). You may be a beginner, you may be an experienced blogger, you may maintain your own site that someone else created for you.”
#WordPress
Sat. 2/23 7:00 pm
Trovadoro
$10.00
Seamonster Lounge (Wallingford)
“Another great night of original Cuban roots music – Son Cubano Traditional from a super group of local Cuban musicians.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sat. 2/23 8:00 pm
Ann Reynolds & Clave Gringa
$12.00
North City Bistro (Shoreline)
“Clave Gringa plays a broad spectrum of Cuban styles from Cuban son and danzon to rumba and Afro Cuban with an infusion of American jazz.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sat. 2/23 8:30 pm
Lucha Libre is for Lovers
$10-15.00
eVOLV Fitness (South Lake Union)
“Lucha libre is for lovers … of an action-packed, fun-filled, night! Bring your boo, bring your besties, bring your family. No making out in the aisles!”
#HauteSeattle
Sun. 2/24 3:00 pm
Correo Aereo Trio
No cover
C&P Coffee (West Seattle)
“Award winning multi-instrumental and vocal Latin/World music.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sun. 2/24 5:00 pm
Gung Haggis Fat Choy
$45.00
China Harbor (Westlake)
“Celebrate Chinese (Asian) Lunar New Year 2019 (Year of the Boar) and the 260th birthday of Robert Burns, the bard of Scotland.”
#HauteSeattle
Next Week
Tues. 2/26 6:00 pm
Case Study: User-Centered Design Methods That Engage and Unite Teams
$10.00
Sage Bionetworks (Belltown)
“Come learn about the benefits of practices such as journey mapping, cross-team collaborative brainstorming, affinity mapping, and service blueprints and how they can be used at various stages in the product design process.”
#Design
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
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 8:00 pm
The New Triumph
No cover
Triple Door Musiquarium (Downtown)
“We’re excited to bring our Afro-Latin Funk to the Musicquarium.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Fri. 3/1 6:00 pm
Michael Martinez
Dinner reservations recommended
Alcove (U District)
“Tempero do Brasil rises from the ashes with a rebranding and a complete make over. I will be performing Brasilian Music and a bit of the other.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Fri. 3/1 8:00 pm
Adriana Giordano & EntreMundos Quarteto
$15.00
North City Bistro (Shoreline)
“EntreMundos Quarteto is a high-energy, infectiously joyful band that infuses traditional Brazilian music with jazz, funk, soul and world influences.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sat. 3/2 10:00 am-4:00 pm
Diversity Talks Seattle: Break into the Speaker Circuit
Free
General Assembly (Downtown)
“Are you a member of an underrepresented or marginalized group? Have you always wanted to become a tech or design conference speaker? Let 2019 be the year that you make that dream a reality!”
#Tech #Design
Sat. 3/2 11:00 am-4:00 pm
Lunar New Year Celebration
Free
Hing Hay Park (International Disctrict)
“Celebrate the Year of the Pig with lion and dragon dances, cultural performances, and the $3 Food Walk!”
#Community
Sat. 3/2 7:30 pm
EntreMundos Big Band with Tudo Beleza
$15-20.00
Royal Room (Columbia City)
“Celebrate Carnaval 2019 with the infectious Brazilian rhythms of EntreMundos Quarteto Big Band and the vibrant Tudo Beleza dancers dancing Rio-style samba.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sun. 3/3 1:00 pm
Content Design 101 Workshop
Free
Seattle Public Library (Downtown)
“Content design is about starting with your customer’s needs and designing content formats that will meet those needs. This workshop [led by yours truly] will introduce content design concepts and let you apply them in hands-on exercises.”
#ContentStrategy
Noteworthy Upcoming Events
Mon. 3/4 8:00 pm
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
$33.50
Neptune Theater (U District)
I first saw these guys with Paul Simon’s Graceland tour and have seen them many times since. Always a powerful show.
#SeattleWorldBeat
Fri. 3/15 7:30 pm
Rebirth Brass Band
$25.00
Tractor Tavern (Ballard)
“Rebirth Brass Band is a true New Orleans institution. While committed to upholding the tradition of brass bands, they have also extended themselves into the realms of funk and hip-hop to create their signature sound.” Late show at 10:00
#SeattleWorldBeat
Mon. 3/18 7:30 pm
Pedrito Martinez Group
$15-20.00
Broadway Performance Hall (Capitol 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
Rainier Arts Center (Columbia City)
“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
$35-42.50
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
Sat. 4/13 7:30 pm
Cubana Be Cubana Bop
$50.00
Benaroya Recital Hall (Downtown)
“Ignacio Berroa, world-renowned Latin percussionist, joins Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra to lead the band in a concert of the music of Cuba.”
#SeattleWorldBeat
Sat. 4/20 8:00 pm
Toubab Krewe opens for Hot Buttered Rum
$15-20.00
Nectar Lounge (Fremont)
I have no idea who Hot Buttered Rum are, but Toubab Krewe is one of the finest world-music fusion bands you’ll ever see – traditional West African music meets Southern rock.
#SeattleWorldBeat
Fri. 4/26 7:30 pm
Mokoomba and Chimurenga Renaissance
$15-20.00
venue TBD (TBD)
“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