NFFTY
Didn’t get enough Oktoberfest? Join NFFTY on Saturday, October 1st from 2-6pm at the Nectar for the Audiosocket Oktoberfest Benefiting NFFTY. Enjoy local beer (Deschutes Brewery, Fremont Brewery, Paulaner, American Brewing), local indie bands (The Wandas, And And And), and Meat Muffins (you’ll have to come and try them for yourself). All proceeds from the festivities will go to NFFTY.
Seattle Times
On Saturday, local band Ivan & Alyosha begins a month long residency at the High Dive in Fremont. Every Saturday for the next three weeks, the band and the venue will play off each other. The residency concept is not new, but it’s relatively untested in Seattle. Weekly performances will allow the band an unusual degree of casualness and familiarity with its audience and material, and vice versa. Fans attending all three weekends will witness the band develop its material live on stage as well as hear rarities and covers that might otherwise go unplayed at a headlining gig. “The idea is to do something special every time, a new jam or a Christmas jam, and have our friends playing with us,” Wilson says. “It’s like old-model show business: You might go to a club back in the day when it was jazz vocalists or jazz bands and it’s the same guy singing every Friday night and that’s how people would get their start.”
Seattle Times
Every Monday night in a Fremont bar, Michael Shrieve, who 40 years ago executed one of rock music’s greatest drum solos in a moment of history documented on film, unceremoniously takes the stage with his newest group, Spellbinder. It’s a five-piece jam band that reflects not only Shrieve’s accomplishments in rock but his interest in jazz and world music. The crowds that gather at the bar, ToST, tend to be a loyal, discerning, curious and enthusiastic lot. They listen intently and are occasionally moved to dance, but are often too young for the words “Woodstock” and “Santana” to hold very much meaning — words that figure largely in Shrieve’s personal history. Shrieve, who lives in Fremont in an apartment a few blocks from ToST, recently turned 60. He made his legend 40 years ago this weekend when, just after having turned 20, he performed with his band Santana at the Woodstock music festival. The band played “Soul Sacrifice,” and movie cameras were rolling so a documentary could be made about the festival. Shrieve, who looked even younger than his actual age, was a marvel, passion and joy written on his face. About three minutes into the nine-minute performance, the drummer set off into a long solo that would become part of rock- music history. In the decades since, Shrieve has played on or produced records that have sold millions of copies, not just with Santana but with the Rolling Stones, Pete Townshend, Steve Winwood and George Harrison. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
