Jean-Michel Blais is a pianist-composer-performer based in Montreal.

Growing up in rural Quebec, Blais only started tickling on the family organ at age 9, before beginning to compose, then to attend piano lessons. He enjoyed playing in masses, weddings and funerals. Endowed with natural talent, he entered the Conservatoire de Musique de Trois-Rivières where he trained as a classical pianist. The constraints of it bothered him, as he began to gravitate around improvisation and experimentation. He therefore left the institution to travel, interrupting his musical journey.

A 2-time Emmy nominee, Michael Yo is a comedian/actor/host keeping busy in all of Hollywood’s platforms. In stand up, Michael came up under the wings of Chelsea Handler and Jo Koy and now headlines all over the country. He just released his hilarious and heartfelt debut stand up comedy special, Blasian. In acting, Michael recently reoccurred on “Kevin Can Wait,” shot a Damon Wayan Jr.’s pilot “Happy Together” for CBS, and was a principal in Facebook’s upcoming Facebook Watch first sitcom series, “Starter Pack.” Michael was previously seen covering celebrity news on “The Insider,” “Extra,” “E! News,” as well as guest co-hosting CBS’ “The Talk.” Michael continues to appear as a hot topics guest on “The Wendy Williams Show. You can also catch him on the Joe Rogan Experience. ” The self-proclaimed “Half-Black Brother with a Korean Mother” was born and raised in Houston and now lives in Los Angeles with his family.

A 2-time Emmy nominee, Michael Yo is a comedian/actor/host keeping busy in all of Hollywood’s platforms. In stand up, Michael came up under the wings of Chelsea Handler and Jo Koy and now headlines all over the country. He just released his hilarious and heartfelt debut stand up comedy special, Blasian. In acting, Michael recently reoccurred on “Kevin Can Wait,” shot a Damon Wayan Jr.’s pilot “Happy Together” for CBS, and was a principal in Facebook’s upcoming Facebook Watch first sitcom series, “Starter Pack.” Michael was previously seen covering celebrity news on “The Insider,” “Extra,” “E! News,” as well as guest co-hosting CBS’ “The Talk.” Michael continues to appear as a hot topics guest on “The Wendy Williams Show. You can also catch him on the Joe Rogan Experience. ” The self-proclaimed “Half-Black Brother with a Korean Mother” was born and raised in Houston and now lives in Los Angeles with his family.

For more than a dozen years, Massy Ferguson have proudly planted their boots on both sides of the country-rock divide, carving out their own brand of amplified Americana along the way. Based in Seattle, they've become international torchbearers of a sound that's distinctly American, with a touring history that spans nine different countries. On their fifth album, Great Divides, they double down on their rock & roll roots, mixing bar-band twang with raw, guitar-driven bang. Gluing those sounds together is the songwriting partnership of bass-playing frontman Ethan Anderson and guitarist Adam Monda, whose songs spin stories of small-town adolescence, big-city adulthood, and the long miles of highway that stretch between.

"Massy Ferguson proves that growing up doesn’t have to be the same as chilling out. Great Divides is just as full of energy as it is of wisdom. In these times, we need Massy Ferguson’s urgency." -- No Depression

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For 15 years Paula Boggs Band has blended roots music and jazz to create "Seattle Brewed Soulgrass" for audiences across America and Canada. "Janus," released in 2022 is its 4th and latest studio album. "Rewriting the bluegrass story from a black perspective." AmericanaUK “Paula Boggs Band sets themselves apart distinctly by Boggs’ stunning vocals…this Seattle band sounds the part of a bygone era and part refreshingly modern, an exciting contributor to the Pacific Northwest’s diverse music scene.” Glide Magazine

“James Coates sounds like Bob Dylan if he could actually sing, while lyrically he veers closer to Springsteen territory.” —Seattle Weekly

James Coates is a Northwest singer-songwriter who's used deeply-personal songs to connect with audiences for 15 years. His soulful brand of Americana blends rock, soul, country and R&B to create a sound that harkens back to the golden age of ‘60s and ‘70s songwriting.

The Oh Wells embody Northwest Americana highlighted with the band’s power pop and classic rock roots. Spinning up melody driven pop songs, relatable storytelling, and signature harmonies, The Oh Wells evoke a modern twist on classic American folk-rock from the 1960s and 70s. Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, singer-songwriters Brian Kerrigan and Ira Merrill formed The Oh Wells during the pandemic as they sent songs back and forth to each other over the internet. In 2021, the band released a Christmas EP with former Super Deluxe frontman, Braden Blake, entitled “Braden Blake and The Oh Wells – Satin Bows and Arrows”. In early 2022, The Oh Wells released their first EP of 7 original songs titled, “Dakota”, an acoustically driven EP that fuses their unique blend of originality with nods to artists they hold dear: Tom Petty, The Jayhawks, The Beatles and CSNY.

The Starlight Jazz Band is a collective of professional Jazz musicians who form an alternating line-up of some of Seattle's finest entertainers that have captured the hearts of jazz enthusiasts with their dynamic performances. The band is composed of some of the most talented musicians in the region, each with their unique style and sound.

With an alternating line-up of top-tier players, the Starlight Jazz Band delivers a diverse repertoire including traditional jazz standards, swing, bebop, and modern jazz, ensuring that there is something for everyone. The band's unique ability to blend various genres seamlessly has earned them critical acclaim and a loyal following.

After a hiatus since the pandemic, the historic Musicquarium Lounge is set to make a comeback with a series of live performances at downtown Seattle's famed and historic cocktail lounge. Patrons can expect unforgettable experiences as different local acts take the stage once again, showcasing the exceptional talent and passion from Seattle's own.

Don't miss your chance to witness the Musicquarium's return with live music during our happy hour from 4 to 7! Join us for an evening of soulful melodies and electrifying performances as we celebrate the return of a long held Seattle institution, beginning every Thursday at 5pm.

Already booked a show on the mainstage? Come a few hours before doors to enjoy one of our signature cocktails and try out our Asian-Fusion inspired happy hour menu, now with live music.

Tamikrest in tamasheq language means junction, connection, knot, coalition. The group members come from different horizons (Mali, Niger, Algeria and France). Wanting to assume fully their Touareg identity, they found in the rebel music Ishumar the means to express it. “A desert hosts us, a language unites us, a culture binds us.”

The story begins at Kidal, capital of the eighth Region of Mali, while making tea of course. Pino, Cheikh and Mossa had just finished a guitar workshop with Juhan Ecaré (guitarist for Meiway) when they decided to form a group with only two old ‘home made’ guitars. And they got to work… “Even though we are young, guitars still have six cords!”

After one year and a half of hard work, the group is complete and their repertory has grown to contain more than twenty-five original compositions. Though their music takes root in Ishumar Rock or Tuareg Blues, it borrows from various international influences as well as from neighbouring cultures.

Through the message of their songs, Tamikrest want to make Tamasheq poetry and culture accessible to inhabitants of a world larger than the immensity of the Saharian desert.

Terell Stafford, acclaimed trumpet player based in New York, has been hailed as “one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player” by piano legend McCoy Tyner. Stafford is recognized as an incredibly gifted and versatile player, he combines a deep love of melody with his own brand of spirited and adventurous lyricism. Stafford’s exceptionally expressive and well defined musical talent allows him to dance in and around the rich trumpet tradition of his predecessors while making his own inroads.

The internationally touring show Kalimba, The Spirit of Earth Wind and Fire provides an Earth Wind & Fire experience so satisfying it transports audiences back to the excitement of the first time they heard these unforgettable songs. Reproducing the infectious grooves created by EWF’s late founder Maurice White, Kalimba pays homage to Maurice with its exciting stage and lighting production. The show authentically replicates the signature high notes of Philip Bailey, the thick vocals harmonies of Maurice and Ralph Johnson, along with the grooving bass lines of Verdine White.

The internationally touring show Kalimba, The Spirit of Earth Wind and Fire provides an Earth Wind & Fire experience so satisfying it transports audiences back to the excitement of the first time they heard these unforgettable songs. Reproducing the infectious grooves created by EWF’s late founder Maurice White, Kalimba pays homage to Maurice with its exciting stage and lighting production. The show authentically replicates the signature high notes of Philip Bailey, the thick vocals harmonies of Maurice and Ralph Johnson, along with the grooving bass lines of Verdine White.

Sugar redefines the definition of Cabaret with a fun-filled, sexy, silly & sassy evening of live powerhouse vocals, dancing, and stories of love and loss. Brie Turoff Mueller leads a stage full of the regions best dancers, actors, singers - and the infamous Sugar Band - in the most tantalizing show in the Pacific Northwest. Audiences are invited to sit back and enjoy the ride as they experience an unforgettable evening in this unique and vivacious cabaret atmosphere.

Brie Turoff Mueller has been creating Cabaret performances in New York City for over a decade, and is now bringing the Sugar experience to the West Coast. Joining her in the cabaret is the bluesy and rocking Sugar band along with a fantastic ensemble of local and regional performers, dancers, and singers in the Pacific Northwest’s most dynamic ensemble. Learn more about the show at www.SugarTheShow.com.

Sugar welcomes all ages, but please be aware that the show contains adult content, profanity, sexuality, and overall sassiness. There is NO nudity in Sugar.

“An absolute Crown Jewel among all the other amazing performers I’ve seen. I suggest you remember her name…” - What’s Up! Bellingham’s Music Magazine

Laurel Canyon Legacy celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk music blended with rock and went electric. Come let us take you on a musical journey through the 60’s and 70’s as we perform your favorite songs by groups like The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, The Byrds, Beach Boys, Carole King, America, Buffalo Springfield, The Mamas and the Papas, The Doors, The Monkees, The Association, Jackson Browne, Carly Simon, Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, CSNY, Joni Mitchell and much more.

The Starlight Jazz Band is a collective of professional Jazz musicians who form an alternating line-up of some of Seattle's finest entertainers that have captured the hearts of jazz enthusiasts with their dynamic performances. The band is composed of some of the most talented musicians in the region, each with their unique style and sound.

With an alternating line-up of top-tier players, the Starlight Jazz Band delivers a diverse repertoire including traditional jazz standards, swing, bebop, and modern jazz, ensuring that there is something for everyone. The band's unique ability to blend various genres seamlessly has earned them critical acclaim and a loyal following.

After a hiatus since the pandemic, the historic Musicquarium Lounge is set to make a comeback with a series of live performances at downtown Seattle's famed and historic cocktail lounge. Patrons can expect unforgettable experiences as different local acts take the stage once again, showcasing the exceptional talent and passion from Seattle's own.

Don't miss your chance to witness the Musicquarium's return with live music during our happy hour from 4 to 7! Join us for an evening of soulful melodies and electrifying performances as we celebrate the return of a long held Seattle institution, beginning every Thursday at 5pm.

Already booked a show on the mainstage? Come a few hours before doors to enjoy one of our signature cocktails and try out our Asian-Fusion inspired happy hour menu, now with live music.

Vivify Music Recording Artist and Benedetto Guitar Artist, Brian Nova, is considered one of the top Jazz Guitarists/Vocalists in the nation, according to Jazz Improv Magazine. Joe Pass said of Nova: ‘I feel Brian is one of the finest Jazz Guitarists on the scene!’ He has the distinction of being the only guitarist who was mentored by, and toured with the two titans of Jazz guitar: Herb Ellis and Joe Pass. Rock Icon, Steve Miller, says: ‘I’ve met and known a lot of guitarists in my career, and ‘B’ is the best guitarist I’ve ever met.’ Nova performs, and records, as a solo artist with his Trio, Quartet, and his 18-piece Big Band. Brian is on Arturo Sandoval’s Grammy Award Winning CD, ‘Dear Diz’, which garnered a Grammy and 3 Latin Grammys in 2013 on Concord Records. Brian was also featured at the Iconic Apollo Theater in Harlem for Ella Fitzgerald’s 100th Birthday Celebration along with Liz Wright, Monica Mancini, Patti Austin, Andra Day, Cassandra Wilson, Ledisi and many others.

Nova performs throughout North America with extended bookings in major cities and as a Jazz Festival Artist. His annual European Tour includes engagements in Sicily, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, and Italy. His Pan-Pacific Tour includes China, Taiwan, and a sold out tour in Japan every December.

In addition to performing, Nova also encourages young Jazz musicians to further their own musical education and stage presence. From 1990 to 1996, he was the Director of Jazz and Guitar Studies for the Music Program at Seattle University. He continues to mentor the next generation of professional musicians through his master classes and clinics he conducts around the world.

Written and recorded in an exhilarating creative whirlwind, Sondre Lerche’s remarkable new double album, Avatars of Love, is as ambitious as it is unexpected, defying the conventional wisdom of the streaming era with a series of sprawling, epic tracks that routinely stretch past the five, six, even ten-minute mark. What’s more, the record is perhaps the most revealing work of self-reflection Lerche’s ever dared to create, offering up a candid reckoning with loss, desire, and infatuation as it looks back on a lifetime of relationships (some more raw and recent than others). Captured with some of Lerche’s dearest friends back in his native Norway, the result is a beautiful and unabashedly romantic collection that walks the line between folk intimacy, electronic experimentalism, and orchestral grandeur, an open, honest exploration of sexuality and sentimentality that embraces the highs and lows of modern love in all its messy glory.

Born and raised in Bergen, Lerche first came to fame as a teenager with the release of his critically acclaimed debut, Faces Down, which Rolling Stone hailed as “one of the year’s loveliest, sunniest, poppiest albums.” Over the course of the ensuing two decades (most of which were spent living in the US), Lerche would go on to release eight more similarly celebrated studio albums, perform on Letterman, Conan, and at NPR’s Tiny Desk, score multiple feature films, and tour with the likes of Stereolab, Elvis Costello and St. Vincent, among others.

Marvel as our live jazz-rock sextet, “The Aces & Eights”, plays hard-bop, psychedelia, and Indian Raga-pop to set the mood as exceptional dancers from around the region combine dance styles into a whirlwind of whimsy and bawdy beauty. The superstars of Seattle’s Burlesque A-List take on the roles of Carroll’s famous characters and turn Wonderland’s topsy-turvy world into an ecdysiastic tour-de-force filled with glamour, comedy, dance, striptease, and song.

Marvel as our live jazz-rock sextet, “The Aces & Eights”, plays hard-bop, psychedelia, and Indian Raga-pop to set the mood as exceptional dancers from around the region combine dance styles into a whirlwind of whimsy and bawdy beauty. The superstars of Seattle’s Burlesque A-List take on the roles of Carroll’s famous characters and turn Wonderland’s topsy-turvy world into an ecdysiastic tour-de-force filled with glamour, comedy, dance, striptease, and song.

Marvel as our live jazz-rock sextet, “The Aces & Eights”, plays hard-bop, psychedelia, and Indian Raga-pop to set the mood as exceptional dancers from around the region combine dance styles into a whirlwind of whimsy and bawdy beauty. The superstars of Seattle’s Burlesque A-List take on the roles of Carroll’s famous characters and turn Wonderland’s topsy-turvy world into an ecdysiastic tour-de-force filled with glamour, comedy, dance, striptease, and song.

Marvel as our live jazz-rock sextet, “The Aces & Eights”, plays hard-bop, psychedelia, and Indian Raga-pop to set the mood as exceptional dancers from around the region combine dance styles into a whirlwind of whimsy and bawdy beauty. The superstars of Seattle’s Burlesque A-List take on the roles of Carroll’s famous characters and turn Wonderland’s topsy-turvy world into an ecdysiastic tour-de-force filled with glamour, comedy, dance, striptease, and song.