This weekend’s (May 31-June 2) two Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra performances are the last of the season, and they commemorate BSO’s 40th anniversary with a varied program including the world premiere of Left Brain, Right Brain, which was commissioned from composer Brett Kroening, and performance by violinist Marianne Martinoli, winner of the BSO’s 2013 Young Artist Competition. Kroening’s…
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Symphony Winds up Its Season and Celebrates 40 This Weekend with Special Program
Posted on 31 May 2013.
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Summer Januaries Return to NW, at Farmer’s Market This Saturday
Posted on 30 May 2013.
The Summer Januaries sounds like what we like to call June around here, but it’s actually the name of the Seattle-based and unquestionably adorable fiddle-guitar duo Sean Michael Robinson and Rachel Erin Sage. They’ve been on tour for nine months but are now back in the Northwest, and their first back-home show will be on Bainbridge,…
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BHS Band Toots Its Own Horn(s) at State, Takes First in High Sax
Posted on 06 May 2013.
by BHS Band Director Chris Thomas On April 26-27, several Bainbridge High School students traveled to Ellensburg to participate in our State’s Solo & Ensemble chamber music competition. To qualify for this competition, each student had already earned a first-place finish at the regional competition in March. In all, the competition started with over 12,000…
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BHS Band Standouts March on to State Competition in April
Posted on 19 March 2013.
Bainbridge High School Band members distinguished themselves in both solo and ensemble performances at the regional OMEA Solo and Ensemble Competition held at Central Kitsap High School last month. Their winning numbers, determined by a judge, qualify them to move on to the competition in late April at Central Washington University, where they will compete with…
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“Best Singer Ever” and Two-Time Grammy Nominee Iris DeMent Comes to Bainbridge
Posted on 18 March 2013.
Merle Haggard calls her the best singer he’s ever heard. Emmylou Harris says her voice is extraordinary. Next weekend, Iris DeMent—the two-time Grammy nominee who sang at Bill Clinton’s inaugural gala, who has been praised by John Prine and Rolling Stone magazine—is coming to Bainbridge to play at Grace Episcopal Church. At 51, DeMent has already…
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Young Bainbridge Suzuki Musicians’ Concert Fills Benaroya (with Video)
Posted on 17 March 2013.
Piano teacher Keely Sawyer was pretty happy about the 2013 Suzuki student piano and violin concert held last Saturday, March 9, at Benaroya. She said, “It was great, it was awesome. It was one of my teaching career highlights.” It was also an organizational feat. Getting 87 performers ranging in age from 4 to 18…
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Watch out: Rambunctious Recess Monkey Is Headed to Town
Posted on 26 February 2013.
Bainbridge writer Jonathan Evison says that kid-friendly band Recess Monkey is so good that “adults without children listen to them.” If you’re (a) one of those adults, (b) the other kind with kids, (c) perhaps a kid, or even (d) another type of primate, you’ll want to turn out with Evison for the Recess Monkey…
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Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra Announces Winner of 2013 Young Artist Competition
Posted on 31 January 2013.
The Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has selected 15-year-old violinist Marianne Martinoli as the winner of its 2013 Young Artist Competition. Martinoli, of Monroe, won with her performance of the Julius Conus Concerto for Violin in E minor. Concert master of both The Seattle Youth Symphony and The Academy Chamber Orchestra, Martinoli has studied violin for 12…
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Get Ready to SING OUT! with the Total Experience Gospel Choir
Posted on 26 January 2013.
Seattle’s Pastor Patrinell Wright & Total Experience Gospel Choir’s 14th annual Bainbridge Island SING OUT! concert happens next Saturday at 7 p.m. in the High School Commons. You can sit back and listen to an evening of soul, but that isn’t the only way to enjoy this event. You can also join the choir during…
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BHS Band Returns Jazzed About Their Day at the State Capitol
Posted on 17 January 2013.
After the November elections, Bainbridge High School Band Director Chris Thomas saw Governor Jay Inslee on the Bainbridge ferry and had an idea. He wanted to try to get his band a gig at the governor’s inauguration. ”[Inslee] looked like a nice guy tired from a long day who needed time alone, so I called his office…
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BHS Band Plays at Governor Inslee’s Inauguration
Posted on 15 January 2013.
The Bainbridge High School Jazz Orchestra, comprised of 33 students and led by Band Director Chris Thomas, is performing at Jay Inslee’s governor inauguration ceremony tomorrow morning, January 16. The event takes place in the Rotunda of our State Capitol’s Legislative Building. The Bainbridge Band is performing four songs at 10:45 a.m., following Inslee’s oath…
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Video: Seattle Kokon Taiko Drummers at Mochi Tsuki 2013
Posted on 06 January 2013.
Today, the 24th annual Mochi Tsuki festival, hosted by the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community, brought more than a thousand people to IslandWood to partake of the traditional Japanese New Year’s sweet rice cakes and join in the festivities. Outside, the entertainment consisted of laypeople pounding the steamed rice in the stone usu into a…
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BHS Band Takes 1st Place in Division Competition
Posted on 01 October 2012.
11:40 a.m. The Bainbridge High School Marching Band won their division title at the Peninsula Marching Band Competition this weekend, Saturday, September 29. The competition, held in Silverdale, drew 13 marching bands from Washington for an all-day event. Playing music from The Incredibles, BHS was in first place following the preliminary competition and held onto…
A Taste of Lynwood 2012 Excels with LeRoy Bell (w/ Video)
Posted on 16 September 2012.
by Kevin Hawkins and Kyanne Hawkins September 16, 2012, 8:12 a.m. How did Bainbridge Island get so lucky? Not only do we have an annual end-of-summer event that is becoming the quintessential Island favorite in A Taste of Lynwood–now in its 5th year—but we get to see LeRoy Bell, literally one of the world’s most…
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Bumbershoot This Weekend: Some Acts to See
Posted on 31 August 2012.
9:16 a.m. In terms of weather we’re looking at partly sunny/partly cloudy. So take your bumbershoot just to thwart bad luck and head over to the Seattle Center Saturday, Sunday, and/or Monday for a vast array of performances at our popular annual Labor Day Weekend festival. So what if Janeane Garofalo cancelled? You’ve still got…
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Battle Point Park Feels the Funk This Wednesday with Mutha Knows Best
Posted on 20 August 2012.
11:15 a.m. The Bainbridge Island Park District is throwing one final funky party through their free Wednesday Concerts in the Parks series this Wednesday, August 22, 7-8:30 p.m. at Battle Point Park. Seattle-based funk band Mutha Knows Best will play on the mobile stage doing what they do best: covers of great funk and Motown…
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Benefit Concert and Fundraiser for The 122 at Messenger House
Posted on 10 August 2012.
1:00 p.m. This Saturday’s Indie Bandita concert and bazaar is a benefit for Bainbridge’s The 122 Restaurant and Bar that burned down earlier this summer. The event is also the kickoff venue for the sale of Island Love for The 122 fundraising T-shirts. Indie Bandita Bazaars are traveling events run by Islander Katie Wiedenman Butler…
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Unprecedented Attendance at Saturday’s Bluegrass Fest
Posted on 31 July 2012.
With an estimated crowd of over 2,000 (the final number isn’t in yet), this summer’s Bainbridge Island Bluegrass Festival was one of the most well-attended events ever held at Battle Point Park. Event organizer Jeff Hemmat was delighted to report that this year’s Bluegrass Fest tripled the overall daily combined sales of the five previous…
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BI Bluegrass Festival 2012 Photo Gallery
Posted on 29 July 2012.
Yesterday’s Bluegrass Festival at Bainbridge Island’s Battle Point Park drew an unprecedentedly large crowd, with well over 600 people gathered around the Observatory hill to hear a great line up of bands. The sun burned away the clouds by the afternoon, warming the audience, which had spread itself far and wide across the grass on…
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Wednesday Concerts in the Parks Summer Schedule
Posted on 08 July 2012.
by Julie Hall July 8, 2012 5:48 a.m. Bainbridge Island’s free Wednesday Evening Concerts in the Parks series is rolling into Fay Bainbridge this week on the Park District mobile stage, with the Americana/Country Western stylings of the Tune Stranglers starting off the summer season. Fay Bainbridge concerts will run July 11 through August 1,…
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