Mural Amphitheater, Seattle Center (built 1962). The mosaic behind the stage is by Seattle artist Paul Horiuchi.^[1]

Seattle, although a relatively new city, is a significant center for the performing arts. The century-old Seattle Symphony Orchestra is among the world's most recorded orchestras [1]. The Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet, are comparably distinguished. On at least two occasions, Seattle's local popular music scene has burst into the national and even international consciousness, first with a major contribution to garage rock in the mid-1960s, and later as the home of grunge rock in the early 1990s. The city has about twenty live theater venues, and Pioneer Square is one of the country's most prominent art gallery districts. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 739 KB) [[Category:Seattle Center] File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Arts in Seattle Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 739 KB) [[Category:Seattle Center] File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Arts in Seattle Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera... Seattle Center is a fairground, park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington, on the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. ... City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ... The performing arts include theater, motion pictures, drama, comedy, music, dance, opera, magic and the marching arts, such as brass bands, etc. ... The Seattle Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Seattle, Washington. ... The Seattle Opera is an opera company located in Seattle, Washington. ... The Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company and based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. ... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more of the mass media. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Grunge music (sometimes also referred to as the Seattle Sound) is an independent-rooted music genre that was inspired by hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock. ... Pioneer Square Pioneer Square is the neighborhood where Seattle, Washington was founded in 1853. ...

Seattle in the early 20th century

Although Seattle in the early 20th century was more of a center for variety shows and vaudeville than for the high arts, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1903. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... A variety show is a show with a variety of acts, often including music and comedy skits, especially on television. ... Vaudeville is a style of multi-act theatre which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... The Seattle Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Seattle, Washington. ...

The Cornish School — later the Cornish Institute and now Cornish College of the Arts, an accredited college with courses in the sciences and humanities as well — was founded in 1914 by Nellie Cornish. Initially a music school, but later equally known for dance, theater, and visual arts, it thrived for decades under her leadership; although its quality slackened after her death, it eventually recovered and remains an important arts education institution to this day. Cornish College of the Arts is a fully accredited institution in Seattle, Washington that offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance, Theater, Performance Production, Design, and Fine Art, as well as the Bachelor of Music degree. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

Emergence of Seattle as an arts center

Entrance and box office of Fifth Avenue Theater

Seattle first began to be an arts center in the 1920s. Australian painter Ambrose Patterson arrived in 1919; over the next few decades Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, Guy Irving Anderson, and Paul Horiuchi would establish themselves as nationally and internationally known artists. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 798 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Arts in Seattle Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 798 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Arts in Seattle Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ... Mark Tobey (December 11, 1890 – April 24, 1976) was an American abstract painter. ... Morris Graves (August 28, 1910 - May 5, 2001) was a notable 20th century artist and a founder of the Northwest School. ... Kenneth Callahan born in Spokane, Washington (1905–1986), was a noted 20th century artist and a founder of the Northwest School. ...

Seattle was very much "on the circuit" by this time. Performers at Seattle's Moore Theater in the 1930s included Sarah Bernhardt, Lily Langtry, the Barrymores, Marie Dressier, and Anna Pavlova. [2] Sarah Bernhardt (portrait by Nadar) Sarah Bernhardt (October 23, 1844 – March 26, 1923) was a French stage actress. ... Lillie Langtry (née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, nicknamed the Jersey Lily) (13 October 1853 – 12 February 1929) was a British actress born on the island of Jersey in 1853. ... The Barrymore family is an acting family in the United States. ... Photographic postcard of Anna Pavlova as Aspicia in The Pharoahs Daughter, circa 1910 Anna Pavlova as Nikiya in the Grand Pas Classique of the Shades from Act III of La Bayadere, circa 1902 Anna Pavlova is also the name of an Olympic gymnast. ...

By mid-century the thriving jazz scene in the city's Skid Road district would produce such luminaries as Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, and Ernestine Anderson. The Brothers Four, one of the collegiate folk groups of the late 1950s and early 1960s, were also from Seattle. The American term skid row or skid road is used to refer to the rundown area of a city where alcoholics and vagrants congregate. ... Ray Charles was the stage name of Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004). ... Quincy Jones on the cover of Back on the Block (1989). ... Ernestine Anderson (born November 11, 1928, in Houston, Texas) is a jazz and blues singer. ... The Brothers Four are an American folk group founded in 1957 in Seattle, Washington. ...

Century 21 Exposition

The Space Needle is the most famous architectural legacy of the Century 21 Exposition.

When Seattle decided to try to put itself on the map with the futuristic Century 21 Exposition — the 1962 World's Fair — high culture was on the agenda, as well as popular entertainment along the lines of "Gracie Hansen's Paradise International" and "Les Poupees de Paris," an adult-themed puppet show, both of which aspired more to a Gay Nineties naughtiness than to anything artistic. [3] The Opera House on the grounds of the center was rebuilt for the occasion (and would be rebuilt again 2001–2003 as McCaw Hall); performers at the fair included Igor Stravinsky, Benny Goodman, and Victor Borge; the Seattle Symphony brought in opera singers and staged Aida. The Fine Arts Pavilion (later the Exhibition Hall) managed to bring in works by Titian, Van Dyck, and Monet, as well as more contemporary pieces by Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keefe, and Alexander Calder and by Pacific Northwest artists Tobey, Callahan, and Graves. There was also a significant exhibition of Asian art and Northwest Coast Indian art. [4] The exposition also commissioned a massive abstract mural by Horiuchi, which still forms the backdrop to the stage at Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (600x1200, 276 KB) Space Needle, Seattle: evening, 2006-07-09. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (600x1200, 276 KB) Space Needle, Seattle: evening, 2006-07-09. ... Space Needle from Downtown Seattle. ... The Space Needle, built for the Century 21 Exposition. ... Worlds Fair is any of various large expositions held since the mid-19th century. ... Gay Nineties is a term that refers to the decade of the 1890s in the United States. ... Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, Igor Fëdorovič Stravinskij) (June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971) was a Russian composer best known for three compositions from his earlier, Russian period: LOiseau de feu (The Firebird) (1910), Petrushka (1911), and Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) (1913). ... Benny Goodman, born BenÅ‘ Guttman, (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz musician, known as King of Swing, Patriarch of the Clarinet, The Professor, and Swings Senior Statesman. // Goodman was born in Chicago, the ninth of twelve children of poor Jewish immigrants from Hungary who lived... Musician/Comedian Victor Borge For the Cape Verdean politician, see Víctor Borges. ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan. ... // Introduction This article is about the marketing term, AIDA. For other uses of the term, see Aida (disambiguation). ... Titians self-portrait, 1566. ... Self Portrait With a Sunflower Sir Anthony (Antoon) van Dyck (*March 22, 1599 - December 9, 1641) was a Flemish painter — mainly of portraits — who became the leading court painter in England. ... Oscar-Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926), French impressionist painter. ... Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement. ... Georgia O’Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950 Georgia OKeeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. ... Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976), also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. ... The Pacific Northwest from space This page is about the region that includes parts of Canada and the US. For the US only region, see Northwestern United States The Pacific Northwest (abbreviated PNW, or PacNW) or Cascadia is a region in the northwest of North America. ... Arts of the Far East include: Buddhist art Chinese art Japanese art Korean art Tibetan art Thai art Laotian art Eastern art history Asian literature Categories: | ... Seattle Center is a fairground, park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington, on the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. ...

Outside of the fair itself, Seattle's bars were filled with the live music that would result just a few years later in the region's first great period as a rock'n'roll mecca. Rock and roll (also spelled rock n roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...

After the Fair

Robert Nesbitt writes in the liner notes to the compilation album Wheedle's Groove that in 1972 the city had "a minimum of twenty live music clubs specializing in funk and soul," and that doesn't count other popular music genres. That collection of live music clubs would shrink drastically beginning in the mid-1970s, first with the rise of disco music and recorded dance music in general, and then with Seattle's slightly rundown center becoming a financial district of new skyscrapers. Discothèque redirects here. ...

The 1980s

But it wasn't until the 1980s that Seattle began to be generally recognized as an important performing arts locale. One of the key events in this respect was the Seattle Opera's ambitious and successful staging, under its founding general director Glynn Ross, of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Performed in its entirety every summer from 1975 through 1983 back-to-back cycles (first in German, then in English, by 1982, the New York Times reported that Seattle had become a serious rival to Bayreuth. Seattle's Wagner festival has continued to the present day, albeit no longer quite such an ambitious annual event. [5] The performing arts include theater, motion pictures, drama, comedy, music, dance, opera, magic and the marching arts, such as brass bands, etc. ... The Seattle Opera is an opera company located in Seattle, Washington. ... Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or music dramas as he later came to call them). ... Valkyrie Warrior Maiden by artist Arthur Rackham (1912) Der Ring des Nibelungen, commonly translated into English as The Ring of the Nibelung or The Nibelungs Ring, is a series of four epic music dramas based loosely on figures and elements of Germanic paganism, particularly from the Icelanders sagas and... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Bayreuth Festspielhaus, as seen in 1882 The annual Bayreuth Festival in Bayreuth, Germany is devoted principally (but not exclusively) to performances of operas by the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner. ...

The popular music scene at the time included such teen-pop bands as the Allies (whose song "Emma Peel" received a good deal of local play, but never broke out nationally) and the Heaters (later "the Heats"). That same era saw the more sophisticated pop of the short-lived Visible Targets and the still-performing Young Fresh Fellows and Posies; the pop-punk of The Fastbacks; and the outright punk of the Fartz (later Ten Minute Warning). The Young Fresh Fellows are an American alternative rock group that was formed in 1982 in Seattle, Washington. ... The Posies are an American alternative rock group that was formed in 1986 in Seattle, Washington and broke up in 2000, then reformed in 2004. ... Clockwise from top left: Kurt Bloch, Lulu Gargiulo, band, Kim Warnick The Fastbacks were a pioneering Seattle band. ...

Grunge era

Main article: Grunge music

Seattle burst into the popular consciousness with the grunge rock scene of the early 1990s, when Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog, and Mudhoney, all reached vast audiences. Grunge music (sometimes also referred to as the Seattle Sound) is a genre of alternative rock inspired by hardcore punk, heavy metal, and indie rock. ... Grunge music (sometimes also referred to as the Seattle Sound) is an independent-rooted music genre that was inspired by hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock. ... Nirvana was a popular American rock band originating from Aberdeen, Washington. ... Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, and is considered one of the most influential bands of the 1990s. ... Soundgarden was a seminal Seattle rock band who helped to define the sound that came to be called grunge. ... Alice in Chains is a popular and influential Grunge/rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1987, and was one of the most commercially successful bands from the Seattle grunge music scene. ... Temple of the Dog is the only album from the grunge supergroup of the same name. ... Mudhoney Mudhoney is a grunge band, formed in Seattle in 1988. ...

Another punk-influenced but non-grunge Seattle band of the period, The Gits, had garnered great local respect; the brutal murder of Gits lead singer Mia Zapata threw the local music scene for a loop. Zapata was memorialized in several ways: the creation of a women's self-defense organization, Home Alive, and an album Viva Zapata by Seven Year Bitch, a Seattle band who had counted her as a mentor. The Gits were a Seattle punk rock band active from 1986 to 1993. ... Mia Zapata (August 25, 1965 – July 7, 1993) was the lead singer for the underground rock band The Gits. ... Home Alive is a Seattle based anti-violence non-profit organization that offers affordable self-defense classes and provides public education and awareness. ... 7 Year Bitch was an all-female, punk-influenced rock band in Seattle, Washington during the period 1990–1996. ...

Arts in Seattle today

The Solstice Cyclists by tradition usher in the beginning of the free-spirited Summer Solstice Parade & Pageant in the Fremont district of Seattle.

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1064, 391 KB) Photo of the Solstice Cyclists by Bill Simpson. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1064, 391 KB) Photo of the Solstice Cyclists by Bill Simpson. ... The Synchronised Cycling Drill Team shown performing. ... The Summer Solstice Parade & Pageant is an annual event sponsored and produced by The Fremont Arts Council (FAC), an organization that supports the arts and artists in and around the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. ... Fremont Fremont is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington. ... City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ...

Annual cultural events and fairs

Among Seattle's best-known annual cultural events and fairs are the 24-day Seattle International Film Festival, Northwest Folklife over the Memorial Day weekend, numerous Seafair events throughout the summer months (ranging from a Bon Odori celebration to hydroplane races), the Bite of Seattle, and Bumbershoot over the Labor Day weekend. All are typically attended by over 100,000 people annually, as are Hempfest and two separate Independence Day celebrations. The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), held annually in Seattle, Washington, is purported to be the largest film festival in the United States and among the top film festivals in the world. ... The Northwest Folklife Festival is an annual festival of ethnic, folk, and traditional art, crafts, and music that takes place over the Memorial Day weekend at Seattle, Washingtons Seattle Center. ... Relatives and others traditionally place flags near veterans headstones on Memorial Day Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday that is observed on the last Monday of May (most recently observed May 29, 2006). ... Seafair is a summer festival in Seattle, Washington, USA that encompasses a wide variety of small neighborhood events leading up to several major city-wide celebrations. ... Bon Odori (盆踊り) is an event held during the Buddhist festival period called Obon in Japan. ... A hydroplane (or hydro, or thunderboat) is a very specific type of motorboat used exclusively for racing. ... The Bite of Seattle is an annual food festival that takes place over three days in July at Seattle, Washington, USAs Seattle Center. ... Bumbershoot is a colloquial word for umbrella, probably coined in the 19th century as a portmanteau of umbrella and parachute. ... Labour Day (or Labor Day) is an annual holiday that resulted from efforts of the labour union movement, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. ... Hempfest, officially The Seattle Hempfest, is an annual event in Seattle, Washington (U.S.), the countrys largest annual gathering demanding legalization of marijuana. ... In the United States, Independence Day (commonly known as the Fourth of July or simply the Fourth) is a federal holiday celebrating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. ...

Several dozen Seattle neighborhoods have one or more annual street fairs, and many have an annual parade or foot race. The largest of the street fairs feature hundreds of craft and food booths and multiple stages with live entertainment, and draw more than 100,000 people over the course of a weekend; the smallest are strictly neighborhood affairs with a few dozen craft and food booths, barely distinguishable from more prominent neighborhoods' weekly farmers' markets. Seattle is made up of many districts and neighborhoods, a list of which appears below. ... Among Seattles best known streetfairs are Bumbershoot, Folklife (both at the Seattle center), and the Fremont Summer Solstice Parade & street fair. ... United States Marines on parade. ... Road running in a U.S. Air Force marathon Fun runners taking part in the Bristol Half Marathon Road running is the sport of running on a measured course over an established road (as opposed to track and cross country running). ...

Other significant events include numerous Native American pow-wows, a Greek Festival hosted by St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Montlake, and numerous ethnic festivals associated with Festal at Seattle Center. This article is about the people indigenous to the United States. ... This article is about a Native American gathering. ... 12th-century mosaic depicting St Demetrios, from the Golden-Roofed Monastery in Kiev. ... The Orthodox Church of Constantinople is one of the fifteen autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches. ... Montlake is a generally quiet neighborhood in central Seattle. ... Festál at Seattle Center is a program of annual ethnically-related festivals that take place on the grounds of Seattle Center in Seattle, Washington. ...

As in most large cities, there are numerous other annual events of more limited interest, ranging from book fairs and specialized film festivals to a two-day, 8,000-rider Seattle-to-Portland bicycle ride. A film festival is a festival in one or more movie theaters with a special program showcasing many films. ... Nickname: City of Roses, Stumptown, Bridgetown, PDX Location in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: Country United States State Oregon County Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Mayor Tom Potter Area    - City 376. ... For other uses, see Bicycle (disambiguation). ...

Performing arts

Seattle is a significant center for the performing arts. The century-old Seattle Symphony Orchestra is among the world's most recorded orchestras [6] and performs primarily at Benaroya Hall. The Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet, which perform at McCaw Hall (which opened 2003 on the site of the former Seattle Opera House at Seattle Center), are comparably distinguished, with the Opera being particularly known for its performances of the works of Richard Wagner and the PNB School (founded in 1974) ranking as one of the top three ballet training institutions in the United States. [7], [8], [9] The Seattle Youth Symphony is the largest symphonic youth organization in the United States, and among the most distinguished. The performing arts include theater, motion pictures, drama, comedy, music, dance, opera, magic and the marching arts, such as brass bands, etc. ... The Seattle Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Seattle, Washington. ... Benaroya Hall is a performance venue in Seattle, Washington that is the home of the Seattle Symphony. ... The Seattle Opera is an opera company located in Seattle, Washington. ... The Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company and based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. ... The Marion Oliver McCaw Hall is a performance space located in Seattle, Washington. ... The facade of Marion Oliver McCaw Hall at Seattle Center, seen from Kreielsheimer Promenade, with the Space Needle in the background Dreaming in Color, a Three-Dimensional Color Field by Leni Schwendinger The Marion Oliver McCaw Hall is a performance hall and opera house located in Seattle, Washington. ... Seattle Center is a fairground, park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington, on the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. ... Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or music dramas as he later came to call them). ... For other uses, see Ballet (disambiguation). ... Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras (or SYSO) is the largest youth symphony organization in the United States[1], and among the oldest and most distinguished. ...

The historic 5th Avenue Theatre, built in 1926, continues to stage Broadway quality musical performances featuring both local talent and international stars. The theater's "Chinese Timber Architecture" is based upon the Forbidden City's Imperial and Summer palaces. In addition, Seattle has about twenty live theater venues, a slim majority of them being associated with fringe theater. It has a strong local scene for poetry slams and other performance poetry, and several venues that routinely present public lectures or readings. The largest of these is Seattle's 900-seat, Roman Revival Town Hall on First Hill. The 5th Avenue Theatre // Overview Since 1926, the magnificent 5th Avenue Theatre, located in Seattle, Washington, in the United States, has captivated audiences with music, drama and laughter. ... Fringe Theatre refers to a series of unjuried theatre festivals often called Fringe Festivals. ... Slam poetry is a form of performance poetry that occurs within a competitive poetry event, called a slam, at which poets perform their own poems (or, in rare cases, those of others) that are judged on a numeric scale by randomly picked members of the audience. ... Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during performance before an audience. ... Town Hall is a cultural center/performance hall located on Seattle, Washington, USAs First Hill. ... First Hill is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, named for the hill on which it is located. ...

Popular music today

Chris Ballew of The Presidents of the United States of America, 2005.

In popular music, Seattle is often thought of as the home of grunge rock, but it is also home to such varied musicians as avant-garde jazz musicians Bill Frisell and Wayne Horvitz, rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot, smooth jazz saxophonist Kenny G, and such poppier rock bands as Goodness and the The Presidents of the United States of America. Such musicians as Jimi Hendrix, Duff McKagan, Nikki Sixx, and Quincy Jones spent their formative years in Seattle. Ann and Nancy Wilson of the band Heart, often attributed to Seattle, were actually from the neighboring suburb of Bellevue, as was progressive metal band Queensrÿche. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (532x800, 107 KB) Chris Ballew from w:Presidents of the United States of America playing at the w:KeyArena 2005. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (532x800, 107 KB) Chris Ballew from w:Presidents of the United States of America playing at the w:KeyArena 2005. ... The Presidents of the United States of America is a Seattle alternative rock band best known for their quirky, often nonsensical songs that defied the typical sound of most bands from the Pacific Northwest at the time. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans at around the start of the 20th century. ... William Richard Bill Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. ... Wayne Horvitz is a composer and keyboard player. ... Hip hop music is a style of popular music. ... Sir Mix-a-Lot (born Anthony Ray, August 12, 1963) is a rapper and producer from Seattle, Washington, USA. He created his own brand of hip hop - influenced by Electro, Kraftwerk and Gary Numan, and funk - but was mostly known for his West Coast take on Miami bass. ... Smooth jazz is generally described as a genre of music that utilizes instruments (and, at times, improvisation) traditionally associated with jazz and stylistic influences drawn from, among other sources, funk, pop and R&B. Since the late 1980s, it has become highly successful as a radio format; one can tune... A saxophonist is a musician who plays the saxophone. ... For the WFMU DJ, see Kenneth Goldsmith. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Goodness were a rock band from Seattle, Washington (U.S.), led by Carrie Akre, formerly of Hammerbox and now primarily a solo artist. ... The Presidents of the United States of America is a Seattle alternative rock band best known for their quirky, often nonsensical songs that defied the typical sound of most bands from the Pacific Northwest at the time. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... Nikki Sixx (born Frank Carlton Serafino Ferranna, Jr. ... Quincy Jones on the cover of Back on the Block (1989). ... Ann (left) and Nancy Wilson, 1993 Ann Dustin Wilson (born June 19, 1950 in San Diego, California) is the lead singer of Heart. ... Ann (left) and Nancy Wilson, 1993 Nancy Wilson (born March 16, 1954) is an American singer and guitarist who, with her older sister Ann, became a part of the Seattle band Heart. ... Heart is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington. ... Location of Bellevue within King County, Washington, and King County within Washington. ... Progressive metal is a genre of heavy metal music which shares traits with progressive rock including use of complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing. ... Queensrÿche (pronounced (kwÄ“nz-rÄ«k) is a progressive metal band formed in 1981 in Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle. ...

Seattle hosts a diverse and influential alternative music scene. The Seattle-based record label Sub Pop was the first to sign Nirvana, and also signed such non-grunge bands as The Postal Service and The Shins. Other Seattle-area bands of note include Pearl Jam, Aiden, Alien Crime Syndicate, Antlers, The Beautiful Mothers, Betty X, The Blood Brothers, The Blue Scholars, Charlie Drown, Common Heroes, Dangermart, Daphne Loves Derby (Kent), Death Cab for Cutie (Bellingham), Daylight Basement,The Divorce, Dog Bone Sanctuary, Dolour, Drop Six, Drown Mary, Harvey Danger, Foo Fighters, Maktub, Metal Church, Minus the Bear, Modest Mouse (Issaquah), Mudhoney, The Murder City Devils, MxPx (Bremerton), The Myriad, Pedro the Lion, Point One, Ruby Doe, Schoolyard Heroes, Screaming Trees (originally from Ellensburg), Second Coming, Sky Cries Mary, Sleater-Kinney (Olympia), Smoosh, Soundgarden, Sunny Day Real Estate, Super Deluxe, Supersuckers, Sweet 75, Turn to Fall, United States of Electronica, Utterance, Vendetta Red, Vexed, Vindaloo, Visqueen, Zeke and The Zero Points. Sub Pop logo Sub Pop is a record label in Seattle, Washington famous for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, and many other bands from the local scene. ... Nirvana was a popular American rock band originating from Aberdeen, Washington. ... The Postal Service is an electronic indie pop band featuring singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, Headset and Figurine. ... The Shins are a musical group on Sub Pop records comprising singer and guitarist James Russell Mercer, keyboardist/guitarist/bassist Martin Crandall, bassist/guitarist Dave Hernandez, and drummer Jesse Sandoval. ... Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, and is considered one of the most influential bands of the 1990s. ... Aiden is an American post-hardcore/emo [1] band from Seattle, Washington that formed in the spring of 2003. ... For the Poet Laureate of Milwaukee, see Antler (Poet). ... Betty X is the stage name of Zoe Kaylor, an industrial-metal performer based in Seattle, Washington. ... The Blood Brothers is an experimental post-hardcore/art punk band formed in the Eastside suburbs of Seattle, Washington, USA in 1997. ... Blue Scholars is a Seattle, WA hip-hop group formed in 2002 that consists of one dj and one emcee, Geologic and Sabzi, respectively. ... Daphne Loves Derby is an American soft rock band that formed in Kent, Washington. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ... Death Cab for Cutie is an American band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. ... Bellingham, Washington is the county seat of Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington. ... Any Kind of Pretty Daylight Basement is a Seattle-based indie-electro-rock group. ... The Divorce is a rock band from Seattle, Washington. ... Shane Tutmarc of Dolour Dolour is a pop music / indie rock band. ... Harvey Danger is a rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1992, and rose to prominence in 1998 with the single Flagpole Sitta. The band released a new album in 2005, Little by Little. ... Foo Fighters are a rock group formed by musician Dave Grohl in 1995. ... Maktub is a Seattle based music group that combines elements from hip hop, R & B, soul, and funk, with a sprinkling of jazz and rock. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Modest Mouse is an American rock band. ... Issaquah is a city located in King County, Washington. ... Mudhoney Mudhoney is a grunge band, formed in Seattle in 1988. ... The Murder City Devils was a rock-n-roll band active between 1996 and 2001. ... The Pokinatcha Punk, which has become the bands logo. ... 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They are known for their extremely high-powered (but rather unexciting), driving guitar sound, mixed with blues influences. ...

The Experience Music Project (EMP) in Seattle Center is one of the few major institutions anywhere specifically devoted to popular music. Although EMP has scaled back its live music programming from the level of its first few years, every April since 2002 it has hosted the three-day Pop Conference [10], which brings together a few hundred people for a unique conference that presents the perspectives of academics, writers, artists, and fans. Sign advertising the opening of EMP A view of EMPs southeast corner The Experience Music Project (EMP) is a museum of music history founded by Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, located on the campus of Seattle, Washingtons Seattle Center. ...

Visual arts

Gallery show opening, Davidson Contemporary, December 2006

Being so much younger than the cities of Europe and the eastern U.S., Seattle has a lower profile in terms of art museums than it does in the performing arts. It is nonetheless home to five major art museums and galleries: Consolidated Works, the Frye Art Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Several Seattle museums and cultural institutions that are not specifically art museums also have excellent art collections, most notably the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, which has an excellent collection of Native American artwork. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 826 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Arts in Seattle Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 826 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Arts in Seattle Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... World map showing Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ... Categories: US geography stubs ... An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art, and usually primarily paintings and sculpture. ... The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. ... Consolidated Works is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts center located in a former warehouse in the Cascade neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA. It incorporates an art gallery, a theater, a cinema, and a music/dance/lecture hall, as well as studio spaces for artists and a bar and lounge. ... The Frye Art Museum is an art museum located on Seattle, Washington, USAs First Hill. ... The Henry Art Gallery is the art museum of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA. Located on the west edge of campus along 15th Avenue N.E. in the University District, it was founded in 1927 and was the first public art museum in the state of Washington. ... Seattle Art Museum, viewed from First Avenue The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as SAM) is an art museum located in downtown Seattle, Washington USA. Admission is free on the first Thursday of each month. ... The Seattle Asian Art Museum is a museum of Asian art located inside Volunteer Park on Seattle, Washington USAs Capitol Hill. ... The Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum is a museum in the northwest corner of the campus of the University of Washington, at the intersection of N.E. 45th Street and 15th Avenue N.E. in Seattle, Washington, USAs University District. ... This article is about the people indigenous to the United States. ...

Seattle has well over 100 commercial art galleries, at least a dozen non-profit art galleries, and perhaps a hundred artists' studios that are open to the public at least once a month. About half of these galleries and studios are concentrated in one neighborhood, Pioneer Square. See Museums and galleries of Seattle. A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... For a one-room apartment, see Apartment. ... Pioneer Square Pioneer Square is the neighborhood where Seattle, Washington was founded in 1853. ... Being so much younger than the cities of Europe and the eastern U.S., Seattle, Washington has a lower profile in terms of art museums than it does in the performing arts. ...

In recent decades, Washington State, King County, and Seattle have all allocated a certain percentage of all capital budgets to the arts. Several neighborhoods have also raised funds for art installations, usually sculptures. Among the results are massive murals by Fay Jones [11], Gene Gentry McMahon [12] and Roger Shimomura in the Westlake Station of the Metro bus tunnel; pieces by Ross Palmer Beecher in such unlikely locations as the Safeco Field hallways [13] or a men's room at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport [14]. A magnificent glass tile mosaic mural by Paul Horiuchi forms a backdrop to the stage of the Mural Amphitheater at Seattle Center. [15] Roger Shimomura (born 1939 in Seattle, Washington) is an American artist and a retired professor at Kansas University. ... Safeco Field, sometimes simply referred to as Safeco for short or even The Safe, is the home of the Seattle Mariners baseball club. ... FAA diagram of Sea-Tac Airport Sea-Tac Airport from space with the SR 509 freeway to the west and the SR 518 freeway to the north Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (IATA: SEA, ICAO: KSEA), also known as Sea-Tac Airport, is located in SeaTac, Washington at the intersections of... Seattle Center is a fairground, park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington, on the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. ...

Seattle was home of Jacob Lawrence from 1970 until his death in 2000. He is well represented in local corporate collections; several of his pieces are prominently displayed at the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington [16], as is a piece by one of his colleagues from the U.W. art faculty, Alden Mason [17], and works by other artists associated with the Pacific Northwest [18]. Jacob Lawrence taken by Kenneth Space. ... The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. ... The Pacific Northwest from space This page is about the region that includes parts of Canada and the US. For the US only region, see Northwestern United States The Pacific Northwest (abbreviated PNW, or PacNW) or Cascadia is a region in the northwest of North America. ...

Probably the most visible public sculpture in Seattle is Jonathan Borofsky's 48-foot kinetic sculpture "Hammering Man" [19], outside the Seattle Art Museum; probably the most unusual and popular are several pieces in the Fremont neighborhood, including the Fremont Troll, a bronze statue of Lenin [20] (formerly in Slovakia), and Richard Beyer's "Waiting for the Interurban." Jonathan Borofsky (born 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American artist who lives and works in Maine. ... Seattle Art Museum, viewed from First Avenue The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as SAM) is an art museum located in downtown Seattle, Washington USA. Admission is free on the first Thursday of each month. ... Fremont Fremont is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington. ... The Troll, also known as the Fremont Troll or the Troll Under the Bridge, is a piece of whimsical public art in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington in the United States. ... Waiting for the Interurban is a 1979 cast aluminum sculpture collection in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. ...

Poetry

Seattle has been either the birthplace or longtime home to a number of highly respected poets. Probably the earliest was physician Henry A. Smith, who in 1887 wrote and published the English-language text known as "Chief Seattle's Reply".^[2] More recent Seattle poets of note have included Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer, Richard Hugo, David Wagoner, Barry Lopez, and Steven Jesse Bernstein, the last a pioneer of both zines and performance poetry. Chief Seattle Chief Seattle (also Sealth, Seathl or See-ahth) (c. ... Theodore Huebner Roethke (; RET-key) (May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was a United States poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm and natural imagery. ... Carolyn Ashley Kizer (born December 10, 1925) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Barry Holstun Lopez (born January 6, 1945) is an American essayist, fictionist, and poet whose work deals with nature and ecological concerns. ... Steven Jesse Bernstein (died October 11, 1991) was a performance artist who was recorded reading his poetry for Sub Pop Records by Steve Fisk. ... A zine—an abbreviation of the word magazine—is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. ... Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during performance before an audience. ...

Spoken word and poetry are staples of the Seattle arts scene, paralleling the explosion of the indie scene during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Seattle's performance poetry scene blossomed with the importation of the poetry slam from Chicago (its origin) by transplant Paul Grajnert. This and the proliferation of weekly readings/open mics and poetry-friendly club venues such as the Owl & Thistle; The Weathered Wall, the OK Hotel, and the Ditto Tavern (all now defunct); The Off-Ramp (now El Corazon); and The Globe Cafe (home, until 2006, of 'Red Sky Poetry Theatre', which until its demise was the city's longest-running weekly reading), allowed spoken word/performance poetry to take off in a big way. Spoken word is a form of music or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. ... The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) Poetry (from the Greek , poiesis, making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ... In the context of popular music, the term indie (from independent) is often used to refer to a number of genres, scenes, subcultures and stylistic and cultural attributes, characterised by (real or perceived) independence from commercial pop music and mainstream culture and an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach. ... Slam poetry is a form of performance poetry that occurs within a competitive poetry event, called a slam, at which poets perform their own poems (or, in rare cases, those of others) that are judged on a numeric scale by randomly picked members of the audience. ... This article is about Illinois largest city. ...

The mid-1990s saw a major trend in collaborative performance as musicians/bands starting teaming up with poets and spoken word artists. 1995 saw an "explosion" of poets and musicians producing spoken word CDs. Performers such as Cristien Storm, Harry Pierce, Todd Davis, Christina Black, Michael Ricciardi, and others began performing with ensembles of musicians and creating a diverse fusion of words and sounds. CD redirects here; see Cd for other meanings of CD. Image of a compact disc (pencil included for scale) A compact disc (or CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ...

The Seattle Poetry Festival (launched first as the "Poetry Circus" in 1997; Bob Redmond and Noel Franklin, founders) has featured local, regional, national, and international names in poetry such as Michael McClure, Anne Waldman, Ted Joans, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jessica Hagedorn, Ishmael Reed, Sekou Sundiata, and many others. Regionally famed poets like Bart Baxter, Tess Gallagher, Sherman Alexie, and Rebecca Brown have also been featured at the Poetry Festival, as well as numerous other events such as the "Bumbershoot" Arts Festival. Michael McClure, an American poet and playwright, was born in Marysville, Kansas on (October 20, 1932). ... Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet. ... Ted Joans (July 4, 1928 - April 25, 2003), born Theodore Jones, was an American painter, trumpeter and a jazz poet. ... Gwendolyn Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an award-winning African American woman poet. ... Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was born (and raised) in Manila, Philippines in 1949. ... Ishmael Scott Reed (b. ... Sekou Sundiata is an African-American poet and performer. ... Tess Gallagher (b. ... Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. ... Rebecca Brown M.D. is a controversial Christian doctor linked to Jack Chick. ... Bumbershoot is a colloquial word for umbrella, probably coined in the 19th century as a portmanteau of umbrella and parachute. ...

The Poetry Festival (produced by Eleventh Hour), through 2003, would continue to hold annual (now bi-annual) festivals that, along with poetry readings and panel discussions, featured innovative and multi-media 'happenings' and programs ("poetry by other means") such as 'The Spoken Word Orchestra' (an ensemble project organized by Paul Nelson and Danika Dinsmore), 'The Poetry Bus' (a combination 'good-will' tour and guerilla poetry 'drive by'), The Northwest Visual & Concrete Poetry Exhibition (curated by Nico Vassilakis), 'Future for Word', a first-of-its-kind anywhere exhibition of interactive, experimental, and 'techno' poetry (curated by Michael Ricciardi), and various 'Video Poetry' (short, cinematic fusions of image and language) screenings.

Currently, slam poetry takes most of the headlines, with its current stars, such as Buddy Wakefield (two-time national individual slam champ), Laura "Piece" Kelly, Christa Bell, and Jeremy Richards, achieving some national recognition. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Other museums, aquariums, zoos, and cultural centers

There are a number of other museums in Seattle. The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, on the campus of the University of Washington, has a large collection of botanical, zoological, and geologic specimens in addition to its anthropology collection, which concentrates on Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest but covers the rest of the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific Islands as well. Residents and visitors interested in history, industry, and transportation are served by the Center for Wooden Boats, a maritime heritage museum on Lake Union; the Museum of Flight, which incorporates Boeing's original manufacturing plant; and the Museum of History and Industry, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. The Nordic Heritage Museum in Ballard honors Seattle's Scandinavian immigrants, and the Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum in Pioneer Square honors its police force. And on the campus of Seattle Center are located the Pacific Science Center and Paul Allen's Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. The Louvre Museum in Paris, one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. ... The Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum is a museum in the northwest corner of the campus of the University of Washington, at the intersection of N.E. 45th Street and 15th Avenue N.E. in Seattle, Washington, USAs University District. ... The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. ... Pinguicula grandiflora Botany is the scientific study of plantlife. ... Zoology is the biological discipline which involves the study of non-human animals. ... World geologic provinces Oceanic crust  0-20 Ma  20-65 Ma  >65 Ma Geologic provinces  Shield  Platform  Orogen  Basin  Large igneous province  Extended crust Geology (from Greek γη- (ge-, the earth) and λογος (logos, word, reason))[1] is the science and study of the solid matter of a celestial body, its composition... Initiation rite of the Yao people of Malawi Anthropology (from the Greek word , man or person) consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ... It has been suggested that List of Native American tribes be merged into this article or section. ... World map showing the Americas The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere historically considered to consist of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... The Pacific Ocean has an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 islands; the exact number has not been precisely determined. ... The Center for Wooden Boats is a maritime heritage museum located on the south shore of Lake Unionin Seattle, Washington, USA. It was founded in 1977 by Dick Wagner. ... Lake Union from atop the Space Needle Lake Union is a freshwater lake completely within the Seattle, Washington city limits. ... For the Museum of Flight in East Lothian, Scotland, see Museum of Flight (Scotland). ... The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA, TYO: 7661 ) is an aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. ... The Museum of History and Industry is a museum in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA, dedicated to the history of Seattle and the Puget Sound region. ... The Nordic Heritage Museum is a museum in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. ... Ballard Ballard is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington. ... For other uses, see Scandinavia (disambiguation). ... Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. ... The Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum is a museum in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. ... Pioneer Square Pioneer Square is the neighborhood where Seattle, Washington was founded in 1853. ... Seattle Center is a fairground, park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington, on the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. ... The IMAX dome dominates this view of the Pacific Science Center Arches and fountains The Pacific Science Center is a science museum in Seattle, Washington. ... Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American entrepreneur whose fortune was founded when he formed Microsoft with Bill Gates. ... Sign advertising the opening of EMP A view of EMPs southeast corner The Experience Music Project (EMP) is a museum of music history founded by Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, located on the campus of Seattle, Washingtons Seattle Center. ... Sculpture near the entrance of the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame bills itself as the worlds premier science fiction museum. ...

The Seattle Aquarium is located on the Elliott Bay waterfront, and the Woodland Park Zoo is on Phinney Ridge in north Seattle. The Seattle Aquarium is a public aquarium located on Pier 59 on Seattles Elliot Bay waterfront. ... Elliott Bay and the Seattle waterfront, looking north from the Pacific Coast Co. ... The Woodland Park Zoo, which occupies the western half of Seattle, USAs Woodland Park on Green Lake, began as a small menagerie on the Woodland Park estate of Guy C. Phinney, Canadian-born lumber mill owner and real estate developer. ... Green Lake and the eastern side of Phinney Ridge Phinney Ridge, also known simply as Phinney, is a neighborhood in north central Seattle, Washington, USA. It is named after the ridge which runs north and south, separating Ballard from Wallingford, from approximately N. 45th to N. 85th Street. ...

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External links

• The Stranger: Musicians' Directory lists over 1,000 current Seattle bands, about half with free samples of their music.