Mar

12

Lake - Oh the Places We’ll Go

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Ashley Eriksson, musician and songstress of Lake the Band, balanced an instrument that looked like a flexible candelabra during a couple of songs at their recent show at the Fontee Fest in Anacortez, WA.  “I thought it was this weird, random sculpture that was in the back of this really creepy old house that I lived at,” she explained, but, being the artist that she is, Ashley ignored the ghosts and saw the potential for musicality.  Now, the Garden Bells are a definitive piece of Lake’s extra-ordinary charm. As Ashley said, “We like to be eclectic, we like to connect with people.”      

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The seven members of Lake share a connection that spreads through the audience.  Each member is a unique artist on his own right.  Read more

Feb

24

Inspiration, by Johanna Kunin, March 6

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Johanna Kunin

Johanna Kunin

Piano-lovers, music-lovers, dream-lovers, and the rest of you,  lovers, of Moscow, come be transported to Cascade rainforests and other lands far, far away by the luxuriant piano reflections of Johanna Kunin. Johanna’s piano, laced with flute, percussion, vibraphone, inspiration, and the serenity of her own voice, frequently illumines the radio-waves of Seattle. Other times, Johanna electro-funks keyboard with the band Velella Velella, or opens for her friend Karl Blau.
Johanna studied the traditional classical/jazzical piano course during her childhood in Minneapolis. It was a good diving board to launch her into her own genre.  Besides her extensive resume as composer and performer, you can be impressed by the fact that Johanna recently both designed and bound a volume of her compositions in an Etsy masterpiece for you to enjoy at home on your own personal piano. Now that her masterpiece book is finished, Johanna often stirs it up with a self-professedly “mustachio’d” 10-piece orchestra.
8:00 p.m., March 06, 2009 (that’s a Friday), Johanna performs with the Foundry Field Recordings at The American Legion Cabin (317 S. Howard Street, Moscow ID 83843).  Soar to new heights; dream new dreams.

Molly is a freelance journalist and a senior at New St. Andrew’s College with a special interest in the Cascades, postcards, and goldfish.  She is an intern at The Loop 21 and keeps the blog A New Amsterdam.