Seattle friends, Phil and I are performing this evening at the Acoustic Armageddon during the Georgetown Art Attack at Georgetown Music. All ages, 5:30PM, and we’re on early so plan accordingly and stay for a night of superb acoustic talent!
Georgetown Music
6111 12th Ave S
SJ
I’m singing some songs tonight at the White Horse Tavern in Post Alley by Pike Place Market in Seattle. 8-10:30PM. No cover charge. This place is very very cool, traditional English style tavern, cask ale, small, no TV, sofas, cozy vibe. No mics or amps, completely acoustic, just like the good old days.
Stop by and have a fun night with us!
SJ
PS. I perform at the White Horse every first Tuesday of the month, mark your calendars!
Aloha! I’m performing at Acoustic Armageddon at the Art Attack art show in Georgetown in Seattle on Saturday Jan 10 with my rock-and-roll cello wizard, Phil Hirschi. 5:30PM. Many other talented folks will be delighting our ears and souls also: TBASA, Sarah Aili, Maiah Manser, Ever So Android, and Champagne Sunday!
Come and hang out with some cool folks!
Best,
SJ
“I am here to serve”, I say it in my head often, and it feels good because it reminds me that I can be useful. But I’m just a singer-songwriter, how can I serve folks? Live entertainers don’t provide food or medical services or shuffle papers in an office for someone in a suit, so what do we do to help keep our civilization going?
Our species has spent much of our existence sitting around the fire together in the evening, singing songs, telling stories, and being with our communities, but we’ve lost those experiences over the past few decades with too many folks staying home to sit in front of the television, or recently in front of Facebook and Netflix. We don’t even sit around the dinner table after supper to tell stories or sing anymore, and most of us don’t even sit together around the dinner table. We don’t commune as much these days, and I think a lot of people feel emptier and more isolated because of it. That’s where the live entertainer (and promoter, venue, etc) is useful, we remind folks to get back together and spend time sharing the same experiences and making friends and human connections. We provide the events and the places for folks to forget about their work or other hassles, listen to some live music, and be with other humans and not feel so isolated.
These past couple of years of performing (231 shows in 2014!) around the Pacific Northwest, I’ve seen people’s lives transformed and made happier at these shows, socialising with fun people, meeting attractive new love interests, enjoying new drinks and food, tons of laughing, and my personal FAVOURITE, singing along with huge smiles! These moments in our lives are much more rewarding than pressing the “Like” button on other’s people’s pictures on Facebook. We need to do more to remind folks to get off the hamster wheel and rejoin the fun part of humanity.
Entertainers create the music and the stories and the emotions that we can all connect with and share together in a moment. I think we might be needed more now than ever, nobody is going to get Ebola because we didn’t perform a show, nobody will starve because we didn’t sing a song, and our jokes won’t ensure the sales report will get delivered on time, but we help make people smile, cry, laugh, and maybe even more importantly, we help get people together.
I am here to serve: https://www.sjatr.com/shows
Best,
SJ
Everett WA friends, join us for a fun night of live music at Flights Pub! We’ll also be enjoying the music of Aaron Willsie, Wyatt Olney, and In The Between!
Flights Pub
7601 Evergreen Way
Everett WA
9PM
Best,
SJ
It’s nice that I have a bunch of fans and friends from Commonwealth countries, thank you for keeping in touch through my site, and I hope you’re all having a lovely warm Boxing Day with your loved ones!
I’ve already been up since 4AM, booked a couple of shows, and now I have some chores to do before I’m out tonight performing. Fortunately, there are no ridiculously mobbed sales here in the U.S.A. Remember, if you have to shop today, shop small businesses and local when possible!
Here’s one of my favourite Commonwealth songwriters, Neil Young ‘Live at the BBC’:
Enjoy!
SJ
Dear friends, Merry Christmas!
I hope Santa Claus brings you a shiny new bike or whatever will make you smile, and if he doesn’t, you can sing along with me:
I have a private party to perform at tonight, and tons of things to do to get ready for next year. There are no presents for the naughty, and there’s no rest for the wicked, but there will be lots of music next year. See you soon!
Love,
SJ
