Category: Music

The Great Piano Drop

Around 1992, a local told me about The Great Piano Drop. If you’re like me, your reaction was just “the what?” But once I heard the story, I understood why it’s legendary. If you’ve ever lived in or around Duvall, this is part of your heritage. In April of 1968, at a farm in Duvall, […]

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Kitchen Dancing

HEEEREE WE ARE! BORN TO BE CHEFS WE MAKE SAUCES OF THE UNIVERSE (duh dun, dun dun, dun dun) Here WE belong Fighting for the rice milk– We have to make prosciutto for you all! In the privacy of my own car and kitchen, I am a rock star. Aren’t you? This culinary take on […]

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Woodkash? Normir?

The Aaron English Band has released its latest video, a medley of The Beatles’ Norwegian Wood and Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir. It was recorded in Seattle’s Two Sticks studio.

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English’s Language

Ah, Seattle, home of Starbucks, the Space Needle, and grunge. Since its inception more than 20 years ago, the Emerald City has been associated with the angst-saturated sounds of modern rock’s wrong turn down a dark alley. Thankfully there is a new generation of musical artists who are helping our area become known for more […]

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Police Mommy Dot

Police Mommy Dot (dunt dunt, dunt dunt) Police Mommy Dot (dunt dunt, dunt dunt) Police Mommy Dot Oh a sparrow anyo ee a fleecy dod (Doot, do do do doot) Long before Seattle radio personality Bob Rivers recorded his questionable remake of Feliz Navidad (Police Stop My Car), my brothers and I were dancing around […]

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Listen To Those Pipes!

Awesome! Pop-Up Hallelujah Chorus at Macy. Imagine browsing through a Macy’s store while a gigantic pipe organ is playing– cool, right? You can actually do this at a Macy’s store in Philadelphia, home of the largest pipe organ in the world, the Wanamaker Organ. This organ’s first phase was built in 1904, and it was added on […]

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Rob McCoy on Fire

Isn’t it funny when you assume that someone’s talents and interests are somehow limited to their job description? Only recently I learned that a longtime family friend, a firefighter/paramedic, is also the musical director at his church and has recorded several CDs. On that note (pun intended), I’d like to introduce readers to Rob McCoy […]

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