Lisa Dupar Catering Open House
If you’re planning your wedding and haven’t yet settled on a caterer, you should be sure to check out Lisa Dupar Catering. One of Seattle’s top caterers for 25 years, Lisa and her team are wildly talented, creative, and a pleasure to work with. Each year they open the doors of their huge kitchen in Issaquah to clients, friends and brides and grooms and put out an amazing spread. This year they have asked pianist Josh Rawlings and me to provide the music for the event, held on February 12th. Visit their web page today and contact them if you’d like to attend.
ArtZone taping March 3rd!
Nancy Guppy’s program ArtZone on the Seattle Channel is a weekly 30 minute show devoted to the art scene here in Seattle. The JPQ will be the featured performer on an upcoming show, and we’ll be taping on March 3rd. Check back soon for the air date!
JPQ Returns to Egan’s
Egan’s Ballard Jamhouse is everything a Jazz club should be…intimate, friendly and a great sounding room. We haven’t played there since October, and we’re happy to be returning on Tuesday, February 24th. Join us as we debut a few new tunes that we plan to record for our next CD in April, and a few old favorites. We play the early set, 7:00-8:30pm, so drop by after work for dinner and some great jazz!
I Just Had To Share
My birthday was last month, and my present from my wonderful
girlfriend was this original drawing of one of my heroes, Miles Davis. Pretty cool, right?!?!
JPQ on TV – ArtZone
If you are a lover of the Seattle art scene, you have probably seen Nancy Guppy’s show ArtZone on the Seattle Channel. Each week Guppy, of Almost Live! fame, spotlights three or four local artists, galleries, musicians, authors, movies and more. I’m proud that we’ve been asked to appear as a musical guest on an upcoming show. We’re taping in late-February, so check back then for the broadcast date. In the meantime if you’d like to see video from our appearance on JazzTV, visit our YouTube channel.
Two shows at Seattle’s newest jazz club!
I was thrilled to hear that Seattle was getting a new jazz club. Lucid opened in the University District just a few months ago and has already gained a reputation for being a real top-notch listening room. The owner, David, has put a ton of work into the space and made it into an inviting and comfortable place to grab a drink and hear some great music. The JPQ will be making our debut there on Saturday, March 14th, and we’ll be back again on Saturday, April 4th. We’ll be playing some of our old favorites and debuting some new material that we plan to record for our next CD in early April. Please come join us for one or both of these shows, and help support this new club. We need as many good music rooms as we can get!
New Years at The Showbox with Devotchka!
OK, so this isn’t technically JPQ news, but I just had to share the wonderful experience I had on New Years Eve. A few years back I toured the country with Crooked Fingers, and on the first leg of the tour our opening band was Devotchka, an amazing band from Denver. If you haven’t heard them you must follow the link and check them out. While we were out together they asked me to sit in on a couple of tunes, and ever since then, each time they come through Seattle they ask me to play. So I got a chance to sit in on NYE at The Showbox this year! It was a blast playing with them and getting a chance to catch up with old friends. Since I toured with them, they have gone on to have amazing success, scoring the soundtrack for the film “Little Miss Sunshine” and even providing the music for a Gerber Baby Food commercial and the video game Gears of War. Thanks to Shawn, Nick, Tom and Jeanie for asking me to sit in. In the photo L-R: Cory Gray (Norfolk & Western), me, Shawn King (Devotchka).
Seattle Wedding Show
We had a great time playing at the Seattle Wedding Show yesterday at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. We played two sets in the registration area and got a chance to showcase our talents, meet dozens of brides-to-be (and some husbands-to-be as well), and even saw some old friends. It was nice to run into Jeff & Rhiannon from The Amazing 88s Show, the finest dueling-piano show you will ever see. We had the pleasure of playing at their wedding last summer and hit it off because we’re all musicians and Wedding Professionals. I also saw Annette Lefebvre from Luxe Wedding Design and my dear old friend Martha who was at the show with a friend who’s daughter is getting married. It was like old home week!
Big thanks to my wonderful band Josh, Evan and D’Vonne for always playing so beautifully and enthusiastically. Thanks also to the Seattle Musicians’ Association for setting it all up for us.
I Don’t Like New Years Resolutions…
I don’t really believe in New Years Resolutions for two reasons: 1) because I almost always break them, and 2) because I feel if you want to do something you shouldn’t need an arbitrary time marker to make it so.
That being said, I’m going to make a commitment, that just happens to be around the New Year, to keep this blog more up to date than I have in the past year. I know, I know, I said this last January too, but this time I mean it!
So please do check back regularly and I’ll keep you abreast of all the happenings concerning the JPQ.
