Vol. 15, #9 SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS THEY MAKE THE LOOP POSSIBLE April 26, 2018 Burlesco at Open Space Spring Studio Tour: Burlesco Notturno, a delightfully choreographed stage celebration of the art of burlesque, returns to the newly renovated Cycles of Life! Open Space for Arts & Community at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 12. Doors open at 7 p.m. with live music and libations. Emceed by Vashon’s own glamorous Mme. X and her sidekick, loyal lawyer, enjoy the jazzy, sultry cabaret sounds of incomparable black slip, beret band Angie Louise and The Love Markets. The multi-talented Burlesco cast includes The Luminous Pariah, sizzling, celebrated Seattle-based cabaret performance artist. Lumi tours extensively and has performed in over 100 international productions throughout Europe, Canada and Australia. He performs as a soloist as well as one-fourth of acclaimed boylesque collective Mod Carousel. J. Von Stratton brings her own brand of fabulous theatrics, dance, camp and kitsch. She has wowed audiences in Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Canada, Kitten ‘N Lou, Atomic (Kitten is Portugal, China and Australia. Her stage Founder and Artistic Director of the career gegan in earnest with Seattle-based Bombshells), combine their extensive burlesque troupe The Atomic Bombshells. burlesque, theater and dance performance By Liz Lewis Morgan Brig at work (studio #9) Von Stratton holds the title of 2015-2016 creds to create a tour-de-force that Queen of the Roses, winner of the Oregon celebrates and subverts everything from Spring Studio Tour is coming up a veritable feast for the senses, offering Burlesque festival. classic burlesque and MGM-era musicals, once again and the artists are preparing hand-dyed silk clothing, and handbags The Atomic Bombshells, founded by to jukebox drag, homo-fabulous twin club for visitors. There will be 26 participating and accessories made from richly patterned original members of the Shim Sham Revue kids, to vaudeville-style tap dance. studios and galleries this season showing fabrics and found materials. in New Orleans’ historic French Quarter, Purchase tickets now; general the work of over 75 artists! Visiting the Pam Ingall’s show at The Hardware learned their bumps n’ grinds from original admission tickets are $25. VIP packages studios offers a chance to talk to the artists, Store(#19) is titled “Teen Spirits—Facing stars of burlesque’s Golden Age. Seattle are also available and feature reserved, learn about the processes, and buy direct! Vashon’s Teenagers”. Pam is well known Weekly says, “Armed with an astounding decorated tables, delectable chocolates, Here are a just a few highlights of this for her portrait shows which build amount of talent, these phenomenal heavy appetizers and extra Spéciale Spring Tour: connections between artist, subject and beauties pull out all the stops and pump attention from Mme. X and more. Lisa Betz Art is studio#1 on the viewer, helping us to really see each other! out a show of sheer splendor where every More details and tickets available at Tour (let’s start at the South end!) Lisa inch of skin is cherished...” OpenSpaceVashon.com. is a mosaic artist who deftly arranges her handmade ceramic flowers with bits of vintage china and found objects, creating warm , lovely and meaningful compositions-with -a-message. Leather and mixed metal jewelry, too! The Road to Resilience Valerie Willson will be showing By Terry Sullivan, her exquisitely arranged and skillfully Let’s Talk! executed still life photographs at her Quartermaster Dr studio (#5) as well as an I don’t know that humanity has no value unless we act on it. exciting new series of prints and paintings. ever faced as much peril and promise as That ability to see ahead gives us At Judd Creek Ranch (#10) Eric Nelson we do today. Certainly, the world and the advantage of not only being able to will be showing minimalist hydrocal many of its inhabitants have survived prepare for the future, but to alter it for sculpture as well as wood fired ceramic more peril. We’ve already had five mass the best possible outcome. Again, if we sculptures. Hans Nelson offers fine wood extinctions with the elimination of 75 – 96 don’t act on the knowledge that we have, crafted furniture and sculpture. Connie percent of species each time. it is as if we didn’t have the ability at all. Conrad will show transparencies and The extinction that killed the All of which brings us to the Kari Rowe, foraged jewelry collection. All dinosaurs 65 million year ago was only predicament/opportunity we find this in the newly renovated Judd Creek the latest and one of the milder ones. ourselves in now. We appear to be Ranch barn-come-studio/gallery space. The Horseshoe Crab has survived all driving the mass extinction as our Celebrate! five extinctions, having lived at least 65 population has grown immensely and At Quartermaster Press Studio(#14), million years before the first extinction is now using the Earth’s resources at the Britt Freda at her easel (studio #21) located at the historic Beal Greenhouses, 375 million years ago. expense of other species. However that art lovers can find beautiful new works by It is apparent that we are in the sixth is only the beginning of our deviltry. We At Britt Freda’s studio(#21) on the member artists and learn about the array mass extinction today. It is normal for have also polluted the planet with exotic west side, visitors will be drawn in to of processes involved. Concurrently, at the 5-10 species to go extinct every year. materials we have invented and have visually dynamic acrylic and graphite Koch Gallery at VCA (#12 on the Tour) the We now have about 100 species going furthered the destruction by fighting paintings. The pieces often focus on 31 year retrospective of this fluid group extinct every day! The question is: are amongst ourselves for what remains. endangered animals, from local (bees) is beautifully documented and includes humans going to be one of the survivors Besides climate change and the to faraway (rhinos). This articulate artist works for sale as well as pieces borrowed this time? prospect of extinction, we have more is always aware that humans cause from collections. The VCA show will be Biologists credit the longevity of the refugees adrift in the world than ever environmental changes and are ourselves open through the month of May. Horseshoe Crab to its efficient immune before and the likelihood of more. We endangered. As a mother of two, another Gather Vashon(#16) is “a gallery system. What qualities do we have that have powerful and wealthy minorities current theme is children, who remind of fine and fun jewelry and art in all may give us a survival advantage? We who are postponing needed changes us again and again that we have to keep mediums”. Check it out! Elaine Summers’ are adaptable: we’ve adapted to all that might jeopardize their wealth and asking questions. colorful mosaic ukuleles will be featured climates and conditions on the earth, power. Closer to home, we have wealth All this and more! Pick up a Tour for Studio Tour. That artist will tile and perhaps we can adapt to the extreme inequality that makes basic needs like brochure, available at most island anything! climate changes that might be in store. housing and healthcare unaffordable businesses, or go online to www. The women who compose Studio We also can speculate about the future for literally half of us. Meanwhile, we VIVArtists.com for a color map, and V (#18 on the Tour) have been working through an analysis of the past, as I am have a distracted and struggling majority descriptions of the 26 stops. Invite a friend together for a long time. Their studio is or two and do the Art Tour! doing here. Of course, that ability is of Continued on Page 6 The Vashon Loop, p. 2 April 26‘ 18

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By Pamela McMahan Photo by Peter Serko By Seán_C._Malone with the assistance of pop bottle caps. He had a lot but none of Drama Dock leaps into the realm of a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher his Muse, John Sweetman us appreciated his efforts... he’d pick them thoughtful satire and darkly funny themes of Unamunda, a wild comic language. out of the little steel pocket where they fell with its spring production, All in the In “Long Ago and Far Away,” a young “John, what could you have possibly off the early ne-hi soda machines where you Timing, which plays through this weekend married couple, about to move out of their been thinking of?” John’s mother was had to drag bottles along a track to get them at Open Space for Arts and Community. apartment, argue about the nature of reality looking at the pile of fresh washed clothes out.. Remember? The pronunciation of the A collection of six one-act plays, the show and become caught up in a bizarre scenario lying in the mud. “Well, it seemed like a name ne-hi was “knee high” because the comes off as a true actors’ showcase, with concluding in time travel. In “Variations on good idea at the time,” John sheepishly label showed a woman with her skirt above an all-island cast of performers who tangle the Death of Trotsky,” we meet the leader replied. He had been practicing his knot the knee. We never paid much attention to verbally and physically with a wonderful of the Russian Revolution, exiled in Mexico tying on Mom’s clothesline and a strong it because we could hardly read the labels script, poking fun, provoking discomfort after a power struggle with Stalin, chatting wind was blowing the clothes about until anyhow; the bottles had been re-used and inciting audience laughter all along with his wife, and suddenly realizing he they almost hung straight out. The line had so much. Just drank the stuff and never the way. has a mountain climbing ax in his head. slipped over the top of the cleat, causing the looked at the bottle. Back in those days In the spirit of true dark comedy, the American playwright David Ives wrote clothes to be awash in the mud, so to speak. all the bottles were recycled at a few cents humor often exposes something usually All in the Timing with precise, original John was sorry for the accident, but a pop and were all scraped up like beach seen as serious or taboo. The cast is adept at ideas and plenty of intellectual hilarity. The was somewhat mollified because he had glass. That was a hobby; collecting bottles this subtle juxtaposition, and consequential show, which includes the six one-act plays, been tying knots right out of his Boy Scout as a bank account. We all had gunny sack themes incite serious thought as well as has been produced widely throughout Handbook in anticipation of a merit badge. stashes for emergency purchases of vital fine amusement. Cast members, who each the United States. According to Director John was learning how to tie a bowline and kid’s stuff. appear as characters in two or more of Michael Barker, “Each play has something was using the end of his mother’s clothes “Things of Science” came in a small the six one-act plays, include: Fiore Grey, to say about the human condition that dips line to practice with. “Now, let’s see. The blue box every month and was sent by Marshall Murray, Cate O’Kane, Thomas way beyond the laughter of the moment. rabbit comes out of his hole and goes Grandpa Gordon who lived in New York Abraham, Harris Levinson, Michael Shook, I pray those chuckles might evolve into a around the tree and goes back down his City and had been an advisor to Presidents, Stephanie Murray, and Jill Bulow. quiet discussion later on in the evening.” hole.” The end of the line was the rabbit, a Roosevelt and Hoover. Each month Directed by Michael Barker, and using All in the Timing plays at Open loop in the line was the rabbit hole and the produced a different experiment, such as the intimate capabilities of O Space’s new Space for Arts and Community. Final tree was a very taut clothes line in a high building a battery, all parts included, or black box theatre, All in the Timing gives performances are 7:30 Friday, April 27; wind when the line came loose and the a garden experiment with samples of the audiences immediate and focused access 4 and 8 pm, Saturday, April 29; and 7:30 sheets and pillowcases took on the color seeds to use. Naturally, most of us kids to crucial (sometimes absurd) situations Sunday, April 29. Tickets are available of barn mud. Mom didn’t say a thing as were immediately bored by titrating acid in the lives of its characters. Fine writing, at Vashon Bookshop, brownpapertickets. she stooped to pick up the muddy clothes. and base, going on to fire and explosive acting and directing unleash every element com and at the door. All tickets are $15, Sweetmans had a persnickety old gas- concoctions…with sometimes, let us say, of funny yet subtle irony. In one play, “The except the washing machine, hard to start and prone naughty consequences. Brother Mike and Universal Language,” we are brought 4 pm Saturday show, which is “pay- to stop in the middle of wringing the clothes I made a rocket in the early werner von together with Dawn, a young woman with what-you-will.” of their water. She was calm and reserved braun style, except due to a lack of good when she asked John to “Please start the sense, or for that matter any sense of self engine.” John pulled the starter rope until preservation at all, blew a hole in the garage he was blue in the face. Mom asked him, door…which I “fixed” with an early version “Did you turn the switch on?” And John of duct tape…a la ‘red green’…the repair Free Range Folk Choir collapsed in the wet grass. didn’t stand up to parental inspection. Rock collecting was important to the Bull kelp grows in patches in fast water post-hole digger who used them to stiffen and close to the shore, attaching itself to Spring Concert! up the cedar fence posts as he tamped the rocks for an anchor. We could always find rocks and dirt in the hole. Most of the rocks a good supply of bull kelp after a storm we collected came from the beach but it broke it loose. was just for fun. Agates were important There was an old fisherman who lived because they were so hard to find and the down the beach from us. They called him most prized being the “blood agate”, which “Jack the Ripper” because he gutted fish so was blood-red in parts and translucent fast. His real name was Gilbert Strachan. when holding it up to the sun. We would The last I saw of him, he was walking the find bits of colored glass that the rocks had beach with his two nephews, all three polished so the surface had the texture of blowing kelp horns. sandpaper. If the glass was very old, the Kelp is a kind of seaweed that grows sun would have turned it purple, making it in shallow water and is hollow, causing the the most prized find. Our cousins down at bulbous head to float on top streaming great Manzanita used the half shells of the giant fronds from it. If you cut off the fronds, Washington clam as a display case for the the kelp made a fine beach whip; or, by collections of rocks and agates, “freely” cutting the top partially off…and making decorating their small cabin inside and out. a three or four foot section that you blew like a trumpet, that had only two notes, My prize find was an Indian worked awl, Free Range Folk Choir Spring Concert! Sunday April 28th @ 3pm @ VHS very sharp and made of obsidian, a black high and low. Kelp leaves a sweet taste in auditorium glass like rock only found in Lewis county your mouth and I even heard that it makes Come celebrate the awakening of spring with harmonies from the Free Range or points south such as Utah or Wyoming. pickles. Jack’s kelp horn was longer than Folk Choir! On Sunday April 28th at 3pm, the choir will perform at the Vashon High The Indian must have traded for it before he his two nephews, so the notes were lower School auditorium, directed by Shane Jewell. Music will include Leonard Cohen’s dropped it in my garden so many years ago. and with nobody blowing at the same time, “Hallelujah” and Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, along Us kids were vulnerable to collecting it made a very nice sound from way down with a variety of uplifting songs from around the globe. We hope to see you there! just about anything.. Dead birds, road the beach. This is a family friendly show, everyone is welcome. kill, rocks, junk in old homestead trash Suggested donation: $5-$10 (No one turned away for lack of funds. warrens...John had a friend that collected [email protected] April 26 ‘18 The Vashon Loop, p. 5 Faces Places: French Documentary Inspires Islanders’ Exploration of Intergenerational Friendships and Art

Verona: The Story of the Everett Massacre

By Siona Caldwell, VHS Student experiences and pieces of wisdom. Kindred spirits, JR and Varda, over On Friday, May 8th from 5-8pm the course of the film, develop a close Backbone Campaign’s Meaningful friendship. Their respect for each other Movie Project is joining forces with as artists is deep. and their chemistry is Vashon Island High School to bring strong. The foundation of this is their Agnes Varda and JR’s Oscar nominated similar approach to creating art. Nearly film ‘Faces Places’ to Vashon Theatre. 55 years apart, the two are still able to Admission is by donation, with no one connect on what art means to them. turned away for lack of funds. Youth are They care about finding the little details, always free! Thanks to Vashon Theatre using simple materials, and a strong and Island Green Tech for their support, passion for creativity to create art. Both as well as the King County CSA Grant see the power in how creating art can Program. help people see beyond the barriers that Backbone Campaign for the past separate us in society The SS Verona was built in Dockton in 1910 by the Martinolich Shipbuilding Company, nine months has brought films to the Vashon Island High School’s English which also built her sister steamers Vashon, Nisqually, and Calista. | Courtesy Vashon-Maury theater on the second Tuesday of the class ‘Literature and the Elusive Now’ Island Heritage Association month. Each film is followed by a as well as the ‘Art Foundations’, and discussion, leaving audience members ‘Drawing and Painting’ classes have Vashon Heritage Museum presents What started as a strike between the hungry to take the messages that they’ve come together to create artwork inspired a film screening of Verona: The Story of town’s shingle weavers union and mill just seen in the film and continue to by both the themes of the film and JR’s the Everett Massacre on Tuesday, May owners turned into a free-speech fight share these stories in their daily lives. work that will be on display at the event. 15, 2018, 6 p.m., at the Vashon Theatre. between the IWW and Sheriff McRae, a ‘Faces Places’ brings an unearthed new John Rees, teacher of ‘Literature and the Purchase tickets at the door; suggested man elected twice with the support of energy and collaboration to the screen. Elusive Now’ explains how, “The main donation is $10 per person. workers. The violence escalated, leaving The documentary follows the excursions goal of ‘Elusive Now’ is to examine “When those who have nothing defy the town torn in two, the shingle weavers of 89-year old New Wave iconic French the barriers that keep us from being those who have everything.” union destroyed, and seven men dead. film maker Agnes Varda and 35-year old present with ourselves and each other as On November 5, 1916, the steamship And all the while, the mills kept turning French photographer JR as they travel individuals, communities, and cultures. Verona, captained by Vashon resident out red cedar shingles and making the around France in JR’s photo truck, taking The film, as a collaboration between Chauncey Wiman, sailed from Seattle mill owners rich. photographs, learning the locals’ stories, Varda and JR, is crossing generational to Everett packed with members of the With stunning historical footage, and forming a close intergenerational barriers, and JR’s work is also all about Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). expert analysis, and a style reminiscent friendship along the way. breaking barriers down.” Sheriff Donald McRae and 140 armed of Ken Burns, Verona: The Story of Varda and JR worked independently The students, after watching the deputies met the steamer at the City the Everett Massacre explores how the for many years prior to the making film, were asked to reflect on what Dock and refused to let the Wobblies conflict between the have’s and have- of this film, although they have both barriers they face in their lives, and disembark. Emotions were intense on not’s destroys lives and how those with shared similar views on the power of create artistic representations of these both sides when the first shot was fired. power and money turn those without art. Varda’s films are iconic for their barriers on boxes. “Boxes are another When the shooting finally stopped, five power and money against one another. experimental style. She’s more likely to way of conceptualizing the barriers that men were dead, two dying, six missing, The film was written, produced, and work with undiscovered, authentic locals we struggle with and against. Putting and dozens wounded. directed by Denise Ohio. as her actors, than big movie stars. She our faces on the front, and the stories plays close attention to detail, and finds about being boxed-in inside them is-- ways to make the smallest aspects of her hopefully--a way to empower ourselves, film add a large meaning to the overall a way of saying we are bigger than the Marcia Needs A Home... picture. She uses her broad imagination stereotypes placed on us, bigger than the Like the TV Marcia, I’m so cute to combine all aspects of film to create a things that try to limit us.” Rees explains. and popular, everyone is jealous original trademark motif. JR, however, Art teacher Kristen Dallum adds of me. I think I hear the other cats works off film, and on the streets. Once that the the documentary touches on the whining, “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!” a graffiti artist, he now labels himself power of images. “Regardless of specific When I first meet people, I’m a as a ‘photograffitier’. He’s traveled content or level of technical skill, an little bit shy but it doesn’t take me around the world to nearly 140 countries image composed and displayed well has where he meets the locals, finds out the power to stop you in your tracks, so long to make new friends. I’ve been their stories and then takes and pastes when that image is YOU or an aspect of around other cats and dogs so I don’t their larger than life photograph, in a yourself - wow! That has a whole lot of have to be the only animal in my meaningful way. All this is flavored by power on a personal level both for the forever home. I would like to keep his anonymous nature. He remains in subject and for any viewer. There’s a living indoors. If you have a cat tree disguise behind dark lens sunglasses sense of intimacy, of vulnerability, and I can hang out in, that would make and sticks to using just his initials on all that connects us with our deeper sense everything perfect – just like me! platforms. His goal is to share other’s of ourselves”. stories, and he doesn’t feel like it’s Continued on Page 10 right to have his name attached to their Go To www.vipp.org Click on Adopt The Vashon Loop, p. 6 April 26‘ 18 Seven Students Receive Interdisciplinary Theater Piece, Awards in Annual “Propaganda for the Self ” History Contest As contestant Aiden Erlandson, wrote on his entry, “Vashon is shrouded in old stories that we are lucky to remember.” Seven of those stories were winners in the annual history project contest sponsored by the Vashon Heritage Museum. Contestants received their prizes at a winner’s celebration Friday evening, April 20. First place went to Emma Meade, daughter of Andrew and Addie Meade, for her “Mileta Farm History Project.” The farm adjoins Emma’s family home, and she enjoys visiting the sheep and goats as well as taking pictures of them. Enzo Bork, son of Ben and Yara Bork, and Ava Protzeller, daughter of Brian and Michelle Protzeller, tied for On May 25th- 26th the Arts. Tickets are available at www. second place. Enzo wrote about “My interdisciplinary theater piece, vashoncenterforthearts.org: $8 Student, House’s History,” his house being the Propaganda for the Self will run at $10 Member, $12 Senior, $14 General. oldest thing he knows (it is 100 years Vashon Center for the Arts. For more information please visit www. old). Ava’s project was on the history Propaganda for the Self is the elisteffen.com/propaganda. This project of “The Hardware Store” (her favorite American Dream deconstructed in order is supported through a grant from to build a bridge into a more radical 4Culture. place to eat). Back (looking through curtain), left to right: reimagining of what we are capable of. Eli Steffen is a writer, performer, and Finley Graham won third place for his Emma Meade and River Williams; Middle: essay, “The Frank Steen Island History,” Ava Protzeller, Rowan Marceau-Roache, and The show is an essay enacted through creative facilitator whose work focuses which he wrote after interviewing Aiden Erlandson; Front, kneeing: Finley bodies in real time. Using utopian on the intersection of community, Frank’s daughter Kaye Steen. Finley’s Graham and Enzo Bork. queer love stories, dance movements culture, and identity. They performed parents are Alex and Emily Graham. inspired by superheros, and audience up and down both coasts with such Three students earned Honorable about Springer, the Orca whale famous engagement, Manning and Steffen will companies as Future Husband, the Mentions. Aiden Erlandson wrote for adopting a ferry for its mother and excavate white America’s obsession Community Arts Project, The Public about “The Maury Island Incident” being successfully returned to its family. with numbness in search of the radical Circus, and The Temenos Project. Most because he lives on Maury Island and River’s parents are Jason and Jennifer possibility of desire. recently they have performed with has heard people talking about flying Williams. The show, created through the Vanessa DeWolf, Gender Tender, and saucers spotted in 1947. Aiden is the Vashon-Maury Island Heritage support of a 4Culture project grant, is Kt Shores and at such venues at SITI son of Jared and Page Erlandson. Rowan Association would like to thank the the co-creation of Eli Steffen and Corinne Company Studio, The Richard Hugo Marceau-Roache, son of Renee Marceau sponsors who made this event possible. Manning. Steffen grew up on Vashon House, and Studio Current. and Esteban Roache, used his art and They are 4Culture, Vashon Bookshop, and partnered with Manning, a former Corinne Manning is a prose writer, writing skills for “Strawberries” about Kellum and Montoya Building, resident to co-create and bring this literary organizer and performer whose strawberry farming on Vashon. River Sawbones, and Dammann Architectural project to the island infamously named work has been published widely. She Williams drew a cartoon and wrote Design. in 2014 the most liberal place in America. has received grants and fellowships At the heart of Propaganda for the from 4 Culture, Artist Trust and the Self is a series of opportunities for the MacDowell Colony and founded The audience to answer yes/no questions, James Franco Review a project on revealing their own histories and beliefs visibility and reimagining the publishing Road to Resilience and the gap between personal truths and process. Manning performed in an earlier Continued from Page 1 call our project Unifying for Democracy. collective identity. conception of Propaganda for the Self at that does not have the time or energy to We want to bring people together, to find Propaganda for the Self runs May Studio Current in 2017. address the situation. common ground, to reestablish trust in 25th-26th at Vashon Center for the The good news is that we have the each other, and define action steps we solutions for most of our problems. can take now to create a government that Between our emerging awareness of how is truly accountable to all regardless of to work within the ecology of the planet wealth or background. The paradigm Simon and Lyle Needs A Home and a technological revolution that can that got us into this predicament is not minimize our impact while providing the paradigm that will get us out of it. for our needs, we have the means to see Let’s talk! We have an event our way through and perhaps forestall planned for Sunday, May 6, 1:30 – 3:30 the extinction. at the Presbyterian Church. Craig Beles The problem is that the power will facilitate. We will gather around struggle amongst ourselves is preventing tables to discuss our common ground us from addressing those problems and, and aspirations so we can communicate instead, is leading us towards fascism those to candidates, and to decide on in a world that we no longer recognize. action steps that we think will get us on Our evolution toward real democracy track to elect leaders accountable to us has been subverted by powerful interests. in 2018. We will be there to discuss our Our leaders are not accountable to us. common ground, not our disagreements. We’re two lovable Siamese mix Our ability to vote is under attack and If you like this process and want to brothers who hope to be adopted our choices are ever more limited. Our continue with it, we can arrange further together. Lyle is relaxed and he attention is distracted by games, scandal, opportunities to sit down and discuss likes tummy rubs. Simon is a little and spectacle. We are intentionally our mutual future. turned against each other so we can’t take We will have a second meeting on shy to begin with, but his fun-loving self appears when he spies a laser advantage of our strength of numbers. Saturday, May 19, with some who work toy. We could be happy living with other cats, dogs and older kids Money is the gateway to office and to in the political sphere to get their advice because that’s how we’ve been raised. An indoor home would be best. power, and the small minority that wants on how we can interface effectively. We’re a Purrfect Pair, which means that someone who adopts both of to coopt the promise of the future has all More on that next time. us will qualify for a reduced adoption fee. the money. Democracy is not a spectator sport, We’ll celebrate our first birthday in May. Can we have a party at I have been working with some especially now when there is so much your house? others for some months now to address at stake. Hope to hear your thoughts this situation. We have been attempting on May 6! to find a way that we here on Vashon Go To www.vipp.org Click on Adopt can overcome the divisions and create a Comments or questions? process through which we can begin to [email protected] heal our democracy and get it back on Compost the Loop track to be of, by, and for the people. We Find the Loop on-line at The Loop’s soy-based ink www.vashonloop.com is good for composting. April 26 ‘18 yield to that. Speak with a confidant if The Vashon Loop, p. 7 you need to; but really this is much more about checking in with your internal compass, and adjusting your direction, if need be, for the road ahead. Remember that you are a whole person, deserving a deeply personal part of our lives. I Aries (March 20-April 19) by that right alone of compassion and suspect there are in fact as many creeds Having a new planet in your sign, basic respect. You can give yourself at as there are people, and that belief is especially a slow mover like Chiron, can least that. have a similar feeling to starting a job, or more often than not informed by hopes, fears, passions and experience as much breaking in a pair of shoes. It requires Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) as by doctrine. This has the advantage you to stretch and wiggle and flex and It would seem you have a message of allowing for changes of heart, and for possibly make the occasional misstep to disseminate — an important one, our spiritual systems to grow with our while you adjust to the differences. which involves something fundamental growth. The ideals you hold dear should Chiron will be hanging out for nine years relating to who you are. Yet you may ultimately encourage this development or thereabouts, so it’ll probably help still have some refining to do. It’s likely as opposed to fencing you in. Over the to take things one day at a time, with that as Mercury picks up speed more next month, you will likely discover how frequent stops to look about and note information will appear. Pay attention much this can free you. what’s changed. The Sun’s recent move to what’s happening in your immediate into Taurus should divert the glare of the environment, hour by hour, and to any Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) spotlight a little, and help give you the instinctual feelings you receive. As you During the next month, you space to make yourself at home. assemble the full image from these pieces may discover some new ideas about Have a Story of data, remember to keep in mind the commitment in relationships. In Taurus (April 19-May 20) purpose of your mission; and when particular, you will perhaps come to or Article Chiron has now taken up residence in the picture is complete, you will surely understand why a tie that initially offers Send it to: the most mysterious house in your chart, know from how the threads draw neatly security can eventually become the sort [email protected] kicking off a nine-year adventure into the together. depths of you. The Sun’s recent entrance that restricts, and makes us want to burst free and run off somewhere. This into your birth sign may offer a moment Read Eric Francis daily at isn’t inevitable — it happens because of valuable insight regarding what that www. PlanetWaves.net journey might specifically mean for you. people can be uncomfortable with their One suggestion arising from your charts partners, relatives or employees growing is the concept that facing uncertainty and changing, and try to hold them back. head-on can eventually bolster your sense You know, however, that the way you’re of identity, and strengthen your beliefs developing is necessary and important. through refinement and challenges. This Do what you must, and don’t let anyone VCA Shoot to Show might be a good time to remember that hinder you. flexibility is itself a form of power. Photography Workshop Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) Gemini (May 20-June 21) With the Sun in your opposite What is meant by the word sign for the next month, there should ‘community’? Recently it’s often applied be at least a few opportunities to to a specific demographic, or a group that enjoy a bit of romance, as well as a has a particular trait in common. This focus on partnerships in general. One can help people find a sense of identity, factor I suggest you look at is how you belonging and common cause. Yet it communicate your desires, and how also carries the risk of dampening our well you hear others. Particularly while ability to see all of humanity, or all of Mercury is still picking up speed, it’s life on Earth, as our neighborhood. Some worth taking the time to be clear. In esoteric lines of thought hold that there addition, you may need to be careful is an etheric web connecting everything with time management. Plan ahead, to everything else, which strikes me as and make sure as far as possible that it’s ringing profoundly true. Either way, in your power to get away from your you now have the opportunity for your desk when you intend to and, most concept of community to be broadened importantly, when you’ve promised to. considerably. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) Cancer (June 21-July 22) A big theme of Chiron in Aries The Sun in Taurus should bring overall is standing out, irrespective of a more relaxed atmosphere all round, pressure from others; for you, this may Learn about camera handling, Site to help Preserve Our Islands (POI) to which may come as something of a well translate to standing out creatively. composition, framing, pricing and promotion. save the site, driving at least one small nail relief after the momentous astrology of You likely have the innate gift of unique Be part of the 14th annual show at the into the Glacier coffin I believe. Photographs the past few weeks. For now, I suggest expression; to some degree you can’t Hardware Store Restaurant Gallery in July. from the workshop that year were used by you take a little time to relax where you help but be honestly yourself. What Open to all levels of experience, using any POI to lobby for saving the site. digital camera, smart phone to dSLR. We will decide the theme for 2018 in the can. Be especially kind to your physical could transpire over the next few years is The idea is simple. Assemble a group first class and arrive at our May 5 location body, and pay attention to any intuitive a chance to bring something special into of photographers, teens to adults, of all to match the theme. I am thinking perhaps messages you receive. One lesson of manifestation through that uniqueness. If you’re not sure what that might be, skill levels using all kinds of cameras, even “Postcards from Vashon,” but it will be a Chiron’s move into your 10th house smart phones. Together select a theme group decision. is likely that you must be prepared to consider first what you’re passionate or curious about. With the Sun in practical to photograph, allow a specified time to The goal of the class is to empower stand apart and be answerable only to complete the assignment, share the results in Vashon artists, photographers or even those Taurus, some possible first steps will no yourself; do what you think you ought class and online for group feedback, submit who use photographs as artist reference to doubt soon present themselves. to, rather than what other people believe selects to a panel of jurors who view the work paint or draw from, to learn to select for a you should. Your conscience suffices as entirely online using Flickr.com and hang a show with an eye toward selling so they can an authority. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) juried show of the results together. continue with a group or solo show of their It’s necessary to review the past We have hung a Shoot to Show exhibit own work in the future. Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) from time to time, if only to see how every July for years now at the Hardware Any one can register with VCA, again The word ‘ambition’ tends to call to far you’ve come since and to deal with Store Gallery. Our jurors have included teens to adults, with any kind of camera and mind worldly successes: wealth, position any lingering issues. Over the next few Melinda Powers, Wendy Finkleman and a any skill set. Painters and graphite artists are and prestige. It would seem, however, years, you’ll have what looks like a kind number of people from the Beachcomber. also very welcome to join in. I love mixed you’re now receiving a challenge to of mini-project, the aim of which is to One panel included the White House media shows! understand ambition in a broader put some aspects of the past behind Photographer for Bill Clinton. Another Ages 15-Adult sense; in particular, how it can be you once and for all. That doesn’t mean included a Seattle Times photographer. Classroom sessions 3 Wednesdays, May applied to spiritual and personal growth. you have to borrow a flux capacitor and Our themes have varied, too - Mt Rainier 2, 9 & 16, 6:30-9pm at the Blue Heron from Vashon, Spring on Vashon, Water, On-Location Field Shoot 1 Saturday, Capitalism ensures it’s possible to make head back there. On the contrary, it’s Animals of Vashon, Land Trust Properties May 5, 6:30-9:30am for sunrise (location TBD) big material gains without reference to imperative that you continue living your present life, developing and blossoming (for the Trust’s 20th anniversary, a show that Tuition: $110 member / $125 general + these more ethereal matters. Whether hung first at the Hardware Store and then at $10 materials for hanging the show one can be happy doing so is another into the future. The whole point of this exercise is pretty much to ensure you can the Land Trust Building for most of the year.) register at 206-259-3005 question. I suspect you’re already aware One year we even documented the Glacier that path probably won’t work for you, do precisely that. and that there are forms of success better worth your efforts. In these, you can aim Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) high. This week you may go through a Deadline for the next process of reviewing certain events and Find us on Skype edition of The Loop is Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) considering whether you’re doing the Vashon Loop Despite the various manifestations right thing, or have done so previously. 206-925-3837 Saturday, May 5 of organized religion, spirituality is You might be tempted or pressured to do this publicly, though I suggest you don’t The Vashon Loop, p. 8 April 26‘ 18 Spiritual BLOCKED Smart Aleck By Mary Tuel

Holocaust 101 the bodies. Many younger people have never heard Dale had screaming nightmares about of the Holocaust that happened during his experience at the camp for years after World War II. the war. Really? When I was in college in the 1960s, The Holocaust, for those of you who I lived in an apartment next door to two may not have heard, was the German Israelis. One day while talking with one of state-sponsored systematic mass killing of them, he told me his story. European Jews, first and foremost, but also His first memory as a small child was Roma (Gypsies), Poles, Russians and some of being in the concentration camp called Valise members put on their purple other Slavic peoples, homosexuals, the Auschwitz. He rolled up his sleeve and high top sneakers recently and marched- mentally and physically disabled, prisoners, showed me the number the Nazis tattooed -each to a different drummer--around political dissidents, Jehovah’s Witnesses, on his arm. He alone of his family survived. the BLOCK. Visions of orange fish flying Communists, Socialists, Catholic priests, After liberation, he was transported to with geese, father and son combat, art and other people considered imperfect or England, where it took a long time to regain books with words dancing on pottery troublesome. his health. Relatives tracked him down and pages, howling coyotes, The Holocaust is considered to have brought him to Israel, where he grew up on a aging family members, spinning started in March 1933 when Adolf Hitler kibbutz. He served in the Army as all Israelis globes, caves and hideouts, abstract became Chancellor of Germany, and to have do, and then came to the United States to go collages, pensive people, tin rivers and ended in May 1945, when the war ended. to college. He would be close to eighty now. valleys, beach trash and wayward plaster Also, in March 1933, Dachau, the first Germany does not forget the Holocaust. feet danced in their heads and soon the of many concentration camps, was opened. We must not forget the Holocaust, either. We urge to grab their paint brushes, charcoal Dachau is still there. It is kept as a reminder. must not forget how in a few years Germany pencils, cameras, hammers and nails and You can visit. went from persecution of Jews and the theft chunks of clay overcame them. Although by 1939 Jews were herded of Jewish property to the mass murder of Some artists marched around the into ghettos where they starved, were shot, the Jews. BLOCK as many as ten times. One fell or became sick and died, or were finally We must tell the story of how a whole off the BLOCK deported to the killing camps, it was not country, a country that was renowned for its and BLOCKED traffic. A truck driver until January 1942 that the Nazi party great minds and great universities and great honked and shouted, “BLOCKHEADS!” formally adopted the Final Solution of the music, went wrong under the leadership of a which caused a few tears. Eventually which takes place the first two weekends madman who called people to be the worst Jewish Question, a proposal written by one they all made it home to their studios in May, Saturday and Sunday, May 5d version of themselves. of Himmler’s deputies, Richard Heydrich. where they each created a BLOCK of art and 6th and That is a childishly brief overview of His plan was to kill every Jew in Europe, now hanging on the walls of Valise. May 12th and 13th. Opening is from Ireland to Turkey, and every country the Holocaust. The Holocaust is only one The Valise May show BLOCKED is Friday May 4th, 6 to 9. in between. example of what is now known as genocide. part of VIVA’S Spring Studio Art Tour The Nazis did not get that far, but six A few others: the purges of Josef Stalin in million Jews perished at the Nazis’ hands. the Soviet Union; the killing and removal of That number does not include the other indigenous people, and the lynching of black groups who were killed. Six million is an people, in the United States; the Rwandan estimate. The Germans kept records, but in Genocide when Hutus murdered Tutsis; Mike Love 1943 when they realized they were losing the the Khmer Rouge killing fields of Pol Pot; Revolutionary music may seem hard war, they began destroying those records. the famine created by Mao Zedong’s Great to come by in these days and times. Long Some that survived were used as evidence Leap Forward in China. gone is the era of artists like Bob Marley, in trials for war crimes after the war. The list is endless. I don’t there think The Clash, Stevie Wonder and Patti Smith Jews were killed in gas “showers” and there has been a day in my lifetime that getting airplay and bringing their messages their bodies burned in ovens in the killing some country or group wasn’t waging war to the masses. But that doesn’t mean that camps. In other places they were made to on some other country or group, and each the revolution isn’t still brewing in the dig trenches and then to march into the killing as many of its perceived enemies as hearts and minds of many people around trenches, where they were shot and buried. fast as it could. the globe. The Germans also built portable gas wagons It’s a wonder there are any human Meet Mike Love. One of reggae music’s beings left. for killing people in the field. rising stars. Born and raised in Oahu, There are holocausts going on right My husband’s Uncle Dale was in one Hawaii to a musical family that spans now. How often do you hear the words of the American Army units that liberated a generations, Mike Love brings a multitude concentration camp. He slept next to 12-foot “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” in the of influences to the table, all tied together high stacks of bodies. In the days following news? by the common goal of making the world person. I don’t think I’m some wise elder or liberation, the American troops brought We must tell these stories. We must a better place. anything like that. I just make myself open German civilians in from the surrounding not forget. Which is no mean feat. On his debut to the music and it just comes through. To countryside and made them walk through One day, perhaps, we will say never album, The Change I’m Seeking, Love me it’s just as much of a teaching for me as the camp to see the truth of what it was. Then again, and it will be true. harkens the legends of roots reggae in both it is for anyone who is listening to it and is the Germans were given the job of burying his lyrics and his sound, but never relies on open to it.” any one genre to hold him down. Coming His songs take you on a journey, from a wealth of influences – he started out one of healing and inspiration. One playing classical piano as a teenager and designed to help you on your path to Vashon Chamber Music later would perform in high school bands knowledge, wisdom and understanding. The final season concert of Vashon that were more akin to the grunge sounds On “Permanent Holiday” he takes you on Chamber Music’s Seattle Symphony of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam – Mike Love a lyrical quest for freedom, both his and All Stars series features Principal Oboe fuses the simple rhythms of classic reggae yours. He laments the ills of the world Mary Lynch. Formerly second oboist with the complex changes of the classical but also discusses solutions and ideas to in the Cleveland Orchestra, Mary and rock music he was first trained on to change them. was appointed principal in the Seattle come up with a style wholly unique to him. Mike Love has shared the stage with Symphony in 2014. She was educated Mike is currently wrapping up his second artists like Stephen Marley, Don Carlos, at the New England Conservatory and album titled Love Will Find A Way. Trevor Hall, Nahko & Medicine For The the Juilliard School and has toured But it’s his message, his passion, People, John Butler Trio, Groundation, Steel with Musicians from Marlboro. On the wisdom behind his words that truly Pulse, Dave Matthews and Jack Johnson. this concert she will perform Mozart’s resonate with his fans. “It’s always been Debra Heesch Presents Quintet for Oboe and Strings and about the depth,” Mike Love explains, “I’ve MIKE LOVE REGGAE BAND, RON Britten’s Phantasy for Oboe and String never been into music that was shallow. I’m ARTIS II, SARAH CHRISTINE, special Trio. Rounding out the program is still learning. I’m still learning about where guest CLINTON FEARON Beethoven’s second Razumovsky I’m going and where I want to be. All the Monday, May 7th @ 6:30pm Quartet, op.59 no.2 performed by the music is a learning tool to me too. I just Vashon Theatre, tickets at Box Office Girsky Quartet. Special guest violinist at vashoncenterforthearts.org or at (206) make myself open to it. All the messages or VashonTheatre.com $18 if purchase in advance / $25 first on the concert will be Maria Sampen, 463-5131. Senior/student discounts are that come through the music, it’s not just four rows / $20 day of price, at the door professor of violin at the University of available. The concert is on April 29th, coming through me and my wisdom, Puget Sound. Tickets are available online 7:30pm at the Vashon Center for the Arts. because I don’t think I’m that wise of a April 26 ‘18 The Vashon Loop, p. 9

Pumpkin, Prunes, and Beans. It Island Epicure takes time to make, but it is very Blue Monster good! April is not exactly a pumpkin month, but we still had a small With Emcee Richard Moore The wily and elusive “Blue pumpkin left from last October. Monster” was first sighted on Had we not had it, we would Vashon Island back in 2005. have substituted squash. Since then there have been numerous reported sightings, Lamb with Pumpkin, although none have been Prunes, and Beans confirmed or documented, By Marj Watkins 4 servings leading many to brush aside Something from the such tales as a hoax. Though 3 Tablespoons butter the exact description of the Caucasus 1 pound boneless lean lamb creature varies from one witness My son Steve always asks me 1 cup chopped onion to another, most agree that it to cook something from another 2 cups beef broth has blue fur, three-toed feet, country, something he will never 1 pound pumpkin, peeled googley eyes and super-funky see on a menu after he goes back and cut into 1-inch squares dance moves. to China. Recently he pulled a ½ cup dried pitted prunes beat, he is the sonic anchor to “what can I say? The stupid out Despite popular skepticism, the monster sound. there is wearing the man down.” cookbook from my kitchen shelf 2/3 cup drained and rinsed a tiny but fierce band of and said, “ ‘Cooking from the canned white beans Tony Mann, Keyboard Richard has been doing believers have embarked on Caucasus’ has never let us down.” ¼ cup minced parsley Tony was recently coaxed stand up for the last 5 years, an ongoing quest to draw the The book has recipes from Cinamon into the band to push the sound mostly on Vashon. But you monster out of hiding, and thus Azerbaijan, a country neither Coarsely ground black barrier with his lightning fingers might have also seen him at prove its existence. They are of us has ever lived in nor even pepper and funky keys. Pure monster the Comedy Underground convinced that music is the key, visited. The closest we ever came ¼ cup finely chopped fresh bait. in Seattle. Besides comedy, and that playing psychedelic to Azerbaijan was the sabbatical dill or 4 teaspoons dried dill The emcee for the night is Richard spends his time with his instrumental power funk at school year we spent in Europe, Salt to taste Vashon local Richard Moore. beautiful family, coaching his living the fall and winter months loud volumes is sure to arouse Richard’s material is “cynically boys in Soccer, Basketball and the creature. Upon hearing the in Crete, which lies in the In a heavy bottomed wide good natured.” Well, the older Baseball. If you are lucky you music, the monster won’t be Mediterranean Sea. Azerbaijan’s skillet, melt the butter over he gets, the less good natured can also see him out at Agren able to resist the urge to show bordering water is the Caspian medium (mark 5) heat. it’s gonna be. As Richard puts it, Park playing a mean game of off its funky dance moves and Sea. The Caucasus mountains run Brown the meat on all sides. softball… profound booty shaking abilities from the Black Sea to the Caspian, Add the onion. Stir cook it until This is an all-ages show in public. This dedicated group dipping into Azerbaijan. It is said it’s limp and shiny. Add the broth until 11pm, then 21+ after that. call themselves Blue Monster that people in that region very and bring it to boiling, reduce There is absolutely no cover in honor of the beast. They are: often live to be well over 100. My heat to low, cover, and simmer charge for the show! Ken Jacobsen, Guitar thought is that they don’t want to 30 minutes. Stir in the pumpkin Blue Monster A classically trained guitar die and miss a single one of their cubes, prunes and dried dill if With Emcee Richard Moore teacher and performer who great meals. using. Cover again and simmer Friday, April 27th, 8:30pm dabbles in wizardry and is The climate may be similar 20 minutes. The Red Bicycle Bistro & a practitioner of the occult. to that of the Pacific west because Add the canned white beans, Sushi Known for the trance-like fury apples, prunes and walnuts, salt and pepper, stir, cover and with which he plays, Ken will peaches and apricots, fruits and simmer 10 minutes. Add parsley, rant with passion about his nuts familiar to us, also feature fresh dill if using that, sprinkle belief in the existence of the VCA Shows in some of the recipes from the generously with cinnamon. Serve monster to anyone who will Caucasus. The recipe Steve and over cooked rice or millet. I chose to make was Lamb with listen. and Events J.P. Ouellette, Bass Quartermaster Press Studio A former guitar player, celebrates its 25th Anniversary J.P. migrated to bass a few with a retrospective exhibition years back because he thought that includes the printed works VYFS and Chautauqua he could better express his of 31 past and present members. obsession with funk by playing This is the colorful local story of a small group of artists learning bass. He also D.J.s from to monoprint in a potting time to time under the name Elementary PTSA shed at Quartermaster Harbor “Dr. Feelgood”. A specialist in 1993. Today, 25 years later, in extremely low frequency Quartermaster Press Studio is rumbling sounds thought to present still an active artist collective, stimulate the monster. working in a fully-equipped Nigel Browne, Drums etching studio at the historic Beall (7th century), and in the hands An island native, Nigel has Caspar Babypants Greenhouses. The exhibit will be of contemporary artists, new played in various local bands up through May, and has these approaches and individual Vashon Youth and Family over the years, including Stony events associated with it: experimentation allow the creation Services and Chautauqua Beach, earning a reputation for Saturday, April 28, 1:30 p.m. of distinctly modern prints. Beyond Elementary School PTSA are his acute skills with the skins Quartermaster Press Retrospective what we perceive as viewers there pleased to present a free concert before joining the quest for the – “Collectors’ Conversation” is often a “backstory” hidden by Caspar Babypants. This monster. Providing a steady This special event is part of in the layers of ink, collage and fun evening will be free with the Quartermaster Press 25 mixed media. Hear what lies in donations accepted. All proceeds Retrospective at Vashon Center those layers of ink on paper, as we will go to support VYFS Vashon with staff to assist children with for the Arts. The “collectors,” hear some of the Quartermaster Kids Scholarships. their questions. Our staff work people just like you who own art Press artists’ perspectives on their Caspar Babypants is the cooperatively with Chautauqua that they have purchased from work. stage name of children’s music Photo by Brian Kasnyik educators so we can provide our exhibiting artists, or those of artist Chris Ballew, who is also additional learning opportunities you who are inspired to collect First Friday, May 4, 6:30 p.m. widely known as the singer of The care for 5 to 12 year olds. Our that coordinate with school art from other genres, are invited Deborah Taylor — Multi-plate Presidents of the United States of program is located at Chautauqua, curriculum and events. Academic to participate. We’ll find out what Etching Demonstration America. He has released a total of but open to all island kids. We and enrichment activities and draws people to collect artwork, There are many ways to make 14 albums for children, including offer full-time, part-time and clubs focus on science, art, the benefits of owning a work, a multi-colored image in fine art his latest, SLEEP TIGHT! which drop-in care options. Thanks humanities, literacy and sports. how a piece changes as it becomes printing. In this demonstration, was released on January 19th to Island donors, we are able to Breakfast and healthy afternoon part of one’s daily life... and much Deborah Taylor will show how 2018. He will be performing provide scholarships to those in snacks are provided. Everyone is more. Saturday April 28, 1:30 p.m. to make a fine print using two songs from this album and some need. welcome at Vashon Kids! “The Collectors Wall” at Vashon copper plates. She will give a very of his other well-known songs Since 1995, we have provided Tuesday, May 8, 2018- Center for the Arts. brief history of etching, explain for children. The performance creative programming, delivered 6:30-7:30pm. Chautauqua different techniques for etching is suitable for all children, but by experienced staff, that Elementary School Cafeteria First Friday, May 4, 5:30 an image into copper, how to ink especially for ages 1-6. Popcorn, encourages your child’s unique Admission- Free- Donations p.m. Suzanne Moore Artist Talk and wipe an etched plate, and how cookies, juice and other snacks spirit. We promote healthy play, Accepted. All proceeds go to — Tradition and Transformation to register and print a two-plate will be served. accept differences and seek to support VYFS Vashon Kids The history of printmaking colored print using an etching Vashon Youth and Family resolve conflicts peacefully while Scholarship is rich with imagery and press. Services, Vashon Kids, is supporting each child’s dignity. Sponsored by a 2018 technique, and it was key to dependable, creative and During the school year we have King County Community the democratization of art. The Saturday, May 19, 1:30 p.m. convenient before and after school a designated homework time Engagement Grant printing press has been traditional Valerie Willson — Monotype equipment since the Tang Dynasty Demonstration The Vashon Loop, p. 10 April 26‘ 18 The JD Hobson Band Joshua James Welcome to the Outlaw solo artist. Multiple guitars in “Humanity,” said Blues! Welcome to the JD multiple tunings with a stomp Dostoevsky, “is a mystery. It Hobson Band! box to hold down the foot must be unravelled.” On his When Outlaw Country tapping beat. From sweet slide, latest album, My Spirit Sister, and Americana meet the Delta to intricate finger picking, he Utah-based Americana artist Blues you get a whole new proved his skill and versatility Joshua James attempts to do genre. JD Hobson takes his in the trenches. His efforts just that, laying bare a narrative Virginia Appalachian blues didn’t go unnoticed. JD was catalogue of his unraveling of the roots and combines it with nominated for best solo/duo complexities and imperfections Seattle’s Americana and rock blues act by the Washington inherent in us all. “There is for scene, and a sound is created blues society’s “Best of the Blues each of us a constant search for moving into his new album. that has gotten people standing awards.” He also was South love,” says James. “We look to our This gave James’ the space to up to take notice. Sound Blues Association’s Back families, spouses, and friends for experiment more and to expand “Hobson’s brand of bluesy to Beale Street Competition support, but sometimes we must his sound. “The progression Americana is steeped in rich solo/duo winner in both 2010 look into the dark that covers the from the first album to this one is outlaw tradition.” (Seattle and 2011, and represented them night, searching for acceptance. quite sonically and expressively Weekly Reverb Magazine) in Memphis at the International These songs stem from that.” different,” he says. My Spirit Somewhere out there on the Blues Challenge. Joshua James was born and Sister has a dark mystery to road between Seattle, Austin, The JD Hobson Band is raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, it, reflected both thematically and Memphis is a man on the end result is that JD has an the natural evolution of JD’s where he found solace early on and sonically. Referencing run. Whether from the law, or exceptional feel for most roots solo career, and his fans have in old records. James moved the frailty and weaknesses of just his own personal demons, music. His ability to grasp responded by selling out a to Utah for university, where humanity, the songs are about it’s hard to say, but he runs as every nuance down to the number of shows locally in he began writing songs while “the things that come up in our though the boogie man himself minutest inflection has become the Seattle area including the studying nursing. “Leaving your lives without warning, lovers and was on his heels, or as Robert his hallmark. famous Tractor Tavern. home, your family, and living relationships.” Where a lesser Johnson put it in his famous “This music is about The JD Hobson Band is somewhere without the support songwriter might simply explore song, “there is a Hell Hound reaching down deep and coming composed of four members: of that structure is going to cause the pain in this darkness, James on My Trail.” Maybe every man up with something authentic Dan Infecto on bass, who toured you to change,” he says. “I suppose makes peace with it, bringing a has felt a little like this in his and timeless. The trials, sadness, for years with the infamous Bob it caused me to expand my view strong, cold undercurrent of hope life, and JD Hobson expresses and triumphs of people here Wayne as one of his “Outlaw of the world, people, culture, god, and aspiration beneath it. this feeling in what he calls the in America continue on today Carnies,” often opening for the pursuit of a “career,” money “I’m in constant flux with Outlaw Blues. only dressed in different clothes. Hank Williams III. Then there and its affect on a man.” These “being true” to myself, perhaps JD Hobson was born and Times have changed, but we is Mike Peterson on drums, themes and the hard-edged, stark we all are, but this record really raised in Seattle, yet his father inherit the blues.” – JD and Ron Weinstein (Suffering landscapes of these states seep feels like an honest endeavor to comes from the Appalachian In JD Hobson’s music some F*ckheads, Crack Sabbath), who into the compositions on My me. I enjoy the connection that can blues country of Virginia. The will say they swear they hear packs a genuine Hammond B3 Spirit Sister, which are stunningly exist when becoming vulnerable music that drifted up from a the rootsy goodness of Bob organ with Leslie speaker to beautiful yet somehow perilous and the easiest way for me to do juke joint named the Dewdrop Dylan and the Band. Others every show. The sound of the and harrowing in execution. that is through song.” This sense Inn in Martinsville Virginia will say they feel the bluesy organ and its rotating speaker James draws on inspiration from of vulnerability is palpable on made a permanent impression rockin’ groove of the Black Keys. adds a mesmerizing depth to the untidy and unseemly parts My Spirit Sister. Here, Joshua on JD’s father when he was a Still others will say it reminds every song. of ourselves that we tend to hide James proves himself to be a child. The seed was planted in them of the roadhouse vibe of This is an all-ages free event even from the people closest to mature songwriter, blending the JD as he grew up listening to his Howlin’ Wolf with a little Willie until 11pm, then it will be 21+ us. He may find more questions line between what is fictional and father’s music on the radio. Dixon in the rhythm section. after that. than he answers, but his ethos what is confessional like a painter Studying under greats like What’s unanimous is that the The JD Hobson Band of working to be honest about mixing watercolors. He’s been an John Jackson, David Honeyboy music is infectious. Enough Friday, May 4th, 8:30pm his own weaknesses led to a artist to watch for years now, but Edwards, and John Cephis at groove to move your feet and The Red Bicycle Bistro & chillingly engaging record. with his new album, he’s finally Centrum in Port Townsend enough passion to move your Sushi. All-ages ’til 11pm, 21+ The critical reception to arrived. helped JD hone his craft. The soul. after that. Free cover! James’ previous albums, ranging Debra Heesch Presents JD played for years as a from Paste Magazine who named JOSHUA JAMES him one of the next 25 Artists You May 9th, 7pm individuals have been turned Need To Know and NPR who Vashon Island Coffee Faces Places: into large scale box art to be said “James specializes in lyrics Roasterie Continued from Page 5 occurs at a very deep (often not revealed at the event. Guests that cut right through listeners $16.00 tickets available to All of us are faced with directly conscious) level of the can expect a heartwarming with their sincerity and honesty,” purchase at Vashon Bookshop or stereotypes that place us in mind. Simply put, exposure to film on friendship while getting left him without much to prove BrownPaperTickets.com boxes, creating walls that images changes your brain. So to explore “boxes that the disable us from connecting in art it is important to choose students create and using them with each other. However, art our images with thought and as inspiration for creating their has the power and malleability care - they impact others!” own. This artistic dialogue to destroy these barriers, lifting After creating self portrait- will hopefully be accompanied us out of our boxes to achieve style boxes of themselves, the by actual dialogue about the social change. Dallum discusses students chose to address the barriers we create and encounter how, “Art has the power to intergenerational nature of the in our lives.” Rees illustrates. create change because art film by incorporating members A post film show-and-tell has the power to command of our Island community into of the boxes will give audience ATTENTION. Where attention the project. The ‘Literature members a chance to discover goes, so goes energy and and the Elusive Now’ class has and share their reflections on the thought and action. If the artist worked with senior citizens to art. The artwork of the project can capture and direct attention, share their stories on a time not only tells stories and holds even for a moment, they have that they’ve felt placed in a box, value, but is sure to generate impacted the viewer and thus, while the Art classes have paired discussion while viewing and Adopt A Cat Day! made a change. It is the ideas up with kindergarten classes at creating it that transcend far the captivate us that compel us, Chautauqua Elementary School, beyond the pieces themselves. Vashon Island Pet Protectors in whatever direction that might all to gain a collection of stories After leaving the be. Art creates change in such a from all ages. Theatre that night, you can be Saturdays 11:30-2:30 powerful way because it often The interviews and sure ‘Faces Places’ will be on Our VIPP Shelter is open for communicates visually, which photographs of these your mind for weeks to come. adoptions every Saturday. Visit our website www.vipp.org for Read The Directions and to view the Cats and Dogs available for adoption. Latte and Wisdom Vashon Loop Or give us a call 206-389-1085 To Go online www. Monday - Friday 5:30am - 3:00pm 17311 Vashon Hwy Sw vashonloop. Cash & Saturday 7:00am - 3:00pm Find the Loop on-line at www.vashonloop.com Checks Sunday 8:00am - 2:00pm com Welcome 17311 Vashon Hwy Sw April 26 ‘18 The Vashon Loop, p. 11 Fresh - Vashon Farmers Della Mae to play at VCA Market Music The Vashon Island Growers Association offers locally grown produce at the Saturday Market, in the heart of Vashon’s town. At the Saturday Market, you’ll find about 30 to 50 vendors of food and arts and crafts, along with live music. At the market, you can buy Island grown organic produce, meats, even wines, bread and cheese…and special gifts for your loved ones. Vashon Events is happy to be a part of bringing music to the Vashon Saturday Farmers Market. The music is almost always from 11am until 1pm, in the northwest corner of the Village Green. We’d like to thank Nan Wilson at Manage Ad Music for generously sponsoring the music again this year! On Saturday, April 28th, we bring you Cherrywood Station! Cherrywood Station is Gus and Camille Reeves. The duo met in Portland, OR, and, after singing gospel tunes together a cappella the first night they met, they he wanted to bless with his presence and never stopped collaborating. prowess. The fact that most bass players Both Gus and Camille are prolific have this luxury wasn’t the point. Tim songwriters who carry the torch of joined a local rock-and-roll outfit called American music by performing classic and The Sharks. Playing guitar in the Sharks original numbers with the acoustic sounds at the time was Doug Pine. Tim and Doug Della Mae, the multi-talented Department’s American Music Abroad of soul, country, blues, and folk. became friends and also became each Nashville-based all-female string band program. In that capacity, they’ve Their first E.P., Soup Can Telephone, other’s favorite musicians, so much so that is set to play at Vashon Center for undertaken a series of extended trips is now finally available and includes five Tim once asked Doug to tune his bass. Ten the Arts on April 27, 2018 at 7:30pm. to Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, original tracks. strings of mutual admiration. Since forming in Boston in 2009, the Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Unfortunately, Tim can’t make it to band has established a reputation as a Brazil, Saudi Arabia and the United On Saturday, May 5th, we bring you the Vashon Center for the Arts show, so charismatic, must-see live act that has Arab Emirates, playing concerts for Tim Couldn’t Make It! Doug Pine and Rick Dahms will be playing thrilled audiences and built fans around local audiences as well as collaborating Way back in the mid-1980s, bassist Tim without him once again. But....the good the world. with local musicians and participating Dahms was making a name for himself in news is the group has grown to include Versatile instrumentalists and in children’s music-education programs. the hip and happening Maui music scene. Michael Marcus on bass, Wesley Peterson vocalists, the five women draw from In May 2016, after six years of Much in demand, the tall good-looking Tim on drums, and Mike Nichols joining in on a bottomless well of roots influences extensive touring (averaging 220 days could pick and choose the bands and gigs harmonica during very special occasions. to create a unique and vibrant sound on the road per year, travel to over 30 that combines timeless lyrics, strong countries and almost all US states), Della storytelling, and an unmistakably Mae took a break from the road. Now, contemporary sensibility. True fans the band is back with a soaring new place them right alongside such roots- album and an exciting new tour. conscious bands as the Avett Brothers, The show is April 27, 2018 Punch Brothers, the Lumineers, and at 7:30pm. Tickets are $30 and can Hurray for the Riff Raff. be purchased online at https:// “Della Mae is truly a genre breaking tickets.vashoncenterforthearts. act,” says Angela Gist, VCA’s Artistic org/TheatreManager/1/tmEvent/ Director. “The band is musical, tmEvent1302.html, or at the ticket desk charismatic, and incredibly talented. in the Katherine L. White Hall at VCA. It’s bluegrass, meets folk, meets rock. Honestly it’s hard to imagine the music About Della Mae lover that won’t love this band. They’re DELLA MAE was born in 2009 from that good.” a yearning for a traditional bluegrass The band members come from sound in the heart of New England. different musical backgrounds and When the band started, there was not a places in the US and Canada, and each single all-women bluegrass band on the brings distinct elements that make Della national touring scene. One of the main Mae such a popular band. The result is a goals of Della Mae from the start was to completely original style – sensitive yet showcase strong women in bluegrass. assertive, intense yet playful, steeped in Their musical style seamlessly blends tudio tradition yet undeniably current. years of experience with traditional S Della Mae was IBMA’s Emerging mountain music and modern singer- Artists of the Year in 2013, GRAMMY songwriter sensibilities. Della Mae has Nominees in 2014 for their debut album toured throughout the U.S., playing on Rounder Records, named among festivals, music clubs, house concerts, Rolling Stone’s “10 bands to watch for churches, and conducting workshops. tour in 2015,” and have traveled with the US State Department to over 18 countries Della Mae is: Celia Woodsmith— Spring 2018 as cultural ambassadors in the U.S. State vocals, guitar; Kimber Ludiker—fiddle, vocals; Jenni Lyn Gardner—mandolin, May 5-6 & 12-13 vocals; Courtney Hartman—guitar, banjo, vocals; Zoe Guigueno—bass, Saturday & Sunday vocals. Friday, April 27 at 7:30pm 10 am to 5 pm All ages show. All tickets $30

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