Vol. 14, #15 SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS THEY MAKE THE LOOP POSSIBLE July 20, 2017 Festival Music Take a Ride on the Schedule Inside Virginia V For one day only, the Vashon Maury Island Heritage Association brings The Veteran Director Helms Virginia V back to her home shorelines. The Virginia V is the last operational Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet steamer. Little Shop of Horrors She was once part of the Mosquito Fleet that served Vashon’s 32 steamer docks from the 1880s to the 1930s. This was a time when water transportation was easier than land transportation because thick forests blanketed the island made for difficult and slow over- land transportation. bar. Narrated shoreline interpretation Sunday Aug 27th, this historic by island historian, Bruce Haulman and ship returns for a single, narrated Vashon Nature Center’s Maria Metler. circumnavigation cruise around Vashon Parking assistance will be provided and Maury islands. Come aboard with prior arrangement. Purchase and see the last reciprocating steam tickets and find more information online engine still operating in North America at vashonheritage.org, by emailing in action. Travel back in time with [email protected], narrated shoreline interpretation by over the phone, or in person at the island historian, Bruce Haulman and Heritage Museum or Vashon Bookshop. Vashon Nature Center’s Maria Metler. Thank you to our generous sponsors for What all those pilings in Tramp Harbor making this event possible: 4Culture, are about. See the light house from the IGA, Island Escrow, John L. Scott. water, rather than the other way around? Take a Ride on the Virginia V From left: Audrey (Alex Drissell), Seymore (D. Wiley Jones) and Mushnick (Mick Etchoe). Do you know where Clam Cove or where An Afternoon Circumnavigation Photo courtesy of Craig Hanson. Aquarium are? Or, where native’s called Cruise brought to you by Vashon Maury Once upon a time, Susan Hanson is saying ‘congratulations!’...to those who ‘sleeping mats’? Join us! Island Heritage Association. ran Vashon Island High School and earn coveted roles.” Boarding begins at half past noon co-directed its musical productions. Like any good director, Hanson at the North end ferry dock, passenger Sunday August 27th She retired just before the new theater worships the talent she casts. “We have only slip. The vessel departs at 1:00pm Vashon North end Ferry Terminal opened at VCA, and luckily Drama professional actors here for the summer, and returns to dock at 5:00pm. Tickets Passenger Only Slip Dock snagged her to debut the Island’s adults with degrees in drama, college are $120.00 VMI Heritage Association Boarding 12:30 - 12:55 newest stage. students studying acting and theatre and Members receive a 10% discount. Catered Vessel departs at 1:00pm Her work turned the Broadway talented amateurs from our community. lunch provided by On Safari Foods. Returning to dock at 5:00pm musical Chicago into a sold-out series The talent we’ve found for this cast is Jessica DeWire will host an onboard cash of performances. Now Hanson follows amazing,” Hanson adds. up on that success with Little Shop of Horrors. Drama Dock: Little Shop of Horrors “It’s one of the best of the off- Broadway shows, with a strong score, Thursday–Saturday July 27–29, 7:30 a diverse cast—age, gender, ethnicity— pm. The Road to Resilience clever satire and an ethical message: Special Family Matinee Sunday, July By Terry Sullivan, situational ethics lead to unethical 30, 3 pm Small Is Beautiful* outcomes!” (*Thanks, E.F. Schumacher, for a 40 highly concentrated, food and sustainable The show’s storyline is magical, Katherine L White Hall year old idea that is still good as gold.) energy are not. We also have learned that according to Hanson. “This is a shabby $16 Student (18 and under) the denser the population the greater the shop in the ’70s on Skid Row where people $20 VCA Member Most futurist visions I have seen concentration of political power. We are struggling to get by. Everything $22 Senior are of shining high-tech cities with high know that whenever you concentrate changes when a tiny plant, Audrey $25 General rises covered in solar panels and rooftop power of any sort, you have an explosive II, enters the story,” Hanson says. Tickets: gardens. People are whisked about in situation and you have a near certainty “Our hero is forced to choose between VashonCenterfortheArts.org clean and efficient electric transport that something will go wrong. We have unprecedented success at the cost of Heron’s Nest Gallery, VCA and the hinterlands are either pristine thousands of years of evidence of how ethical behavior, or ethical behavior at wildlands or automated farms. I am very well that works out! You might recognize the cost of failure and poverty.” leery of this vision. the city as the manifestation of the Judeo- The professional puppets Drama For the last hundred years, people Christian call to go forth and multiply Dock is renting from New York will all across the world have been flocking and master the earth. They didn’t call it keep people wide awake, Hanson into the cities for jobs and cultural the “shining city on the hill” for nothing. predicts. “The plants are amazingly and amenities. While communications and Large cities have inherent weaknesses. wonderfully scary. They eat people! distribution of goods and services were The socio-economic complexity of cities The show is rated PG-13 because of the poor, this made sense. The argument is such that we already can’t figure out scary plants, but in previous productions these days is that urban living keeps how to feed and house everybody. We of ‘Little Shop’ we invited younger our human footprint small. In a purely also have no way to deal with the huge audience members backstage prior to physical sense, that may be true, but in amount of concentrated waste: besides the show to demonstrate how the plants actuality, it is an illusion. The denser garbage and poop, that includes pre-use worked, so they wouldn’t be scared the population, the greater and more wasted food, polluted stormwater runoff, when the jaws opened up.” concentrated the flow of resources into and more. Do we really want to make Although the casting process was that city needs to be, the greater the area cities bigger? intense—it took over a month—Hanson from which it needs to be extracted, and What makes sense to me is to disperse believes the results were worth it. “I the farther it must travel. The high degree the population, disperse the power, love the talent actors are willing to share of centralized organization a city needs to disperse the energy and resource needs, with the community, the excitement keep it running smoothly is a situation disperse the waste. We needn’t dismantle in winning a role,” says Hanson. “The that is anything but resilient. the cities we have, but let’s not make them hardest part is having to say ‘You didn’t What we have learned from ecology any worse. get the part’ to very talented individuals,” and the natural world is that while some What I want to talk about is my vision she continues, adding that “the best part mineral resources, i.e., fossil fuels, are Continued on Page 9 The Vashon Loop, p. 2 July 20 ‘17

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Email questions or submissions to Steven over to the front lawn for unobstructed views of the parade. After Allen, editor of the Loop, at [email protected]. Photos are welcome as jpeg or pdf attachments. the parade, leave your car at IFS as you explore all that Festival has to offer. Access the parking lot by driving south from the Post Office on Alzheimer’s Festival Parade Parking 100th Ave SW. The road ends in Island Funeral Service’s parking lot. Remember, the Vashon Highway entrance to Island Funeral Association Are you seeking a great place to park to view the Strawberry Services will be closed before and during the parade. Park with ease. Festival Parade? Vashon Presbyterian Church is offering reserved Laze on the lawn to watch the parade and know you a supporting Caregivers parking (by donation) again this year. We also offer chairs for a a wonderful Island organization, the Vashon Senior Center. comfortable view of the parade. Support Group Our Festival fundraiser will support Vashon Resettlement Committee and specifically helping the families moving to Vashon Caring for someone with later this summer. . memory loss? Do you need If you want to reserve parking/chairs, please contact Vote Yes for Proposition 1— information and support? Alzheimer’s Association family [email protected] or call 206/354-8921. Reserved Support Critical Funding for caregiver support groups provide spaces will only be held until 10:30am on the day of the parade. a consistent and caring place for Arts, Heritage and Science people to learn, share and gain emotional support from others Organizations on Vashon and who are also on a unique journey of providing care to a person Free Garden Advice Vashon Master Gardeners will host Plant Clinics from across King County with memory loss. Meetings 9:30 a.m. -2:30p.m. on alternate Fridays & Saturdays beginning May King County voters have an opportunity to support arts, science are held the 3rd Wednesday of the month, 1:00-2:30 pm, at 7, outside Ace Hardware. and heritage organizations with a measure called “Access for All.” Vashon Presbyterian Church, Master Gardeners will be available to answer all your questions It appears on your August 1 Ballot as Proposition 1. 17708 Vashon Hwy SW, Vashon, with research-based, environmentally sound information. Each Plant Access for All will provide nearly $70 million a year, for seven WA 98070. For information call Clinic will also highlight a special topic of interest to our planting years, to regional and community based non-profits and to school Regina Lyons at (206) 355-3123. community. Free handouts and garden resources will be available. All districts county wide. It does this by adding just one penny in sales questions welcome! Please stop by to share your gardening questions, tax to every ten dollars spent in the County. That’s an average of successes and to meet your Master Gardener neighbors. $30 per year per family. Proposition 1 promises to significantly bolster cultural life in King County and on Vashon Island – a value this community holds Find us on Skype dear. Most of Vashon’s arts, science, and heritage organizations are Vashon Loop Calling All Vendors! eligible for a boost in their annual operating funds through Access The fabulous annual Flea Market and Craft Fair will be held on 206-925-3837 for All. The money can also be used for educational purposes, September 9th 9AM-3PM on the lovely grounds of Island Funeral programming, and capital projects. Services. The fee is $25 for a 10 foot space or $40 for a 20 foot space. Think of the non-profit organizations involved with arts, Have a Story These fees all go to support Vashon Senior Center. heritage and science on our island. 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The Vashon Loop, p. 4 July 20 ‘17 Island Life other sibling from my family who was responsible for this mess- I do know that There’s Gold in Lawyer Up the family lawyer has since received at By Peter Ray least one accolade in New Hampshire for [email protected] lawyer of the year. Shingle Mill Creek “Do we live in a world devoid of On a more local note, I now can By Seán_C._Malone consequences, now?” John Oliver say that I have achieved the dubious I was sitting on the couch the other honor of having attended meetings of the It was first whispered at school that night when Mr. Oliver posed the above commissioners and directors of the parks, there was gold in Shingle Mill Creek. So, question to Mr. Colbert, and not really the schools and the fire department on the Kit Bradley and Mike and I jumped on jokingly, as one might have hoped. It Island. Again, the readers of this space our bikes to find Rod Thurston to see if was for the most part related to actions know well my opinion of past recent he might know. Rod was older than dirt, performed by the clown troupe from residents of the park commissioners seats. rode a bicycle with a bunch of dowsing Trumpworld on a seemingly daily, if I should preface whatever comes next with sticks clamped down tight behind his not hourly basis, and their apparently the statement that who we have there now seat, and lived in a tar paper shack down complete lack of expressed guilt or is a vast improvement. But, it should be Ridge Road. Rod dug wells for a living awareness that they’ve done anything noted that following an internal audit it and if he didn’t hit water in 20 feet, he wrong, and certainly not that they should was found recently that the parks need at would give you your $25 back. He told Rod Thurston and his wooden bike. have to make any accounting for it. As has least five million dollars in maintenance to us kids that dowsing was divining water Courtesy of the Vashon Heritage Museum been stated here before, regarding a large bring them back to where they should be. and how he could feel the pull of the part of my misdirected fascination with It should be noted also that much of this forked stick as he searched a person’s curves of Cedarhurst where we drove on the machinations of so-called president neglect was taking place as three former property for water. It sounded kind of both sides of the road because there were 45* and his cohorts and their continuing members of the board rammed the VES religious to us, but we were respectful no cars coming the other way. obsession with constantly adding to a list fields down the Island’s collective throat and listened. When we asked him about There was a lot of sand at the mouth of reasons why this occupant of the White to the tune of three million dollars and the gold in Shingle Mill, he said that he of the creek, so we hiked into the canyon House will need an asterisk in the history counting since, like my legal wrangling had heard that a long time ago some to find those glittering little specks that books, it is my weird hope that eventually back east, it really hasn’t been completed Chinese were running a shaker box up told us we had gold. I watched Kit as he some consequences will be met by the yet some four years down the road. As can the creek a ways. We didn’t know what found a back eddy and scooped some of players in this tragicomedy. It has been my be noted, there has been no accountability a “shaker box” was, but if the Chinese the black sand from the bottom of the experience as of late regarding actions and for the economic misdeeds of the past VPD were using one, we thought it must have creek. Rod had told us to look for the their consequences, that it all depends on park board, even though their actions, been making them money. black sand, because that was where you who you are talking about. not unlike those of the only other living Captain Weideman was a Captain in found gold. Kit was swishing and rolling In truth, there is good reason why sibling in my family (I did have a brother the Grace Lines and made regular trips to the sand around the bottom of the pan I have not spoken in a while of my own but he only lived for three days), nearly Peru and Ecuador, always bringing home when Mike yelled: “There’s gold, I see travails in familial politics as they relate to bankrupted the park district and they souvenirs for friends and neighbors, it,” as another swirl rolled by the bottom a supposed legal system. Long time readers continue to struggle to this day. such as a stack of copper gold pans of Kit’s pan and the gold disappeared. will recall my accounting of the escapades We could get into a discussion of the which he gave to Mom, who everybody “There it is again,” Mike said, and Kit I have endured with someone I continue to school board and their battles with the called Corb, because her maiden name stopped to stare at the fine line of black refer to as my sociopathic sister. Actually park district over a common use cash was Corbaley. We guessed that the sand between the edge and side of the there is a third name I usually append to fee from parks, the likes of which does smaller pans were used for creeks and pan. “Eureka,” Kit yelled, “We’ve found that which has to do with a female specific not exist in most if not all of the known the big pans for rivers. Either way, gold.” Kit had a little glass pill bottle body part whose slang iteration is four universe. Instead, let us turn to the fire we borrowed one of Mom’s gold pans and a pair of tweezers to pick the flakes letters long and begins with the letter “c”. department and their current struggles and headed for the creek. The cards on out of the pan with. After three hours I would like to say that the reason for this to continue to offer their excellent fire our bike wheels were ready to go and of panning, we headed home with four silence on the subject had anything to do and rescue services in a manner that we announce our presence all the way from little specks that weren’t worth a penny with a final resolution, but as of today we have become accustomed. While I have Cove to Cedarhurst, where we were at $35 per ounce and Dad said they were move into the fourth year since my father’s been hearing the tales of VIFR woes from going to start the Shingle Mill gold rush. probably pyrites or fool’s gold. passing. This also marked the beginning at least two friends for years, it was my We gained speed on the straight-of-way of my personal need for lawyers to salvage duties in Voice of Vashon digital scribery through Colvos and headed for the blind [email protected] anything from what said sibling had done that saw me standing with camera and in terms of laying waste to a pair of trusts monopod in a number of recent fire that my parents had intended for the both commissioners meetings, hearing tales of of us to share in, and three years on it still aging rescue vehicles breaking down and Find the Loop on-line at www.vashonloop.com isn’t quite settled. being scavenged for parts so as to keep at For those of you coming late to this least one of them running, making at least tale, let’s make this quick and easy. For one part of this Island sound a bit like the year and a half before my father died, another one about 90 or so miles south of this singular sibling known as sister had Miami. The blame again causes fingers to also served as co-executor and co-trustee be pointed backward in time to apparent of the estate along with the family lawyer bunglings by former board members. As until they were both thrown out and it is, in all of these three board situations replaced by a special fiduciary. During there has been mention of needing to talk the time before that occurence, having to “our lawyers”. What this translates to gained the power of attorney, she wrote of course should be considered as billable checks to herself and her progeny in a hours coming out of the public coffers that manner that nearly completely drained otherwise would have gone to serving the both estates of over a million dollars, all public good instead of righting a public while the family lawyer looked the other wrong that shouldn’t have been committed way, or in a few cases, directly at what in the first place. was going on. A few days after my dad’s So, do I think Mr. Oliver’s observation services when the family lawyer read the had merit? It seems that to answer that estate accounting and prefaced it by saying depends on which side of the coin one Compost the Loop that there really wasn’t much cash left, I is residing. While still early on in the The Loop’s soy-based ink rediscovered the pit of my stomach and proceedings, my lawyer mentioned that is good for composting. soon after asked a friend in town there if my sociopathic sister might indeed face jail he had any recommendations for obtaining time for her deeds. If my dad had survived legal advice. After setting the forensic another year, she would have had to face accounting in motion, about a year and a the consequences of an elder abuse law Shadow Needs A Home half passed and I wound up in mediation passed in New Hampshire in 2015. On If you want a cat who will adore where the family lawyer agreed to pay the other hand, I have come to believe that you, I’m your guy. I follow favorite a tenth of what my sister had taken and even then she would not have gone to trial, humans, big and little, around like a blown to the point where she had nothing because then the incompetence, neglect shadow - that’s how I got my name. I to pay back. After my legal fees were paid and possible collusion of the family lawyer have no front claws, so it’s indoor living with about three quarters of that, I had would have then been exposed for what for me. Stroke my head while I’m on enough to write a check big enough to it was, and what law firm wants that? As your lap, and I’ll be in heaven. forestall actions by my mortgage company far as the current occupant of the White Be sure to stop by VIPP’s festival who, on the day my fraction of the House goes regarding any consequences booth. Maybe you’ll meet some of my settlement arrived, had sent me a certified for his actions, it seems that for most of his human friends who can tell you that notice of them filing for foreclosure. That life he seemingly has avoided much of any without a shadow of a doubt, I’d be a was why I had agreed to the mediation consequences for his actions at all. While perfect companion for someone! settlement- because I knew that if I hadn’t, I would like to see that change, my own any money that came from a trial would recent experiences would lead me to not have been too little and too late. I do not bet on seeing anything like consequences Go To www.vipp.org Click on Adopt know what has since happened to that of any kind any time soon. July 20 ‘17 The Vashon Loop, p. 5 Strawberry Festival Music Line Up Friday, July 21 Saturday, July 22 7:00pm-7:45pm Seattle music scene playing almost every The FieldHands - The anxiety hives have Beer Garden Stage small to medium sized venue in the city, who Ober Park Stage begun to clear up once more since our show in Courtyard across the street from the now resides on Vashon Island. His music South side of the Vashon Park Nov. last year and we once again venture out library encompasses several strains of electronic District Building into the light to throw down a set of music music including IDM, glitch, ambient and 7:00pm-11:00pm 1:00pm-1:45pm for our friends on the rock. Dorsey Davis, techno and relies heavily on hardware synths Richard Lipke, Emory Medima-Boyajian and Loose Change - Loose Change is one of Portage Fill Band - Vashon Island’s and samplers to create energetic pieces in Jon Whalen will take the stage at the 2017 Vashon Island’s favorite dance bands. The Portage Fill Big Band has been making a live setting while having the freedom to Vashon Island Strawberry Festival to mangle band has been entertaining crowds at private music for over 40 years, and is a perennial improvise and feed off the energy of a crowd. some tunes from our one and only album; parties, local festivals, and other venues for Strawberry Festival favorite. The sixteen- some familiar material; as well as some brand over 15 years, and is still going strong. Lead 8:30pm-9:00pm piece big band features musicians both spanking new music that we’re feeling pretty singer Troy Kindred fronts the band with - Started from the bottom of amateur and professional, most being Colin Loch good about. his powerful Joe-Cocker-meets-James- Brown the loch. Colin Loch is a 27-year-old MC that members of the band for over 15 years, with voice and his passion for entertaining. was raised on and off Vashon Island. His Lou Engels topping the list as a charter family traveled a lot because his father was member. Led by director Tony Willing and Village Green Stage US Bank Stage in the Navy. Music has always been a part of featuring vocalists Maggie Laird and Lou Village Green where we have our US Bank parking lot in front Colin’s life. From opera to jazz. Pavarotti and Mangione, the Portage Fill Big Band opens Saturday Farmer’s Market the Ober Park stage and returns Saturday Armstrong to Jay Z and Ms. Lauryn Hill. 1:00pm-1:30pm 8:30pm-9:30pm His musical influences are vast and far. evening for the Festival Street Dance. Bring Gypsy Wolf - Coming out of Seattle and your dancing shoes and have a ball with the Some Hat - Lifelong friends, Phil Vashon is an awesome new band called 9:15pm-10:15pm Portage Fill! Rosenbaum and Jim Ferrari have been Nolan Garrett - Tacoma’s Nolan Garrett’s playing together for over 40 years. Their first Gypsy Wolf, who will be laying down groovy 2:30pm-3:15pm tunes and good times with their smooth rock, music is a mix of throbbing rock and roll appearance at the Vashon Strawberry Festival S Curves & The Straightaways - The was in 1996, and when asked by the music blues, reggae and psychedelic jams. energy combined with pop sensibilities, raw blues, classic rock, tight funk and grunge S Curves came together in the summer of coordinator what the name of their group was, abandon. His live shows are famous for their 2013 because of a fun and funky traveling Phil answered, “Some Hat”. Neither of them high energy and his tremendous ability to performance party called “The Swamp knew where that came from, but the name engage a crowd and leave them breathless. Bottom Jamboree.” Their debut performance stuck, and before long they were the house “What I love about playing live is that people included cocktail dresses under hip waders band at the Blue Heron for Friday night art get to see you expressing your art in its in the middle of a pond by candlelight, openings, and were regular performers at the purest form,” he states emphatically. “It’s accompanied by the boisterous bass of a Art Auction. croaking bullfrog. The next summer, they a freeing experience and it’s an incredible 1:45pm-2:15pm feeling when the crowd is feeding off your revisited that pond in a rowboat dressed in - From the jazz halls of New nightgowns. Havilah Rand energy and vice versa. York City to the post-grunge scene of Seattle to the Live Music Capital of the World, The Adrian Xavier Band Havilah is a true troubadour whose career has spanned several decades and multiple genres. 10:00pm-Midnight She has earned herself a steady audience and Adrian Xavier Band - Music-maker and a respected name in Austin, TX where the community leader, Adrian Xavier has been caliber of musicianship is nothing less than spreading his uplifting message for almost stellar. two decades in his community, nationally and globally. With 3 solo albums and nearly 2:30pm-3:00pm 20 album collaborations, Adrian Xavier has Tekla Waterfield/Jeff Fielder - Seattle established himself as a performer of depth based singer/songwriter Tekla Waterfield and dimension. His music is a union of calls on a wide range of influences, including positive energy with socially aware lyrics, folk, country, rock, blues and soul, fitting striving to inspire people from all walks of neatly into the wider genre of Alt-Country life. or Americana. Tekla’s vocals are smooth and angelic, emotive and raw. Influences coming from The Velvet Underground, The Cowboy VARSA Youth Stage Junkies, Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan, Alison Near the kids play area in Ober Park Krauss, Neko Case, Phosphorescent, Marvin 7:00pm-7:30pm Gaye, Wilco, Sharon Van Etten, Courtney Max Moore - Max Moore is a 17-year-old Barnett and more. producer and musician from Vashon Island 3:15pm-3:45pm who writes dreamy electronic and indie songs Midnight Darlins - Public school music in his bedroom. He started writing music on teachers & touring musicians Melissa Ruth his computer in middle school, and has since and Johnny Leal began collaborating in 2006 began to incorporate instrumentation into his and have since released 2 albums and toured compositions, whilst drawing influence from extensively with their band, Melissa Ruth genres such as hip hop, indie, and pop music. & The Likely Stories. Their most recent 7:45pm-8:15pm incarnation as the Midnight Darlins finds the Slingshot Around The Sun - Slingshot duo exploring sparse musical arrangements Around the Sun is the solo moniker for Jason alongside raw and intimate lyrics. These songs often reflect the rural Oregon landscape Dean, an academically trained musician who Tekla Waterfield has spent the last 20 years in the heart of the that they call home. 4:00pm-4:30pm: 4:00pm-4:45pm Kate Atwell - Nineteen-year old Kate Rumor Has It - Rumor Has It plays Atwell is a singer-songwriter whose voice string-band rock. They began in 2009, when blends folk, soul, and acoustic rock together in a group of long-time island musicians got an intimate way. She is currently attending together in a Vashon cabin to make music. The College of Wooster in Ohio, but is a local The path has led to many different styles to Vashon Island. Performing and creating of music – Americana, R&B, bluegrass- music have been a huge part of Kate’s life ever jam, Afro-Celtic - all with their signature since she began playing guitar at age ten. musicianship and singing. If you are interested in hearing more of her 5:30pm-6:15pm intoxicating style, Kate plans on recording RiverBend - RiverBend is the popular an original album this summer focused on island band of Paul Colwell, Rochelle coming of age experiences. Munger, Peter Larsen, Dave Lang, Cliff 4:45pm-5:15pm Simpson and Chuck Roehm. Chuck & Peter, Papa Roots - Born in New York City in played for many years as part of the island 1950, then growing up in White Meadow band, “The Garage Boys” and suspect this Lake, New Jersey, Bob Krinsky has a lifetime may be the 25th year they have played at passion for songwriting under his belt. He has Festival. Paul is well known for playing performed his songs in coffeehouses, clubs and with many Island groups as well as the “The festival stages from the Big Apple, New Jersey Colwell Brothers” and the “Up with People” groups. Continued on Page 6 The Vashon Loop, p. 6 July 20 ‘17 Strawberry Festival 2017 Music Lineup at Strawberry Festival, inspiring a euphoric Saturday, July 22 US Bank Stage meltdown of my audience to small quivering Street Dance with Portage Continued from Page 5 US Bank parking lot heaps of joy juice. Fill in front of Sporty’s and the Catskills Mountains, to west coast 3:00-3:45pm venues such as the Oregon Country Fair, 3:15pm-3:45pm Saturday July 22 at 7pm - In April 2013, guitarist/ Seattle Folk Life Festival, Seattle Freemont Some’tet Rachel Harrington - Rachel Harrington’s composer Michael Whitmore began a weekly Fair, Okanogan Family Fair, Vashon Island albums have garnered 4-stars in Mojo, residency at the Snapdragon Café on Vashon Earthfair, and other roots places. features on the BBC, and Q Magazine hails Beer Garden Stage Island, Washington. Over the next few her as, “The queen of gothic Americana.” Courtyard across the street from the 5:30pm-6:00pm years this ‘Sunday night jam’ grew into As a sixth-generation Oregonian, WWU library Jamie Riley - Vashon Island-grown Jamie a full-blown ensemble … the whole jazz, grad, and devout Cascadian, Harrington’s 1:00pm-2:00pm Riley, 28, is a songwriter, performer and post-jazz kit and caboodle. Sometimes a music has always been place-based. A multi-instrumentalist. Riley’s music is a mix quartet, sometimes a sextet, a trio, but always Vashon resident for a while now, Rachel was Gregg Curry & Ragged Glory - For of genres including rock, folk, reggae and Some’tet. The music is both composed and a winner in the 2001 songwriting contest Gregg Curry, “Ragged Glory” was the magic blues, taking listeners through a range of improvised. at Merlefest, a finalist in the Sisters Folk sounds he heard coming out of the radio of a song landscapes in expression of a heartfelt Mercury Montego as he raced down Southern 4:15-5:00pm Festival songwriting contest connection to the Pacific Northwest. A highways with the windows down. It was - The 6-piece singer and lyricist, Jamie records the guitar, The Paula Boggs Band 4:00pm-4:30pm Dylan, The Stones, The Band, Tom Petty and Paula Boggs Band traverses jazz, world, bass, piano and anything else required Mandolin Hooper - Mandolin Hooper so many others, making the raw power of rock rock and Americana. They released debut of his compositions, while leaving drum infuses his Texas-bred songwriting with his ‘n roll sound perfect. He just turned it up album “A Buddha State of Mind” in 2010 performance to established local drummers own lifestyle and influences, resulting in and grinned. and followed it with “Carnival of Miracles like Jesse Whitford. what would happen if Guy Clark and Willie “in 2015. Their sound is “Seattle-Brewed Nelson met Tom Waits at the bar. After 2:30pm-3:30pm: 6:15pm-6:45pm Soulgrass” and the band has performed leading the punk-country band “Mandolin Tim Couldn’t Make It - Tim Dahms has Drew Piston - Originating from Northern 60+ shows nationally and in Canada since Hooper and the Texas (née Shadowland) been called “one of the finest bass players to Idaho, Drew Piston was let loose on the world releasing “Carnival of Miracles.” come out of the Hawaiian Islands” and has played with music icons from Steely Dan to shortly after the disappearance of Harris 6:00-6:45pm Burdick. He quickly learned to conceal his Willie Nelson. Now, only making the rare Pandamonium - Pandamonium is a new panache and wicked insight behind a facade guest appearance, “Tim Sightings” have been and exciting group that performs original of normalcy, but to this day is unable to mask known to draw music lovers from around and eclectic music that is fun to both listen his inexplicable appeal to buzzards and other the globe hoping to catch a rare set with this and dance to. Band leader, composer, and scavengers of the animal kingdom. elusive modern music master. seven-string fretless bassist, Jason Everett aka Mister E, draws on his love for funk and 4:00pm-5:00pm: Pandora’s Box Stage fusion and uses a unique sense of rhythm to Allison Shirk Band - Allison Shirk is Front porch of Pandora’s Box create danceable grooves in odd-meters. a singer-songwriter whose music blends her Texas country roots with her love for 1:45pm-2:30pm 9:00-12:00am: Street Dance Mandoliin Hooper rock, vocal jazz and blues. Allison’s has a - Kristin Kristin Chambers Band Sinner & The Saints - Sinner and the Rats, he now returns to his singer/songwriter rich, warm voice that draws you in and her Chambers is one of Seattle’s most versatile Saints is a rock and roll band consisting of roots with a guitar, a bottle of whiskey, a sincerity is infectious. Her melodious tunes and original singer songwriters and recording all current or former Vashon residents. Its handful of heartaches and a new earful of are catchy. Allison will be joined by her full artists. She creates a stylistic atmosphere that members have all been in many different songs. band - Wesley Peterson on drums, Doug evokes the soulful melancholy of blues, the Island groups, and they have shared the stage Pine on lead guitar, Tony Mann on keys, and hopeful intellect of thoughtful pop, sinuous 4:45pm-5:15pm with each other in various combinations Chuck Keller on bass. They will perform a fun vocals with a hint of country accent and tunes - Progressing from college going back over 40 years. Playing everything John Browne mix of original songs and cover tunes. that simmer with a modern woman’s full- from oldies and rock standards to innovative sophomore to folk-music groupie-worshiper of spectrum emotional life. renditions of modern hits, their years of Tom Rush, Fred Neil, Buffy St. Marie & Bob 5:30pm-6:30pm: Gibson in early-60s Miami, John’s musical 2:45pm-3:30pm experience and depth of talent are a guarantee Van Redeker Band - If you were there the for a great show. career has been what he jokingly refers to night of The Van Redeker Band’s electrifying - Kate Kate MacLeod & Friends one long, downward spiral to this present set at last year’s Friday Night Street Dance MacLeod’s original songs have been recorded time……but we all know differently. you know you’ll want to catch them again, and sung by other artists from California to Snapdragon Stage as the group returns for the 2017 Strawberry the Czech Republic. Here on Vashon Island, In front of Snapdragon 5:30pm-6:00pm Festival. The Van Redeker Band performs her song To Call the Island Home was sung 1:00pm-1:30pm Ron Hook - The man, the myth. dynamic interpretations of music’s greatest at the opening of the community’s theatrical Jason Everett - Jason Everett (aka Mysterious, captivating…..ever so talented, songwriters, including The Beatles, The piece, Heart of Vashon -Telling Our Story. Mister E) is a performer, composer, and this man will lay down his funky grooves and Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, and Bob Kate will share this song at the festival along producer who plays a variety of stringed and make you forget about your troubles. Front Dylan, as well as groove-infused originals by with compositions such as The Moon and Mt man for over thirty years for the legendary percussive instruments with his primary veteran songwriter Daryl Redeker. Rainer, and Arriving Vashon, all mixed in instrument being his seven-string fretless Island band, Subconscious Population, Ron with her eclectic songs of Americana appeal. bass guitar. Jason attended Northern has earned the respect of many people – not 7:00pm-11:00pm: only with his amazing ability to play many 3:45pm-4:30pm Arizona University on a full scholarship for Bill Brown & The Kingbees - Bill different instruments. Brown and the Kingbees have been busy - Nick Hyde is a born and raised music and started playing professionally at Nick Hyde working on their own projects, and have islander that graduated from VHS in 2010. sixteen years old. Jason has played music 6:15pm-6:45pm come together for this summer season. Bill Nick has been playing music since he was in outside of the mainstream for most of his - Jeff is a Seattle born singer- Jeff Kanzler played in Mexico for two months earlier this elementary school but it has been only in the adult career including with the avant-garde songwriter who landed on Vashon via Los year with several blues and rock bands in the last few years that he has found a passion for space-jazz ensemble, Little Green Men; Angeles and Alaska. With an expressive and Zihuantanejo area. Leslie has been heading singing, songwriting, and performance. He Flamenco fusion groups, Machete’ and Deseo rough-edged voice that has been compared to up his band, Tonze, which includes John is influenced and inspired but all genres and Carmin; and world fusion groups, Sarab, early Dylan, his beautifully wrought tunes Gaborit on guitar, Leslie Shelton on bass, forms of music from classical to jazz improve Avaaza, and Tarana. and finely crafted lyrics straddle country, Tony Handy on drums and Steve Minzel on to blues and folk. bluegrass and folk genres. 1:45pm-2:15pm keyboard. 4:45pm-5:30pm JD Hobson - When Outlaw Country 7:00pm-7:30pm Van Norman - This powerful rock trio and Americana meet the Delta Blues you Tre Dolci - Tre Dolce is Rebekah on Tenor VARSA Youth Stage brings together the VanNorman brother’s get a whole new genre. JD Hobson takes Guitar and vocals, Michael Marcus on String Near the kids play area in Ober Park (islander Chuck and brother Darren from his Virginia Appalachian blues roots and Bass and Wesley Peterson on percussion. Seattle) with x-islander Fletcher Andrews. combines it with Seattle’s Americana and Tre Dolce performs beautiful and haunting 1:45pm-2:15pm The repertoire is all original with influences rock scene, and a sound is created that songs with Rebekah on lead vocals backed Ouch Pouch - Ouch Pouch was formed in the winter of 2016, bringing together that focus heavily on intricate and driving has gotten people standing up to take with Bass and Percussion. Come relax and be bass & guitar lines. Within the music you bassist and lead singer Joziah Cladoosby, notice. A two-time winner of the South transported. might pick up elements of Red Hot Chili guitarist Isaiah Montemayor, and drummer Peppers, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Rush, Rod Sound Blues Association’s back to Beale 7:45pm-8:15pm Chick Green. Ouch Pouch original music Stewart, Pink Floyd, Blondie, and much Street competition, JD brings a powerful Kai’leo & Iyana - With a magical singer has a distinctive alt-rock sound, and they are more. mix of upbeat soulful roots music both songwriter blend of neo-soul, folk and currently working up material to fill their solo, and with a four-piece band. His electronic threads, Om Johari and Hans first LP. 5:45pm-6:30pm music never fails to pack the dance floor Teuber are debuting their melodic sound, Carnival Knowledge - Vashon based 2:15pm-2:30pm while it also stirs the soul. for extraterrestrial and earthling pleasure. Carnival Knowledge has been capturing Teuber, who has been a part of the music Evan Erickson - Evan Erickson is going listeners with their melodic sounds, horns 2:30pm-3:00pm directorial leadership at Teatro ZinZanni into his sophomore year at Vashon High and harmony for about 3 weeks now. The Jon Whalen - Aside from the people zone, in addition to his multi-instrumental School and throughout his life has shown members of Carnival Knowledge have been I love, Music makes me the happiest of talent, teams up with Johari, a multifaceted much interest and passion with music, playing together in some capacity for years all. Performing music can distract me so North Star vocalist and planetary song particularly guitar and vocals, and other in genres ranging from rock to ska to zydeco completely from any difficulties that may be scribe; join them for an introduction to om- forms of art like photography and acting. crunk and are thought to be the originators of going on, I sometimes fear it is a gateway to ega sensations of Kai’Leo and Iyana. This is his first year with guitar however he ‘Peasant Rock’. heroin. I plan to lose myself on stage this year Continued on Page 7 July 20 ‘17 The Vashon Loop, p. 7 Strawberry Festival 2017 Music Lineup Continued from Page 6 recent departure of McNeal and additions of And, if you’re a Queen, you’ll go crazy for A Jamie Nova Sky - Following her 6 years has eight years of experience with singing lead guitarist/vocalist Jeff Mims, saxophonist Little Thing Called cover tunes. You might dedicated to the All Female AC/DC tribute, throughout theatre. Dave Sobie and bass player Mike McDonnell be Hot N Cold over our Jet-Black Hearts, but Hell’s Belles (Seattle, WA), Jamie Nova set complete the current lineup. you’ll be Head Over Heels in our Love Shack. out to create the music that was manifesting 3:15pm-3:45pm And, Hey Jude, if you can handle an original 3:15pm-4:00pm itself within her soul. In 2010, she recorded RISE & RISK - RISK (Rock Island String grip of Melting Cellophane, you might find and released her first album “The Softer Side” Correo Aereo - Correo Aereo is an award Kollective), based on Vashon Island, is one that your heart flutters. (produced by Jack Endino) following with a winning Latin American/World music duo. of few multi-generational, string ensembles short tour in The Netherlands and Spain. 6 Performing original and traditional music 1:30pm-2:15pm playing traditional, folk and rock music. short years later she has formed an amazing from Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico and RISK welcomes a range of string instruments The Parlour Snakes - The fabulous band with the talents of JT Phillips on Guitar, beyond, their multi-instrumental and vocal including Violin, Viola, Cello, Guitar, Parlour Snakes have recently been invading Rick Friel on Bass and Christopher Kiger on sound is richly sensual, polyrhythmic and Ukulele, Mandolin, Banjo and Harp. Now only the best dives and living rooms, bringing Drums. in its 7th year, RISK also provides public soulfully melodic. Soaring, fiery, haunting back the soulful sounds of the 20th century in performances at Island schools and senior and joyful…music to decolonize the mind, America. Inspired by artists like Etta James, 2:15pm-3:00pm: free the soul and celebrate life! With silken centers. Little Willie John, Patsy Cline, and Ruth Danny Newcomb & The Sugarmakers vocal harmonies described as “…locked in Brown. We play the hits of the day and do it - Kexp’s Kevin Cole calls Danny Newcomb’s 4:45pm-5:15pm carnal embrace.” right! Hailing from the Seattle area, Cyndi, debut, “Masterwish” an “Instant Classic”. Nuclear Quartet - Nuclear Quartet is 4:30pm-5:30pm Peter and Will share a love of the blues, soul Charles Cross says it’s “one of the years’ made up of 4 talented, young musicians ten best records.” Danny Newcomb and the Loose Change - Loose Change is one of and playing it all night long. between the ages of 9 and 12 from West Sugarmakers is the latest incarnation for Vashon Island’s favorite dance bands. The Seattle and Vashon. They play an upbeat mix 2:30pm-3:15pm Danny, who has played lead guitar and song band has been entertaining crowds at private of rock and pop covers plus some originals. Sound Sisters - Pulling together a little parties, local festivals, and other venues for written since he was 10. Influences include Green Day, Jimmy Eat Indigo Girls and a little Alison Krause, a World, Sade, A Great Big World, Elastica, over 15 years, and is still going strong. little gospel and a little jazz, The Sound 3:30pm-4:15pm: and The White Stripes. The band made its Sisters have sung off and on together for Ike Harmon Band - The Ike Harmon Band debut at the Skylark Café in March and was Village Green Stage years around the island. They have all sung plays original Cordilleran Tribal rock’n’roll, the opening band for the 2017 Volunteer Park Village Green where we have our at Festival individually (one of our singers blues, folk and ballads. The resulting Pride Festival. Saturday Farmer’s Market even won the Matt Eggleston Award!). music is passionate and exhilarating as Now, singers Marita Ericksen, Jean Richstad only masterfully-crafted and powerfully 6:15pm-6:45pm 12:30pm-1:00pm and Lauri Hennessey are excited to bring played songs can be. Song topics are of the Ava Adams - Ava Adams is a fifteen- Henry Perrin - Henry Perrin grew up a little three-part harmony to do their first moment, touching on truth and rebellion, year-old singer-songwriter from Gig Harbor in Vermont. One day a tourist asked him Strawberry Festival gig together. love and empowerment, disenchantment and Washington. Formerly the vocalist for A “Have you lived here all your life?” “Not uncertainty, joy and transcendence. Street Blues, she has spent the past two yet.” he replied. Sometime later he threw 3:30pm-4:15pm years writing music and rehearsing, playing Little Deer - “Little Deer” is Lawson most of his possessions in a Nissan Sentra Snapdragon Stage countless venues throughout the Pacific Hatchback and eventually ended up here. Cannon on guitar, Alex Sturbaum on Northwest. She recently traveled to Memphis Henry plays a mix of acoustic rock, folk, and accordion, and Brian Lindsay on fiddle. In front of Snapdragon Tennessee with her band where they spent blues, ranging from classics to obscure gems, Together they have over 30 years’ experience 12:15pm-12:45pm the week playing in several iconic blues clubs with an occasional original thrown in to keep in the Celtic and American Old-Time Rachel Morgan Perry - Sugary sweet on Beale Street as a feature band in the 2017 it interesting. genres. They are equally at home at a contra vocals, infectious pop melodies, and International Blues Challenge. dance, in a pub, on a concert stage, and in 1:15pm-1:45pm contagiously positive songs, could only the recording studio. They play a delightful describe 24-year-old Nashville songwriter 7:45pm-8:15pm - Soulful, Bluesy “Eclectric” Jim Marcotte mix of fast dance tunes, slow airs, and the and performing artist Rachel Morgan Perry. Flower Punks - Rooted from Austin, Rock- Jim Marcotte brings elements of occasional spirited song. Everyone who Performing at venues all over the country, Vashon Island, and Topanga Canyon, this multiple musical genres to delight your mind happens upon their music stops, listens, Rachel has shared the stage alongside national four piece delivers a high energy, yet dynamic in his original music and his interpretations smiles, stays till the end, and then asks for acts such as Teddy Gentry of Alabama, Chris sonic experience. They are currently of his favorite artists songs. After a lifetime more! Sligh of American Idol, and country music recording their sophomore release in addition of music since the tender age of 12, Jim stars Smithfield and Drew Baldridge. to cultivating a collective of artists and has played an array of venues with several US Bank Stage musicians in Venice Beach, CA. Flower different bands and on his own in the 1980’s 1:00pm-1:30pm US Bank parking lot Punks produces music stemming from a wide and 1990’s in the Southern California area. Alex Davis - Raised on Vashon Island, array of influences, giving them a timeless yet Jim moved from L.A. to Seattle in 2010 where 11:45am-12:45pm Alex Davis has been writing songs since age fresh and relevant sound. he has found a whole new world of musical Car parade 13. His original songs and eclectic covers are experiences. a blend of classic country, 70’s folk, and indie 1:00pm-1:45pm: 2:00pm-2:30pm rock Sunday, July 23 Elke Robitaille - An eclectic performance ranging from haunting ballads to foot- Ober Park Stage stomping bluegrass. Multi-instrumentalist, South side of the Vashon Park Elke Robitaille takes her audience on a District Building journey from Pacific Northwest Americana 11:30pm-12:15pm to Southern Alt-Country Roots. Her original Marcus Family Band - The Marcus music will have your hands clapping, your Family Band is comprised of the 4th and 5th body moving, and your voices singing along. generations of Marcus musicians. Dan and 2:45pm-3:15pm Michael are brothers performing with their Anne Zasburg - Anne Zasburg is a young sons Max and Nate. Our pops Marc, may international artist at the tender age of 18. he rest in peace, instilled in us all a love for Coming from The Netherlands, she will be music and life. We dedicate this performance making her second journey to the United to his memory and inspiration. Our roots are States this summer. She has been featured on in Jazz and classical music with influences Dutch radio and television and is considering from around the globe. breaking into the PNW music scene. She has 12:45pm-1:30pm a strong soulful voice and an incredible array The Flying Mandolini’s - The Flying of both original and cover songs. Mandolinis all live on Vashon Island, WA. They perform exclusively on instruments Pandora’s Box Stage in the mandolin family. Each of them also Front porch of Pandora’s Box participates in at least 2 other island bands, but they come together in this configuration 11:30am-12:15pm to find a creative outlet for their acoustic Song & Legend - Song & Legend is the string music AND to celebrate the joy of musical lovechild of Islanders Bob Koch playing together just for the fun of it. and Rod Smith. We are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their founding in 2007. 2:00pm-2:45pm Medieval monks with electric keyboards and Once Upon A Tuesday - Once Upon guitars, we are! We’ll be joined by our great a Tuesday is an original music rock band. friend, Gordon Henry on percussion and Formed by lead singer/songwriter Tyke Reasy wind. and former bassist/vocalist Keith McNeal in 12:30pm-1:15pm 2005 while stationed together in the Navy, music is the magnet that would eventually A & R - A&R ...a band with a hand-crafted bring both men to Seattle where they were selection of other people’s pop songs will have introduced to drummer Sandy Johnson. The you bubbling underneath a Purple Rain. The Vashon Loop, p. 8 Festival Music July 20 ‘17 though today. Nothing seems to be off limits Sunday July 23 for these guys. The group has rocked the last four Strawberry Festivals, several dates at Continued from Page 7 the “Red Bike”, and Vashon’s infamous “Cat 1:45pm-2:15pm Butt” festival as well as casuals and private as relief from anxiety, followed up by an Aries (March 20-April 19) - Amy Cole has never met a energy surge. I would suggest, however, Amy Cole parties. This week will be full of surprises, with music genre her voice didn’t like. She loves letting yourself get a slow start on your new 3:15pm-5:15pm Mars starting off the festivities by making a performing classical lieder, opera, jazz, folk, square to Uranus. I’m ethically obliged to plans — particularly if they involve self- Poultry In Motion - HOW TO MAKE improvement. Mars is going to be pushing rock, and pop. She sings with the Vashon give the accident warning associated with Chorale, Vashon Opera Chorus, and recently A MUSICAL GUMBO? Take a Cajun this aspect: if you’re doing something like you to “do it now,” though the New Moon fiddle and accordion playing rocket man from is saying, “begin gently and gradually competed in The Voice of Vashon. For climbing a ladder, make sure someone spots Strawberry Festival Amy will be diving into Louisiana. Add an LA song writing, guitar you. If you’re chopping vegetables, stay build momentum.” There’s power in solid the folk genre with songs from Handel to playing rocker. Now we need a funky bass off the phone. That said, take any sudden beginnings; that is, ones marked not just Beyoncé reimagined for finger style guitar from Chicago and a soul singing drummer alteration of plans as an opportunity. Shorn by a statement of intention but rather with and her rich, dark voice. from Virginia. of your previous intentions or attachment to concentrated action. Before that phase, you outcome, pause and ask yourself, OK, what may find that odd things happen to existing 2:30pm-3:00pm plans, which will offer opportunities to clear VARSA Youth Stage do I really want? Where can I go from here? Rebekah & Andy - Andy and Rebekah the deck of priorities that are no longer valid Near the kids play area in Ober Park Then choose what would be most fun, most perform many tunes with lovely harmonies. or that no longer serve you. productive, or both. Where professional They sing with instruments and A Cappella, 11:00-11:30am activities are concerned, your leadership spanning genres. Jawbone Puppet Theater - Quirky local role will be highlighted by your ability to Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) father and son puppet act, Jawbone Puppet think on your feet. Just make sure you do Where professional matters are 3:15pm-3:45pm Theater will present their fun, interactive a quick once-over of your plans (taking concerned, take things one step at a time - Annie O’Neill is currently Annie O’Neill family friendly shows, including The Turnip, from 15 seconds to 15 minutes) to check for this week. Be certain you trust the person recording, songwriting and performing you’re speaking to — not merely based on The Bucket Rider and Airplane Man. They unintended consequences. in Seattle and beyond. Recent musical your intuition, but rather based on a track will be joined by their puppeteer friends from collaborations include a new band with local record. If you don’t have experience with Tiny Town, Minneapolis, Casa Mucaro, Taurus (April 19-May 20) gem Amy Denio on bass and harmonies. Give close partners or loved ones plenty someone, I would urge you not to trust them Puerto Rico, and more to bring you a fast of room to be themselves. It’s possible to with sensitive information, ideas or your paced, fun, thought provoking puppet cabaret. professional plans. The thing is, you may be Beer Garden Stage take pleasure in this gesture of supporting 12:15pm-12:45pm the individuality of others. Rather than inclined to make misjudgments about this Courtyard across the street from the Petrichor - Petrichor is a band of teens from feeling like you have to compromise, be very thing, particularly early in the week. I library Vashon Island High School that plays covers negotiable and take the opportunity to do suggest you make a firm policy of sharing 11:30am-12:15pm of songs from their favorite alternative and your thing if someone else is unavailable, information on a need-to-know basis, if Joy Mills Band - Hailing from Seattle, this indie bands. Petrichor is the smell of the earth whether mentally, physically or emotionally. at all. That said, you’re in full-on creative 5-piece brings together roots music, lyrical Soon enough they’ll circle around back your mode where this area of life is concerned. Let after the rain. ballads and soulful country songs, all set way. Meanwhile, your solar chart is full of yourself dream of the abundant possibilities. against the backdrop of the Pacific Northwest. 1:30pm-2:00pm aspiration and intrigue: you’ll likely cross Look at your current situation and imagine how you would develop it to its maximum The Joy Mills Band has released four albums Twice Nice - Twice Nice is a Vashon based paths with people who have important roles. surf punk four piece with members Maijah When you meet them, keep the conversation potential. That, however, will call for and they have toured nationally and to Sanson-Frey, Abe Vanselow, Brennan friendly and light. Being respectful as a leadership. Europe several times. Named “Seattle’s Barrett, and Gaven Dehnert. Previous shows matter of daily practice opens up a special liveliest country-flavored act since Neko have been Party Against Patriarchy, Daddy door: you can trust yourself speaking to Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) Case” by The Stranger. Issues at the Lucky Liquor, Sharing the Stage anyone, treating them as a person rather You have a guardian angel with you, though you won’t know unless you ask for 12:45pm-1:30pm where they opened for Tacocat, and even a than personage, and exchange ideas. You OneNiteStand - OneNiteStand is might use the cocktail party rule: keep the its help. Try this, on matters that seem to be headlining event at the Vera project where conversations short, and keep circulating. small, or that seem to be great; on personal gaining ground with more rocking tunes the Stranger gave them a shout out. subject matter and that of people you care and incredible vocals by Terri Cole – and 2:45pm-3:15pm Gemini (May 20-June 21) about. Make direct requests, whether for the good news is, they’re ready to show protection, an outcome, or wisdom. You’re Emmett Sherman - Emmett Sherman and Normally astrologers look to Mercury off the new polish! This band is ‘nothin’ Daryl Redeker, this duo has been in the works for the story of your sign, but this week also in a position to stand up for people, but rock & blues with the emphasis whether you know them well or not. You for 3 years now. Our music takes heavy blues we’re looking at Venus, currently traveling on classic rock tunes as well as some and rock influences from some of the great through Gemini. It’s making some interesting are a natural-born advocate, and with Jupiter in your sign — beautifully aspected by your originals sprinkled in there. blues and rock players like Buddy Guy, Eric moves, too: first Venus will make a square to Clapton and many others. The songs we will Neptune, then a trine to Jupiter. Translation? ruling planet Venus all week — you have 2:00pm-2:45pm some persuasive ability in your hands. So be doing are either blues jams or are pre- As my old tripping partner Scott Grace Rooster - Rooster plays their own unique existing blues/rock songs that we have adapted used to say, “Confusion is the state before your advocacy can be gentle, but make sure take on a mix of “free range” rock, blues, pop, you’re clear about your views on right and to our playing styles. This duo is all about enlightenment.” Therefore, welcome any new wave, fusion, soul, and funk from the 60s playing and having a good time! state of not knowing, not understanding wrong. The world needs moral guidance or uncertainty about your feelings. Rather right now, from people capable of some than trying to make yourself sure, let the mental and intellectual balance. You have a seemingly complex emotional situations in some ways a reward. There are many boat of your mind drift for a day or so, good bit more than that going for you. as being much less meaningful than they more meaningful factors that will determine and you’ll find yourself in an entirely new have seemed. Yet don’t fall for any traps whether and how you find your way in the place. Just remember that essential spiritual Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) late in the week or into the weekend, as you world, the most significant of which is self- move of holding open your space of not Conserve your energy this week, may be feeling the pressure. How would respect. Though this is in short supply in knowing, with some reverence for this as the as Mars and the Sun prepare to cross the you do that? Don’t blame anything on a the world, it’s abundantly available for you. prerequisite of learning. When you discover most visible angle of your solar chart — relationship. Just feel what you feel. You will know you’re there based on how something that’s true, you’ll feel it in your Leo, the mighty 10th house of your solar you feel. The positive emotions associated mind and your body. chart. A series of events between now and Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) with respecting yourself come from below, next Sunday will place you in a position Consider yourself the equal of the and from within. It’s not a cerebral thing. As Cancer (June 21-July 22) of authority, which I would suggest you people around you. I don’t mean this planets enter your relationship sign Leo, love Stay in contact with your desire. Try handle gently and collaboratively. Rather in theory, and it doesn’t just apply to and admiration will enter your life — though to go to the most sincere level you can; that than being the boss, be the coordinator. those younger, less knowledgeable, or less only if you feel worthy. is, not influenced by advertising, trends or Ask others to help you supervise whatever accomplished. It also applies to those you what your friends are up to. Connect with situation you’ve got on your hands. Rather think of as superior in any way. Now, this Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) what you actually want, however you may than setting goals unilaterally, get as many must be done subtly. Here’s how I mean it: This week wraps up a long phase of feel about it, whether or not you think it’s opinions as you can and make sure that If you’re a guitar player and you meet Mark high-energy points — the Sun and Mars, appropriate. This will be a sweet spot of everyone has an investment stake. If you Knopfler, you can greet him as your fellow to name two — moving through the most aligning with yourself. Particularly if you’re have to take charge, then do it. Till then, key guitarist. If you’re a photographer and you creative, passionate angle of your solar chart. judging what you want, whether you think planets, including your ruling planet Mars, meet Annie Leibovitz, honor her as your As they make aspects to deep and soulful it’s too expensive or like someone might remain in water signs, heightening your sister photographer. Not better, not worse, Chiron in your sign, you’re likely to find new judge you, stick with yourself. You have emotional sensitivity. Get some rest, eat well neither above nor beneath, but as someone outlets for your talent and your capacity to a discovery ahead of you; a mystery will and get ready for an adventure. you share something with. This would go for love and appreciate life. These may come unravel. Be patient, and allow yourself to the younger and less experienced ones you by surprise, or they may open up as an easy be instructed by your circumstances rather Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) may meet: recognize their potential, honor flow; a combination of influences may be than by opinions or supposedly spiritual Go light on emotionally charged their intention to succeed, and be available present. Leave yourself open; leave yourself values. This process will likely include a discussions. Even if you have concerns, to them. If equality exists, it’s subtle, and it time, space and bandwidth to explore point of contact in the sexual realm; you considerations or issues, take a circumspect lives surrounded by terms and conditions. what you want. Even more significantly, know intuitively and from much experience view of yourself and of others. You may feel Keep it simple. bring a spirit of curiosity and expression that the truth contains a wholesome streak like you’re really, really right, only to get into everything you do, no matter how of erotic feeling. it all off your chest and wonder what the Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) seemingly boring it may appear at first. Your heck you were thinking (or feeling). Rather Toss any notion that money is related astrology is such that you can make anything Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) than assume you know how someone feels, to the meaning of life, or somehow related interesting, and anything that’s already alive Over the next few days, Mars and the listen for clues, and ask questions that draw to success. The latter might be true in can morph into something brilliant. Sun will enter your sign, followed by the them out. Over the next few days, planets some sense, but not the kind of success Leo New Moon Sunday, July 23. This is will begin to move into fire sign Leo, which you are seeking as a humanitarian-leaning Read Eric Francis daily at good news many times over, initially coming will lift your spirits, and reveal all these Aquarian. Money is a tool, a resource and www. PlanetWaves.net July 20 ‘17 The Vashon Loop, p. 9 Road to Resilience Island Epicure Continued from Page 1 of a new “small town” America As a result the denser lattice of Spiritual (and world). In some ways, it is small towns is on the older east a throwback to a time a hundred coast. East of the Mississippi years ago when about 40% of us there are so many rail era jewels Smart were farmers or in some related with ornate town halls in the business, and transportation, center and old brick storefronts and thus mobility, were nothing on the main street. Aleck By Mary Tuel like today. The spacing between The automobile killed the towns was figured in terms of small town. Once we could Haircut, with a own sexuality is not required of By Marj Watkins how long it took to get to one, so easily go to a larger town and people in our culture who identify horse and buggy era towns were take advantage of cheaper prices Side of Sexuality as heterosexual. You’re expected Cold Foods a lot closer together than rail at the larger stores, the local Went and got a haircut last to be heterosexual in these here towns, which were a lot closer mom and pop stores went out week. parts. You get an imaginary stamp for Hot Days than towns built in the auto age. of business. The sad fact is that When I went in I figured, who on your imaginary sex passport Don’t tell me there’s no global many of these small towns were knows when I’ll be able to afford a and go galumphing into the warming, Mr. Trump. We’ve bypassed by progress and are haircut again? And, it’s summer. catastrophe of your unaware already had some pretty hot days, boarded up and abandoned or And, I’m tired of messing with my adulthood. Wahoo. and there are more to come. Our The ceviche features fish, a booster have been incorporated into long bushy hair. When I was in college I once first winter in Washington after of brain power and prime source of larger metropolitan areas. “Cut it short,” I said to Jan. saw a person on campus whom I arriving from Okinawa where the iodine to nourish our thyroids. The With the new emphasis that “Cut it all off.” temp never goes below 50 degrees, salad provides fresh, raw foods found extremely attractive, and I hope will continue to grow And she did. Gave me a here it snowed two feet. How long which Dr. Perlmutter, author of the all my hormones went into high around local economies, my has it been since Vashon Island had book “Brain Maker” recommends splendid, short haircut. I like it. It gear. When I realized she was a vision is to see these smaller more than three inches? Summers, for their enzymes which aid is as low maintenance as a haircut she and not a he, I was mortified, towns brought back to life. though, were hot and moist there, digestion. Frozen vegetables have gets. embarrassed, and ashamed – Much that we used to have to up to 95 degrees. Your swet never been blanched, which kills off Most people liked it after the splutter splut splut. evaporated. their enzymes but helps them keep live near to see or purchase can initial shock, and said it was cute. Sometime later I saw her Vashon Islands summers, longer in the freezer. now be sent to us, or can be One friend did not like it. “It’s again, and the same sequence of as well as winters, are warmer The marinated fish is said to produced locally. We can lure butch!” she said, meaning, too feelings happened all over again. than we remember since we be cooked by the lemon juice in the jobs and businesses out of the butch, but she’s getting used to it. I guess she was my type. came here in 1969. Right now, ceviche, but I never quite trust it big cities. Startups should love One gay friend said, “It’s butch!” When those feelings July 9, 2017, 1:30 PM outside the not to cause food poisoning unless the low up-front costs. In fact, and meant it as a compliment. happened with guys, I didn’t feel window, in the shade, down here I poach it just until it’s opaque, but I expect that many would leave He thought I looked great. He embarrassed. by Quartermaster Harbor, it’s 80 still firm. Once marinated, the fish the big cities in a red-hot minute suggested I might meet somebody. As an adult, in midlife, I degrees in the shade. Uptown can serve as the protein in a cool to live in a charming small town You never know. did what I had never done as Vashon usually is 5 degrees hotter meal completed with a vegetable with a lower cost of living, where While I’m flattered that an adolescent: I considered my in summer and 5 degrees cooler in salad, microwaved potatoes, a cool you could walk to work and someone would think I am still sexual identity. I realized that winter. With a breeze off the water drink and bread and butter. The play in a place that you really relationship fodder, and I won’t except for that woman in college, and windows open or cracked bread and butter are optional. Or belong to. In the case of food, a rule it out because as he said, it had always been men for me. open to coax a draft through the the potatoes. Even if your store- much fresher product could be you never know, I’m not really That was my track record, leaning house we can be fairly comfortable. bought vegetables are organic, grown right outside town. It’s in the market. I mean, twenty- toward the hetero side of the With air conditioning, we’d be do wash them; they have not true that the retail price of fossil- three skidoo, oh you kid and all, spectrum. So what did that make more comfortable, and we once been sprayed with the usual toxic fueled agricultural produce is thanks, but I’m tired. I don’t think me? Boring. Just my opinion. had it, but when the machine insecticides, but they may have less than organic, but we have I’ve felt a spark since the Clinton Considering that as we grow quit, we decided we didn’t need been sprayed with pyrethrum, also paid heavily in terms of administration. That’s when Rick up in American society we are it. Back in the 1970’s we rarely if from a daisy variety. Many people soil and nutrient loss, erosion, got cancer the first time, and after inculcated with a sick model ever used it. are allergic to that. and polluted waterways. We that life became arduous, and not of sexuality (I refer you to rock But clearly, with the hottest know that organic intensive very sexy. If I’m in the market for and roll and almost all country part of the summer yet to cook in, CEVICHE and regenerative agriculture anything it’s companionship and music lyrics, for starters), and the kitchen too hot to cook in, and 4 servings can reverse all that and attract friends. considering that many of us are the dining room too hot to eat hot more people back to farming. to hot food in, we need to reinstall Meanwhile I’m pondering the sexually abused and broken when 1 pound boneless white fish With the renaissance of small air conditioning, or a repertoire thoughts that have been raised by we are young, people must have cut in 1-inch approximate squares towns, we have a ready market of cold dishes to put before our (tilapia works) reactions to my haircut. They have courage to take an honest look at for truck farms and all the service families, and ourselves, for dinner. Juice of three lemons and been interesting. their own sexuality. It’s a scary businesses that a small town It doesn’t begin to cool off until enough water if necessary to make Can you tell a person’s sexual thing to do. needs. Each can be a balanced 5:00 o’clock. We need either to 1 cupful identity by looking at them? It is so scary that some microcosm of homegrown cook a main dish in the cool of the 1 jalepeno pepper or green You can try, but you might get people project their fears about economic and social activity. morning, something that’s good chili burned. The way people think of themselves onto other people, There will always be fascists, eaten cold, or to postpone dinner 2 to 3 green onions, sliced, tops themselves and the way you think and become homophobic. Then but they won’t cause as much until 9:00 p.m. If you have little included (enough to make ¼ cup) of them might not have anything we have tragedies. trouble on that scale. This is kids who should be in bed by 8:00 1 small ripe tomato, diced in common. That’s a gross simplification, resilience on steroids. p.m., that last is not an option. 1 teaspoon salt I have heard that sexuality Cities have been an amazing as is this whole essay, but there’s Let’s make it easy on ourselves Dash dillweed is a spectrum and most of us are some truth in there. foodwise. For lunch, a plate of phenomenon and will continue Dash cayenne or chipotle somewhere on that spectrum I wish we could all be folded assorted breads and another plate to be, but I think the future needs pepper between heterosexual and into Jesus’ loving arms, and be holding lettuce leaves and some to be in small towns. homosexual, leaning one way or fixed, and healed, and whole, and cold cuts. Pur on some olives and Place all ingredients in a glass the other, with some brave souls unafraid. dill pickles Let people make their bowl. Mix gently. Add more lemon Comments? admitting they can be either/or. Unfortunately, that is not how own sandwiches or smorrebrods juice or water if necessary, to cover [email protected] Confronting the truth of your (Danish open-faced sandwiches) . all ingredients. Refrigerate 3 to 4 Jesus works. We are the loving For dinner, a ceviche and a salad. hours or overnight. arms. We must hold one another, and love each other into healing and wholeness, and live with our damn fears together because life is terrifying sometimes. Can I get an amen? Regarding my haircut, well, it will grow out and I’ll be back to my “explosion in a Brillo factory” look, as my father-in-law called it. For now, it is summer cool and easy. As for me meeting someone - Rick has been gone now for three and a half years. It would be just my luck for love to rear its ugly Homestyle Breakfasts head, but for the moment, after Live and Sports on decades of taking care of many Music Plate Size Pancakes 5 other people, I’m concentrating Open Sunday to Thursday ,9am to 6pm Breakfast served till 5pm on meeting myself. And, of course, Fri, Sat & Sun HD TV’s Friday/Saturday from 9am to 7pm paying the property taxes. 17320 Vashon Hwy SW (Located across from Pandoras Box) The Vashon Loop, p. 10 July 20 ‘17 The JD Hobson Band Delilah Pearl Welcome to the Outlaw in the trenches. His efforts Blues! Welcome to the JD didn’t go unnoticed. JD was & The Mantarays Hobson Band. On the busiest nominated for best solo/duo night of the year on Vashon blues act by the Washington Island! blues society’s “Best of the Blues When Outlaw Country awards.” He also was South and Americana meet the Delta Sound Blues Association’s Back Blues you get a whole new to Beale Street Competition genre. JD Hobson takes his solo/duo winner in both 2010 Virginia Appalachian blues and 2011, and represented them roots and combines it with in Memphis at the International Seattle’s Americana and rock Blues Challenge. scene, and a sound is created The JD Hobson Band is that has gotten people standing the natural evolution of JD’s up to take notice. solo career, and his fans have “Hobson’s brand of bluesy responded by selling out a Delilah Pearl and the Ella Fitzgerald , Nina Simone Americana is steeped in rich number of shows locally in Mantarays capture the golden and “Lady Day”, Delilah Pearl outlaw tradition.” (Seattle the Seattle area including the rhythm and romance of 1940’s emulates your favorite classic Weekly Reverb Magazine) famous Tractor Tavern. vocal jazz/swing standards. sultry ballads with a smoky, Somewhere out there on the John Jackson, David Honeyboy The JD Hobson Band is Delilah Pearl and the alluring voice. The Mantarays, road between Seattle, Austin, Edwards, and John Cephis at composed of four members: Mantarays capture the golden always dressed to kill, deliver and Memphis is a man on the Centrum in Port Townsend Dan Infecto on bass, who toured rhythm and romance of 1940’s the standards freshened by run. Whether from the law, or helped JD hone his craft. The for years with the infamous Bob vocal jazz/swing standards their years playing in a variety just his own personal demons, end result is that JD has an Wayne as one of his “Outlaw with soul and a touch of R&B. of styles from jazz to indie rock it’s hard to say, but he runs as exceptional feel for most roots Carnies,” often opening for They’ve got a style and signature to bossa nova to world and though the boogie man himself music. His ability to grasp Hank Williams III. Then there sound that’s all their own with experimental music. was on his heels, or as Robert every nuance down to the is Mike Peterson on drums, singer Delilah Pearl, Dodd Friday, August 4th, 8:30pm Johnson put it in his famous minutest inflection has become and Ron Weinstein (Suffering Johnson on drums, Michael Delilah Pearl & The song, “there is a Hell Hound his hallmark. F*ckheads, Crack Sabbath), who Whitmore on guitar, Tim Kehl Mantarays. The Red Bicycle on My Trail.” Maybe every man “This music is about packs a genuine Hammond B3 on piano, Barry Cooper on Bistro & Sushi has felt a little like this in his reaching down deep and coming organ with Leslie speaker to trumpet and Toliver Goering All-age’s ’till 11pm, 21+ life, and JD Hobson expresses up with something authentic every show. The sound of the on bass. after that. Free cover! this feeling in what he calls the and timeless. The trials, sadness, organ and its rotating speaker Influenced by Peggy Lee, Outlaw Blues. and triumphs of people here adds a mesmerizing depth to JD Hobson was born and in America continue on today every song. raised in Seattle, yet his father only dressed in different clothes. A wounded soul with a comes from the Appalachian Times have changed, but we gentle heart and a fire in his blues country of Virginia. The inherit the blues.” – JD belly, JD is a visionary on a music that drifted up from a In JD Hobson’s music some mission to create American juke joint named the Dewdrop will say they swear they hear roots music with his stamp on it. Inn in Martinsville Virginia the rootsy goodness of Bob “This music is something I need made a permanent impression Dylan and the Band. Others as much as want to play. It has on JD’s father when he was a will say they feel the bluesy saved my sanity time after time. child. The seed was planted in rockin’ groove of the Black Keys. Hopefully I can move people, JD as he grew up listening to his Still others will say it reminds while having fun at the same father’s music on the radio. them of the roadhouse vibe of time.” –JD Studying under greats like Howlin’ Wolf with a little Willie DJ’s nationally and Dixon in the rhythm section. internationally stood up and What’s unanimous is that the took note in 2013 when JD music is infectious. Enough Hobson’s “Where the Sun Don’t groove to move your feet and Shine” hit #8 on the Freeform enough passion to move your American Roots Chart, and soul. #26 on the Roots Music Report JD played for years as a chart in addition to hitting #3 on solo artist. Multiple guitars in KEXP’s Blues chart. 6 flavors, 31 toppings, multiple tunings with a stomp This is an all-ages free event box to hold down the foot until 11pm, then it will be 21+ and Hot Chocolate! tapping beat. From sweet slide, after that. to intricate finger picking, he The JD Hobson Band Open Sunday to Thursday proved his skill and versatility Strawberry Festival Party 10:00 to 8:00 Night. Saturday, July 22nd, Friday/Saturday from 9:00pm. The Red Bicycle Bistro 10:00 to 9:00 & Sushi 17320 Vashon Hwy SW (Located across from Pandoras Box)

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