this Summer, Be well, my good-hearted people, hope to see ya and catch up tremendous legacy with international connections. part of something bigger. And for a small town, Anacortes hasthings a you can do for your livelihood, there’s nothing likeI’m being sure a you’ve heard it said that connection is one of the bestlooking for photos and coverage of shows and music events. getting distributed around town, and I know they are alwaysto shows is a great start. I know Show Chime forever needsof help this community by contributing any way you can. GettingI outencourage you, reader/listener, be part of the inner-workings Show having handy. and calendar Chime the peeled this year and keep your ear to the ground by readinga vibrant music scene here on Fidalgo Island. Keep your eyesmembers, to interface and be a part of keeping and sharing AMP goals is going to make it easier for you, community on the horizon. And that fact that we have faces to front these goals ineach categories ofthese solookfor rad new programs Many upfor ofussigned subcommittees to spearhead help plansformade coming the year. all-ages venue, scholarships). We dreamed around these and we hope to do (Summer Rock Camp, community AMP space, Bizarre, Show Chime, The NeXt Show, AMC) and all the thingsencompass all the things we d0 (AMP Fest, Shipwreck Day, Yuleand Scholarships, Promotion/Show Chime, and Archives. These development; Events, Anacortes Music Channel, Mentoring We have what we refer to as the “5 Fingers” of AMP towards the commitment of amplifying Anacortes music. spent an entire Saturday brainstorming and feshing out ideasgathering, led by President Sommer Carter and VP Todd Young,Friday eve. Thanks all of you who came out to that! The AMPretreat and play songs at Guemes Island the join to GeneralPhiladelphia in Storesojourn current my onfrom thatout come out at Guemes Island Resort in mid-February. I was invited toWe had a wonder-flled Anacortes Music Project annual retreat head of steam thanks to Laurie and AMP’s hard work. limped along for many of those. Now it’s just rolling toughbeen with following a Show Chime over the years you know how it Chime, for keeping it rolling these past many months. If you’vecongratulations to Laurie Racicot, Editor and Designer of ShowBirthday to Show Chime! And I want to send aHappy HUGEmeans this thanksStephens—so Hannah artist and featuring It was inMarch 2013 frst thatthe Show out came Chime respectively. calendar on the somany And reasons. other DECember take back their rightful 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th placescryin’ out loud. Plus then SEPTember, OCTober, NOVemberthe obvious and frst month of the year. I mean it’s called “March”Those forwho know me know how I feel about this month being MARCH! Show Chime &Progenitor From ,

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The Business will Host Two » The Business is hosting two concerts in March. » The second happening is March 14th featuring The frst is March 7th Orindal Records Showcase Olympia singer/songwriter Erica Freas. Freas has All-Ages Shows in March with performances by Advance Base, Nicholas been an infuential and active part of the Olympia Krgovich, Claire Cronin, and Ruth Garbus. Advance punk scene for years! She fronts the band RVIVR Base frontman runs the record label and has a and runs her own record label called Rumble- great ear for dreamy pop music and excellent towne Records. She has recently relocated to the songwriting. UK, so let’s welcome her warmly back to the PNW. This all-ages show is at The Depot (611 R Ave) at This all-ages show is at The Business (216 Com- 7:00 pm and the cost is $10. mercial Ave) at 5:00 pm and the cost is $10.

Tickets can be purchased in advance in-store or online at thebusinessanacortes.com/events.

Mount Eerie’s Tiny Desk Concert by Clarity Miller (Anacortes native Phil show Julie and I were doing on that tour was would record an album with a musical idol, Elverum) and performed a pretty extremely unadorned already, so it what would you think? Tiny Desk Concert in early February. Tiny was an easy translation. It was slightly more Phil: If I could time travel back to 1995 and Desk Concerts is a series of short, live nerves inducing playing in front of a bunch tell that dweeb about this, yeah, I’d blow his video performances hosted by NPR music of NPR employees in the afternoon with no mind. The truth though is that the friendship and recorded at the desk of All Songs sound system than to a crowd of distant between Julie and I developed slowly and Considered host Bob Boilen in , people in a venue, but I close my eyes when organically over all these years, starting with D.C. Clarity Miller caught up with Elverum I sing anyway so it’s not that big a deal. I’m going to see her and Wooden Stars play in to fnd out what the experience was like. in my head. It was fun to be there with my Port Townsend in 1997 and staying in touch. daughter. We did it at the end of a tour last Show Chime: What was the experience like? Then playing occasional shows together and December and it came together at the last How does it compare to performing in front frst recording together in 2008. It’s a small minute, they had a cancellation and a spot of large audiences? Does the intimacy of the community actually, this international pop was freed up. We got lucky. Plus, the cafeteria TDC format have an effect on the music? underground. The perception I had as a teen- there is excellent and we got swiped in and ager was that there was a big-time “other” Phil: I have watched a lot of those Tiny Desk pigged out. world and then the world I get to live in, but videos. There’s something about them that Show Chime: You and I both listened to the experience over the years has been that feels like you’re getting to see an artist per- a lot of Eric’s Trip and Julie Doiron and the nobody is really that far away from contact. forming unadorned, more direct and truly Wooden Stars when we were younger. I know Nonetheless, yeah, every time I get so sing human. My favorite is The Breeders. Look at how much you loved her music. What is with her I’m so happy. It is insane. Kim Deal’s face when she sings! So, going into it like creating songs with an artist you’ve it I was pretty excited to be in the company long admired? If you could go back and tell Opposite: Mount Eerie (), Julie Doiron, of so many excellent performances, not to your teenage self that twenty years later you and the tiny desk. Photo courtesy of NPR. mention the big-timeyness of NPR itself. The WEDNESDAY SATURDAY FRIDAY THURSDAY WEDNESDAY MARCH 4 MARCH 7 MARCH 13 MARCH 19 MARCH 25 Guemes Island General Store Swinomish Casino Croatian Cultural Center Guemes Island General Store Guemes Island General Store Ben Starner The Wingmen Tanya Tompkins, Tamara Friedman 720 String Band Ben Starner 5:30 PM 6:30 PM 7:00 PM 6:00 PM Local Piano All Ages Solid Rock 18+ Western Classical All Ages Island Strings All Ages 5:30 PM Local Piano All Ages Rockfish Grill Anacortes Public Library Swinomish Casino Anacortes Public Library Joan Penney Open Mic Brohamm Manieri Jazz Lecture Series

6:00 PM Accomplished Vocalist All Ages 6:30 PM All Ages 9:00 PM Hot R&B 18+ 7:00 PM Producing a Big Band Recording FRIDAY with Ron Jones All Ages Depot Arts Center Brown Lantern MARCH 27 Advance Base, Nicholas Krgovich, Savage Blues Band Brown Lantern Rockfish Grill

7:00 PM Claire Cronin, Ruth Garbus 9:30 PM Chicago Blues 21+ Open Mic THURSDAY Ronnie Nix

Orindal Records showcase brought 8:30 PM 21+

6:00 PM Acoustic Mix All Ages MARCH 5 to you by The Business All Ages Guemes Island General Store Pelican Bay Books Anchor Inn 720 String Band Erik Christenson Fanny Alger, Unbiblical Chords SATURDAY FRIDAY 7:00 PM 6:00 PM Island Strings All Ages Whidbey Songwriter All Ages

8:30 PM Face Melting 21+ MARCH 14 MARCH 20 Part of young Skagit Poet Reading The NeXt Show Swinomish Casino Port Transit Shed Featuring Karl Blau and Ristfut Swinomish Casino Swinomish Casino The Machine Regional Artists Megs McLean 7:00 PM with DJ Todd & KDUG Radio 80 5:00 PM 9:00 PM Rock Favorites 18+ Mixed Performances All Ages 9:00 PM Country Crooner 18+ 9:00 PM Reagan Era 18+ Live at anacortesmusicproject.org Rotary fundraiser for Boys & Girls Club Brown Lantern The Business Open Mic SUNDAY Erica Freas 8:30 PM 21+ SATURDAY 5:00 PM Indie Folk All Ages SATURDAY MARCH 8 MARCH 21 Guemes Island General Store MARCH 28 Anacortes Public Library Savage Blues Band Guemes Island General Store Manieri Jazz Series Guemes Island General Store FRIDAY 6:30 PM Island Blues All Ages Josh Clausen & Kyle Finley-Meier GrooveBot 2:00 PM Jazz Trio with Brent Jensen, 6:30 PM

G.I.V.E Benefit Show Singer- Songwriters All Ages 6:30 PM MARCH 6 Bill Anshell, and Phil Sparks Dancy Covers All Ages Pelican Bay Books Professionals All Ages Rockfish Grill Swinomish Casino Rockfish Grill Ben Starner The Naughty Blokes Megs McLean Little Bill & The Bluenotes Guemes Island General Store 9:00 PM 7:30 PM 6:00 PM Piano Master All Ages Upbeat Mix All Ages Northwest Country 18+ 7:30 PM Rhythm & Blues All Ages The Haulouts First Friday Art Walk

4:00 PM Island Cats All Ages Swinomish Casino Brown Lantern Swinomish Casino Rockfish Grill Brohamm Tommy & Nazgul Radio 80 9:30 PM 9:00 PM Mark Riley Trio R&B Hits 18+ Local Fun 21+ 9:00 PM 80’s Music 18+

7:30 PM Tight Blues All Ages WEDNESDAY Brown Lantern Swinomish Casino MARCH 11 Cozmic Sauce The Machine WEDNESDAY SUNDAY 9:30 PM Funky Vibes 21+ 9:00 PM 80’s Hits 18+ Rockfish Grill MARCH 18 Max Hay MARCH 22 Brown Lantern

6:00 PM Comic Musician All Ages Guemes Island General Store Anacortes Public Library The Sean Keck Project Ben Starner Open Mic THURSDAY

9:30 PM Everett Epic 21+ Guemes Island General Store 5:30 PM Local Piano All Ages 6:30 PM All Ages Ben Starner MARCH 26

6:30 PM Piano Man All Ages Rockfish Grill Anacortes Senior Center Buoy Beer Company Brewer’s Night Randy Norris & Jeff Nicely Kevin Carroll 6:00 PM DID WE MISS Blues Duo All Ages 4:00 PM Ukulele Concert All Ages YOUR EVENT? Guemes Island General Store 7:20 String Band We do our best to publish all THURSDAY ANACORTES VENUES

6:00 PM Guemes Strings All Ages Anacortes music shows! You can MARCH 12 Anacortes Public Library 1220 10th St Brown Lantern help us out by sending information Guemes Island General Store Anacortes Senior Center 1701 22nd St Open Mic about your upcoming event. Email 720 String Band Anchor Inn 1921 Commercial Ave details to theshowchime@gmail. Brown Lantern 412 Commercial Ave 8;30 PM 21+ 6:00 PM House Band All Ages com, by the 20th of each month, The Business 216 Commercial Ave to be published in the following Brown Lantern Croatian Cultural Center 801 5th St, Anacortes month’s edition. Open Mic Depot Arts Center 611 R Ave

8:30 PM 21+ Guemes Isl General Store 7885 Guemes Isl Rd Pelican Bay Books 520 Commercial Ave Port Transit Shed 100 Commercial Ave Rockfsh Grill 320 Commercial Ave Swinomish Casino 12885 Casino Dr MANIERI ENDOWMENT Manieri Second Sunday Jazz Concert Chime Chat with Cherry Jazz Trio with Brent Jensen, In the tradition of the great personal advice Verse Chorus Verse Bill Anshell, and Phil Sparks column, Show Chime presents Chime Chat Anyone who has ever gotten lost in the March 8, 2:00 PM with Cherry. Do you have a problem you need liner notes knows that reading the lyrics help with? Are you wondering who you can Join us for an afternoon of Jazz at the Anacortes of a song can give you a whole new turn to? Cherry doesn’t just dish out advice, Public Library with the Anschell/Jensen/Sparks perspective on a band or musician. As she peers deeply into your soul to fnd the Trio. Featuring two members of the Earshot we experience the music in our town, answers within you. She also specializes in Jazz Hall of Fame, pianist Bill Anschell and there is so much wonderful poetry and naming bands, boats, and babies. Write to bassist Phil Sparks, along with saxophonist writing that goes along with it. Here we Cherry at [email protected]! Brent Jensen, this dynamic trio creates an highlight the words of one song. Each intimate chamber jazz setting reminiscent of Dear Cherry: piece of writing featured here has a the adventurous recordings made by Jimmy Dear Cherry: My neighbor thinks deer are unique Anacortes connection. Giuffre (“The Jimmy Giuffre 3”, “Thesis”) and cute and puts out food to lure them into This month we have lyrics by Anacortes Lee Konitz (“The Lee Konitz Duets”, “Dovetail”). his yard. They promptly hop the fence and legend Bret Lunsford, the songwriter eat my garden. How can I save my vegeta- behind D+ and formerly the guitarist Manieri Jazz Lecture Series bles and my relationship with my neighbor? of . Brett founded the —Ruining Ruminants Anacortes label Knw-Yr-Own 30 years Producing a Big Band Dear Ruminants: ago and was the owner of The Business, Recording with Ron Jones Do not even get me started on Anacortes taking it in the direction of a record store March 19, 7:00 PM deer. I’m pretty sure they outnumber resi- in the 80s and 90s. Now the director dents 2 to 1. While I do appreciate the beauty of The Anacortes Museum, Bret’s gift Come to the Anacortes Public Library to of nature, they are overrunning the town and for connecting his community with its hear how music was composed, arranged, eating every leaf they can fnd. After they eat roots resonates sympathetically with and recorded for an album by the All-Star your garden, they leave steaming piles of his skill for putting words to thoughts Jazz Forest swing band. Ron Jones is a excrement that you have to clean up! I mean, you didn’t know were possible. leading fgure in the music industry who can you imagine if I came to your house for has created and conducted scores for many dinner, ate a delicious meal, then pooped of Hollywood’s major productions. He has on your living room rug? My solution to your received many awards including 5 Emmy neighbor issue is to suggest to him/her that Recognizer nominations, one Grammy Nomination you don’t want him to catch the highly conta- By Bret Lunsford and multiple ASCAP and BMI Film Scoring gious Ruminant Creeping Gongas, a disease awards. Ron now heads the SkyMuse that’s spread through close contact with deer. If you escape the place you were born professional recording studio in Stanwood. Liken this disease to leprosy. Mention crusty You will fnd the need to perform These free jazz events are sponsored by the sores. Or something oozing. No one wants You will be tried Anacortes Public Library Foundation Manieri to be oozing. Tested by pride Jazz and Swing Endowment. Dear Cherry: There’s no one from here there My neighbor sets up foodlights in her yard There’s no one from here there Town Talk and does her yard work at night. My kids There’s no one from here there can’t fall asleep with lights shining in their by Correspondent Nick There’s no one from here there window and a weed whacker whirring away, » January was one of the wettest months and neither can I! This seems to me like a I will pick the low-hanging fruit on record on Fidalgo Island. With nearly 11 completely unreasonable time to be trim- Taste it down to the root inches of precipitation, it was over twice ming the hedges. How can I make it stop?! Not wrong, not bad the average. Local fooding turned back —Noisy Neighbor Not strong, just mad walkers on the Tommy Thompson Trail, and Dear Neighbor: cars on Satterlee Road near Similk Beach. This is a completely unreasonable situation. I’ll be what you need » The retail space behind Johnny Picasso’s Cherry’s solution to problems like this are I’ll be what you need on 5th street has a new tenant. The folks usually sabotage and vengeance, though I’ll be what you need that sell honey and bee-related products never bodily harm. My response harkens back I’ll be what you need at the Farmer’ Market will open The Honey to a question a few months ago about the Your recognizer Bee Healthy Cafe in the space recently absolute horror that is Axe Body Spray. Pick Your recognizer vacated by Island Smoothies. a time she’s not out in her yard, bring several » The Shell Station on Commercial Avenue gallons of Axe Body Spray (plus a gas mask for If you escape the place you were born was robbed by 2 men from Federal Way on yourself) and go nuts. Spray everything. She’ll You will fnd you are reborn January 21st. One man with a handgun de- never want to set foot in her yard again, let No need to hide manded money from the teller and left in a alone trim hedges. Axe Body Spray is a pow- Along for the ride stolen pickup truck. He parked the pickup 3 erful weapon in your arsenal of vengeance. blocks away and jumped into another stolen Common causes common cold vehicle driven by his accomplice. Video and You will fnd this when you’re old physical evidence led to the arrest of both Forming bee hives into beards men a week later near March Point Road. Write for Show Chime! That’s why people think you’re weird Do you go to local music shows? Do you love to write or take pictures? Do you Ooh, I lose Anacortes Music Channel know about an upcoming show that could When I lose track of you Do you know about the Anacortes Music beneft from some hype? Show Chime is I’ll be what you need Channel? One great pool of Anacortes looking for volunteer contributors to help I’ll be what you need music just churning away – 24/7! Each us cover the local music scene. Lend your Your recognizer sound recording played at Anacortes Music skills and passion to help promote the Your recognizer Project online radio has an Anacortes tie- homegrown music you love and help us in, a story that, if not rooted in Anacortes, grow this beloved publication. Cover one is affected by or involves a person from show or become a regular contributor. our town. Tune in day and night at Contact us at [email protected] anacortesmusicproject.org. to start the conversation. Represent!

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Thank You! Thank you to our sponsoring businesses; Mugsy at The Red Snapper, Hal, Sheryl, and Erik at The Brown Lantern, Nick and Carolyn at Bikespot, and Mark and Willy at Guemes Island General Store. Thank you Manieri board, Chris Terrell, and Keith Eyer at How It Works. Thank you, community member sponsors; Laura Spehar, Victo- ria McNeil, Patti Pattee, and DJ Browne. Picture This Sound Thank you to The SAM Project for all they do to promote our cause. Thank you to our by Mary Woods, the Seahawk, January 15, 1969 contributing artists and writers and to our “Some of us are walking along the beach, looking not for seaweed, seabone, driftwood, March cover artist, Melanie Dugan. Thank But skulls of some of us are waiting (patiently) for things to get rather sticky - red, you, Laurie Racicot, for editing and design. Before things get too dry to drink” Thanks to all of the downtown businesses who help Show Chime fall into the hands Utopian Monk writes some of their own music, they arrange it all themselves. Blues, acid rock of the public and to our amazing crew and folk rock are the types of music they play. First started four years ago by Ralph Krebs and of distributors who keep our drop points Mark Krueger, the band plans to stay together after graduation (1969). Rick Waldron joined as stocked. Getting the Show Chime to you a freshman, Ken Crawford as a sophomore and Jill Dunton became a member of the group each month is a community effort! Show last spring. The band has played all over this area and Seattle during its four years. In a recent Chime March 2020 is printed by How It battle of the bands contest held at Skagit Valley College, Utopian Monk came in frst. Works and made possible by a grant from This series of historical music photos is brought to you by the Anacortes Museum. More the Anacortes Public Library Foundation than 40,000 photographs from the Anacortes Museum are now available online. Manieri Endowment. Yeah, team!