WEDNESDAY 10/9
André 3000: New Blue Solar Stay In Live performance
(MUSIC) In November of final 12 months, André 3000 shocked followers together with his first new music in 17 years—but it surely wasn’t what we anticipated. The OutKast rapper launched a full-length album completely of flute music. New Blue Solar is an odyssey of non secular jazz and digital ambient sounds that would completely soundtrack an Octavia Butler novel. That includes devices like mycelial electronics, crops, shakuhachi, and sintir, the album is equal components acoustic and digital with a number of sorts of flutes performed by André himself. Joined on stage by album collaborators Carlos Niño, Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, and Deantoni Parks, the ensemble will current an immersive live performance that enchants audiences with improvisational “sensory grandeur.” (Paramount Theatre, 911 Pine St, 8 pm, $54.50-$144.50, 8 pm, all ages) AUDREY VANN
THURSDAY 10/10
Clairo
(MUSIC) On her third album, Allure, Gen Z sensation Clairo trades the synthy bed room pop that turned her right into a viral star for elegant tunes impressed by ’70s gentle rock. The ensuing physique of labor is tender and dreamy, evoking the sullen nostalgia of wanting via your childhood bed room—an outdated diary, a drawer of charmed friendship bracelets, a conveyable CD participant. There’s no higher time than the start of autumn to relish within the cozy and hushed tunes of Clairo, particularly with a gap set from South African singer-songwriter Alice Phoebe Lou. (Paramount Theatre, Oct 10-11, 8 pm, $75.50, all ages) AUDREY VANN
FRIDAY 10/11
Blown Away: Gemma Hollister, Morgan Peterson, and Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen
(VISUAL ART/TV) Should you’re something like me, you spent a good portion of the pandemic lockdown watching Netflix’s Blown Away, by which glassblowers competed for an illustrious residency on the Corning Museum of Glass. (As a one-time Pilchuck Glass College workshop participant, I am rooting for these loopy children.) Traver Gallery and Chihuly Backyard and Glass have teamed as much as current this exhibition, which options works by Blown Away episode winners Gemma Hollister and Karen Willenbrink-Johnson and collection winner Morgan Peterson. Willenbrink-Johnson creates naturalistic types, whereas Hollister’s works “supply a critique of contemporary capitalism,” and Peterson’s cameo portraits of Seattle drag legends “spotlight beliefs of female magnificence.” (Traver Gallery, 110 Union St #200, via Oct 27, free, all ages) LINDSAY COSTELLO
SATURDAY 10/12
Jubilee
(PERFORMANCE/MUSIC) This world premiere opera reveals the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, whose earliest members got here collectively to change the post-Civil Conflict musical panorama. With over 40 African American spirituals that have been “initially conceived, written, and carried out by enslaved peoples,” the brand new work by lauded director Tazewell Thompson chronicles the group’s early excursions, the place they persevered regardless of violence and even carried out for Queen Victoria. Count on one thing each triumphant and harrowing—Jubilee’s 13 performers seize the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ struggles and joys. (McCaw Corridor, 321 Mercer St, a number of performances Oct 12-25, $35-$215, all ages) LINDSAY COSTELLO
SUNDAY 10/13
Keith Haring: A Radiant Legacy
(VISUAL ART) To some, similar to myself, Keith Haring is seen as part of the hiphop tradition that emerged in New York Metropolis within the early ‘80s. He labored with Dondi White, a grasp and founding father of the form of graffiti you discover at present in Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, and, sure, Seattle. Certainly, Haring and Dondi did the quilt artwork for Malcolm McLaren’s weird however basically hiphop album Duck Rock. For a lot of, this cowl launched Haring, whose work was easy however not simplistic, breezy however cosmically vibrant. After which there’s the quilt of McLaren’s Would Ya Like Extra Scratchin’. Right here, we’ve got nothing however Haring. His chalk-drawn figures popping and locking. You may hear the scratching and reducing. You may see New York Metropolis when it was the capital of the artwork world. Haring will all the time be hiphop to me. (MoPOP, 325 Fifth Ave N, Oct 12-March 23, 2025, $7 plus museum admission) CHARLES MUDEDE
MONDAY 10/14
2024 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Citywide Celebration
(COMMUNITY) There are occasions scattered all throughout town for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The day begins at 9:30 am at Pier 62 Waterfront Park, the place people are invited to convey their drums and their tribal flags and be a part of the march alongside the waterfront to King Avenue Station, the place there will probably be a rally and spherical dance for peace at 1:30 pm. Elsewhere across the metropolis, you’ll be able to see Khu.éex’ (that includes A+P star and famend glass artist Preston Singletary) carry out at Westlake Park at 11 am and be a part of the Dawn Star Indian Cultural Heart for dancing, dinner, and bingo at 5 pm. See all of the day’s particulars right here. Unrelated: Keep in mind that time in 2015 when Mayor Harrell, a metropolis council member on the time, wished to proclaim “Italian-American Heritage” Month on Indigenous Peoples’ Day??? And now he is mayor! What a trip. (See extra Indigenous Peoples’ Day occasions right here) MEGAN SELING
TUESDAY 10/15
Textual content Me Again! An Election Preview & Stay Podcast Taping
(PODCASTS) Should you do not already know (which additionally means you do not learn each phrase printed in The Stranger, and the way dare you), Lindy West and her BFF Meagan Hatcher-Mays have a weekly podcast known as Textual content Me Again. The 2 have been finest associates since highschool and every episode feels such as you’re listening in on their hilarious, relatable cellphone conversations. They contact on all the things from present headlines and political information to adolescent inside jokes and peculiar pockets of popular culture from the ’80s and ’90s. It is sensible and, at instances, delightfully irreverent, and it is a beautiful reminder to name your finest associates someday. Or, even higher, convey them to this week’s reside Textual content Me Again taping, the place West and Hatcher-Mays will take “a light-hearted have a look at what’s at stake in November” with some particular shock company. It should doubtless be the precise dose of levity we have to keep afloat in our present hellscape. (Seattle Public Library – Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave, 6 pm, free with RSVP, all ages) MEGAN SELING
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