#live-music

Compared to The Village Vanguard, The Blue Note was a bit embarrassing.

Walking on a late evening on my own I passed a theatre I knew nothing about.

I first read about Hailu Mergia in Pitchfork’s The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s, which listed his 2018 album Lala Belu at 185th.

Log of concerts I’ve attended.

As Daudi Abe tells in his 2020 book, Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle, the city’s black folks first set down roots in Central District (the CD) in the late 1880s.