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29 Dec 2016

Farewell, REDEFINE

Sometime after Yow Yow! was born, my brother had connected me to a young woman named Vivian Hua. She ran her own music and arts magazine and I thought she was a badass. I had already been writing for Yow Yow! on the side, but I HAD to be a part of her project and what she was doing. Through REDEFINE, I covered Capitol Hill Block Party and Bumbershoot both back in 2012. They were my very first press passes ever and soon after that allowed me to pave the way for my own press passes for Yow Yow! REDEFINE wasn’t the first place that I had seen my name in a byline before, but it was the first place that truly meant something to me. I was able to combine my love for both writing and music into one and it was exciting. My stint with REDEFINE as a contributing writer only lasted a year, but it was a fun experience to say the least. We were super pumped to check off another box within music.

Thank you Vivian for giving this opportunity to me and many writers and we wish you the best of luck on your future endeavors!

17 Sep 2009

Katie [past tense] Did Bumbershoot

Long story short, I sometimes guest write for the Seattle based arts and music magazine called Redefine. I was asked to write a review on three bands that I caught during the first day of the festival in which Redefine has published online.

“When I first heard the weather forecast for Bumbershoot weekend was going to be cloudy with a chance of excessive rain, my assumption was that there was no way a little rain or even a lot of rain would stop music-obsessed Seattleites from attending the largest music festival in the Northwest. I was right; energy was high from musicians, attendance was as expected, and concert-goers donned the waterproof jackets to protect them from the “light showers” as they screamed through Katy Perry’s songs and got down on the floor to the upbeat band duo, Matt & Kim…”

PS I wanted to write reviews on others band I had seen at the festival for my own blog… but I accidentally deleted all the pictures I took from the festival last weekend. I’ve never done that before, and it’s the absolute worst because it’s almost like you were never there at all. Sorry 🙁 I’m sad about it too.

To read the rest of the article click

HERE!!!!

06 Sep 2009

Katie’s Bumbershoot Recap

Today, I was able to mix business with pleasure. The business of having to watch five acts to write a review on for Redefine Magazine (of course, they were five acts I had wanted to see) and the pleasure of spending the day watching some of these acts with my OA’s. I took paragraph long notes on all the performances with my blackberry…crazy work.

This was my third year attending Bumbershoot and as always, I had a great time. I felt that the tone was set a little differently this year. I don’t know if the rain is to blame or what, but everything seemed much more tame. No one was really running around and there were less people moving. People preferred to be more reserve maybe.

I don’t want to give out info about the performances or post pictures just yet because I will be using them for the review and when I finish that I’ll put it up on here also. I didn’t take any streeet style photos today because no one was extraordinary. Nothing made me want to chase anyone down :/ sorry!

A very important lesson was reiterated back to me today while I was standing in line waiting to see Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground’s performance. Actually it was a lesson that I made up a couple years back. It was a goal or maybe a rule that I believed would better a person. I believe that if you can have a conversation with any random person at any moment then you are set. Obviously it’s still something I’m trying to develop. Maybe you’re not set for life, but you are comfortable enough to speak with any stranger and can make up a conversation on the spot. You’ll find that most people can’t do this. It’s definitely something I’m still working on myself.  As I stood in line, a guy who looked just like Eric was behind me. Behind him was an Asian man who had just moved here from Philidelphia and had volunteered at Bumbershoot that day. What began as a conversation about when Kay Kay was performing turned into future aspirations for James (the young man,) European movies, types of art that the Asian man loved, relationship, families and an exchange of emails. It was probably the greatest thing I have seen all day. I’m not an analyzer on people. The three of us stood in line alone with no accompanyment. I quipped in every now and then, and even at the beginning of this I could tell James wanted to involve me more, but the Asian man had known no one since moving here and he had taken a liking to James. The conversation went on for nearly 45 minutes and when we were finally able to get into the EMP venue, the two men stood together and enjoyed the show.

As much as I regret not being able to exchange more words and being a part of this bond, I’ve come to the realiziation that it wasn’t my bond to have, it was theirs. I witnessed the entire thing and it was a sight to see what relationship had come out of this – two men – that you would have never thought would have much in common from looking at them, but in fact you probably couldn’t get them to stop talking to each other.

I’ll leave you with… my favorite picture from last year!

Death Cab For Cutie Bumbershoot 2008

28 May 2009

Turn It Down Concert

So I know a lot of people aren’t out of school yet and/or people will be staying at school this weekend but this show is going to be amazing! We’ve all been to at least one concert, (or performed,) and they’re a lot of fun, your whole body feels like it’s vibrating and the ground is shaking but do you even realize how much damage it does to your hearing?

The Evergreen Speech and Hearing Clinic will be sponsoring this show THIS SATURDAY MAY 30th. Doors are opening at 7:30 and the ticket will cost $8. Daphne Loves Derby is the headlining band and these guys have grown so much over their musical careers and are well known to the Seattle area. They were one of the first bands I even started listening to in the scene. And of course, this is biased, but Bad Timing, I always have love for you in my heart!

For more information click to visit Everhear or read my review of last year’s concert here

To check out the bands: Daphne Loves Derby

Bad Timing