#ninetiesfriday World Music Celebration 🎼🌐🎼

Thanks to @geneeverett it's #ninetiesfriday and today I'm going to share some memories from a concert I attended in Redmond, WA, a suburb of Seattle.

The concert was a three day, world music festival put on by Peter Gabriel's WOMAD organization.

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The World of Music, Arts and Dance, WOMAD, is an international arts festival founded in 1980 by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, with Thomas Brooman, Bob Hooton, Mark Kidel, Stephen Pritchard, Martin Elbourne and Jonathan Arthur.

I didn't know anything about WOMAD when I bought the ticket, I just wanted to see Canadian fiddle virtuoso, Ashley MacIsaac. He released an album in 1995 called, hi™️ how are you today? that I just love. Here's the opening track.

He had a hit song from this album, a traditional tune called Sleepy Maggie, sung by Mary Jane Lamond.

Here's a real barn-burner called Devil's in the Kitchen. I feel like @geneeverett might get down with this tune.

Last one I'll share from this album is called Sophia's Pipes

When I found out he was playing at WOMAD I grabbed a ticket, and man he was good. His live shows are as full of energy as the songs sound, with him jumping around stage, bow-hairs hanging from his bow and strings breaking. Good times :D

The event was held at Marymoor Park just outside Seattle, WA. Marymoor is a 540 acre park on the banks of Lake Sammamish.

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Being a festival the park had many stages of varying sizes in different areas. As I was wondering around I saw a small stage with not many people around it, as I walked over two guys were just getting on stage and sitting by their instruments. One was a Sarod player named Amjad Ali Khan and the other turned out to be one of the greatest tabla players of all time, Zakir Hussain.

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I was able to walk right up to the stage and was mesmerized by this guys ability and the sound coming out of those drums. He mostly plays raga, a form of Indian classical music. A raga is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music and I found myself really enjoying it. Hard to grab just a bit as these raga can last for half hour or more!
https://youtube.com/shorts/y1PNVWy6qrs?si=byFEPJ5jYCg6BEx8
https://youtube.com/shorts/VmqDx6rEM1E?si=-8akF3d98XqzQ1MQ

If you want to check out more Zakir I recommend Tabla Beat Science.
The band was founded in 1999 by Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell. Their style being a mix of Hindustani music, Asian Underground, ambient music, drum and bass and electronica.

Here's a full live album they released in 2002.

Have a GREAT weekend :D

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You received an upvote of 34% from Precious the Silver Mermaid!

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Precious the Silver Mermaid do you have music in the ocean?

(Other than the song, Under the Sea!)

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That is some great stuff, and you got a chance to see him live. You must have a great ticket stub collection! Devil's in the Kitchen, nice tune!

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Cool, glad you listened to it :D

I do have quite a few of the ticket stubs I've used over the years.

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Well, as I was sitting here looking at the date of this show and pondering my “unfounded” disdain for WOMAD ( 😉) I thought to myself… I bet I can figure out what I was doing that exact night in Seattle.

It turns out I WAS able to figure out what I was doing that night (at least the first night).

July 31, 1998 I was at Key Arena attending BEASTIE BOYS in the Round. 😍

I do love me some Marymoor though. Great “Seattle” summer concert venue.

Glad you enjoyed your festival. 🙂

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That's crazy! Redmond's just a suburb of Seattle ;)
Bothell to SeaTac, sound to mountains, all suburbs of Seattle 💯🤘😂

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Totally gay

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🤦
That’s why you think the Pacific Northwest east is the best. You have no taste in nice things…..

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Different for sure. I am into all kinds of music if my mood is right. Not sure I could hold that one for three days though.

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