Facebook – Friendster for Everybody Else!

Facebook – Friendster for Everybody Else!

The Onlies, being modern youth, do like their social media. We shoulda mentioned this before, but you can of course Like the Onlies Facebook page, just as much as you can like them in real life. Actually, you can only Like them once on Facebook, but feel free to like them more than that in real life.

The band is taking a month-long break for, among other things, exotic traveling to the Euro-zone. Stay tuned for tales from the road, but put the night 0f November 10th on your calendars for a raucous return engagement to A Terrible Beauty.

Concert for Kids this Saturday, October 1st!

 

Concert for Kids – October 1st

As part of the Haller Lake Community Council’s Concert for Kids series, the kids will play a concert on Saturday morning, October 1st from 11a-12p at the Northgate Community Center. Kids of all ages welcome, and their minders.

More details here.

Pictured here are the Onlies playing this same concert last year. Don’t they look young!

 

Oldtime Showcase and CD Release this weekend!

Sunday Sept 25th Multigenerational Oldtime Showcase with Professor Banjo!

Three bands with stellar youth musicians, including the Onlies,  join Paul Silveria (Professor Banjo) for a footstomping oldtime showcase to celebrate the release of  a new CD called Professor Banjo PB and Jam! 

This show will conclude a three day/three city tour!  It’s going to be great fun for all ages, especially those with young kids!  We hope you can make it!  Sponsored by the Seattle Folklore Society and held in the lovely concert hall at the Phinney Neighborhood Center!  Reservations are recommended!  Details here.

This Oregon Music News article has more information about the project.

 

Don’t pierce the rutabagas!

Don’t pierce the rutabagas!

It might be the only farmer’s market in the United States conveniently located near several tattoo and piercing parlors. This Sunday, September 18th, come watch the Onlies play the Broadway Farmer’s Market from 11am to 1pm.

Right after playing the market Leo and Riley are going to walk two blocks over to Bobby Morris field and play a soccer game. If music isn’t your thing, maybe the soccer will do. Kick off (is that what they call it?) is at 1pm.

A brief snooze

A brief snooze after an exciting and fun week

The Onlies are now back in Seattle, after a whirlwind of a great time at Valley of the Moon, and a sublime siesta on the beautiful campus of San Jose State University.

The kids learned lots of tunes that they will start incorporating into upcoming sets. First up: busking at the Redmond Saturday Market from 10 a.m. to noon Sept. 10, and a performance later that day at the Northgate Festival, 3 p.m. Catch them if you can!

Vacation calls

A little time off…

After some really fun times busking at Seattle’s Pike Place Market, we’re all busy doing vacationy things for a few weeks. Sami’s gonna learn Cape Breton step dancing, and Leo and Riley are off playing and and dreaming baseball. So, gigs will be rare till mid/late August. Then, it’s look out, Redmond!

July 21: Join us at W. Seattle’s newest Irish pub

Join us July 21 at W. Seattle’s newest Irish pub

A Terrible BeautyJoin us Thursday, July 21, for an after-work refresher, and a meal too, at West Seattle’s newest Irish pub, A Terrible Beauty, at 4752 California Ave. S.W. just south of the Junction. We’ll play Irish tunes, and sneak in a few Scottish ones to see if anyone’s listening. We play from 5:15 to 7:30 p.m., and hope to see you there!

Thank you, CityClub!

Fine pie, a fine gig, and a fine club

Tom Douglas' serious coconut-cream pie.
Tom Douglas' serious coconut-cream pie.
On Friday, we went all thrillsville playing for at least a couple hundred members of the Seattle CityClub in the downtown Westin. It was the organization’s annual gala event, and — wow, how cool!

The Seattle City Club organizes “community dialogues, political debates, educational forums, on-line initiatives and awards competitions—in collaboration with over 100 organizational partners,” and we are darn proud to have helped them out. If you’re interested in learning more, the CityClub’s Web site is at www.seattlecityclub.org.

We even managed to get our teeth on a few bites of Tom Douglas‘ famed coconut-cream pie, which is Sami’s favorite (she wanted it over birthday cake at her party this year).