Held: June 28, 2013 — June 30, 2013
Featuring performances by
Alex's Hand
In an attempt to depart from tradition, Alex's Hand is more of an ongoing musical process than a rock band. Fusing genres into palpable movements...
- Kellen Mills — Bass, vocals
- Nic Barnes — Drums, vocals
- Gabe Tachell — Guitars, vocals
- Richard Williams — Keyboards
- Max Steiner — Guitars
Austenitic
Seattle's foremost bass/drums duo of insanity. Stopping, starting, twisting, turning, making you shake your head with wonder.
- Ross Martin — Bass, vocals
- Kelly Mynes — Drums
Bill Horist
Since moving to Seattle in 1995, Bill Horist has established himself as a noted improviser/composer/performer. In the past decade, he has appeared...
- Bill Horist — Guitar, prepared and unprepared
Bone Cave Ballet
With haunting vocals and penetrating lyrics set against an angular sonic backdrop, Bone Cave Ballet envelops the listener in a musical tide of...
- Jacqui Gilroy — vocals, guitar
- Kelly Mynes — drums
- Ezekiel Lords — bass
- Jeff Blancato — guitar, backing vocals
Dissonati
Dissonati is a Seattle-based prog-rock band, favoring the darker side of the genre, more Van Der Graaf Generator than Genesis, but really only like...
- John Hagelbarger — Keyboards, sax, vocals
- Ryan Hankins — Bass
- John Reagan — Drums
- Ron Rutherford — Guitars, vocals
Jolanda (She Owl)
"Arcane, full of energy, beyond styles...": so the music of Jolanda has been defined, "... when she plays, it looks like she's conducting a little...
- Jolanda — keyboard, voice, musical box, toy piano, kalimba, typewriter
- Demian Endian — guitar, percussion
miRthkon
miRthkon is an amplified chamber ensemble masquerading as a rock band. This illusion is well maintained by the fact that from time to time they do,...
- Matt Guggemos — drums
- Travis Andrews — guitar
- Carolyn Walter — woodwinds, vocals
- Wally Scharold — guitar, vocals
- Jamison Smeltz — woodwinds, percussion, vocals
- Matt Lebofsky — bass, keyboards, vocals
MonkeyBat
"Monkey" and "Bat" are two unrelated species that would not naturally be found inhabiting the same body. In the same way, the band Monkey Bat...
- Scott Lewis — acoustic guitar
- Brian Todd — bass
- Vern Lawton — drums
Moraine
Moraine is an omnivorous Seattle-based instrumental quintet led by guitarist Dennis Rea and featuring violinist Alicia DeJoie, woodwind player...
- Dennis Rea — guitar
- Alicia DeJoie — violin
- Kevin Millard — bass
- James DeJoie — woodwinds
- Tom Zgonc — drums (2013)
- Brian Oppel — drums (2018, 2019)
Operation ID
Operation ID has been variedly called anything from "jazz" to "progressive rock" to "man rock" to "thought-rock" to the self-christened "bionic...
- Jared Borkowski — Guitar, vocals
- Ivan Arteaga — Woodwinds, keyboards, vocals
- David Balatero — Bass, vocals
- Evan Woodle — Drums
- Rob Hanlon — Keyboards, EWI, vocals
Thinking Plague
Thinking Plague explores the frontiers where rock, folk, jazz and modern symphonic music meet. Through these explorations, the band has created "a...
- Mike Johnson — guitar
- Mark Harris — woodwinds
- Dave Willey — bass
- Elaine Di Falco — keyboards, vocals
- Robin Chestnut — drums
- Bill Pohl — guitar
- Kimara Sajn — keyboards
Tone Dogs
Tone Dogs began in 1987 as a studio experiment between musical alchemists Fred Chalenor and Amy Denio, under the creative technological guidance of...
- Amy Denio — Guitar, bass, whatnot
- Fred Chalenor — Guitar, bass, whatnot
Trimtab
Trimtab formed in 2001 in Minneapolis, MN under the concept of Jason Goessl, who, inspired by the work and philosophy of R. Buckminster Fuller,...
- Jason Goessl — guitar
- Phil Cali — bass
- Brian Oppel — drums
Zhongyu
Although Zhongyu, the band, is relatively new to the world, its seeds stretch back several decades. It started as a recording project for the...
- Jon Davis — Stick, guzheng, theremin
- Dennis Rea — guitar
- Alicia DeJoie — violin
- James DeJoie — woodwinds
- Randy Doak — drums