Don’t miss this Friday’s fundraiser for Downtown Emergency Service Center.

Performers:
The Dusty 45s
The Maldives
Lazy Susan
The Young Evils
Betsy Olson
Davidson Hart Kingsbery
The Purrs

More info about the show.

Billy Joe’s family has been touched with mental illness, as his brother has been ill for a number of years. You can read the families incredible tale in this story by Cydney Gillis in Real Change. With Downtown Emergency Service Center’s assistance in getting his brother off the street, he now has his own apartment and is safe and has a chance of healing.

More info about Downtown Emergency Service Center

Mini-Rex plays tonight at Cafe Racer starting at 9pm.

Friday at noon at the Copacabana terrace. Hope it doesn’t rain!

Nectar Lounge in Fremont, on Wednesday, Feb. 8.

Soul Jelly starts at 8:30 and will play for an hour, followed by Beet Oven and Luau Cinder playung some funky grooves.  And, it is free!

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Fantagraphics Bookstore kicks off Black History Month on Saturday, February 4 with the debut of two diverse books. Seattle-based music scholar Pat Thomas, author of Listen, Whitey!: The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965 – 1975, will be joined by Seattle authors Mark Long and Jim Demonakos, who together with cartoonist Nate Powell created the graphic novel The Silence of Our Friends.

While researching this book project in Oakland, archivist Pat Thomas discovered rare recordings of speeches, interviews, and music by noted activists Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Elaine Brown, and others that form the framework of this definitive retrospective. Listen, Whitey! also chronicles the forgotten history of Motown Records’ Black Power subsidiary label, Black Forum, which released politically charged albums by Stokely Carmichael, Langston Hughes, Bill Cosby and Ossie Davis, among others. Obscure records produced by African-American sociopolitical organizations of the period are examined, along with the Isley Brothers, Nina Simone, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Watts Prophets, Roland Kirk, Horace Silver, Angela Davis, H. Rap Brown, Stanley Crouch, and others that spoke out against oppression. Thomas will give a slide and music presentation, and limited number of advance copies of the book will be available to the public. Also making its debut is a companion CD of the same title from Seattle-based Light in the Attic records. The album features rare tracks from African-American activists like Dick Gregory, Eldridge Cleaver, Last Poets, and others, with protest music by Bob Dylan, John and Yoko Ono, Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Harper, and more.

The Silence of Our Friends is the semi-autobiographical tale of Mark Long. Set in 1967 Texas against the backdrop of the civil rights struggle, a white family from a notoriously racist suburb and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston’s color line, overcoming fear and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman. Co-authored by Jim Demonakos (founder of Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon), and drawn by award-winning cartoonist Nate Powell, The Silence of Our Friends is a new and important entry in the body of civil rights literature.

Join these remarkable authors on Saturday, February 4 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, located at 1201 S. Vale St. (at Airport Way S.) in Seattle’s colorful Georgetown neighborhood. Phone 206.658.0110.

Vito’s 927 9th Ave (at Madison) Seattle

Friday, Jan 27th from 9pm-midnight – never a cover !

Lushy at Vito’s Jan 27th  -  Facebook event page link

In celebration of the upcoming Seattle “Elvis” Invitationals that is happening on Saturday, January 14th at EMP, Top Pot Doughnuts has come up with a special commemorative “King’s Rings” doughnut, a raised ring covered in maple cream frosting and smothered in caramelized bacon.

The King’s Rings will be available for sale at the Top Pot Doughnut shops on Friday, January 13th. However, if you’d like to sample these luscious creations for free, plus see a great performance by Billy Joe Huels of the Dusty 45′s, go to the taping of the New Day Northwest TV show at KING-5 on Thursday, 1/12. You’ll need to email the Audience Coordinator Suzie Wiley- newdaytickets@king5.com before 8am Thursday, so they have a head count.

In 1962, Elvis visited Century 21 Seattle World’s Fair and made a film,

“It Happened at the World’s Fair”.

Fast-forward, 2012 is the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair.

To commemorate this event, Elvis will be returning to the Seattle Center for the 15th annual “Seattle Invitationals”, the search for Seattle best amateur Elvis Tribute Artist (ETA)

The event is at Experience Music Project (EMP) at the Seattle Center on Saturday, January 14th. Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8pm

Tickets available from EMP and Brown Paper Tickets -21 and over with ID required

WEBSITE: http://www.SeattleInvitationals.com

All Elvi perform with a live band, The Kentucky Rain Band with special guest Billy Joe Huels, plus punk-rock Elvis band The Graceland Five.

Master of Ceremonies (and amateur Elvis) Jim Dever from KING-5 TV

Celebrity judges include Nancy Guppy, Mark Christopher from KVI and Vern Fonk-guy, Rob Thelke.

Tickets available from EMP and Brown Paper Tickets

21 and over with ID required

More Info Here

and the Facebook Event page link is here