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New Concert Venue Barboza to Open Under Neumos

Smaller space will cater to up-and-coming and local acts.

Posted by: Seth Sommerfeld on Apr 17, 2012 at 02:00PM 0 Comments

Underground artists, meet your new underground venue. After years of planning, the people behind Capitol Hill music institution Neumos are ready to open a second venue in the building’s basement. Barboza will be a 200-capacity club catering to bands that need a proper venue but aren’t quite big enough to fill a place like Neumos or the Crocodile yet.

“Barboza is a little more about artist development,” said Neumos and Barboza talent buyer Eli Anderson. “You can do a show down there that’s a new artist, someone sort of up-and-coming on their first time through, or just local artists. You could do a show that draws 100 people and it’s not a total loss. You do a show with 100 at Neumos—that looks really bad. The artist isn’t going to have a good time and it’s not good for us. A hundred people in a 700-person room looks really awkward. Barboza has a little more flexibility in that way.”

Because of a delay in completing the venue, Wednesday’s would-be opening show by blues-rock duo My Goodness has been rescheduled for June 16 at Neumos. Instead, the venue will be christened by the pitch-perfect folk harmonies of Portland’s Horse Feathers this Friday. Anderson said the venue will bring in a wide variety of artists and genres and hopes to be running seven nights a week. In addition to regular concerts, Barboza will also feature weekly DJ sets by Tigerbeat: Monday night’s “Turnt Up” and Friday’s “Hollyhood.”

Anderson stresses that while Barboza is a subterranean space, people shouldn’t expect low-rent productions. “People keep asking me, ‘Do you guys have a PA? Are there lights down there?’ I think it’s because it’s in the lower level, in the basement, people go like, ‘Oh, it’s a basement space.’ No. We’re spending hundreds thousands of dollars on the space. It’s a really nice, proper 200 capacity club.”

UPDATE 4/20/12 It turns out the construction delays were worse than expected. The Horse Feathers show has been postponed until June 6 and other shows on Barboza’s calendar have been either moved, canceled, or rescheduled. On the plus side, Caveman’s Sunday show has been moved to Auto Battery and will now be a free BBQ.

From Barboza (via The Stranger):

Owing to unexpected construction delays, the first week’s shows at BARBOZA will not be happening as scheduled.

Friday April 20th Horse Feathers has been postponed until June 9th at BARBOZA. All tickets will be honored and refunds are available at point of purchase.

Saturday April 21st Caveman has morphed into a BARBOZA-Q and moved to Auto Battery at 1009 East Union St on Capitol Hill. All tickets will be refunded as this show is now FREE! Doors are at 8pm and come early as space will fill up fast!

Sunday April 22nd Main Attrakionz has unfortunately been cancelled and will not be rescheduled.

Tuesday April 24th Tanlines has been moved upstairs to Neumos. All tickets will be honored.

Wednesday April 25th Frankie Rose has been moved upstairs to Neumos. All tickets will be honored.

We apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment this may cause but are looking forward to seeing you at the BARBOZA-Q and introducing you to our new room next week!

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Tags: Concert, Neumos, Seattle Music

From a Mural to White Light: 50 Years of Public Art at Seattle Center

The story starts in 1962 with the largest artwork in the NW; in 2012, we found an artist who can make the sun rise.

Posted by: Laura Dannen on Apr 17, 2012 at 10:00AM 0 Comments

Horiuchi’s famed mosaic now serves as a backdrop to the popular summer series Concerts at the Mural.

Originally published in February 2012. 1962. Beneath a canopy in the shadow of the Space Needle, Seattle collage artist Paul Horiuchi worked in secret, assembling his 60-foot-long, 17-foot-high mural piece by piece. Each glass tile had been handpicked in Venice; they came in 160 shades and varied shapes—large and small, curved and smooth. Slowly, the mosaic grew, a map of “the bright, gay colors of the Northwest, in contrast to the traditional somber grays and blues” Horiuchi said were common to the region. It was rumored to be the single largest piece of art in the Pacific Northwest—and one of the largest in America. A crowd gathered on the lawn in front of the veiled artwork, waiting for the big reveal on the second day of the 1962 World’s Fair. And at 4pm, they pulled back the cloak on the greatest kaleidoscope of color the city had ever seen: the Seattle Mural.

Photo: Municipal Archives/77813

Fast-forward to 2012. Brooklyn-based artist Adam Frank has figured out how to make the sun rise in Denver—a feat that obviously enticed Seattle city officials. With the use of solar panels the light artist created a real-time projection of the sun that rises up the face of the Minoru Yasui Building in downtown Denver as the actual sun sets; the orb fades as morning comes. It’s simple, straight-forward—and aspires to be a symbol of hope for the city, Frank said. Each time Sunlight appears, it showcases the possibilities of solar technology in Colorado, which gets 300 days of actual rays per year. But Frank could have his work cut out for him here.

“I’d never been to a place this far north; it gets dark so early,” he said. “Some days I haven’t even seen the sun.” As Seattle City Light’s artist in residence, light master Frank has a yearlong assignment to create new public art at Seattle Center and across the city. His first project: to install a 40-foot-high projection piece in Center House that demonstrates the flow of electricity in Seattle, in real time. Imagine a map of the city and its outskirts, with pinpoints of light shining brightly downtown during the workday, then skittering off to Ballard, Fremont, and Magnolia as worker drones head home. What our city lacks in solar power, we make up in hydropower; and Frank plans, as he did in Denver, to create artwork that delivers a message of sustainability and renewal.

“I try to be very simple and refined and direct,” he said. And though his medium isn’t as tangible as the glass tiles comprising the Seattle Mural just shy of Center House, it’s all the same to Frank. “All visual art is light work. The artist is just sculpting light."

Frank’s Current is one of six temporary art installations going up at Seattle Center in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair —and the next 50 years of innovation. The months-long celebration kicks off this Friday, April 21, with the cast of Almost Live!, a dramatic reading by actor Tom Skerritt, and a zipline. In that order. More to come tomorrow.

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Tags: Seattle Center, Seattle Public Art, Seattle Center House, The Next Fifty, Mural Amphitheatre

Red Hot Chili Peppers to Play KeyArena in November

Are they still relevant? Discuss.

Posted by: Seth Sommerfeld on Apr 16, 2012 at 02:00PM 0 Comments

Red Hot Chili Peppers still rocking after all these years.

Photo courtesy Focka/Flickr.

KeyArena continues to bring the rock this year. With Radiohead in the rearview mirror and Coldplay, Roger Waters, and The Black Keys already on the horizon, LiveNation announced that Red Hot Chili Peppers will swing through Seattle on November 15. It’s a bit unclear how relevant RHCP remains since the departure of guitarist John Frusciante a few years back. The band’s latest album, 2011’s I’m with You, hasn’t caught on as much as previous efforts did. But even if the band is in its twilight, Flea and co. still have a catalog of great, arena-ready singles to crank out. It just seems a bit silly that tickets are going on sale seven months before the show.

Then again, it’s not as absurd as the other KeyArena show with tickets going on sale this Saturday: British boy band One Direction’s July 23 concert. Oh, wait, that’s July 23, 2013. And while most non-14-year-old girls or frequent Saturday Night Live viewers probably haven’t even heard of One Direction, tickets to the group’s show will sell waaaaaaaaay faster than RHCP (One Direction’s Madison Square Garden show last December sold out in 10 minutes). Rock ‘n’ roll in the modern era, ladies and gentlemen.

Tickets to see Red Hot Chili Peppers go on sale this Saturday at 10am at livenation.com.

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nov 15 @ 8, $75, KeyArena

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TONIGHT: Opera on Tap at Blue Moon Tavern

Local divas celebrate the bar’s 78th anniversary with some of owner Gus’s favorite arias.

Posted by: Laura Dannen on Apr 16, 2012 at 10:00AM 0 Comments

Photo: courtesy Opera on Tap.

The last place you’d expect to see an opera diva is in a dingy dive bar that once served Hot Pockets. But that’s exactly the point of Opera on Tap, a national nonprofit trying to loosen the corset on highbrow art and bring those talented tenors to the corner pub. The Seattle branch celebrates Blue Moon Tavern’s 78th anniversary tonight with some of owner Gus’s favorite arias from Carmen, La bohème, Threepenny Opera, and a little Wagner (“so bring your swords and spears!”).

Megan Chenovick and Daniel Oakden (both of Inverse Opera) are slated to perform, along with Sarah Mattox (Seattle Opera), Rob McPherson, Ksenia Popova, Ryan Bede, Kim Giordano, and David McDade on the keys.

Opera on Tap
Apr 16 @ 8:30, $5 cover, 21+, Blue Moon Tavern

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Tags: Met Picks, Classical and More, Opera on Tap

Go See This: The Kid with a Bike at SIFF Uptown

It’s sad, in a good way.

Posted by: Laura Dannen on Apr 16, 2012 at 09:30AM 0 Comments

Since winning the grand jury prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, The Kid with a Bike has been pocketing praise like it’s award show swag. It has a ridiculous 96 percent critics’ approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes that makes you think the filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne paid someone off—but no, the film seems to be soaring on its own merits. The latest drama by the Belgian brothers tells the heartwrenching story of an 11-year-old boy who’s abandoned by his father and inadvertently becomes the ward of a local hairdresser. Young Cyril (newcomer Thomas Doret) looks like a hardened Tintin, quick to anger—you’d be too if your sad-sack dad sold your bike—but there’s a surprising surplus of hope in this movie, as Cyril and his kindly guardian (Cécile de France) show how resilient people can actually be.

The Kid with a Bike has only been showing at SIFF Cinema at the Uptown this month. It closes April 19, so add it to your calendar this week.

The Kid with a Bike
87 minutes, French with English subtitles
Apr 16–19, $7–$10, SIFF Cinema at the Uptown

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Sick and Tired of Manny Being Manny

In his new book Trading Manny, author Jim Gullo rages against the steroid machine.

Posted by: Brian Colella on Apr 13, 2012 at 09:00AM 0 Comments

Originally published April 2012. Former Bainbridge Islander Jim Gullo began indoctrinating his second son Joe in baseball at an early age (after his eldest chose basketball), and this time it sticks—though Joe’s burgeoning affinity for stats and analysis make his future seem more Billy Beane than Edgar Martínez. Trading Manny: How a Father and Son Learned to Love Baseball Again (Da Capo Press, April 1) follows Gullo as he grapples with the sport’s steroid scandals—epitomized by juiced-up slugger Manny Ramírez—and the fatal flaw of athletic hero worship. The author looks for answers anywhere he can, even pushing the late Mariners announcer Dave Niehaus to cut him off angrily: “I don’t want to talk about steroids!” The book juggles moments both serious (a high school player commits suicide after steroid-induced depression) and humorous (the time Gullo almost beaned Paul Simon’s son with a ball). In between, there’s about as much closure over steroids as a disgruntled baseball fan can hope to get.

Ed.’s note: Have baseball on the brain? Don’t forget that the Mariners’ home opener is tonight against the Oakland A’s; first pitch is at 7:10.

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Tags: Books & Talks, Baseball, Steroid Scandal

Met Picks: Elvis Costello, Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, Rachel Maddow

The top 10 things to see or do this weekend.

Posted by: Seattle Met Staff on Apr 12, 2012 at 01:00PM 0 Comments

Elvis Costello will let a spinning wheel decide his set list.

CONCERTS

Apr 12
Elvis Costello and the Imposters: The Revolver Tour
As the one new waver who never faded, Elvis Costello is entitled to some kitsch. On his latest tour, he chooses his set by spinning a game-show wheel with 40 songs on it. No, really. Paramount Theatre, $36–$76.

FILM

Apr 14–22
Langston Hughes African American Film Festival
The fest returns with more screenings to a newly renovated venue. Director Andrew Dosunmu premieres his critically acclaimed Sundance selection Restless City, about an African immigrant in the Big Apple, which opens for a longer run May 4. Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, single tickets $8; festival pass $50–$75.

BOOKS & TALKS

Apr 14
Rachel Maddow
The uberpopular—tickets sold out in February—MSNBC host wants to remind us there’s a war going on; her new book Drift analyzes the recent history of America’s military spending. Town Hall, sold out.

CLASSICAL & MORE

Apr 13
Rush Hour: Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony
The symphony goes “untuxed” for this shorter, no-intermission concert featuring the fury of violins in Tchaikovsky’s spirited Fourth. Benaroya Hall, $15–$79.

DANCE

Apr 13–22
Apollo and Carmina Burana
The double bill opens with George Balanchine’s oldest surviving ballet, Apollo, scored by Igor Stravinsky. After the Greek god tangles with the Muses of dance, song, mime, and poetry, the program moves on to Kent Stowell’s Carmina Burana spectacle with a 72-person choir and gilded 26-foot wheel hanging midair. McHaw Hall, $28–$168.

Apr 13–22
Petruchska
In Donald Byrd’s modern reimagining of the classic ballet, audience members will (literally) follow the tragic tale of a puppet come to life, through Madrona Park and into the theater, as he endures the brutal highs and lows of love. Spectrum Dance Theater, $20–$25.

Apr 12–14
Chunky Move
Though the Australian dance troupe is dynamic in its own right, the star of this show is the undulating aluminum grid dangling from above. For Connected, California artist Reuben Margolin created a kinetic sculpture suspended by cables that the dancers manipulate like a marionette of an ocean wave. Meany Hall, $20–$39.

FAMILY

Apr 12–May 13
Help
Before they were the Beatles (insert high-pitched squeal here), they were just a few floppy-haired Liverpool teens. Dutch director Moniek Merkx adapts the story of the days before their big break as a family-friendly musical. Seattle Children’s Theatre, $20–$39.

SPORTING EVENTS

Apr 13
Seattle Mariners 2012 Home Opener
After starting the season on the road (including two games in Japan), the Mariners come home for (another) game against the Oakland Athletics. King Felix Hernandez will be on the mound and his King’s Court cheering section will be loudly rooting him on. Will the much maligned Mariners offense from the past few years turn over a new leaf thanks to a crop of young hitters (Dustin Ackley, Jesus Montero, Justin Smoak, Kyle Seager, etc.)? Only time will tell… Safeco Field, $20–$205.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Apr 13–15
Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival
Seattle Center’s Festàl series takes on a whiter shade of pink as the sakura bloom while the taiko drums beat. Eat award-winning yakisoba and outfold your rivals in the origami airplane contest. Seattle Center, free.

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Tags: Met Picks, Weekend

A Fiendish Conversation with Lucien Postlewaite

The Pacific Northwest Ballet star just gave his notice—find out what’s in his future.

Posted by: Laura Dannen and Seth Sommerfeld on Apr 12, 2012 at 09:00AM 1 Comments

Can you do that? Lucien Postlewaite holds a pose in Mark Morris’s Pacific. Photo courtesy Angela Sterling.

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Can you do that? Lucien Postlewaite holds a pose in Mark Morris’s Pacific. Photo courtesy Angela Sterling.

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Postlewaite and Noelani Pantastico in Romeo et Juliette. Photo courtesy Angela Sterling.

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A perfect pair Kaori Nakamura (right) and Lucien Postlewaite dance Jiri Kylian’s Petite Mort, part of Director’s Choice. Photo courtesy Angela Sterling.

Seattle’s dance community let out a collective groan last week when PNB principal Lucien Postlewaite announced that this his final season with the ballet. In August he’ll leave Seattle to join Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, home of director-choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot, who worked with Postlewaite on a life-changing production of Roméo et Juliette in 2008. We’ve come to rely on Postlewaite to turn in emotionally charged, technically dazzling performances like clockwork, whether as a Balanchine prince or in a daring new modern commission. After nine years on stage at McCaw Hall—and two years dancing in husband Olivier Wevers’s company, Whim W’Him—his absence will be felt.

For now, Postlewaite is prepping for PNB’s double bill of Apollo and Carmina Burana, which opens on Friday (April 13), and his grande finale, June 10’s Season Encore. For our latest Fiendish Conversation, Seth Sommerfeld chatted with the dancer, who insists that this isn’t goodbye.

What roles are you dancing in Apollo and Carmina Burana?

I’m dancing Apollo, so that’s a highlight for me. In Carmina Burana, I’m dancing the Cour d’Amours, the sort of lead finale section. That’s a role I used to watch when I first joined the company and the dancers would give me chills every time. Now I’m kind of coming full circle and getting to dance this role that, when I got into the company nine years ago, I always dreamed of dancing.

How did you end up deciding to take a job with Les Ballets de Monte Carlo?

It just felt like the timing was right. Everything in my life was kind of pointing in this direction. I need a chance to reinvent myself artistically and to push myself. I have a relationship with the company over there and they were looking for dancers like me, so, of course, being wanted by another place and being asked to join is always a bit of an incentive. I’m ready for the next adventure.

What are the stylistic differences between Les Ballets de Monte Carlo and PNB that get you excited?

The director there, we mostly do his work. He’s a choreographer-director. I’m looking forward to that, because having a choreographer-director gives a really strong, clear vision for everyone and the look of a company. I’ve been really fortunate at PNB to dance all different kinds of roles—that’s one of the benefits of having a non-choreographer-director. [PNB] director Peter Boal brings in all different types of things. But I’m looking forward to having just a single, unified voice and learning how to work and dance in his style.

What is your most memorable performance during your time at PNB?

Because it’s kind of what has led me to this decision, I would say Roméo et Juliette. When we performed that, it really changed the way I danced. It changed the way I look at dance. It gave me a way to completely express every range of my emotion on stage.

You’ve also danced extensively with Whim W’Him. Do you plan to come back to dance with the company in the future?

Yeah, I’m working on that. It’s going to be a challenge to coordinate, but the director [at Monte Carlo] is trying to be flexible with letting me potentially come do some stuff with PNB as well.

Are there any up-and-coming Seattle dancers we should keep an eye on?

Andrew Bartee. He is a dancer at PNB, but also dances for Whim W’Him. He’s young—I think he’s been in the company a few years—and has an amazing maturity as an artist for his age.

What will you miss most about Seattle?

Well, everything. I’m not planning really on missing it too much though because I still feel like I will be connected to the city and I’m going to be coming back quite often. …[I’ll miss] the summers—not the winters.

Apollo and Carmina Burana
Apr 13–22, McCaw Hall, $28–$168

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Tags: PNB, Dance, McCaw Hall, Fiendish Conversation

Little Big Show Returns with Real Estate and Poor Moon

The Seattle concert series to support nonprofits readies its second act.

Posted by: Seth Sommerfeld on Apr 11, 2012 at 03:15PM 0 Comments

After the resounding success of February’s sold-out Pickwick concert supporting Arts Corps, the Little Big Show concert series returns next week with Brooklyn’s Real Estate and Seattle’s own Poor Moon. Real Estate has made a living releasing chill indie songs that put buzzmakers in a tizzy; the band has released two LPs and both have garnered “Best New Music” tags from Pitchfork. Poor Moon, a side project for Christian Wargo and Casey Wescott of Fleet Foxes, plays laid-back, reverbed rock and released its debut EP Illusion last month via Sub Pop. Continuing with Little Big Shows’ core principle of supporting local arts nonprofits, 100 percent of the show’s ticket sales will go to Coyote Central, the Central Seattle youth arts organization that hosts creative workshops on everything from painting and cooking to breakdancing and bike building.

Little Big Show plans to do four shows a year with the final two concerts coming in July and October. While no lineups or dates have been announced, we’ll be sure to pass along the details as soon as they’re available.

Little Big Show: Real Estate and Poor Moon
Apr 20 at 9, $15, Neptune Theatre
All proceeds benefit Coyote Central.

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Art News: Frye Closing for Renovations; New Work at Olympic Sculpture Park; ‘Gauguin and Polynesia’ in Its Final Weeks

Posted by: Laura Dannen on Apr 11, 2012 at 11:00AM 0 Comments

Prior work by artist Sandra Cinto: Imitação da Água, 2010.

CLOSING TIME The Frye Art Museum will be closed April 16 through July 14 for renovations. Education programs and lectures will continue at the Skyline a block away during the closure, but the museum’s current exhibitions by Susie J. Lee, Li Chen, and a “Beloved” collection cocurated by 90-year-old art patron Frieda Sondland, will wrap up this weekend. Lee will chat with local film critic Robert Horton at 2pm on Sunday; it’s a good time to ask her how she made it rain indoors.

LAST CHANCE Seattle Art Museum’s blockbuster Gauguin and Polynesia exhibit will close on April 29; the downtown branch will stay open late April 23–29, from 10–9, to accommodate the procrastinators. It’s recommended that you buy tickets ahead of time at seattleartmuseum.org/gauguin.

IN THE WORKS São Paulo–based artist Sandra Cinto has been holed up inside the Paccar Pavilion at Olympic Sculpture Park since the beginning of the month, covering its walls with a stormy seascape that invokes the tempest in Hokusai’s Japanese woodblock prints. Armed with some pretty simple materials (blue paint, silver paint pens), Cinto and her team of assistants and local volunteers have crafted a finely detailed Encontro das Águas (Encounter of Waters) that churns inside as the waters of Elliott Bay lap the park’s nearby shoreline. The piece will be on display April 14, 2012–April 14, 2013.

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Tags: Visual Art, frye art museum, Seattle Art Museum, Olympic Sculpture Park

Seattle Times Digs Up Jazz Gold at the Dump

Including a 1956 Seattle recording of Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Getz.

Posted by: Laura Dannen on Apr 11, 2012 at 10:00AM 0 Comments

Ella Fitzgerald, in her prime through the 1950s.

Give credit where credit’s due: There was a great story in the Seattle Times this weekend about the unearthing of jazz gold at a landfill outside San Francisco, where a storage container sat stuffed with reel-to-reel tapes of some of the greatest jazz artists of the 20th century. Of note is a live recording of a 1956 “Jazz at the Philharmonic: Seattle” concert boasting performances by Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Stan Getz. “Yes, all on the same show,” reports Paul de Barros. “This remarkable, two-disc live recording, made on Oct. 11, 1956, at the old Civic Auditorium (now the site of McCaw Hall), showcases not only the artists above, but saxophonists Sonny Stitt, Flip Phillips and Illinois Jacquet; guitarist Herb Ellis; bassist Ray Brown; trumpeter Roy Eldridge; and drummers Gene Krupa and Jo Jones. It is a feast.”

And according to de Barros, this isn’t some bootleg—it’s likely a professional broadcast, crisp and clear. The two-disc recording was re-released yesterday on the British label Acrobat, and it’s already out of stock on Amazon. But once they release more, it’s well worth your $15. Read the full story on seattletimes.com.

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Julie Andrews’s Book Tour Comes to Seattle

Three chances to catch the actor promoting her new children’s book.

Posted by: Seth Sommerfeld on Apr 10, 2012 at 01:35PM 2 Comments

Julie Andrews brings her latest children’s book to Seattle.

While she’ll always be best known for her star turns in The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has quite the successful second career as an author of children’s books. She has co-authored more than 15 children’s books to date, including four New York Times best sellers. To support her latest release, The Very Fairy Princess : Here Comes the Flower Girl Andrews will come to town (hopefully via umbrella) for three Seattle area book signings at the end of April.

The Very Fairy Princess: Here Comes the Flower Girl is the third book The Very Fairy Princess book Andrews has written with coauthor Emma Walton Hamilton. The story follows a young girl named Gerry whose imagination leads her to believe she’s a real fairy princess which helps brighten the lives of those around her. The writing duo also authored the Dumpy the Dumptruck series of children’s books.

Signings will be held at University Book Store, Third Place Books, and Barnes and Noble in Lynnwood. All three signings are ticketed events. Tickets are available by purchasing the book from one of the stores starting Tuesday, April 17. The restrictions for the signings are fairly tight. No photo or video will be allowed and ticket-holders cannot bring memorabilia for Andrews to sign.

Alas, a lack of photo opportunities negates any chance of creating a sequel to the epic video posted below. That solemn reality is hard to swallow, even with a spoonful of sugar. Note: Video contains mild profanity.

Julie Andrews signing The Very Fairy Princess: Here Comes the Flower Girl
Apr 28 at 1, University Book Store. Tickets available with purchase of the book starting Apr 17. More info at bookstore.washington.edu.

Apr 29 at 1, Third Place Books. Tickets available with purchase of the book starting Apr 17. More info at thirdplacebooks.com.

Apr 29 at 4:30, Lynnwood Barnes and Noble. Tickets available with purchase of the book starting Apr 17. More info at barnesandnoble.com.

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Tags: Books & Talks, University Bookstore, Third Place Books, Family Friendly