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Youth Scholarship Available to 2012 Centrum Blues Festival.

Seattle Teen Music and The Washington Blues Society have teamed up to offer a full ride youth scholarship to this year’s Centrum Blues Festival in Port Townsend, Washington. The scholarship will cover tuition and room and board (other expenses such as travel to and from and personal expenses are not covered). This is an $1,100.00 [...]

Interview with Marcus Printup, JALC Trumpet player

We sat down with Marcus Printup at the 2012 Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival in New York City to get his thoughts on the festival, the music and the future of jazz. Marcus is plays trumpet along with band director Wynton Marsalis in the Jazz At Lincoln Center band. Click on the audio clips below to [...]

May 12th – Seattle Teen Music Presents Jazz @ Tula’s – A Benefit for Teen Feed

Every month Seattle Teen Music invites some of the Pacific Northwest’s best teen jazz musicians onto the stage at one of Seattle’s best local jazz stages, Tula’s Jazz Club on second and Blanchard in Belltown. May is no exception with jazz combos that include the Hamilton Vocal Jazz group and Combo, a group from the [...]

Knives at the May STM Rock Night in Ballard

The teen rock band Knives will be featured at the May STM Rock Night at the Salmon Bay Eagles in Ballard. This band is one of Seattle’s hot new live music bands that you don’t want to miss. The night will is produced by Chase Hagar, vocalist from the Knives. Seattle Teen Music connects young [...]

STM Jazz now every Thursday at The Woodmark Hotel

Seattle Teen Music’s house jazz band, The STM Jazz Group, will be playing every Thursday from 6 – 9 PM at The Woodmark Hotel’s Beach Cafe for the next two months. These live music gigs will highlight some of the best teen jazz musicians from the greater Seattle area. The Woodmark has long been considered one [...]

Youth Scholarship Available to 2012 Centrum Blues Festival.

May 10th, 2012

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Seattle Teen Music and The Washington Blues Society have teamed up to offer a full ride youth scholarship to this year’s Centrum Blues Festival in Port Townsend, Washington. The scholarship will cover tuition and room and board (other expenses such as travel to and from and personal expenses are not covered). This is an $1,100.00 value. The scholarship is available to youth who are between the ages of 12 and 18 (inclusive) and has two selection criteria. The first is the timely submission of an application, which is linked below, and the second is a performance based selection at an upcoming event.

Download Application for 2012 Centrum Blues

This scholarship is offered as part of Seattle Teen Music and The Washington Blues Society program entitled “Passing the Torch” which fosters Blue’s Music awareness and opportunities for youth. Blues music is an original American art form and it’s study, understanding and continued performance is a critical component to our society and culture. Seattle Teen Music and The Washington Blues Society, in cooperation with Centrum Blues is very pleased to offer this opportunity to our young Blues musicians.

Attached is the application form that must be filled out and sent back to us no later than May 28, 2012. Good luck and if you have any questions please email them to: Scholarships@SeattleTeenMusic.com

Interview with Marcus Printup, JALC Trumpet player

May 6th, 2012

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We sat down with Marcus Printup at the 2012 Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival in New York City to get his thoughts on the festival, the music and the future of jazz. Marcus is plays trumpet along with band director Wynton Marsalis in the Jazz At Lincoln Center band. Click on the audio clips below to hear his thoughts. We will add more from this interview and others during and after the festival.

May 12th – Seattle Teen Music Presents Jazz @ Tula’s – A Benefit for Teen Feed

May 1st, 2012

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Every month Seattle Teen Music invites some of the Pacific Northwest’s best teen jazz musicians onto the stage at one of Seattle’s best local jazz stages, Tula’s Jazz Club on second and Blanchard in Belltown. May is no exception with jazz combos that include the Hamilton Vocal Jazz group and Combo, a group from the 2012 Bellevue Rising Stars select jazz group and the Edmonds Woodway high school rhythm section. All of these groups have a great legacy of stage performance and range in age from 12 to 18.

This May is also a benefit concert for one of Seattle Teen Music’s favorite local charities, Teen Feed. Teen Feed works with homeless and underserved teen population throughout Seattle with hot meals virtually every night of the week. They also supply many needed supplies such as blankets, socks, coats and toiletries. Teen Feed has been recognized many times by the community and leaders as one of the best run non-profits in the greater Seattle area.

Seattle Teen Music’s jazz @ Tula’s will collect donations for Teen Feed to help support their vital mission. There will be no cover charge for this concert, but all donations accepted will be given to Teen Feed. Please call Tula’s to make reservations.

Seattle Teen Music in New York City for Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival.

May 1st, 2012

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Essentially Ellington (EE) happens this week! What is it? Essentially Ellington is a festival and competition dedicated to continuing the legacy of the great music of Duke Ellington and it is run by jazz great Wynton Marsalis. It focuses on all High School jazz programs in North America. Bands from Canada, the USA and Mexico receive free charts and music from the EE team at the beginning of the school year. Those that decide to participate in the festival send in recordings and from the approximately 125 submissions, jazz judges select the top 15 bands. Those 15 are invited to attend the festival in New York City which is held at the Jazz at Lincoln Center. The festival includes clinics and sessions with professional jazz musicians and it culminates with a competition to select the top four bands who then play at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall.

This year represents the 18th year of EE and WE ARE GOING! The EE crew has provided two full access passes for Seattle Teen Music so we will be able to give you behind the scenes ‘sneak peeks’, interviews and stories. If you don’t already, follow us on twitter @seateenmusic and Facebook @seattleteenmusic. We will also post out live viewing instructions if you want to see the competition streamed from NYC.

Knives at the May STM Rock Night in Ballard

April 24th, 2012

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The teen rock band Knives will be featured at the May STM Rock Night at the Salmon Bay Eagles in Ballard. This band is one of Seattle’s hot new live music bands that you don’t want to miss. The night will is produced by Chase Hagar, vocalist from the Knives.

Seattle Teen Music connects young adult musicians with opportunities to play. Currently we feature monthly standing gigs at The Salmon Bay Eagles for rock and Tula’s Jazz Club for jazz. Our non-profit mission is to serve our community by enriching the lives and opportunities for teen musicians. In 2011 STM produced over 25 concerts with over 100 teen groups and worked with over 300 youth. We are on track to double those numbers in 2012.

STM Blues Scholarship Fund

March 26th, 2012

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Seattle Teen Music announces a new scholarship fund to help teen musicians that are focused on extending their skills in the Blues genre of music. Funds will be collected to support two specific events, the Centrum Acoustic Blues Festival in Port Townsend, Washington, and the International Blues Challenge (IBC) in Memphis, Tennessee. Both of these artist workshop programs target blues musicians of varying ages, but they both require a passion for the heritage and unique sound that characterizes Blues.

Applications and the selection criteria will be available soon on the Seattle Teen Music website and Facebook page so check back soon to fill out and share. If you would like to become a donor to the STM Blues Scholarship Fund please make your donation below through Paypal. Your kind donations will help keep Blues available to young musicians and the legacy of Blues alive and well.

STM Jazz now every Thursday at The Woodmark Hotel

March 21st, 2012

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Seattle Teen Music’s house jazz band, The STM Jazz Group, will be playing every Thursday from 6 – 9 PM at The Woodmark Hotel’s Beach Cafe for the next two months. These live music gigs will highlight some of the best teen jazz musicians from the greater Seattle area.

The Woodmark has long been considered one of the top places to stay and experience when you are in the Seattle area. It sits waterside to Lake Washington in Kirkland’s beautiful Carillon Point area and boasts some of the best

We’re that special, casual spot where you love to meet friends, and make some new ones. High in quality and in value the Beach Café is welcoming, energetic and fun. A great restaurant for evening drinks. The Beach Café food is familiar, fresh and absolutely crave-able, with a large seasonal patio and water views of Lake Washington from every table. Show up in a bathing suit and sandals, or drop in with your colleagues after work. This Carillon Point restaurant is Kirkland, Washington is open seven days a week, including a twice-daily happy hour, so visit us any time. But be sure to come back for breakfast—we serve the best in town.

Youth Round 3 at the Fremont Abbey

March 21st, 2012

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Friday, March 30^th, enjoy a night of live poetry (L.J. Hughes, Troy Osaki, and Noah Sather), painting (Brynn Walund and Sarah Poole), and music (Honora Hildreth, Jacob McCaslin, and Madison Brown) to benefit Peace for the Streets, by Kids on the Streets (http://www.psks.org/ ). Doors open at 6:30 pm. Show runs from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. This all-ages show will be at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center. Tickets can be purchased in advance or at the door, $5 for students, $8 general admission. (Info at www.fremontabbey.org/youthround)

STM turns 3 back at where it all started

March 17th, 2012

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Three years ago in March we started with a vision to create live music gigs for teen musicians. After a year of one off private events we grew that vision to include gigs at the Salmon Bay Eagles in Ballard (Seattle). Over the years we have produced over 50 shows, worked with more than 100 bands, set stages for over 250 teen musicians (and a few older ones), who have played for more than 4,500 people. What a cool three years.

This year our calendar has us doubling all of that. We have expanded to include more venues, more genres, more bands but our focus still remains to help young musicians get heard and connect them with places to play. Why? Because music kids are simply the best. They get it, they earn it and they deserve it. And we need their artistic selves coming out in everything they do. Thank you for all your support and guidance…and special thanks to the Teens…you are all Awesome!!!

Of course, this is a labor of love from the musicians, the venues, the parents and our volunteer staff. If you think teen arts are as important as we do, consider helping us turn four with an appropriate donation. Again, thank you for letting us change lives and change the world.

Sasquatch 2012′s Line Up – something for everyone

March 10th, 2012

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We attended last year’s Sasquatch in support of our good friends at the Seattle School of Rock and of course we had a blast. Making buttons, sharing stories and watching great groups (to many to list). Here is this year’s lineup and it once again puts The Gorge on our ‘places to visit’ list.

http://sasquatchfestival.com/lineup