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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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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Youth Round 3 at the Fremont Abbey

Friday, March 30th,  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 [...]

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STM turns 3 back at where it all started

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 [...]

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Seattle Teen Music and the Washington Blues Society create a Blues focused partnership for teens.

Seattle Teen Music and the Washington Blues Society will join together to focus on finding and cultivating more teen based blues musicians in the Pacific Northwest. The northwest is already steeped in the tradition of live blues music, which can be heard at several venues. However, many of those venues are still inaccessible to those musicians [...]

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STM Jazz Duo opens the Fremont Abbey’s Birthday Party

Taylor Griffin and Kyle Scherrer, the Seattle Teen Music Jazz Duo, opened up the Fremont Abbey’s 6th Birthday Party and were followed by members of the Lonely Forest and Campfire OK. The night was a fundraiser to help support the Abbey’s work in the arts community in Fremont and it raised over seven thousand dollars. [...]

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Seattle Teen Music prepares for over 40 live music concerts in 2012.

We sat down to look at the calendar and it is looking quite busy already for next year. This year we put on over 25 all ages and family friendly live music concerts and we are on our way for 40 live music concerts next year. So far the schedule looks like: 12 monthly all [...]

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Seattle Teen Music Volume 1 CD released at Teen Feed celebration.

Seattle Teen Music has released its first CD and they will go on sale for the first time to the public at Teen Feed’s annual celebration which will be held at the Neptune Theater. The CD features five of the best unsigned but highly recognized teen rock bands from Seattle. The list includes: Electricity and [...]

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Seattle Teen Music Throws a Block Party

Seattle Teen Music just passed our second birthday and to celebrate we are putting on a block party! The day will feature four bands and will be from noon to 4 PM on Sunday, July 24th. You are invited to share in the festivities. Bring a blanket, a lawn chair and your good attitude (grumps [...]

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Seattle Teen Music is competing for July Refresh Everything Grant from Pepsi

Seattle Teen Music was selected by Pepsi in their Refresh Everything grant project to compete for Fifty Thousand dollars. Seattle Teen Music’s submission targets creating fifteen concerts and two CDs with teen bands. You can support Seattle Teen Music by texting a vote to 73774 (Pepsi) with the numbers 107493; or, by going to the [...]

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