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Last Updated: 1/3/2010
Concerts and Special Events Coming Up!
Friday, January 8 – OFS Presents
Steven Severin performs Music for Silents
along with Germaine Dulac’s 1928 :The Seashell and the Clergyman and other silent treasures!
8:00pm doors/8:30pm show
$10.00 OFS Members/$12.00 General Admission, advance tickets available at www.buyolympia.com/events or at the box office night of show.
All Ages
This is a rare appearance by Steven Severin, performing his recent solo work Music for Silents live with video projection. The centerpiece of the new work is a soundtrack to the French avant-garde masterpiece The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928), directed by Germaine Dulac and written by Antonin Artaud. This surrealist classic was met by antipathy on its original release by the British Board of Film Censors, which wrote that it is “apparently meaningless . . . But, if there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable.” Severin is known for weaving intense and dark musical tapestries, which lend themselves to Dulac’s film and the handful of other rare silent shorts that will be presented.
A key member of the Bromley Contingent, which captivated the culture and fashion scenes in 1970s England, Severin formed Siouxsie and the Banshees with Siouxsie Sioux in 1976. The Times called the band “one of the most audacious and uncompromising musical adventurers of the post-punk era.” During their reign, Siouxsie and the Banshees established themselves as one of the foremost alternative art groups in London. Since the breakup of the band in 1995, Severin has applied himself to numerous solo projects including the composition and performance of several film scores including the supernatural thriller London Voodoo and a six-part Channel 4/PBS documentary titled The Ascent of Money. Music for Silents was released on October 1, 2009
Saturday, January 9 – King of the Road Presents…
The 10th Annual Elvis Birthday Bash 2010: Celebrate Elvis’ 75th Birthday With The Black Elvis; Robert Washington!
7:00pm doors/7:30pm show
$25.00 VIP Tickets/$10.00 General Admission. Tickets are available at www.ElvisBirthdayBash.com or at the box office on the night of the show.
All Ages!
On August 16, 1977 Elvis left the building. Also on that fateful day, Robert Washington celebrated his 19th birthday. Fast forward over 30 years later and Robert Washington has become one of the best Elvis impersonators in the world. Some would say THE best. Others would vehemently disagree.
Why? Because he is black.
Robert Washington took 2nd place three times in the annual Images of Elvis World Championships held each August in Memphis, TN. And three times a slew of fans cried foul when he was not crowned King. But after several cracks against the glass ceiling, fans at the World Championships were stunned, shocked, and ecstatic when Robert Washington made history by becoming the first black man ever crowned World Champion Elvis Impersonator.
The evening begins with 7:30pm screening of Almost Elvis – the funny and heartwarming documentary about Elvis Impersonators. This award-winning film chronicles top contenders on their road to the World Championships, including Robert’s own efforts to crack the color barrier.
After the film, Washington will take the stage and let the audience be the judge. Known in the Elvis world for his onstage flips, athletic dance moves, and powerful voice, he leaves fans All Shook Up.
Tuesday, January 12- ACLU of Washington Presents…
Marijuana: It’s Time for a Conversation hosted by Rick Steves!
6:00pm doors/6:30pm screening
Free Event!
One time screening of an award-winning video that looks at the history and impacts of marijuana laws. Travel writer Rick Steves hosts the program and will speak at the screening with other notable guests.
Rick Steves is one of the most high-profile people in the country advocating the reform of our nation’s marijuana laws. He has produced a TV show on the topic with the ACLU, and has been a board member of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, since 2003. Although he is not pro drugs, he “appreciates how much of Europe treats its drug problems in a pragmatic way, with success measured by harm reduction rather than incarceration.” For more information, please visit www.aclu-wa.org or www.MarijuanaConversation.org.
Saturday, January 16 – OFS Presents
Hells Belles (Female AC/DC tribute band) with Queens of Noise (Olympia’s own tribute to The Runaways)!
8:00pm doors/9:00pm show
$10.00 OFS Members/$15.00 General Admission
Advance tickets available at www.buyolympia.com/events, Rainy Day Records, and at the box office night of show.
All Ages with 21+ Beer Garden
Opening the show is Olympia’s very own tribute to the Runaways!! You might of caught these ladies playing OFS’s annual Halloween show this year? If you missed em’, this will be the opportunity to see them! Full of energy, spit, and badass licks! This is night filled with rock served to you by some seriously talent musicians!!
World famous and ready to rock, HELL’S BELLES is the premier all female AC/DC tribute act, blowing all comers away. Playing ALL AC/DC, ALL the time, ALL over the globe, spanning all the pure rock brilliance of AC/DC’s career (From “High Voltage” to “Back and Black” and beyond), HELL’S BELLES do justice to the Aussie legends with patented HELL’S BELLES devotion, precision, and fury. Endorsed by Angus Young himself (Blender Magazine; 2003), HELL’S BELLES are the closest one can get without actually moving to Australia and joining AC/DC’s road crew.
HELL’S BELLES is about AC/DC, they’re about the finest rock they’ve got to offer, and they’re also about empowering women to get “Up Front” in rock. HELL’S BELLES go to great lengths to encourage women to play music, to get involved, to grab and hold a piece of the action. Representing for a whole new generation of women that won’t be intimidated, HELL’S BELLES actively support women-populated bands, by making sure to include them in shows and interviews whenever possible. Not some down-your-throat feminism, but a proactive support and action spirit towards the continued balancing of the gender scales.
Monday, January 18- The March on Washington State for Jobs & Justice
Join us at the People’s Summit & March on the Capitol on MLK, Jr. Day 2010 on Monday, January 18th 2010, a statewide coalition of community advocacy and grassroots organization will come together at the Capitol Theater for our annual lobby day in Olympia: The People’s Summit & March on the Capitol. This is an opportunity for low-income people and allies to weigh in on issues that directly impact them and demand change. Organized by: Poverty Action, Washington CAN, Real Change, Washington Low Income Housing Alliance, VOICES, POWER, One America, & Cord. To register, please visit www.povertyaction.org or call 206-694-6794 or 1-866-789-7726.
Event Details: Morning Summit: 8:30 AM and Rally & March: 11:30 AM at the Capitol Theater. Skill Building Workshops & Lawmaker Meeting: 1:00 – 4:00 PM on the Capitol Campus
Tuesday, February 16- OFS Presents…
Dave Rawlings Machine and special guests.
7:30pm doors/8:00pm show
$20.00 OFS Members/$25.00 General Admission tickets available at www.buyolympia.com/events, Rainy Day Records, and at the box office night of show. On sale January 1st.
All Ages!
A Friend of a Friend is the first record by Dave Rawlings, the guitarist, producer, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with Gillian Welch and Old Crow Medicine Show. These long time compatriots join Rawlings on this record beside newer friends Benmont Tench from the Heartbreakers, Karl Himmel, and Nate Walcott of Bright Eyes.
A Friend of a Friend has more lavish arrangements than songs from the Gillian Welch catalog typically do. Rawlings’s sly and succinct guitar playing is embedded within ensemble play as opposed to carrying the bulk of the arrangement. The music on A Friend of a Friend is cousin to the deftly modern and haunting music that Welch and Rawlings are known for, but it has here been expanded, come experience the Dave Rawlings Machine, live!
Saturday, February 27 – UPWest Arts Presents…
An evening with… Taj Mahal Trio
7:00pm doors/8:00pm show
$35.00 OFS/General Admission tickets available online www.ticketswest.com or call 800-992-8499, at Rainy Day Records, and at the box office night of show.
All Ages!
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal, a two-time GRAMMY winner and one of the most influential American blues and roots artists of the past half-century, has made no Faustian deals in his long and distinguished career, but he stands at an important crossroads nonetheless. In his never-ending exploration of the complex origins and underpinnings of American music, he has forged a four-decade career by gathering and distilling countless musical traditions from a range of geographical and cultural sources: the Mississippi Delta, the Appalachian backwoods, the African continent, the Hawaiian islands, Europe, the Caribbean and so much more. Taj Mahal doesn’t just stand at the crossroads. He is the crossroads.
