All the Live Art I Witnessed in 2009
What is live art? Well, in my world, it is anything that is performed, experienced, or interacted with solely in a live setting. It can be a play, a concert, or a museum exhibition. It can be a comedy show, a lecture, or a podcast taping. It doesn’t really matter, so long as it is happening in front of me, and I am there to see it in the moment.
This list will not be as extensive as some of my others, mostly because these things cost money and time, in a way the other culture consumables do not, but I still managed to engage with more than a fair share of live art over the course of 12 months. It is a list which I will organize in chronological order, and categorize thusly:
music
play
COMEDY
visual art
lecture/reading/other
January
1/17 Moondoggies — Unknown (Portland)
1/21 STELLA — Neumos
1/29 Kings of Leon — Madison Square Garden
1/30 Joseph Arthur — The Bell House
February
2/1 ASSSSCAT 3000 — UCB Theatre
2/11 Horse Feathers — Sunset Tavern
March
3/9 Elvis Perkins — Tractor Tavern
3/23 The Tallest Man on Earth — The Triple Door
April
4/11 Clem Snide — Tractor Tavern
4/21 Noah and the Whale — Chop Suey
May
5/4 Iron & Wine — Vera Project
5/6 Ben Lee — Nectar Lounge
5/10 Grease — Shorecrest High School
5/15 Mike Doughty — The Triple Door
5/23 Doves — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/23 King Khan and the Shrines — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/23 Kings of Leon — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/23 Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/23 Bon Iver — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/23 Animal Collective — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/23 Passion Pit — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/23 Blind Pilot — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/23 Mos Def — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/23 Sun Kil Moon — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/24 The Avett Brothers — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/24 The Dodos — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/24 Jane’s Addiction — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/24 Nine Inch Nails — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/24 Of Montreal — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/24 TV on the Radio — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/24 M83 — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/24 St. Vincent — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/24 Murder City Devils — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/25 Grizzly Bear — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/25 Horse Feathers — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/25 The Dutchess and the Duke — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/25 Monotonix — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/25 Blitzen Trapper — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/25 Santigold — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/25 Fleet Foxes — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/25 The Knux — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/X AZIZ ANSARI — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/25 Silversun Pickups — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/X MARIA BAMFORD — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/X TIM & ERIC — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
5/X RED WINE BOYS — Sasquatch Festival / The Gorge
June
6/9 Handsome Furs — Nuemos
6/12 The Lemonheads — Tractor Tavern
6/15 Ben Kweller — Chop Suey
6/22 White Rabbits — The Crocodile
6/29 King Sunny Ade — The Triple Door
July
7/3 Dirty Projectors — Chop Suey
7/11 Patterson Hood — No Depression Festival / Marymoor Park
7/11 Iron & Wine — No Depression Festival / Marymoor Park
7/11 Gillian Welch & David Rawlings — No Depression Festival / Marymoor Park
August
September
9/5 Matt & Kim — Bumbershoot
9/5 RED WINE BOYS, AZIZ ANSARI — Bumbershoot
9/5 De La Soul — Bumbershoot
9/6 Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Bumbershoot
9/6 SARA SILVERMAN — Bumbershoot
9/6 No Age — Bumbershoot
9/6 Raphael Saadiq — Bumbershoot
9/7 The Cave Singers — Bumbershoot
9/7 The Writers of LOST — Bumbershoot
9/7 Portland Cello Project — Bumbershoot
9/7 Soulsavers with Mark Lanegan — Bumbershoot
9/14 Fanfarlo — Chop Suey
9/21 Pearl Jam — KeyArena
9/23 Sea Wolf, Port O’Brien — Sunset Tavern
9/29 Sondre Lerche — The Triple Door (KEXP 500 Club)
October
10/13 The Dodos — Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/15 Built to Spill — Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/16 Kandinsky — The Guggenheim
10/17 The Avett Brothers, Jessica Lea Mayfield — Terminal 5
November
11/2 Langhorne Slim, Dawes — Tractor Tavern
11/14 Into the Woods — Shorecrest High School
11/24 The Books — The Triple Door
December
12/2 Blind Pilot — Neumos