All the Live Art I Witnessed in 2014

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

1/25 Volcano Choir — The Neptune
1/28 Ray Jaywardhana: Nailing Down Neutrinos — Town Hall

February

2/3 St. Lucia, Cold War Kids — The Neptune

March

3/6 The Moth — Fremont Abbey
3/6 Real Estate — Neumos
3/27 That 1 Guy — Tractor Tavern
3/28 The War on Drugs — The Neptune
3/30 AZIZ ANSARI — The Moore

April

4/26 Rock Lottery 06 — The Crocodile

May

5/15 Oklahoma! — Shorecrest High School
5/23 TBD — Sasquatch / The Gorge

June

July

7/12 Seattle Symphony: The Music of Pixar — Benaroya Hall
7/18 The Hold Steady — The Neptune

August

8/15 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Steve Winwood — The Gorge
8/20 Beck, Jenny Lewis — Marymoor Park
8/29 TK — Bumbershoot
8/30 TK — Bumbershoot
8/31 TK — Bumbershoot

September

9/5 DEMETRI MARTIN, HANNIBAL BURRESS, CHRIS HARDWICK, JEFF ROSS, SARAH SILVERMAN, AZIZ ANSARI, LOUIS CK — Oddball Fest / White River Amphitheatre

October

10/6 Ryan Adams — The Paramount
10/12 Sondre Lerche — Nectar Lounge

November

11/22 The Matchmaker — Shorecrest High School
11/23 JOHN OLIVER — The Paramount
11/28 Foo Fighters — The Showbox

December

12/3 Stevie Wonder — KeyArena
12/4 John Roderick’s Holiday Rendezvous — The Triple Door
12/31 All the Way — Seattle Rep