All the Live Art I Witnessed in 2016
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
1/29 Gilmore Guys — The Showbox
February
2/25 MICHAEL CHE — Columbia City Theater
2/27 Kehinde Wiley — Seattle Art Museum
2/28 From Indian Lakes — Vera Project
2/29 Carly Rae Jepsen — The Showbox
March
3/3 Thao — Sonic Boom
3/4 Genre Bender — Cornish Playhouse
3/13 Waxahatchee — Vera Project
3/21 Phil Cook — Sunset Tavern
3/24 Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band — KeyArena
3/26 Thao & the Get Down Stay Down — The Neptune
3/27 Hinds, Chastity Belt — Sunset Tavern
3/30 Ra Ra Riot — Neumos
April
4/1 Loudon Wainwright III — Edmonds Center for the Arts
4/12 Pete Yorn — The Showbox
4/17 Paul McCartney — KeyArena
4/20 Bonnie Raitt — The Paramount
4/21 Courtney Barnett — The Moore
May
5/7 Joan Shelley — Ballard Homestead
5/11 Lucious — The Neptune
5/18 The Moth Mainstage — Benaroya Hall
5/20 Billy Joel, Gavin DeGraw — Safeco Field
5/21 Thoroughly Modern Millie — Shorecrest High School
June
6/1 The Kills — Showbox SoDo
6/8 Modern Baseball, Joyce Manor — The Showbox
6/17 Hey Marseilles — Sonic Boom
6/23 Chuck Klosterman: But What If We’re Wrong — Elliott Bay Books
6/30 case/lang/veirs — Woodland Park Zoo
July
7/12 Wye Oak — Neumos
7/21 Sting/Peter Gabriel — KeyArena
7/23 STEVE MARTIN & MARTIN SHORT — The Paramount
August
8/8 Wolf Parade — The Neptune
8/12 Caveman — KEXP Concerts at the Mural
September
9/17 Bloc Party — The Neptune
9/21 Neil DeGrasse Tyson — The Paramount
October
10/8 Ryley Walker — Barboza
10/22 Flock of Dimes — Barboza
November
11/4 JERRY SEINFELD — The Paramount
11/6 [UNKNOWN] — Naked City Comedy
December
12/4 JOE MANDE — Columbia City Theater
12/10 LOUIS CK — The Paramount
12/16 The Helio Sequence — The Crocodile