All the Live Art I Witnessed in 2019

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

1/27 MIDDLEDITCH & SCHWARTZ — The Moore

February

2/13 Steve Gunn, Meg Baird — Tractor Tavern
2/16 Guster — Easy Street Records
2/23 Waxahatchee — St. Mark’s Cathedral

March

April

4/27 Flock of Dimes, Madeline Kenney — Fremont Abbey

May

5/18 Beauty and the Beast — Shorecrest High School

June

6/6 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — The Crocodile
6/22 Bill Callahan, Meg Baird — The Neptune
6/23 Lucinda Williams, Cass McCombs — Woodland Park Zoo
6/25 Sinkane — Tractor Tavern

July

August

8/8 Carly Rae Jepsen, Phoebe Ryan — Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay
8/14 The Rolling Stones, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real — Century Link Field
8/15 The Hold Steady, Young Fresh Fellows — The Crocodile
8/29 The National, Alvvays — Marymoor Park

September

9/6 Bon Iver, Sharon Van Etten — The Gorge
9/17 Elton John — Tacoma Dome

October

10/3 Damien Jurado — Tractor Tavern
10/11 Joan Shelley, Nathan Salsburg — The Auditorium at UHeights

November

11/13 Craig Finn, Cassandra Jenkins — The Triple Door
11/16 Be More Chill — Shorecrest High School
11/17 The Great Moment — Seattle Rep

December

12/5 Neko Case, Calexico — McCaw Hall
12/14 Waxahatchee, Owen — The Vera Project