KENYON HALL PRESENTS

Wes Weddell & Del Rey

Saturday, April 19th 2025

Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 7:30pm

All Ages

Seated

$15 General Admission / $10 Senior/Student

For the past two-and-a-half decades, Wes Weddell has worked multiple shifts in the engine room of Seattle’s roots music scene as frontman, sideman, writer, teacher, and community-builder. “Always heartfelt and well-constructed” (Seattle Weekly), listeners have come to expect Weddell’s regionally rooted songs to “speak for themselves” (No Depression). Yet performed live—solo or with his band behind him—the melodic stories deepen further against the backdrop of the multi-instrumentalist’s relatable presence and quick wit. In 2010, Weddell began working with The Bushwick Book Club Seattle, an expanding collective of songwriters who each compose new music inspired by literature to share in monthly showcases focused around specific books. Songs from this catalog appear on his latest release, Somewhere in the Middle (2019), and comprise the entirety of the full-band showpiece Nobody’s Flag (2015).

Del Rey started playing guitar when she was four. At the age of thirteen, Del was introduced to the world of traditional acoustic music, when a friend and she stumbled into a concert at Folk Arts Rare Records in San Diego. About 20 people were sitting on the floor under the record bins listening to a kid named Tom Waits play his original songs.

Lou Curtiss, proprietor of Folk Arts and artistic director of the San Diego Folk Festival suggested she quit wasting her time playing “Stairway to Heaven” and listen to some Memphis Minnie. He put her on stage with Sam Chatmon when she was fourteen, and introduced her to Lydia Mendoza and Howard Armstrong. Lou gave Del recordings that still influence everything she does on solo acoustic guitar. She soaked up country blues, stride piano, classic jazz and hillbilly boogie. It was a musical education hanging around the record shop.

Thirty years later, Del became fascinated with the ukulele, playing the same kind of complicated rhythmic blues and ragtime on four strings as on six. She expects a lot out of the little instrument.

“Del Rey, who plays a syncopated style of guitar based on prewar blues and barrelhouse piano traditions, is one of the best fingerpickers of this or any generation. “ Ian Zack, Acoustic Guitar

“Whilst known for her amazing instrumental skills … it should not be overlooked that she always provides a very entertaining show, full of variety, drama and humour.” Blues In Britain

Check more out from Wes Here! and Del Rey Here!

KENYON HALL PRESENTS

The Half Brothers
feat. Jed Zeppelin

Sunday, 13th 2025 (MATINEE)

Doors: 3:00pm / Show: 3:30pm

All Ages

Seated

$15 General Admission / $10 Senior/Student / $5 10yr & Under

Seattle's premier purveyors of skewed bluegrass are excited to return to Kenyon Hall to entertain all ages with their new-fangled old-timey music. Since 2006, David Nixon, John Ackermann, and Rick Miller have delighted audiences throughout the Pacific Northwest with their incisive original tunes about food, traveling, and death. Expect lots of harmonies, a banjo solo or two, and a heaping helping of absurdity.

Joining the Half Brothers for their premiere full-length show is Jed Zeppelin, the world's first* bluegrass Led Zeppelin tribute band, who are totally not the same band as The Half Brothers.

Check more out from them Here!

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Ray Skjelbred (Solo)

Saturday, April 12th 2025

Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 7:30pm

All Ages

Seated

$15 General Admission / $10 Senior/Student

Ray Skjelbred has been a piano soloist as well as band leader and sideman in blues, jazz and swing groups for many years in Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, and in festivals and concerts throughout the U.S. and Europe. He currently leads two groups —The Yeti Chasers and Ray Skjelbred and his Cubs. He has also worked as chosen accompanist for legendary blues singers Victoria Spivey and Barbara Dane. His 2018 film, Piano Jazz: Chicago Style! (recorded at the Royal Room) won the documentary/history award at the 2018 New York Jazz Film Festival.

Check more out from them Here!

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Ranger & The Re-Arrangers

Saturday, March 29 2025

Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 7:30pm

All Ages

Seated

$20 General Admission / $15 Senior/Student

Seattle "Gypsy Jazz" band Ranger and the “Re-Arrangers” evoke the spirit of a Paris cafe and the raucous energy of a Romani campsite with their version of Hot Club Swing. “At the heart of their sound is Ranger Sciacca's sweet violin playing… his sense of melody and daring improvisations” (World Rhythm). The band’s repertoire includes swing standards, traditional European melodies, the music of Django Reinhardt, and Ranger's unique originals.

Check more out from them Here!

KENYON HALL PRESENTS

Final Friday’s Jazz/Blues Jam
Lead by and for emerging student musicians and young professionals

Friday, March 28th 2025

Doors: 6:00pm / Music: 6:30pm

All Ages

Seated

ALL ADMISSION IS FREE

Kenyon Hall will be hosting open jam sessions for learning and early professional players in the West Seattle Area. Focusing on jazz/blues material these will be sessions open to all players looking to learn more about improvising and creating on the bandstand with other musicians.

Kenyon Hall will provide a house trio made up of some great musicians from the Chief Sealth music program. All instruments and/or vocalists welcome!

These jam sessions will be an open-call environment. We’ll have a sign-up sheet available when doors open (6:00pm) that players can sign-up with instrument details as well as song calls. Players can sign-up as soloists to play with the house band as well as duos/trios.

Each month will include a dedicated theme/recommended set-list of songs provided below. Feel free to choose from these songs or bring music to call your own song.

Kenyon Hall sits near the corner of Kenyon Avenue and 35th Ave on top of High Point in West Seattle. 7904 35th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98126

We have an intimate listening space with a modest stage that is welcoming to all ages, all genres, and all levels of learning.

The Jamboree will take place on the “Final Friday” of each month. Through the spring and the rest of the school year, dates will be: 3/28/25, 4/25/25, 5/30/25, and 6/27/25.

Doors will open for sign-ups at 6:00pm, with performances occurring between 6:30pm - 9:00pm

Check out more about it Here!

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Magical Strings

Sunday, March 16 2025

Doors: 2:00pm / Show: 2:30pm

All Ages

Seated

$20 General Admission / $15 Senior/Student

Founded by Pam and Philip Boulding, Magical Strings has been sharing the joy of Celtic music and dance in the lives of people around the United States and abroad since 1978. They have recorded 21 albums encompassing traditional Celtic arrangements, original compositions and subtle world music influences, performing on their own crafted Celtic harps and hammered dulcimers, augmented with pennywhistles, button accordion, concertina and more. They have toured and collaborated with notable artists such as singer/songwriter Dan Fogelberg and slack-key guitarist Keola Beamer. When not on the road, Philip and Pam teach, build instruments, compose, and seem to have boundless energy for their creative life which is nurtured at their home, Magic Hill, on a beautiful farm by the Puget Sound.

Check more out from them Here!

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The Home Rulers

Saturday, March 15 2025

Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 7:30pm

All Ages

Seated

$15 General Admission / $10 Senior/Student

This hearty trio brings  spirited Irish and Scottish traditional music to Seattle Irish week. Seasoned performers, their fiery songs and tunes will set toes tapping. Veterans of the BOWL band, Tony Schuler (banjo, guitar and vocals) and Leah Cupps, vocals, bodhran are mainstays of the Renaissance and country fairs of the Northwest and have produced multiple recordings. Susan Burke, fiddle, founded the Home Rulers in 2012 and is active playing contra dances, local celebrations and sessions.

Check more out from them Here!

***LIMITED WALKUPS AVAILABLE***

KENYON HALL PRESENTS

Cartoon Mess LIVE
feat. Tom & Duck

Saturday, March 8th 2025

Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 7:30pm

All Ages

Seated

$15 General Admission / $10 Senior/Student

Cartoon Mess LIVE! is an umbrella of interactive animated performances. Only using keyboards, tablets and cameras. I’ve written the code myself, and I pull all the strings: direction, character performances, and camera switching.. all while live-streaming on twitch.tv/tomthinks. It’s like cartoon improv. Toonprov?

The flagship show (Cartoon Mess LIVE!) is hosted by Duck and Tom. From user-submitted word suggestions, they sketch scenes that come to life! The drawings begin to speak, or sing, or scream!? Anything is possible!

Tom Deslongchamp is an all around creative. Making portraits using a variety of methods, but the most unusual is his fingerprint/ink technique. Follow his art journey on his @tomthinks account on Instagram.

Tom is also a digital puppeteer. This performance will feature his Cartoon Mess LIVE which also streams on twitch.tv/tomthinks. Follow @CartoonMessLIVE on Instagram for show updates and clips.

Check more out from them Here!

KENYON HALL PRESENTS

Mac Potts

Saturday, March 1st 2024

Doors: 2:00pm / Show: 2:30pm

All Ages

Seated

$15 General Admission / $10 Senior/Student

Nationally recognized multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Mac Potts began as a child prodigy. Born totally blind, Mac stepped into the spotlight as a professional musician at 14 years old. He progressed from classical piano to jazz, blues, boogie-woogie, and rock and roll – performing solo and collaboratively across North America.

Mac was a contestant on Season 17 of ABC’s American Idol. He wowed Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie, making it through multiple rounds of the popular TV show. While Mac possesses the charm and charisma to fill auditoriums, he is best known for his solo piano/vocal/saxophone act at establishments across the Pacific Northwest. Mac frequents venues in Portland, SW Washington, Seattle, and the shores of Lake Chelan, where he lives and works as a worship director for Lake Chelan Bible Church.

Playing the piano behind his back is his go-to party trick but especially for dueling pianos. If Mac’s dynamic personality and soulful voice wasn’t enough as a dueling pianist, his sheer prowess on the keys alone astounds audiences of all ages and stages of sobriety.

Check more out from them Here!

KENYON HALL PRESENTS

The Record Release Party for "A Night In The Sun" by Joseph Giant
w/ special guest Brent Carpenter.

A showcase of independent, local music from Lithic Records

Saturday, February 15 2024

Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 7:30pm

All Ages

Seated

$12 General Admission / $10 Senior/Student

Joseph Giant is a stage name adopted by Seattle singer and songwriter Joe Syverson whose beautifully crafted bedroom americana indie folk rock songs lead the listener down a path of hope, love and loss. Born and raised in a religious cult that his family left at the age of 12. Joe found escape in writing songs at a young age and eventually moving to Seattle where he was a member and fronted many bands over the years including Terror Sheets, Throw Me The Statue (Secretly Canadian) Pearly Gate Music (Barsuk), Final Spins, & Floored Faces.

With the arrival of his third album A Night In The Sun, Joseph Giant immediately pulls the listener into a world of lush instrumentation (drum machines, acoustic guitars, reverb soaked vocals) with guitar lines that flirt with ticklish cosmic country and others that reflect the dark garage sounds of the early 60’s. Home recorded and self produced with just enough polish to bring out the shining and melancholy undertones of Syverson’s vocals. There is an abiding sadness with a friendly and familiar theme of light carrying you through the dark times, “one more night in the sun” indeed."

Brent Allen Carpenter is a musician who has lived in Seattle, Washington his whole life and has written songs and composed music for the better part of thirty-five years. Most of his musical output has taken place in bands. *** His story is similar to other punk rockers that have answered the call to take up the acoustic guitar and serenade his friends from time to time.

Most of Brent’s solo “career” has been sporadic performances around Seattle. He admits that solo performances “are terrifying. I’m a band guy! I don’t like being the only one on stage and usually have to force myself to play solo twice a year just to do it…”

Although shows are sparse, he enjoys the creative process; writing and recording is one of his favored artforms. Lithic Records has been going through his catalog and re-mastering some of the older sessions. At the time of this writing (1/3/25) Brent is working on a new full length effort. We’ll keep you posted.

***Brent Carpenter has been in: BlöödHag – Audio Infidels – The Grindylow – Blue Collar – Muchos Arms – Eternal 13 – Antiquarian – Black Friday – Pure Tons of Love – Lynss – Subculture"

Check more out from them Here!

KENYON HALL PRESENTS

Jeff ‘Plank’ Plankenhorn

Saturday, February 8th 2025

Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 7:30pm

All Ages

Seated

$25 General Seating

JEFF PLANKENHORN

– aka “Plank” – is a world-class songwriter who after 16 years serving as accompanist and first-call session musician to Texas’ biggest musical stars (Joe Ely, Ruthie Foster, Ray Wylie Hubbard, etc.) decided to go solo with his SoulSlide album.

A virtuoso multi-instrumentalist whose signature-designed lap-steel "The Plank" landed him an Austin Music Award in 2017, Jeff Plankenhorn was a Black Fret major grant recipient in 2018, and his continuous hard work has paid off with an ever-growing fanbase he’s built at festivals and venues across Canada & the U.S., touring his second full-length album Sleeping Dogs, which features Patty Griffin and Ray Wylie Hubbard. His current releases are a pair of EPs: Covered/Uncovered Vols. I and II. In 2023, Plank will extend his reach, touring Europe as a solo artist for the first time.

Check more out from them Here!

KENYON HALL PRESENTS

Steven Damouni & Chris Young are
Romantic Cello

Saturday, February 1 2024

Doors: 2:00pm / Show: 2:30pm

All Ages

Seated

$15 General Admission / $10 Senior/Student

Romantic Cello is:

Chris Young, Cello

Steven Damouni, Piano

Program

Élégie for Cello and Piano, Op. 24………………………….…….…Gabriel Fauré
Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the Mirror)……..……………..………….Arvo Pärt
Pohádka (Fairy Tale)………………………….…………………….…Leoš Janáček

Intermission

Sonata for Piano and Cello in F Major, Op. 99……………..……Johannes Brahms

I. Allegro Vivace
II. Adagio Affettuoso
III. Allegro Passionato
IV. Allegro Molto

The duo believes in the importance of including education and community outreach in their programming and seeks to surprise and inspire their audiences!

KENYON HALL PRESENTS:

Narrower

Featuring:
The Summit
DJ Dave

Thursday, December 5th 2024

Doors: 6:00pm / Show: 6:30pm

All Ages

Seated / Standing

FREE ADMISSION

Kenyon Hall celebrates our many students who are constantly growing, learning, and taking the music world by storm! Come celebrate their achievements with us and catch a special surprise performance by a Special Guest Artist as they give back to our young and aspiring community of musicians!
We feel so supported in our efforts to provide this space for our students and what them to feel the same - so come on out, cheer them on and take your seasonal dose of rock!

*** SOLD OUT ***

KENYON HALL PRESENTS

Tom Deslongchamp in Cartoon Mess LIVE

Saturday, November 16th 2024

Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 7:30pm

All Ages

Seated

$15 General Admission / $10 Senior/Student

Cartoon Mess LIVE! is an umbrella of interactive animated performances. Only using keyboards, tablets and cameras. I’ve written the code myself, and I pull all the strings: direction, character performances, and camera switching.. all while live-streaming on twitch.tv/tomthinks. It’s like cartoon improv. Toonprov?

The flagship show (Cartoon Mess LIVE!) is hosted by Duck and Tom. From user-submitted word suggestions, they sketch scenes that come to life! The drawings begin to speak, or sing, or scream!? Anything is possible!

Tom Deslongchamp is an all around creative. Making portraits using a variety of methods, but the most unusual is his fingerprint/ink technique. Follow his art journey on his @tomthinks account on Instagram.

Tom is also a digital puppeteer. This performance will feature his Cartoon Mess LIVE which also streams on twitch.tv/tomthinks. Follow @CartoonMessLIVE on Instagram for show updates and clips.

Check more out from them Here!