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-Hi, there, and welcome to the show.
I'm Nancy Guppy,
coming to you from a spectacular exhibit
at Cascadia Art Museum,
titled "Full Light and Perfect Shadow:
The Photography of Chao-Chen Yang."
An important Seattle photographer
who gained national prominence in the mid-20th century,
this groundbreaking exhibition is the first-ever study
of Chao-Chen Yang's extraordinary work.
From portraiture to nature, architecture to street scenes,
Yang's curiosity, sharp eye, and interest in experimenting
with different photographic processes
led to an incredible creation
of bold, complex, and emotionally rich imagery.
You definitely want to see this show in person.
"Full Light and Perfect Shadow:
The Photography of Chao-Chen Yang"
runs now through February 11, 2024.
For hours and location and information
on the exhibit's accompanying book,
go to cascadiaartmuseum.org.
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We've got an excellent lineup for you,
including Selena Kearney at Solas Gallery...
-When I see the work on the wall today
and I look at it, I think to myself,
"This is what I wanted to say.
I wanted these images to be uncanny and dark."
-...and music from the great Tiffany Wilson.
-♪ You know, once you leave, ain't no comin' back ♪
♪ Shut the door ♪
♪ Don't let it hit you on the way out ♪
-And we'll begin with pianist
and beloved music teacher Billy Stover.
[ Piano plays soft music ]
-I'm Billy Stover, piano teacher,
performing musician, dad of three,
and bicycle enthusiast.
I saw Willie Nelson when I was 5 years old,
and I immediately knew what I was gonna do.
-♪ Quite as often as I could have ♪
-I wanted to take piano, and my parents bought me a piano
and got me a piano teacher, and that was that.
I've been doing it ever since.
I love playing R&B most these days.
-♪ Every time you come around ♪
♪ You got to bring ♪
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Y'all know what he's talkin'. You know what I'm sayin'?
♪ Why can't we be all alone? ♪
-One of my favorites was
when I was playing in The Dusty 45s,
and we were the backing band for Wanda Jackson.
I recorded a record with Mark Lanegan,
which was really tremendous,
and I've done a lot of commercials --
music for commercials -- and the most prominent one
was with Cat Power for the iPhone 5.
We worked on a version
of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
-♪ A merry little Christmas now ♪
-I was asked by a family to come teach their sons piano
when I was working at a smoothie shop.
So I rode my skateboard over there 28 years ago,
and I quit my job probably four weeks after that.
They spread the word, and I rode my skateboard
to all the piano lessons that I did.
And I got well-known
because I was a skateboarding piano teacher.
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[ Rhythmic knocking on door ]
-What's up, Billy? -Hey, dude.
-How's your week going? -Pretty darn good.
What about yours?
[ Piano plays slow classical music ]
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-I would say the most challenging aspect
is to teach kids how to focus properly
in order to be a musician,
which I think has a separate style of focus.
So we focus on that quite a bit.
Can you try it again? -Yeah.
-I want to see you work the pedal.
Heel on the ground. When you're working the pedal,
you use your -- have your heel on the ground.
Mm-hmm.
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One family that I have, I teach twins.
Hello, everybody. -Hi.
-And the coolest thing about that is that they play together.
They'll play duets, or they'll play
their same assignment together. And I am,
along with the parents, are just so stoked to see that.
Okay, wrists and backs,
and one, two, three, ready, and go.
[ Piano plays slow music ]
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I'm proud of all of my students,
particularly the ones that I get to start from scratch.
It is amazing to see some of these kids really catapult
to a level where I am basically
just a fingering coach for them after a while,
because they get so good
that I can't even really play what they're playing.
-Hey, Billy! How you doing? -Hello, Jamie.
[ Piano plays intense ragtime music ]
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-I think this might be my 55th recital,
but it's the first time we've ever done a Halloween recital,
so I'm pretty stoked about that.
All the kids will be in their costumes,
and you know, they're all nervous.
I am more nervous than they are,
so I won't breathe for 90 minutes.
[ Piano plays "Jingle Bells" ]
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[ Piano plays mid-tempo classical music ]
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[ Piano plays slow classical music ]
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[ Piano plays up-tempo ragtime music ]
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[ Cheers and applause ]
I don't think I'll ever stop teaching piano.
It's what I do best. It's what I love the most.
I really have a hard time taking vacations
without feeling like I'm missing out on teaching.
Yeah!
-Follow Billy on Instagram
and learn more about his teaching
and live-performance schedule at billydisaster.com.
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Powerhouse singer-songwriter Tiffany Wilson
recently landed the part of Madame Z
in Teatro ZinZanni's 25th-anniversary show.
And to celebrate this cool accomplishment,
here is Tiffany from 2018 performing "Shut the Door."
[ Drum plays ]
[ Funky soul music plays ]
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-♪ Oh, look at you ♪
♪ You done got all beside yourself ♪
♪ You know, once you leave, ain't no coming back ♪
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♪ Shut the door ♪
♪ Don't let it hit you on the way out ♪
♪ Shut the door ♪
♪ Don't let it hit you on the way out ♪
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♪ Gave you my everything, but that ain't enough ♪
♪ You want what's left of me, my last drop of blood ♪
♪ I'm the one in my pocket that's keeping us afloat ♪
♪ Time to throw you overboard, you rockin' my boat ♪
♪ You were down on your luck, and I came and made you fly ♪
♪ Think you can do better, baby, hit the road back on and try ♪
♪ You could do, you could do, you could do, you could do ♪
♪ Hey, you could do better, baby ♪
♪ Yeah, right ♪
♪ Shut the door ♪
♪ Don't let it hit you on the way out ♪
♪ Mm-mm mm mm ♪
♪ Shut the door ♪
♪ Don't let it hit you on the way out ♪
♪ While you at it ♪
♪ Pack your damn duffel bag and that stupid grin ♪
♪ Call your moms, let her know you movin' back in ♪
♪ All your lyin', triflin', and insensitive ways ♪
♪ Makes me want to come and smack about your face ♪
♪ Good to see you made a big mistake ♪
♪ The biggest fight of your life ♪
♪ When it finally hit you, boy ♪
♪ You gonna break on down and cry ♪
♪ You could do, you could do, you could do, you could do ♪
♪ You could do, you could do, you could do better, baby ♪
♪ Yeah, right ♪
♪ Ah, you could do, you could do ♪
♪ You could do, you could do, you could do ♪
♪ You could do, you could do better, baby ♪
♪ Yeah, right ♪
♪ Shut the door ♪
♪ Don't let it hit you on the way out ♪
♪ Mm-mm mm mm ♪
♪ Shut my door ♪
♪ Don't let it hit you on the way out ♪
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♪ You were down on your luck, I came and made you fly ♪
♪ Think you can do better, baby, hit the road back on and try ♪
♪ You were down on your luck, I came and made you fly ♪
♪ Yeah-eah-eah ♪
-♪ You could do better, baby ♪
-♪ Said you could do better, baby ♪
-♪ You could do better, baby ♪
-♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
-♪ You could do better, baby ♪
-♪ I know you could do better, baby ♪
-♪ Do better, baby ♪
-♪ Just not better than me ♪
-♪ Do better, baby ♪
-♪ Oh, you could do better ♪
-♪ Do better, baby ♪
-♪ Oh, yeah, yeah ♪
-♪ Do better, baby ♪
-♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
-♪ Do better ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Alright!
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See Tiffany as Madame Z in Teatro ZinZanni's
current show, running now through March 31, 2024,
at the Lotte Hotel in downtown Seattle.
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Next up, "Object/Ritual," a striking exhibit
by artist Selena Kearney at Solas Gallery.
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-We're in beautiful Seattle
at Solas Gallery in Pioneer Square.
When I see the work on the wall today
and I look at it, I think to myself,
"This is what I wanted to say.
I wanted these images to be uncanny and dark."
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I grew up on the Chehalis Indian Reservation
in Southwest Washington, and I have six siblings.
And my mom and my siblings still live there.
I think it was around 2016,
I started to be curious about the power
that dressing up like an Indian for Halloween had,
and people being very enraged
at someone who would dress as a native for Halloween
and not be native. So I started to be curious
about why those objects had so much power
and what was it about the objects
that provoked so much emotion.
And so I decided to consult the objects themselves.
I bought them on eBay and Amazon,
and started to collect them and decontextualize them
in a large black box and photograph them.
And so what you're seeing on the walls right now
are this five-year-long process of collecting the objects,
photographing them, kind of taking everything away.
The jerseys don't have a player in them.
The headdress is not at a festival.
I believe that the way that indigenous people
have been viewed or placed is in the past,
and as not a present, modern population.
And if you place and keep a people in the past,
you can make them a myth and then you can consume them.
That can be something you can embody.
Of course, it's this ubiquitous activity
to consume objects in our world right now.
I'm curious more about what it would take
for someone to wear them than to buy them,
and when they wear the objects, what place they go to,
when they're wearing the objects,
what sort of unconscious thoughts
that they're expressing
through the purchase and donning of the objects.
[ Indistinct conversations in background ]
Whenever I do something that is important to me,
I have to invite my ancestors to be there with me.
I owe them their presence.
Thank you for being here.
And then I also have to consider
the people that will come after me.
Otherwise, you're going to make a mess of things.
[ Chuckles ]
It would be impossible to be an indigenous person
making contemporary work about indigenous identity
without being political.
But my hope is that it pushes the boundaries
of how we think about each other,
and it works more towards a space of reconciliation
that we're working together to understand each other.
We've been here for thousands of years,
and then thousands of years after I'm gone,
we'll still be here.
And I also believe that we will last a long time
with the things that we can teach and make and create,
that our culture is going to last forever.
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-"Object/Ritual" runs now through January 2024
at Solas Gallery
and opens at the Suquamish Museum in May 2024.
Explore more of Selena's work at selenakearney.com.
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And that is a wrap.
Big thanks to Cascadia Art Museum
for hosting us,
and a reminder that "Full Light and Perfect Shadow:
The Photography of Chao-Chen Yang"
runs now through February 11, 2024.
And thanks to you for tuning in.
Have a great week, and we'll see you soon.
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[ Up-tempo soul music plays ]
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♪ Hey, uh-huh ♪
-♪ I know you want love ♪
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-♪ Gotta give it up ♪
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-♪ Ah ooh-ooh ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
-♪ Uh-huh-uh ♪
-♪ Everybody needs love ♪
♪ Oh, give some love ♪
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-♪ Hey, give love ♪
-♪ No, no, no ♪
♪ Uh-huh, uh-huh ♪
♪ Everybody needs love ♪
-♪ Uh-huh, uh-huh ♪
-♪ Gonna give some love ♪
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-♪ Hey, give lo-o-o-ve ♪
♪ Whoa ooh ooh ♪
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-♪ Oh, love ♪
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-♪ Whoo, whoa oh ♪
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-Yeah! [ Laughs ]
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