Can't Miss It: Thursday
HEY GOOD LOOKIN': Country-rock group The Handsome Family has had a fruitful career. Formed in '93 by the husband and wife team of Brett and Rennie Sparks, the group's first album came out in '94, and since then we've seen eight more full-lengths and a handful of fine EPs. Traditional American music with just a touch of rock, The Handsome Family plays bluegrass and country as well as the best of em. The lyrics are dark, sometimes menacing, gothic in a way, but always thoughtful and perfectly complementary to the jangling sound of resurrected Americana. With Sean Rowe.
8:00 p.m. // Tractor Tavern // $15
NATUROPATH: Lucia Perillo's first book of poetry, The Body Mutinies (1996), was written after multiple sclerosis took her away from her career with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. She was once a park ranger at Mt. Rainier National Park and a naturalist at the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. But after being diagnosed with MS in her 30s, Perillo switched her focus to reading and writing. Nature may not be better for it, but we are. The Body Mutinies won her the PEN/Revson foundation Poetry Fellowship while still in manuscript. Her poetry has won numerous awards and nominations, the latest of which was a 2010 Pulitzer nomination for her 2009 release Inseminating the Elephant, her fifth book of poetry. Originating in New York state, Perillo now lives in Olympia -- or, as her website says, "she now decomposes in Olympia Washington." As we mentioned yesterday, you can hear her speak tonight as part of the Seattle Arts & Lectures series.
7:30 p.m. // Benaroya Hall\Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall // $20 - $50
OLDIES: With Mozart's Requiem, the Seattle Symphony deliciously pairs the composer's Requiem with Symphony No. 28 and Horn Concerto No. 2. In this world premiere event, The Symphony will be joined by Seattle Symphony Chorale and will be conducted by Gerard Schwarz. Mozart's Requiem is part of the Gund/Simonyi Farewell Commissions, 18 new works which honor Maestro Schwarz's farewell season as Music Director of Seattle Symphony. This is the tenth of eighteen.
7:30 p.m. // Benaroya Hall // $39 - $80
