Celebrate the Spring Equinox with songs reflecting on darkness and singing into the light brought to you by Havilah Rand, Mark Ippolito and myself. We’ll be playing in a songwriters in the round format in the intimate confines of the Couth Buzzard, 8310, Greenwood Ave. North in Seattle. 7-9pm

The Couth is an intimate listening space featuring great homemade food and a wide array of adult and other beverages. Come build community over hand-made music.

Here’s more about the players:

Havilah’s musical journey spans five full length albums and two decades weaving its way through the jazz halls of New York City, the alternative rock venues of post grunge Seattle and countless coffeeshops and theaters across the United States And Europe. Havilah’s style fuses jazz, blues and Americana to form a style that is pure emotion founded on groove-infused melodies. Lyrically poignant, Havilah’s songs cut to the heart while her lush vocal styling lingers in the ear long after the show has ended. Havilah is also the creator of Holistic ArtVentures and The LifeSong Program which use songwriting as a tool for bolstering empathy, creativity, collaboration and confidence. Havilah has written songs with hundreds of children and elders and has even been nominated for the Esme Barrera Music in Education and Activism Award. Visit www.havilahmusic.com to learn more about Havilah.

Mark writes about his latest project New Moon: “There’s a place deep inside each of us that eloquently reflects on our individual unique lived experience. The songs on “New Moon” try to give voice to those experiences in service to shining a light on the common bonds we share. These songs were given birth among the fellowship of a circle of songwriters who graciously accepted me as one of their own. As you listen to each song for the first time, I invite you to become an extension of our circle and listen for moments of truth and light. I hope you too find them as worthy.” Find out more at https://www.markippolito.com

Mike says: “Some of my most profound aural memories: The chugging rhythms and careening voices of Motown blasting from my father’s Dynakit stereo; singing along with Broadway’s whip-cracking wordplay; the morning sun shining like a red rubber ball through the three-inch speaker of my sister’s transistor radio; a box of rain and a cinnamon girl crackling from my first hi-fi. My songs don’t really sound like any of these, but the way I think about writing songs is certainly influenced by them. My tunes explore life’s many journeys: birth, death, aging, finding love in the depths of the sea and loosing it in life’s debris. I fingerpick and strum, sing, hum, grunt and occasionally howl like a dog. I hope my lyrics tickle your mind and your heart.” More at https://mikebuchmanmusic.com