Mike Buchman Music

Cooking at the Couth

I’m thrilled to be joining the lovely and talented Deb Seymour and Mark Ippolito for a songwriters in the round show in the lovely confines of the Couth Buzzard.

Saturday February 10, 7:30-9:30. The Couth is at 8310 Greenwood Ave. North, Seattle. Here’s the Facebook event.

Songs of Bill Davie celebrates one of

our region’s best songwriters and

supports people living with MS

One of my favorite area songwriters has lost the ability to perform his music due to MS. His music is too good to let it just slip away.

I met Bill Davie in 1988 or so as co-workers for a progressive political fundraising organization. While I’d known plenty of musicians at earlier times in my life, Bill was the first friend I had who wrote really good songs and performed them around town. It was decades before I picked up a guitar, but he’s been an inspiration all this time.

In recent years I’ve had the pleasure to play a few shows with Bill. Last summer when I asked him if he was interested in doing another, he told me he could no longer play his beloved guitar, but that “You should learn all my songs and play them.”

Talk about a lightbulb moment.

Of course, I’m no where near skilled or capable enough to learn all of Bill’s songs. He’s a facile picker with a distinct percussive style. His voice is sweet and sassy, and he scats like nobody’s business. But I do know a LOT of local performers who would be thrilled to learn one or two of his songs and carry the music forward. And I’m a pretty good organizer.

So, I approached Bill about producing a show of his friends and musical compatriots playing his songs. My mission was two-fold: 1) Raise some money for the MS Society in Bill’s honor, and 2) Keep this amazing body of music alive.

Bill approved the idea and helped me brainstorm a list of players and sort out some of the logistics. The result is this amazing collection of local and nationally-known performers who will be participating in Songs of Bill Davie:

• Amy Read
• Chris Bingham
• Dan Maher
• Dan Roberts
• Ginny Reilly
• Hal Brooks
• Heidi Muller
• Jim Page
• Judy Kaplan
• JW McClure
• Kat Eggleston
• Marjorie Richards
• Mark Iler
• Mark Kenney
• Me
• Miro Jugum
• Orville Johnson
• Steve Norris
• Tom Noah

All the info you need is in the image above, of you can go to https://tinyurl.com/BillDavie or follow this QR code to our event website. I hope to hell you’ll join us March 10. It’s going to be a song- and life-affirming show like you don’t see very often. Thanks.