East Shore Live: Songs and Tales from the Dark Side

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Join Eric Lane Barnes, John Chmaj, Cascade Jazz, members of the East Shore choir and a cast of professional Seattle performers for this year's Halloween celebration concert and costume event: "Songs and Tales from the Dark Side"!
This family-friendly show features spooky songs, crazy film snippets with live band, creative costume contest, terrifying trivia, prizes and more!
Grab your 'favorite ghoul' and join us! Tickets $15 members/$20 non-members/$5 children

East Shore Live: Rhythm & Blues Show

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Seattle-based Michele D’Amour and the Love Dealers have been slinging their brand of sexy, sassy blues all along the west coast since 2011.
The group’s 2018's album, Wiggle Room, includes ten new original tunes. The album debuted at #6 on Roots Music Report's Jazzy Blues chart - then was at #1 for nine weeks; it also debuted at #9 on the Washington blues chart before shooting up to #1 and staying there for seven weeks. All ten songs from the album charted. The band was a finalist in the Washington Blues Society's 2018 International Blues Challenge. For more information about the band visit: micheledamourandthelovedealers

East Shore Live: The Half Brothers

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

On March 23, 2019 the Half Brothers bring their signature smart, sharp songwriting and lush three-part harmonies to East Shore Live's concert series. A staple of Northwest musical and theatrical stages for over thirteen years, the Half Brothers write catchy, hilarious and poignant songs about the essential topics of traveling, death, and food; their new album Growing Up Weird, finds them branching out to explore themes of childhood, parenthood, and finding your place in the world. Backed with the traditional bluegrass instrumentation of banjo, mandolin and guitar, they boast a decidedly non-traditional style and repertoire. Beautifully blended voices delivering seriously sly, pointed lyrics, all wrapped in rootsy acoustic music -- the Half Brothers are for music lovers of every generation!

East Shore LIVE: The Princess Chronicles

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

What makes a princess? What makes a guy? What's in a name?
Princess Guy presents its fancy new spring show, The Princess Chronicles, a sparkling musical journey through royal guyness. We are amused and we know that you shall be as well.
This presentation of The Princess Chronicles is our first full show at East Shore Live and will serve up the Broadway, the pop, the Palestrina, the barbershop, the jazz and hell, if you throw a dart at a board marked 'song styles through history' you will hit at least two songs we will sing.
Princess Guy is tickled to welcome our special guest, ARNALDO! Drag Chanteuse! The exclamation points are part of his name! This internationally famous performer will add a dash of class and whimsy to The Princess Chronicles. And to spare you the shock: yes, Arnaldo is actually singing. He does not lip-synch. Perish the thought.
Join us! Purchase your ticket right her and now. How? Oh let's have a game! Can you guess? Can you not simply gaze about and see the answer? Ha ha! What a merry jest!
The button... Push it, treasured ones. It awaits you just below!

East Shore Live: Lisa Koch

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Seattle singer/comedian Lisa Koch is on the bill at East Shore Unitarian for a night of quirky songs, nutty nuns, and lots of laughs.
Daft. Demented. #SNORT. Picture Tina Fey meets Bette Midler with Joan Jett guitar chops... and you’ve got Seattle’s Lisa Koch. An irreverent singer-comedian-out-sober chick, Koch (“Coke”) is a deliciously twisted mix of comedy, theater, and tunes. With 5 solo recordings, she is an alumnus of loony sketch comedy duo, Dos Fallopia (My Breasts are Out of Control, Ham for the Holidays), and cult quartet Venus Envy (I'll Be A Homo for Xmas). She has shared the stage with Steve Martin, Janis Ian, Lily Tomlin, The Indigo Girls, Kate Clinton, and more.
Lisa has co-written such warped shows as "The Carpeters: Uncomfortably Close To You," “Two’s Company, I’m a Crowd,” and “Ham for the Holidays: The Hamchurian Candidate.” Koch has been featured on Olivia and LOGO, is the composer of Off-Broadway musical “27, Rue de Fleurus”, and is proud to report that one of her songs has actually been sampled by Jay-Z.
Lisa brings to the stage her guitar, her wacky songs, and her musings on being a woman… from middle age to mammograms to singing vulvas.

East Shore Live: Indian Jazz Celebration with Phil Scarff & Ravi Albright

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

This unique multicultural musical celebration focuses on jazz and the classical music of India, and highlights the common ground between these two distinct but related idioms. This concert features saxophonist Phil Scarff and tabla master Ravi Albright performing a North Indian classical segment and taking exciting jazz-influenced excursions with John Chmaj and Cascade Jazz. Together they will make musical magic in the moment!

East Shore Live: Music, Magic & Mayhem!

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Princess Guy is a featured guest performer at East Shore Live's annual Halloween extravaganza in Bellevue! Come see The Guys at our undeadest, performing songs done exclusively at this event. Terrifying!

East Shore Live: Jeannette d’Armand & John Patrick Lowrie

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Jeannette presents a breathtaking evening of memorable songs by Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Bob Dylan, Sting, George Harrison, and others. Accompanied by guitarist John Patrick Lowrie this evening is a love song for your heart and soul. After seeing Jeannette and John perform an audience member said, "The two of them breathed together, phrased together, knew each other’s pauses and accelerandos to such a complete extent that I found myself breathing with them. Rarely have I seen such a sense of complete, effortless ensemble between two musicians." - Eric Lane Barnes, 3/19

East Shore Live: Acapellapalooza!

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

The award-winning Bellevue Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society presents a pitch perfect smorgasboard of a cappella vocal entertainment! Featuring groups Northwest Mix, Vocal Vintage, Under the Radar, The Big Time and Shine! This is not your grandparents’ a cappella: these groups represent some of the most exciting and freshest vocal harmonies in the region.

The Right of Conscience and the Use of the Democratic Process

Rainbow Lodge 46820 SE Mt Si Rd, North Bend, WA, United States

Rev. Furrer will continue his series on the seven UU Principles by talking about the fifth principle, The Right of Conscience and the Use of the Democratic Process.

Wednesday Wind Down Service

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Grab your PJ’s or tune in in the background while you’re making dinner at home for some extra loving company. Somatic practices and guided meditation restore our nerves and a read aloud from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe cleanse the imagination.

A Never-Ending Quest for Self-Improvement

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Each of us, if blessed, walks a long course through Life; hopefully, always learning. Rev. Jim VanderWeele has found and will share an overview of “Part Three: The Eight Pillars of Caste” from Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents—presented as an introduction to the November election. We ask that you consider reading Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson and/or listen to Pete Carroll’s August 29 press conference.

Wednesday Wind Down Service

Online Event

Grab your PJ’s or tune in in the background while you’re making dinner at home for some extra loving company. Somatic practices and guided meditation restore our nerves and a read aloud from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe cleanse the imagination.

We Need One Another

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Covenant Circles have been a meaningful part of East Shore for nearly 20 years. These small groups provide a context for support and friendship, personal and spiritual growth, connections and belonging. Those of us who are actively participating in Covenant Circles would like you to know how much our experiences have meant to us. We encourage you to consider making a Covenant Circle a part of your East Shore life. Come listen to our stories, hear how our lives have been enhanced by our participation, and learn how you can become a part of these dynamic, vital small group ministries. We do need one another.