Seattle Hosts Wainwright
It’s not hard to see why the city loves this singer so much. Seattle has always had a population that has a tendency toward art that is more innovative than safe. It’s also a very astute crowd, who can recognize rare gifts when they make themselves known, although it’s sometimes hard to be seen and heard here. It’s grown tremendously in the past two decades, but it still maintains a sharp sense of the sublime, and engages with subtlety in a way no other city can.
The city has a way of making everyone savvy, and no one leaves it unchanged. It’s part of the draw that make the Seattle business hotels hotels so welcoming here, as well. Locals and visitors all seem to get the sense that no one truly owns the city, that the residents know are borrowing it for another generation.
It is a similar theme that runs through the music of Rufus Wainwright , and his appearance at the Paramount at the end of August is part of a long flirtation with Seattle, and the great NW. There’s something terribly traditional about his songs, and also something terribly personal, as if this were a singular incarnation. Every show seems like that as well, because when he sings, it is to the people in the room at that very moment in time and space.
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