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Sunday Social Hour with The REV! - Springtime!

SUNDAY SOCIAL HOUR WITH THE REV!

Spring is bustin' out all over, Vashon! Leaves are unfurling, flowers beginning to bloom - and the glorious glow of life has inspired a brand new Sunday Social Hour - courtesy of the one-and-only REV!

The REV says:

"Let's hear it for Springtime! 'Cuz we all gonna be celebratin' with words an' in music on April 6. An' who gonna be there? Well, YOU are! An' beyond that we got Rusty Willoughby and Jennifer Sutherland, Michael Meade, Sarah Christine, Steve Amsden, Dianne Krouse, Azula, and Chau Yuong singing a song in Vietnamese! Plus some other wonderful Island singers in the Choir, and the amazin' Social Hour Band: Chaz Reed, Fletcher Andrews and Loren Sinner. And there's always the possibility of a special surprise guest... All these fine folks joinin' together to offer up somethin' moving and inspiring -- that's special, yes it is. Just like Vashon!"

Sunday Social Hour is part of a new series at Open Space, Sundays at 4 - supported in part by a grant from 4Culture.

Just a few biographical tidbits of the fine folks who will be on stage...

David Godsey aka The REV - is a graduate of the Professional Training Program at the Circle in the Square in New York and the Laboratory of Movement Studies at Ecole LeCoq in Paris. A co-founder of UMO (in 1987), David was lead artist for UMO's Final Broadcast (2007), and directed the creation of UMO's Millennium Circus (1999) as well as Birth, Love, Death and Re-Birth (1996), a collaboration with the Seattle Men's Chorus. David and his partner Janet McAlpin are the founders of Open Space. Vashon Islanders are got the know The Rev and his spontaneous sermons in Voice of Vashon's Church of Great Rain. It is rumored that David is fueled solely by fair trade organic dark chocolate.

Azula began her vocal training singing in her grandmother's garden, growing up in a house filled with music, from classical to Barbershop quartets to Sunday choir. While studying classical vocal training as a mezzo-soprano coloratura at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, she started her journey into Jazz and Blues, and the Global Music Scene. She moved to Europe to study and was exposed to the languages and music of Eastern Europe, going deep into her Hungarian ancestry. She currently sings in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic among others, performing most recently on Vashon with Avaaza (World Music) and One Night Stand ( Blues), and her duo Strella with Seattle guitarist Leif Totus.

Whether she is gracing the stage solo with guitar in hand, or backed by a full band, Sarah Christine's soulful siren is capturing attention. This Northwest native weaves a positive musical tapestry, blending her rich honey voice, conscious lyrics and uplifting melodies with the flavors of Soul, Reggae and R&B. Sarah's voice has been heard throughout Washington, Oregon and Hawaii and has been a presence at numerous festivals including Northwest Reggae Fest, Sierra Nevada World Music Fest, Conscious Culture Fest, Bumbershoot, Seattle Hempfest, Northwest Folklife and many others.