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<< Previous   of   Next >> (click to enlarge) Rush performs Saturday at The Gorge. (click to enlarge) Erykah Badu performs Thursday at Marymoor Park.   ADVERTISEMENT   Where to hear it Flip Breskin & Zeke Hoskin: 2 p.m. Sunday, Everett Library auditorium, 2702 Hoyt Ave.; free. Erykah Badu: 7 p.m. Thursday, Marymoor Park, Redmond; $37.50, $47.50, 206-628-0888. Rush: 8 p.m. Saturday, Gorge Amphitheater; $44.10, $91.35, 206-628-0888. South Sound Youth Jazz: 7 p.m. Saturday, Wired and Unplugged, 717 First St., Snohomish; $5, $7, 360-568-2472. Gye Nyame Ensemble: 7 tonight, Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon; $15, $8 seniors and children, 877-754-6284.   CONTACT THE HERALD Melanie Munk, Features Editor munk@heraldnet.com   Published: Friday, May 30, 2008 Folk-singing couple to give free concert By Sharon Wootton Special to The Herald It's Flip & Zeke time. Flip Breskin and Zeke Hoskin will deliver a concert for families and children on Sunday at the Everett Library, part of the Folk Song Series. Breskin has been at the heart of the Northwest folk scene for decades. She co-founded the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop in 1974. Breskin's influences include Elizabeth Cotton, Bob Franke, Betsy Rose, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Mississippi John Hurt. Much of her time is spent teaching guitar, ukulele basics and old-time banjo to individuals and at music camps. The lyrical fingerstyle guitarist and her husband, Zeke Hoskin, often perform together in the tradition of Guthrie and Seeger, although Hoskin tends to see the absurd side of everything and funnels that outlook into witty songs. He plays guitar, mandolin and Celtic harp. Erykah Badu and The Roots: The Marymoor Park concert series opens with Badu, who intends to follow up her "New AmErykah" CD with at least one more recording that tackles sociopolitical issues, although "New AmEryhak" isn't as full of commentary as one might expect. Badu was a hip-hop and soul proponent in the 1990s with Mary J. Blige, but her collaborations in different styles make a new school player. Her background includes a professional actress mother, studying theater at Grambling State University and helping to keep alive the true R&B line of song and performing in "The Cider House Rules." It's been five years since Badu's last CD, but she's primarily a performance artist who can improvise on stage and who prefers to integrate many unusual musical styles. She's a four-time Grammy winner and has many nominations and wins from the BET Awards and Black Reel Awards. Rush: The venerable rock band remains on its never-ending Snakes & Arrows World Tour, in part because it's the band's most successful tour in many years. The music leads back to the "Snakes & Arrows" CD in 2006, the band's first album of original material in nearly five years. It debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200, the single "Malignant Narcissism" was nominated for a Grammy in the best rock instrumental performance category, and Rush headed off on its now-lengthy tour. South Sound Youth Jazz: Here's your chance to be recorded, if only with your applause. Award-winning saxophonist and artistic director Robbie Jordan, who has performed or recorded with Michael Hedges, Liz Story, Michael Manring, Paul Speer, David Lanz, Bo Diddley, Buddy Miles, Merilee Rush, Seattle Women in R&B and others, brings young musicians learning small-group formats and the art of jazz improvisation. The group includes Snohomish County residents from middle schoolers to seniors in college. The show will be recorded. Gye Nyame Ensemble: This group was energetic and electrifying at the Northwest Folklife Festival and there's more to give. The musicians honor the integrity of West African cultural arts in the music and dance of Ghana. Expect talking drums, colorfully costumed dancers, West African rhythms and the master drumming of Saeed Abbas, who learned his art from his grandfather and the elders of the Hausa tribe. At age 19, he was a master drummer in the National Dance Ensemble and played for the Queen of England and President Bill Clinton. Out and about: The June 6 Crosby, Stills and Nash concert at Chateau Ste. Michelle is sold out, as are the concerts for Mark Knopfler and James Taylor … The Woodinville Community Band gives a free performance (Saturday, Northshore Performing Arts Center) … Indie power pop band The Botticellis performs melodic and sometimes orchestral music from "Old Home Movies" (Tuesday, Sunset Tavern, Ballard) … Jazz trumpeter Lance Butler brings party jazz and his partner and rhyme, vocalist Stephanie Porter (Tuesday and Wednesday, Jazz Alley) … Seven-time Grammy-nominated vocalist Kurt Elling and two-time Grammy-winning saxophonist Ernie Watts are back in Seattle (Thursday through June 8, Jazz Alley) … Decemberist drummer John Moen celebrates the release of Perhapst's quirky, hook-laden CD "Perhapst," on which he played most of the instruments (Thursday, Re-Bar, Seattle) … Folk-rocker and singer-songwriter Ian McFeron and his band perform two shows with guest slide-guitar legend Dan Tyack (tonight, Triple Door) … Mountlake Terrace High School's jazz musicians take over the Triple Door on Monday.

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