Homo for the Holidays @ Odd Fellows
Hear ye, hear ye! Now in its seventh season! The funniest, campiest, gay-pridey-est annual holiday spectacular is back to entertain even your bah-humbuggy-est, seasonally gloomy, frowny-faced friends! I promise anyone—after witnessing the triumph and hilarity of the all-star cast of local burlesque, cabaret, dance, drag, and musical luminaries like BenDeLaCreme (of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 6), Cherdonna Shinatra, Kitten LaRue, Lou Henry Hoover, Faggedy Randy, and many more—YOUR FROWN WILL TURN UPSIDE DOWN. You cannot resist the pure joy of this hearty holiday fruitcake! It’s often a sellout, so get those tickets and get ’em fast! KELLY O
Average White Band @ Jazz Alley
Forty-two years after their formation, the Average White Band remain the finest funk-and-R&B band ever to hail from Dundee, Scotland. After dazzling the world with their honky-funk chops on the 1974 hit “Pick Up the Pieces,” AWB kept on plying their singular trade, swapping out members as the decades passed (with Alan Gorrie and Onnie McIntyre the only original members still in the lineup) and becoming the type of music-biz lifers whose Wikipedia entry contains sentences like this: “Gorrie also overdosed, but Cher kept him conscious until medical help arrived.” Now it’s the 21st century, and AWB are still at it, but even if they’d stopped, they’d still be part of the culture, thanks to the prolific sampling of their work by the Beastie Boys, TLC, Too $hort, Ice Cube, Eric B. & Rakim, Nas, and A Tribe Called Quest. Tonight the Average White Band begin the first of four nights at Jazz Alley. DAVID SCHMADER
Moraine, Autumn Electric and the Glacial Drift @ Columbia City Theater
Led by masterly guitarist Dennis Rea, Seattle’s Moraine work in the heady realm where prog rock, Rock in Opposition, and jazz fusion intersect. It’s kind of lonely out there, but Moraine have been soldiering on for eight years, creating a three-album catalog of fiery and finessed instrumental music that should appeal to fans of Mahavishnu Orchestra, King Crimson, and Henry Cow. Moraine’s newest album, 2014’s Groundswell, was engineered by studio wizard Steve Fisk, and it’s the quintet’s best-sounding disc to date. Kevin Millard’s bass and Tom Zgonc’s drums really punch while Rea, violinist Alicia DeJoie, and woodwind specialist James DeJoie inscribe ornate calligraphy over the solid bottom end. This is dynamic, imaginative music full of smart, surprising moves and rich, intriguing melodies. DAVE SEGAL
Pop-Up @ Street Bean Espresso
It’s a pop-up event celebrating the release of Eva Pietzcker’s144-page publication illustrating her Japanese woodblock prints produced between 2003 and 2013.
Seahawks @ CenturyLink Field
It’s a home game, so expect traffic.
Check out the rest of today’s scheduled fun here.