Last Saturday night, Brian and I went to see the band The Head and The Heart at the Paramount Theatre. Opening the show were Curtains for You and Bryan John Appleby.
Before the show, we grabbed a bite and a beer/wine at Gordon Biersch.
We've never been to this pub in Seattle (Brian has been to their Las Vegas location and I've been to one in the SF bay area) but we knew the food/menu is consistent, great atmosphere and within walking distance of the Paramount. It was a good choice!
It was a beautiful evening for a short walk around downtown Seattle. Brian and I had a blast people watching and scoping out future date night adventures.
For 77 years, Washington residents and visitors have been entertained at Seattle’s magnificent Paramount Theatre. During the “Roaring Twenties,” particularly before the first “talkies” were invented in 1927, vaudeville and silent movies were the dominant form of national and local entertainment. Seattle alone had more than 50 movie palaces, the finest grouped together on 2nd Avenue. The theater originally opened March 1, 1928 as the Seattle Theatre with 3,000 seats. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in October 1974. It is also an official City of Seattle landmark.
The Head and the Heart
So many decisions in life and in the music we love can come down to a critical tug between the logic in our heads and the hot red blood beating through our hearts. Seattle’s The Head and the Heart live authentically in that crux, finding joy and beauty wedged there. Their music pulses effervescently—both explosively danceable and intuitively intelligent with Americana roots and strong vocal harmonics that swell like a river.
The Head and the Heart came together in the summer of 2009, during frequent visits to the open mic night at Conor Byrne in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. Whether penning songs on the beach at Seattle’s Discovery Park, or working out melodies in the piano practice rooms at the Seattle Public Library, the early months of the band’s existence has been described as “sleepless and penniless, but inspired nonetheless.”
Their music is for people who unabashedly sing and drum along on the steering wheel, and also for those who appreciate a well-crafted collection of songs that build into something wholly beautiful.
There is in their music a counter-cultural optimism, with roots that grow deep and melodies that lodge themselves far into that place inside you where the head meets the heart.
Here is a YouTube video for your enjoyment!
Enjoy,
Stacy
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