Music, Dancing and Bicycles

This is a well rounded weekend in Wallingford, complete with the three sustaining elements of healthy living: music, dancing, and bicycles.

Music

• Thursday: Afro Cuban Blues by Eric Fridrich (vocals, guitars, harp), Steve Kim (bass and keys), Ricardo Guity (drums), Derek Learned (Latin percussion) and Rich Ludlow (sax) at Babalu, 9:30 pm, no cover
• Friday: Funky 2 Death: “live funk with your favorite dirty uncle DJ/drummer WOOGIE D, with JABRIL, MARK, MATT, ANDREW, and guests droppin by the living room is gonna be shakin this night fo sho… NO COVER” at SeaMonster, 10:00 pm
• Saturday: Pianists Talman Welle plays “the monster-virtuoso show piece Rudepoema (1921-1926) by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, one of the most challenging pieces of music that Villa-Lobos composed for piano. Welle will open his marathon performance with Hommage to Chopin (1949) by Villa-Lobos.” Ann Cummings will “present her signature, multi-media presentation of musical selections which include a Hungarian folk song by Bela Bartok, Woodland Sketches, Opus 51 A Deserted Farm by MacDowell, Preludes, Opus 11, No. 16 Misterioso, by Skrjabin, Hesitation Tango, by Barber and Toccata, Opus 15 by Muczynski. Multi-media effects will include papers tossed in the wind, a film, listening in the dark, and basking in the reflection of mirrors.” at Chapel Performance Space in the Good Shepherd Center, 8 pm, $15 / $10 senior and students. More info on the Wayward Music Series Blog
• Sunday: A Fall Concert for the Wallingford Neighborhood with music by J.S.Bach, Paul Juon, B Martinu  and Lizst at Discovery House Sanctuary,  Home to Seattle First Church of the Nazarene (above Mosaic coffee house, behind Dick’s) 4401 2nd Ave NE

Dance

• Our Family Village: Ecstatic Dance at OmCulture starting Sunday 4:00 pm
• Seattle Community Open Band Contra Dance at the Gift of Grace Church starting Sunday 6pm

Bicycles

Sunday, from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm, cyclocross racers will be tearing up Woodland Park in a set of muddy, ridiculous and probably dangerous sets. Free kids race at 12:15 pm for kids under 10. They probably won’t get as wrecked as the guy on the right, but you never know. More info at the MFG Cyclocross web site, but most of it’s confusing.

Pace yourselves people. Don’t try to do it all.

Also, don’t forget that Saturday is the 3rd annual CoolMom Swap n’Sale, where you will find plenty of gently used toys, games, books and kid gear at reasonable prices. The sale runs from 9:30 am – 1:30 pm upstairs at the Wallingford Boys and Girls Club.