Whole Washington - Healthcare For Everyone Signature Party

2125 2nd Avenue,Seattle WA 98121

03 December, 2022

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Whole Washington is looking for signatures to secure universal heathcare on the ballot. We need your signatures and we need you to help us party down. Join us at Common AREA Maintenance for an evening with musicians: Tomo Nakayama, Ran Park and Tito Ramsey. Perhaps the easiest thing in the whole wide world these days is making the choice to support universal health care. Why shouldn’t everyone be able to receive care without the fear of financial ruin? Thus, we believe that health care should be a right not a privilege. On Saturday, Dec 3rd, we can help support getting universal healthcare on the ballot AND piano music party with: Tomo Nakayama – Born in Japan and raised in Seattle, Washington, Tomo Nakayama is an artist whose melodic, complex and emotionally compelling music has been praised by NPR, New York Times, and The Stranger. After two critically acclaimed indie-folk albums “Fog on the Lens” and “Pieces of Sky” (named "Best Folk Act" by Seattle Weekly), he surprised his fans by releasing the synthpop album "Melonday" (on Seattle label Porchlight Records). Co-produced by Yuuki Matthews (The Shins, Teardrops, Sufjan Stevens) and mastered by Dave Cooley (M83, Paramore, Tame Impala), “Melonday” was named one of the Top Albums of 2020 by Seattle Times, KEXP, and Seattle Met Magazine, and debuted at #1 on the NW Charts. He has toured across the US and Japan, sharing the stage with Sons of Kemet, Cornelius, Thao, Ben Gibbard, Damien Jurado, Built to Spill, Wye Oak, and Shugo Tokumaru. He has collaborated with Dave Matthews, Sera Cahoone, Jherek Bischoff, and Jeremy Enigk (Sunny Day Real Estate). An active, longtime member of the Seattle music and arts community, Tomo has also curated and produced events for Forterra (Ampersand Live) and Town Hall, where he also served as Artist in Residence. He also composed music and appeared as an actor in the Lynn Shelton film “Touchy Feely” with Elliot Page and Rosemarie DeWitt. Ran Park – "The sounds created by the piano are unlike anything else. It can be soft and ethereal in one breath and then bold and powerful in the next, changing back and forth swiftly like the wind. The notes have depth in range, tonally and dynamically, unlike most other instruments. A song on the piano can quickly become a story on its own, with words not entirely necessary." Tito Ramsey – After a six-year run in New York City as the frontman of indie dance band LEGS, composer and performer Tito Ramsey is back in Seattle writing crisp pop songs tethering instruments to pedals and pairing falsetto flourishes with electronics until a web of machinery, movement, energy, and mood emerges. And then takes the crowd over. Tito writes for films, commercials, stage, and other formats, swinging from pop to more traditional classical, ambient, and narrative tones. The LEGS single, “So Obvious” was in 2014’s Obvious Child starring Jenny Slate and David Cross—Pitchfork ranked the soundtrack one of the that summer’s six best. When scoring for strings and wind ensembles, Tito draws on formal training and a depth of experience in collaborating with brands, directors, and artists Past performances from Ecuador to BRIC Arts Media in Brooklyn, from the Wassaic Projet in Upstate NY and CMJ in NYC to the Timbrrr Music Fest in Washington and the Mass MOCA in the Berkshires yield a sense of quick and direct intimacy within many audiences and settings. Whether offering a highly visual and immersive live performance or working with a team to exact the right moods, tones and storytelling, Tito’s strength is in connecting, translating, and engaging. Proceeds from this event go to supporting the performing artists and CAM - if you would like to support Whole Washington finacially please visit https://wholewashington.org Make sure to spread the word to your friends, drop off a petition at your friend’s busy coffee shop, volunteer and most of all go sign a petition!