Sykes & Wandscher Perform After THE TEMPEST At Seattle Shakespeare 6/20

National recording artists Jesse Sykes and Phil Wandscher from the band Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter will perform a one-night-only acoustic set on Saturday, June 20 following the evening performance of Seattle Shakespeare Company's production of The Tempest. Sykes and Wandscher composed original music for The Tempest and will perform pieces from production as well as selected songs from their discs with Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter.

Jesse Sykes acclaimed albums (Reckless Burning [2003], Oh, My Girl [2004], and Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls of the Soul [2007]), were all recorded with her band The Sweet Hereafter and musical partner Phil Wandscher, co-founder of alt-country stalwart Whiskeytown. Fragile, sometimes desolate landscapes smoldering with American folk idiom, Spin magazine called her work "riveting porch noir."

Characterized by a compelling mixture of longing, darkness, and hope, Jesse and Phil's music resonates, against genrefication, in the parallel worlds of the avant-garde and the timeless. Her voice, saturated with a weathered wisdom, marries with the bands atmospheric beauty in what the New York Times described as "spellbound music, rapt in fatalism and sorrow."

Tickets to An Acoustic Evening with Jesse Sykes and Phil Wandscher on Saturday, June 20th are now on sale for $20 general admission. For ticket reservations, call the Seattle Shakespeare Company box office (206) 733-8222 or go online at www.seattleshakespeare.org. Regular box office hours are Tuesday through Friday 1:00-6:00 PM. During performance weeks, in addition to regular hours, the box office opens Saturdays 1:00-6:00 PM and Sundays 12noon to 4:00 PM. Seattle Shakespeare Company performs at the Center House Theatre at Seattle Center.