What a pleasure to open the new summer season of Intentional Tunes in the Accidental Garden, hosted and produced by the ever-amazing Maria Lamarca Anderson. 75 guests and Maria’s tree-filled garden… who could ask for more? We Love Markets loved it!
May 2024: The Love Markets at The Triple Door and Seattle Cabaret Festival
The Love Markets returned to The Triple Door May 4 to open Seattle Cabaret Festival 2024! We had a blast and the fabulous Dwight Beckmeyer rocked it on accordion, filling in for Rob Witmer. Thanks to everyone who attended this sold-out show and gave us so much love! Thanks also to the great audiences who kept the rest of the festival hopping at Egan’s - I had a great time doing my solo show there, with bandmate Dave Pascal by my side on bass.
Love Markets left to right: Chris Monroe (drums), Angie Louise (vocals, songs, keys); Dwight Beckmeyer (in for Rob Witmer on accordion); Dave Pascal (bass); and on the bottom, David Marriott Jr. (trombone).
April 2024: Angie performs at ACT Re-Engagement Party
I had the pleasure and honor of performing at this year’s 2024 ACT Theatre gala (the brilliantly conceived Re-Engagement Party!). What an inspiring night! I was too in the moment to take pix, but am sharing memories here of just some of the many joyful times I’ve had on all ACT’s beautiful stages. In addition to being a mainstay of brave and thoughtful theatre in Seattle for 50+ years, ACT has created so much support and opportunity for artists’ new work (including me and The Love Markets) and fostered so many collaborations. We are ever grateful. A toast to every ACT donor, large and small!
The Love Markets with UMO Ensemble at ACT in 2018. Photo: Alabastro Photography.
Love Markets CD release show for Beauty Factory (2016). Photo: Laurie Clark Photography.
Falls Theatre dressing room at ACT / Laurie Clark Photography
CD release show for World Of Your Dreams (2013).
The Love Markets with Sandbox Radio (2018).
Performing at the Gregory Awards in 2012. Photo: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Performing with Victor Janusz at 2014 ACT Gala.
First of three times hosting Gregory Awards at ACT (2010).
First of many Love Markets shows in ACT’s Bullitt Cabaret (2010),
2010 ACT Gala at Seattle Art Museum with honorary Love Markets ACT executive director Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi and ACT artistic director Kurt Beattie. A classic!
With New Voices, 2009 (my first time onstage at ACT).
Backstage with my dear Nick Garrison, 2010.
After-party in the Allen, 2018 gala. Photo: Alabastro Photography.
Laurie Clark Photography.
Feb 2024: "Shooting Palmer" by Angie Louise & Sue Corcoran gets a sponsored reading
Thank you to Northwest Screenwriters’ Guild and Northwest Film Forum for sponsoring this public reading of SHOOTING PALMER, a New York Screenplay Contest Finalist and female-powered sci-fi comedy feature written by Angie Louise (me!) and Sue Corcoran for Von Piglet Productions. Thanks too to my fellow actors at the reading, all the other great folks who pitched in, and our audience for coming out and laughing at the laugh lines. Sue & I have made two feature films together (see past shenanigans below); we’re hoping Shooting Palmer may be the third…
Sue and Angie at the Pacific Place SIFF premiere of our second feature, Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas.
Sue and Angie on set of Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas (I played Edna, a B-movie actress shooting a Christmas movie in space).
Our first feature, Gory Gory Hallelujah, written by Angie and directed by Sue.
Sue tries to burn me as a witch in Gory Gory Hallelujah.
Sue directs me in Circus of Infinity, our Nell Shipman Women In Film award-winning short.
Real life!
Dec 2023: The Love Markets play 17th Annual Tom Waits Night
Tom Waits Tribute Night at Conor Byrne Pub… the perfect way to kick off the season of wintry cheer, hot toddies, and rain dog camaraderie. Sold out and jam packed with fans once again, this was The Love Markets’ eleventh stage appearance at this 17-year tradition, and there’s no other night like it. Thank you Diarmuid, Ayako Okano + Tsubaki, Sam Russell and the Harborrats, Bad Apples and everyone who makes this thing soar! All proceeds donated to MusiCares. I hope to see you there in 2024!
Nov 2023: The Love Markets in "Burlesco Notturno: ALCHEMY!"
“Alchemy” - our 17th appearance with the Burlesco Notturno series! This Vashon cirque-variete extravaganza hosted by Madame X presents The Love Markets performing our songs, interspersed with killer acts from top Seattle burlesque troupe The Atomic Bombshells and sundry guest artists on acro, aerial, and who knows what - each show is unique. Stay tuned for the next one in November 2024.
The Love Markets
The One The Only INGA
Mme. X and her Lawyer
May 2023: Angie solo show closes out Seattle Cabaret Festival
Closing out Seattle Cabaret Festival 2023 at Egan’s with my solo show “Getting There From Here”, with my trusty bandmate Dave Pascal by my side on bass. A pleasure to share a bill with Bodacious Ladyhood and then close out the festival paired with the inimitable Sirens of Swing!
May 2023: The Love Markets at The Triple Door
Another opening night at my favorite venue to play - the gorgeous Triple Door! The Love Markets and I had a ball kicking off another season of Seattle Cabaret Festival and playing with this wonderful lineup of acts.
Feb 2023: Workshopping Bilingual "Go, Dog. Go!" at Seattle Children's Theatre
What a joy to work again with playwright Allison Gregory, playwright-director Steven Dietz, and musical director Rob Witmer on “Go, Dog. Go!” at SCT - this time to workshop a new BILINGUAL version in English and Spanish (all mixed up together!) in collaboration with translator Ana Maria Campoy. In 2011 and 2017, I put in 200+ shows as Hattie the pink poodle; this time around I served as co-musical director with Rob as these awesome new dogs got down to business in two languages. I’m eager to see where this wonderful new version goes!
SCT: Bilingual “Go, Dog. Go!” workshop creative team and cast (2023)
Workshop day 1 in the Charlotte Martin Theatre @ SCT (2023)
Seattle Children’s Theatre
Angie as Hattie in “Go, Dog. Go!” - 2017 production / Photo: Seattle Children’s Theatre
“Go, Dog. Go!” - 2011 cast / Laurie Clark Photography
“Go, Dog. Go!” - 2017 cast / Photo: Seattle Children’s Theatre
Dec 2022: 16th Annual Tom Waits Night with The Love Markets!
Dec 3, 2022 - Sold out and then some! This beloved annual celebration of the songs of Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan raised over $2000 for MusiCares. Happy 73rd birthday to Tom and big thanks to Diarmuid at Conor Byrne, event producer Ayako Okano, and all those irrepressible rain dogs in the crowd. Kudos to Dwight Beckmeyer making his Love Markets debut subbing for Rob Witmer on accordion, and Brian Mueller in for Dave Marriott on trombone!
Nov 2022: Love Markets play the Commodore's Ball (2 years later)
When Vashon Quartmaster’s Yacht Club booked The Love Markets for their Commodore’s Ball, the event was originally scheduled for March 2020… and you know how that went. Four reschedulings later, we finally got to pop the champagne this November 2022! Such fun - and definitely worth the wait.
Photos: Dave Haskell
Nov 2022: The Love Markets in "Burlesco Notturno: INSATIABLE"!
INSATIABLE says it all: after three years on pandemic ice, Burlesco Notturno is back, en fuego! It was wonderful being back on the Grand Hall stage at Open Space and so good to reunite with all our favorite Burlesco colleagues - Madame X and her Lawyer, the Atomic Bombshells (Kitten & Lou! Inga! Indigo Blue!), and all the folks whose efforts make this extravaganza happen… including the sold-out crowd. Congrats to trombonist Brian Mueller for a fabulous job subbing for Dave Marriott! What fun.
Photo: Open Space on Vashon
Oct 2022: Angie in "The Witching Hour" at Vashon Center for the Arts
I am ghoulishly glad to report that this Oct 30 spooktacular at VCA raised over 5K for Pacific Northwest Cabaret Association! Thanks to everyone who attended, in person or virtually. The carnivalesque John Engerman and enchanting butterfly Dave Pascal gave me such stylish support on my brew of witchy tunes including Donovan’s “Season of the Witch”, Nick Lowe’s beautiful ballad “The Beast In Me”, and the epic “My Barbie Was the Tramp of the Neighborhood” by Scott Warrender (from his brilliant revue TEXAS CHAINSAW MANICURIST, which he directed me in as a mere whippersnapper of a girl when I first landed in Seattle in the 1990s!). Kudos to all who made this event a success and the kind folks at the gorgeous Vashon Center for the Arts.
Photo: Jayne Muirhead
May 2022: Angie solo in Seattle Cabaret Festival
I always love my solo shows at Egan’s for Seattle Cabaret Festival and the chance to share an audience with a fellow act. In 2022, I got to do it with two glorious vocal trios - Blue Plate Special May 7 and, on May 21, Sirens of Swing! Thanks to my ever-trusty wizard of bass, Dave Pascal, for playing by my side to debut some new tunes, and to all those wonderful listeners in our audiences. We also had a blast playing a last-minute pairing with Carla Hilderbrand and Ted Lim of Siren + Sinewave - a true avant-garde cabaret duo. It was a swell festival. Here’s to next season!
Photo: Gretchen Rumbaugh
Photo: Art Anderson
April 2022: The Love Markets in a new episode of ArtZone
Big thanks to the always-superhuman Nancy Guppy and her stellar show ArtZone for featuring a performance from The Love Markets yet again on her brand new episode April 15, 2022 (and plugging our April 22 show at The Triple Door!). I always love the chance to appear on this marvelously curated and produced show… I think this is my 7th episode! Nancy and ArtZone… Seattle treasures.
Photo: Dave Haskell / Graphic: John Engerman
April 2022: The Love Markets return to sold-out Triple Door!
THANK YOU to all who came out and packed The Triple Door for The Love Markets on April 22! We were last here at the end of February 2020, our last gig as the pandemic was hitting - it felt wonderful to come full circle and play our songs on this great stage again. Thanks for joining us to celebrate opening night of Seattle Cabaret Festival 2022… and so much more!
Photo: Steve MacFarlane
Photo: Kim Maguire.
Dec 2021: We're back onstage! Here's the video: Tom Waits Night 2021
On Dec 4, 2021, The Love Markets crossed the threshold and burst from our pandemic cocoon to close out the 15th Annual Tom Waits Tribute Night, and I’m so glad we did! What a thrill to be with an audience again. The event raised over $1200 for MusiCares. Here’s a few minutes of “Way Down In The Hole” / “Jesus Gonna Be Here” by Tom Waits. Many thanks to our pal Eric Ray Anderson for capturing this video on the fly!
Dec 2020: 14th Tom Waits Night (VIRTUAL): Watch The Love Markets perform "Cemetery Polka" and "Yesterday's Here" to benefit Conor Byrne
Nope, the COVID pandemic couldn’t stop 2020’s 14th Annual Tom Waits Tribute Night at Conor Byrne. The Love Markets have been doing this annual gig since 2012 and we were so happy to be able to participate in this virtual version. An amazing community of musicians stepped up to contribute video performances for the livestream show on 12/5/20 to benefit Conor Byrne, emceed and produced by the wonderful Ayako Okano. Here’s The Love Markets in Dave Pascal’s driveway, half-naked in our chilly November slips (just how Tom likes it), playing our arrangements of “Yesterday’s Here” and “Cemetery Polka”. Enjoy! We did.
Feb 2020: The Love Markets at The Triple Door Feb 28!
Tickets are on sale for The Love Markets at The Triple Door Friday, February 28! I’m excited to return to this super-cool venue where I’ve seen so many great shows (best sound in Seattle). Joining us in the lineup are Princess Guy and Sweet Spot Combo featuring Arnaldo!, as well as guest songs from a handful of brilliant vocalists… all for opening night of March Is Cabaret Month, Seattle’s premier cabaret festival now in its twelfth year. Throw down on one of those cushy booths and join us! It’s going to be a great night.
BUY TIX: THE LOVE MARKETS AT THE TRIPLE DOOR FEB 28
Feb 2020: "Snow White" opens at Seattle Children's Theatre Feb. 7 ... music by Angie!
I’m so excited to be composing the music for Seattle Children’s Theatre’s new production of “Snow White”. Opening Feb 7, this two-person show is a fascinating and radically transformed telling of the classic fairy tale (girl power! one guy playing seven dwarves and then some!). After last weekend’s supercharged recording session, we’re raring to go and I can’t wait to hear how it all comes together opening night. The show runs Feb 7 - March 15 at SCT; read more and buy tickets at www.sct.org.
