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Music

Featured Track: “I wanna see you be brave.”

Music is the art form we turn to when we need to build bridges and make ourselves plainly understood.

In January 2020, the United States was in crisis. The president was holding vital defense support to Ukraine hostage as a means of coercing their government into investigating the son of a political rival.

My civil disobedience action inside the Senate’s Russell Rotunda – performing Sara Bareilles’ “Brave” in an area where protest is strictly forbidden – was a call on Republican Senators to join Democrats in voting to remove that corrupt president from office.

<a href="https://taephoenix.bandcamp.com/track/brave">Brave by Tae Phoenix</a>

More Music

Everyone You’ll Be EP • Studio Album Release Date: Feb 2024
Home demos…

Tae Phoenix · The Girls You'll Be Demos

Deep Cuts

<a href="https://taephoenix.bandcamp.com/track/we-shall-not-be-moved">We Shall Not Be Moved by Tae Phoenix (ft. Josephine Howell & Friends)</a>

<a href="https://taephoenix.bandcamp.com/album/proving-ground">Proving Ground by Tae Phoenix</a>

<a href="https://taephoenix.bandcamp.com/track/bread-roses">Bread & Roses by Tae Phoenix</a>

Bio / Artist Statement

My name is Tae Phoenix and my favorite party game is “two truths and a lie.” See if you can guess which is which:

I learned to play the guitar in five months.

I have a Star Trek tattoo.

I’ve been arrested seven times for (organized, nonviolent) civil disobedience.

The answer is in the footer of the website.

My work is about themes that everyone can relate to on some level: rejecting conformity, embracing authenticity, and finding the connections between healing ourselves and building the world we want.

Sometimes, when I’m stuck on where a musical idea belongs, I’ll write lyrics from the perspective of a fictional character and see where that takes me. I love this approach because I tend to obsess over stories: telling them, absorbing them, analyzing them. It doesn’t really matter as long as I’m immersed. I’ve written songs that started out as screenplays and the beginnings of musicals that I originally thought were novels. It all makes me ridiculously happy.

My favorite thing about using music as a storytelling vehicle is that a well-timed and well-written song can convey a tremendous amount of information just with the placement of a quarter note rest. I learned this the first time I performed in a Sondheim show. (“Into the Woods.”) I looked at the score, thought, “wow! It’s turtles all the way down, “and never looked back.

The performing arts world is a wonderful place for many reasons, but it’s also not an easy space for me to enter. As an Autistic, I get easily overwhelmed by loud, chaotic environments like music clubs. In a people-oriented business, missing a social cue, facial expression, or change in tone of voice can have implications that aren’t always obvious in the moment. One of my goals as I work in this space is to build more inclusive and accessible spaces for “neuro-spicy” artists and our supporters.

Spin the Bottle

First Friday of every month, 11pm
$10 gen / $5 stu

1100 E. Pike St.
(11th Ave. at E. Pike St.)
Seattle, WA 98122
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Spin the Bottle

Audiences of all shapes and sizes are entertained monthly by Annex Theatre’s late-night variety show, Spin the Bottle! The next chance to see it is June 6!

This month’s edition of Spin the Bottle features, in no particular order:

Experimental short loops from K. BRIAN NEEL
Futuristic noir theatre written by ANDREW LEE CREECH, directed by JEN MOON
Tremendous roots-pop singing from TAE PHOENIX
Monologues from ’12 Tongues’ performed by YANA KESALA, written by ALISSA MORTENSON TYKA and SCOTTO MOORE
Acoustic Queen covers by RICK MILLER
A newly created shadow puppet play by IMPROV SHADOWS
The a cappella stylings of SCOTTO MOORE & BRIAN KINYON
Something something something by GUDE/LAURANCE
Indelible smut by JOSEF KREBS
…and more, more, more!

Featuring our abundant host, Kate Jaeger!
Guest curated by Scotto Moore!!

Curated by Annex Theatre’s former Artistic Director Bret Fetzer, Spin the Bottle – featuring theater, music, dance, spoken word, film, and whatever else we can find – has appeared on the first Friday of every month since Sept 12, 1997.

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Music

Featured Track: “I wanna see you be brave.”

More Music

Everyone You’ll Be EP • Studio Album Release Date: Feb 2024
Home demos…

Deep Cuts

Tour Dates

Bio / Artist Statement

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Spin the Bottle @ Annex Theatre – Seattle, WA1 min read

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Contact

City	Date	Time	Venue
Boston	8/7/23	TBA	Berklee Performance Center*
Boston	8/8/23	3:30pm	Cafe 939
New York	8/14/23	6pm	Rockwood Music Hall
Washington, DC	8/17/23	2-4pm	WOWD Radio
Reston, VA	8/18/23	6pm	Lake Anne Plaza

Spin the Bottle @ Annex Theatre – Seattle, WA1 min read

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