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Busk, verb, to entertain by dancing, singing, or reciting on the street or in a public place.

We’ve all been there, generally in a larger city in which we live or travel. You go to a high traffic or tourist centric area, and there on the corner, or by a fountain, perhaps in a park is an individual that is perhaps playing an instrument with a hat or case open in front filled with some change and random bills. Sometimes they’re good, sometimes…Not so much.

If you ever get a chance to go to Seattle, the place to go and find some buskers is Pike’s Place Market. They are so prevalent that they even have a time limit. Many of them are actually very talented and entertaining. One such person that started her career there was today’s artist Whitney Mongé. She had moved to Seattle from her hometown of Spokane. She soon discovered that she was making more money busking than being a barista at a coffee shop and well, she never looked back. She was so good that she was featured in the 2014 award winning documentary “Find Your Way: a Busker’s Documentary”.

Mongé has two previous releases, the “Steadfast” EP and full album “Heartbeat”, has done a few West Coast tours, and an extraordinary performance on local influential broadcast Band in Seattle with her fantastic backing band. (It’s on Youtube if you’d like to give it a listen. You won’t be disappointed!) She has also has supported national acts, Ziggy Marley, Allen Stone, Lukas Nelson & The Promise of The Real, Crystal Bowersox, and Brendan James. She recently reached and surpassed a Kickstarter goal for her upcoming EP “Stone” being released January 16^th of next year, soon to be followed with a West Coast tour.

Mongé is an authentic and extraordinary song writer, but what really stands out is her distinctive and exceptional, rich, and sultry voice. In her own words she was raised in a house filled with rhythm and blues. She now likes to call her music Alternative Soul, being raised in the Pacific Northwest, with nods to being highly influenced by the regional rock music of the ‘90s.

Whitney Mongé is a pure talent, genuine, and straight up gloriously good. Mongé has vocal emotive chops worthy of comparisons to Brittany Howard, the deep well old-soul emotional story telling worthy of Tracy Chapman, all within a approach that is absolutely and uniquely her own. Whitney Mongé is a complete artist that touches the deep recesses of a listener’s emotional wheelhouse, whether those parts love to grove or feel deeply. The music is beyond pure entertainment, it taps the listener’s emotive edge of ache and bliss.

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About Hunter: Hunter is a freelance music writer that concentrates on finding outstanding, unsigned, unknown and under appreciated bands from around the world and unabashedly wields them onto the unsuspecting and the great unwashed. His work has appeared on music sites kilScene (NYC/Brooklyn), Mother Church Pew (NYC), and East of Eighth (Nashville). One of his writings has even been shared and press quoted by a Grammy Nominated artist (Do the Grammy's even matter anymore?!) After a particularly difficult and surreal week of work about five years ago Hunter decided to search the dark, dusty corners and obscure underbelly of the Internet. It was after hearing one of the same 30 songs that a so called "New Rock" radio station played yet again on his way home. That is what started him n his quixotic quest. Since then through many seasons of bleeding ears, anguish, and many neurotic episodes, he has learned well how to hone the power of the Internet in his search. Along with that, he has a vast array of concerts and music rouges throughout the US and around the world, and his goal is to find some of the most unique, fresh, and kick you in the ear hole artists and bands. You can follow him on Twitter or Facebook (if you can find him!) About Hunter: Hunter is a freelance music writer that concentrates on finding outstanding, unsigned, unknown and under appreciated bands from around the world and unabashedly wields them onto the unsuspecting and the great unwashed. His work has appeared on music sites kilScene (NYC/Brooklyn), Mother Church Pew (NYC), and East of Eighth (Nashville). One of his writings has even been shared and press quoted by a Grammy Nominated artist (Do the Grammy's even matter anymore?!) After a particularly difficult and surreal week of work about five years ago Hunter decided to search the dark, dusty corners and obscure underbelly of the Internet. It was after hearing one of the same 30 songs that a so called "New Rock" radio station played yet again on his way home. That is what started him n his quixotic quest. Since then through many seasons of bleeding ears, anguish, and many neurotic episodes, he has learned well how to hone the power of the Internet in his search. Along with that, he has a vast array of concerts and music rouges throughout the US and around the world, and his goal is to find some of the most unique, fresh, and kick you in the ear hole artists and bands. You can follow him on Twitter or Facebook (if you can find him!)