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Music Mondays – SONG SPEAK Featuring AJ Fullerton & More

Lake Theater & Cafe brings you an opportunity to experience live original music at its best – with the songs, stories and strategies behind them from the songwriters themselves. This intimate and wonderful show features AJ Fullerton from…
Four Trains Runnin’ Muddy Waters Tribute

Music Mondays – Muddy Waters Tribute & Dance – Four Trains Runnin’

Four Trains Runnin' is a Muddy Waters Tribute show that features four internationally acclaimed blues musicians who relish in the performance of old school traditional blues. Featuring the songs of Muddy Waters and his influences performed in…
Ramblings On My Mind-March 2021

Ramblings On My Mind – Greg Johnson, Cascade Blues Association President

The Cascade Blues Association has been involved sending bands to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis for twenty years. We have had a lot of success with acts participating over the years, many pushing forward to the semi-finals since…
Bluesmania

Bluesmania – Best of the Benefit Concert for “Uncle” Steve Pringle

Review by Greg Johnson On November 24th, the Portland blues community came together to celebrate the life of beloved DJ Steve Pringle. The show, titled Bluesmania, was a benefit to help Steve and his family defray the cost of the cancer treatment…
Ben Rice & RB Stone

Ben Rice & RB Stone

Out Of The Box Middle Mountain Music By Greg Johnson As the old adage goes, what’s more fun than a barrel full of monkeys? Why two barrels of course. And so what can be more fun on an album than a cigar guitar player. Well, you know where…
John Clifton

Harp Master John Clifton At Catfish Lou’s

Bluesman John Clifton has dedicated himself to the genre that wasn’t getting the respect it deserved. But when you’re a frontman who delivers the goods straight from the heart, soul and gut, the blues become relevant. From the first note…
Amanda Fish

Amanda Fish – Young Blues Star on the Rise

Amanda Fish began as a singer songwriter in late 2012, refining her original material as a solo act for 2 years before she formed her band in early 2014, a Roots Rock and Soul project featuring  Amanda's signature gritty lyrics belted out…
Benefit For Fenix Sanders

Benefit For Fenix Sanders

A benefit has been scheduled to help Fenix Sanders meet the expenses of a month-long hospital stay following surgery recently that also meant lost revenue due to missed work. The event will take place at The Blue Diamond on the Fenix Rising…
Watermelon Slim

Watermelon Slim

Traveling Man Northernblues Music By Greg Johnson Sometimes to truly capture a musician’s talent you need to witness them in their most vulnerable setting — on a stage, bare-bone solo, with nothing to back them but their voice and instrument.…
New Music to Note-September 2021

March New Music Releases

There is so much good music out there. To help sort through it, here are our recommendations.   Ben Rice & RB Stone – Out of the Box (Middle Mountain Music) Dave Keller – Live At The Killer Guitar Thriller (Tastee Tone) Dave…