Steve Cheseborough Hey Folks! If you have any interest in learning to play blues harp or guitar (or improving the skills you already have), consider the summer classes I’m offering through Artichoke Music. Both meet on Monday evenings beginning June 18 and run for eight weeks. Blues Harmonica is open to all skill levels. We’ll […]
Front And Center Live From New York Provogue Front and Center is a live performance television series on Public Broadcasting that features some of the top artists of the day. Recently Beth Hart recorded an episode for the show at New York’s Iridium Jazz Club and it has been released as a combination live CD […]
A Phenomenal Concert returns on June 29 to the Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta Street. This show will focus on the phenomenal journey of blues and gospel in America. Music from the cradle of birth in Africa, the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta to our urban cities. The blues and gospel music has […]
The thirty-ninth annual Blues Music Awards honoring blues musicians and recordings in 26 categories were held in Memphis, TN, last month. Portland’s own Curtis Salgado was once again awarded the BMA for Soul Vocalist, his ninth BMA award and seventeenth nomination overall. Other local musicians nominated this year were Karen Lovely, Jimi Bott, and The […]
McMenamin’s Edgefield Concert Series presents an amazing night with two amazing acts. Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters are joined by Lucinda Williams for a premier double header line-up on Tuesday, June 26, starting at 6:30 pm. The Los Angeles Times explains that “over two sterling albums and a series of tours over the […]
The St Helens Arts & Cultural Commission will be presenting a Blues & Folk Music Workshop with three 60-minute classes held over three consecutive days, Tuesday, June 26 through Thursday, June 28, at Columbia Center Auditorium 375 South 18th Street, St. Helens. Classes are spread out three times through each day at 2:00 pm, 3:30 […]
The Cascade Blues Association would like to acknowledge an exceptionally generous gift from the estate of the late CBA member William Schauer. Bill’s unselfish support for the CBA will help us to continue our promotion of the blues and all of our marvelous local musicians and artists for many years to come. The CBA and […]
The Waterfront Blues Festival reaffirmed its 30-year commitment to fight hunger by acquiring a new local partner, the Sunshine Division, which has provided emergency food and clothing to those in need for 95 years. The addition of Sunshine Division as a non-profit beneficiary will help continue to bring awareness of local childhood hunger issues during […]
Greg Johnson, CBA President It is too often lately that I have reflected on the loss of venues. So it is good news that it appears that two we thought may not be around anymore have discovered a potential new life. The Birk closed down at the end of last year, with the owners Mike […]
Blue Eyed Soul Volume 1 Hunters Records If you want to listen to a true-dyed soulful recording, take a look at JT Lauritsen & The Buckshot Hunters’ Blue Eyed Soul Volume 1. If you’re unfamiliar with Lauritsen, this album is his eighth recording for his own Hunters Records label since 1995 and he plays terrific […]