Seth Walker

Seth Walker Schedules Three Oregon Dates

Over the past ten years, Seth Walker has become recognized as one of the most revered modern roots artists in the United States; a three-dimensional talent who combines a gift for melody and lyric alongside a rich, Gospel-drenched, Southern-inflected…
Gino Matteo & Jade Bennett

Billy Blues Welcomes Gino Matteo & Jade Bennett

Former Sugaray Rayford guitarist Gino Matteo is known for his extravagant playing and first-rate vocals. His current tour will bring him to the Northwest for several dates up and down the coast and includes a couple stops in the Portland metro…
Gino Matteo with Jade Bennett - Sister Mercy Double Header

Gino Matteo with Jade Bennett – Sister Mercy Double Header Scheduled for Catfish Lou’s

Two-time International Blues Challenge semi-finalists and Muddy Award nominees Sister Mercy possess a high-energy, blues-driven sound. Lead singer April Brown is mesmerizing with her powerful stage presence and joyful, full-range vocals. Scott…
Tom May and Doug Smith Duet

Tom May and Doug Smith Duet Slated for Café Artichoke

Two of our area’s nationally known acoustic musicians join forces for their annual Portland program at Artichoke! Tom May has been a professional traveling singer/songwriter for more than forty-five years, and has shared the stage with Gordon…
Terry Robb - Confessin’ My Dues

Terry Robb – Confessin’ My Dues Album Release Show

NiaSounds and Cascade Blues Association are pleased to present a record release concert by Terry Robb, Portland's own finger-style blues guitar virtuoso. In his latest release, Confessin' My Dues, Robb displays his mastery of acoustic and bottleneck…
Albert Castiglia

Guitar Hero Albert Castiglia Coming Back to Catfish Lou’s

Albert Castiglia made his professional debut in 1990 with Miami Blues Authority and was later named ‘Best Blues Guitarist’ by Miami’s alt-music magazine, New Times. A few years later he toured as guitarist in blues legend Junior Wells’…
Tas Cru, Kathryn Grimm & The Blues Tools

Tas Cru Portland Debut, Kathryn Grimm & The Blues Tools – Double Header at Catfish Lou’s

Raucous, rowdy, gentle, sweet, eccentric, quirky, and outright irreverent are all words that fittingly describe Tas Cru's songs and testify to his reputation as a one of the most unique of bluesmen plying his trade today. It’s not for nothing…
Portraits Of The Portland Jazz Festival

The Art Bar in Antoinette Hatfield Hall Hosts Portraits Of The Portland Jazz Festival

Coinciding with the 2019 Portland Jazz Festival, Portraits Of The Portland Jazz Festival, portrait paintings and drawings by Portland artist Diane Russell, will be on display February 1–28 at the Art Bar in Antoinette Hatfield Hall. The solo…
Robert Cray To Play the Elsinore Theater

Robert Cray Band To Play Salem’s Elsinore Theater

Robert Cray has been bridging the lines between blues, soul, and R&B for four decades, and over that time has accumulated five Grammy wins, a Blues Hall of Fame induction, an Americana Lifetime achievement award, while embarking on countless…
Kim Field and The Perfect Gentlemen

Kim Field & The Perfect Gentlemen Schedule Debut Performance for Blue Diamond

It isn’t every day that a new band takes the stage for the first time and gets noticed right off the bat, but it also isn’t every day that a band like Kim Field and The Perfect Gentlemen comes around. The band is a new, Portland-based all-star,…