Harpdog Brown

Harpdog Brown – Playing It Forward For United By Music

With a briefcase filled with awards, including three Maple Blues Awards naming him the best harmonica player in Canada, Vancouver’s Harpdog Brown has been called a blues evangelist — and that’s a very fitting moniker. He delivers his messages…
2018 CBA Officer Elections
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2018 CBA Officer Elections Coming In December

Every December, the Cascade Blues Association asks its members to attend the monthly membership meeting to cast their votes for the people who they would like to run the organization for the coming year. All five officer positions (President,…
Dennis Lusk

Portland Organist Dennis Lusk Continues His Long Musical Journey

Born and raised in Oklahoma City, Dennis Lusk took organ lessons from age nine until sixteen. “I joined my first band in Oklahoma City when I was thirteen. I played several nights per week from age sixteen until age twenty-four, when I left…
The Greyhounds

White Eagle Saloon Welcomes Back The Greyhounds

The Greyhounds guitarist Andrew Trube and keyboardist Anthony Farrell have been making music and touring for 15 years while refining and developing a sound Trube describes as “Hall and Oates meet ZZ Top.” The band also has strong ties to…
17th Annual Musicians Toy Run Benefit

2017 Musician’s Toy Run Benefit To Be Held On November 4

Now in its sixteenth year, the Musician’s Toy Run Benefit, hosted by Francine West, will once again hold a day-long show aimed at bringing joy to children during the holidays. The event returns to the Trails End Saloon, 1320 Main Street, Oregon…
Son Little

Doug Fir Hosts Musical Alchemist Son Little

What is the new magic of music? If you trace the path of a plan back to its beginnings, what do you find? Is it a tree, growing from seed with deep roots planted in fertile soil, branches arcing out in all directions? Or a spark in the dark,…
The Devil Makes Three

The Crystal Ballroom Presents The Return Of The Devil Makes Three

“The Devil Makes Three has a sound that is garagey ragtime, punkified blues, both old and new timey, without settling upon a particular era,” claims the band’s guitarist and vocalist Pete Bernhard.  Inspired as much by mountain music…
Michele D’Amour and The Love Dealers

Michele D’Amour and The Love Dealers Slated At Catfish Lou’s

Seattle’s Michele D’Amour and the Love Dealers will be making their debut performance at Catfish Lou’s on Saturday, November 11 to celebrate their latest release Lost Nights At The Leopard Lounge. The album is a soulful throwback to Chicago…
Selwyn Birchwood

Jack London Revue Welcomes Selwyn Birchwood

"Selwyn Birchwood is a master storyteller, both lyrically and musically. He's an impressive, hard-crunching, modern blues guitarist. His fretwork is high-energy, raw and vivid...knife-edged leads and roadhouse-rattling grooves. He is graced…
Lake Theater & Café

The Lake Theater & Café hosts Muddy Waters Celebration & Blues Dance

Four of Portland’s favorite internationally recognized musicians gather once again to celebrate the music of blues legend Muddy Waters at The Lake Theater & Café on Monday, November 13. Guitarist Alan Hager, harmonica ace Mitch Kashmar,…