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…
2023 Journey to Memphis Finalists

Applications Now Being Accepted For 2020 Journey To Memphis

The Journey To Memphis is the Cascade Blues Association’s regional competition to select the acts that will represent our organization and region in 2021’s International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee. Up to 250 acts from around the…
Mr Handy’s Blues

Mr Handy’s Blues – From Preacher’s Son to Father of the Blues

By Randy Murphy “History,” T. S. Eliot observed, “has many cunning passages, contrived corridors,” and effective biographical documentaries succeed in exploring those historical passages and corridors in a way that allow us not only…
Gary Moore - Live From London

Gary Moore – Live From London

Live From London Mascot Label Group / Provogue Records By Greg Johnson This recording comes from a December, 2009 show in London’s Islington Academy, a smaller theater that makes the performance truly an intimate setting. Sadly, it was…
2020 International Blues Challenge  

Memphis Recap – 2020 International Blues Challenge  

By Marie Walters This rookie’s first Journey To Memphis was a whirlwind of preparation, travel, showcases, jams, performances, and eateries — all topped off with lack of sleep. I was lucky to be traveling with IBC ‘veterans’ so I had…
Little Eva - Eva McCoy

Honky-Tonk Rock, Rhythm & Blues for Little Eva

Portland's music community comes together in support of 10-year old Eva McCoy who underwent an emergency liver transplant Nov. 16th, 2019. Severe complications kept her hospitalized at Seattle Children's Hospital for almost 3 months. Eva is…
David Jacobs-Strain

David Jacobs-Strain, Christopher Worth, and Haley Johnsen – New Eps to be Released Simultaneously

Three of the area’s brightest young artists will come together for one special night to release of new music Eps at the Alberta Rose Theatre. David Jacobs-Strain is a fierce slide guitar player and song poet known for both his virtuosity…
Seth Walker

Seth Walker – Americana Treasure

Over the past 10 years, Seth Walker has been recognized as one of the most revered modern roots artists in the United States — a three-dimensional talent with a gift for combining melody and lyric alongside a rich, Gospel-drenched, Southern-inflected…