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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Benefit For Fenix Sanders
Watermelon Slim
March New Music Releases
Applications Now Being Accepted For 2020 Journey To Memphis
Mr Handy’s Blues – From Preacher’s Son to Father of the Blues
Gary Moore – Live From London
Memphis Recap – 2020 International Blues Challenge
Honky-Tonk Rock, Rhythm & Blues for Little Eva
David Jacobs-Strain, Christopher Worth, and Haley Johnsen – New Eps to be Released Simultaneously
Seth Walker – Americana Treasure