Acoustic Guitar Summit Christmas

Acoustic Guitar Summit Coming to Hillsboro

Grammy Award winners Doug Smith and Mark Hanson along with Oregon Music Hall of Fame member Terry Robb make up the Acoustic Guitar Summit – one of the region’s most accomplished musical groups. Performing together for over 20 years, the…
Booker T Jones

Booker T. Jones Schedules Two Oregon Shows

With a career spanning five decades, one can easily argue that Booker T. Jones set the cast for modern soul music and is largely responsible for its rise and enduring popularity.  On classic Stax hits such as “Green Onions,” “Hang ‘Em…
2023 Journey to Memphis Finalists

2018 Journey To Memphis Competition Scheduled for May

The 2018 Cascade Blues Association Journey To Memphis competition will take place at Mekong Bistro, 8200 NE Siskiyou Street, Portland over the weekend of Saturday, May 19 and Sunday, May 20. Fifteen acts will face off for the right to represent…
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Band Stand – May 2018

Bayou Boyz, Soul Cookin’, and More Things have changed a lot over the last year, the last few months, and even weeks. There have been health and living issues, but everything is on track and getting better. The loss of Blackwell’s caused…

David Vest

David Vest Cordova Bay Records When you look for the definition of cool you’re likely going to find a reference to David Vest. His approach to the piano is second to none. With stylings that can channel the likes of Mose Allison, Jerry Lee…
Bettye LaVette CD Things Have Changed

Bettye LaVette

Things Have Changed Verve Bettye LaVette has one of the most distinctive voices in music today. Anything she sings is going to come out sounding as if it’s dripping in pure soul. Now, you’d never think of the Bob Dylan’s music, with its…
Officer Job Descriptions

2018 CBA Board of Directors

Greg Johnson, President Wendy Schumer, Vice President Merry Larson, Treasurer Brenda Docken, Secretary Fred and JoAnn Morgan, Membership Secretaries James Kosek, Shelley Garrett and Randy Murphy, Board At-Large
Jonny Lang

Salem’s Elsinore Theatre Welcomes Jonny Lang

It is hard to believe that at 36 years old Jonny Lang has already enjoyed a two-decades long career. Since the release of his debut album, Lie To Me, at age 15, Grammy Award winning Jonny Lang has built a reputation as one of the best live performers…
Doug MacLeod

Beloved Acoustic Bluesman Doug MacLeod Returning to The Lake Theater

The Lake Theater & Café will present an intimate evening with Doug MacLeod, a true blues master and storyteller, on Monday, April 16. MacLeod is a perennial Blues Music Award nominee, having recently won the Acoustic Artist of the Year…
Turtle VanDemarr

Turtle’s Guitar Mafia Takes Up Residency At Al’s Den

Local music legend, Turtle VanDemarr, has performed in many influential bands over the years. As lead guitarist for Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, The Fly By Nite Jass Band, The Freak Mountain Ramblers, and Anita Margarita and the Rattlesnakes,…