Undiscovered Music Network is a free online community for discovering and enjoying great live acoustic music in intimate venues like house concerts, listening rooms and coffeehouses. Membership includes tools for artists to find gigs, for venues to promote shows and for fans to discover hidden places to enjoy live acoustic music. 

Vinyl Resting Place, now celebrating their 25th anniversary, buys and sells records and CDs. Located in the historic St. Johns neighborhood, they have customers from all over Portland and from all around the world. They have an impressive collection of folk, jazz, classic rock, punk and more. Stop in to chat about music, and let them know where you're from!

Sam Keator and Anne Doherty created Irish PDX and conduct regular concerts and dances for the Community. Starting in 2007, we started Irish dance classes and live music ceili's (gatherings) called the 1st Friday Ceili Mor (big dance). Then in November 2010, we started our 2nd Saturday Community concert series. The concerts are not just Celtic but multigenre of artists.

Portland Guitar builds acoustic steel string guitars with modern techniques and innovations. Located in Southwest Portland, their garage has been transformed into a professional shop. Their home business has a dedicated music room with a variety of guitars for sale on display. After 17 years more than 120 guitars have been built and each one is hand crafted with careful attention paid to every detail. Tour the shop and play the guitars by making an appointment. 

Contact max@portlandguitar.com
Check out their website: Boutique Guitar Builder

We’re with the Band - A Mystery-Suspense, Comedy Romp

By PFS-member Johanna Flynn

Lark’s life at fifty is a tour bus with failing brakes.

Working at Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, Oregon, she faces a litany of failures. Failed marriage, failed social work career, failed romance with a renaissance faire knight. If fifty is the new forty, her future doesn’t bode well.

An offer comes along for a three-week band tour as a backup singer and bus driver in her native Ireland. But the country has changed since she moved to the US. A lot.

Someone stole priceless artifacts from the Dublin’s National Museum, and Lark suspects who. Can she manage the wild ride through the countryside, survive her quirky bandmates, reconnect with her crazy mom, and find the rare antiquities before they disappear forever?

Find out more about Johanna, and come along on this romp through Ireland, by buying the book on the   Author's site !