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Music in the country style, including western & western swing, cowboy & country blues, country folk, bluegrass, rockabilly, hillbilly, Americana, and honky tonk. hosted by Robert Parish, Wayne and Kathy Johnson, Wayne Selzer, Mary Rondthaler, and Gary Baysinger.

1st Saturday - Robert Parish along with son Graham play sets featuring particular artists as well as sets with a variety of artist.

2nd Saturday, Wayne and Kathy - Variety of country, western, western swing, country folk, country blues, bluegrass, rockabilly and Americana.

3rd Saturday - Will Selzer - Blends all types & styles of country music from 50+ years, rooted in mid-20th century, men and women artists equally. The goal is to entertain our listeners and to have fun.

4th Saturday - Mary - Bringing a musician’s ear to the collective with a focus on older country and Western swing from the ‘30s to the ‘70s, always with a good dose of women artists.

5th Saturday - Gary - Countrypolitan Blues - A mix of eastern philosophy and western swing; the yin, the yang, and the do-si-do.

Past shows available on the program page at https://kboo.fm/program/swing-n-country.

Festivities begin with a kick-off concert on Thursday evening July 25 featuring three Corvallis-based bands. Common Fields in downtown Corvallis is hosting this free event and donating a percentage of food and beverage sales to the festival.

On Friday evening, July 26, the festival headliner Rakish, a fiddle and guitar duo from Boston, will perform at the newly opened state-of-the art PRAx concert hall on the Oregon State University campus. This is the only ticketed festival event and tickets will be available on the PRAx website.

Admission is free although festival buttons for a donation of $10 or more will be available. Each day starts with a bagpipers parade. Main Stage in Central Park will host 8 bands on Saturday and 4 bands on Sunday. The Corvallis library will host smaller performances including storytellers and singers, as well as workshops on beginning guitar, beginning and advanced Irish drum, fiddle, and singing. Additional workshops on Saturday including dance steps, a band workshop, advanced guitar, advanced fiddle, Irish flute, and Cape Breton fiddle will be offered at the nearby First Presbyterian Church. The Cor v allis Art Center will be a dedicated harp space and includes a hands on harp workshop (limit 12 and pre-registration required on the website), and performances from a variety of Celtic harpists.

Schedule:
July 25 (Thu): Loose Flagstone, Cucunandy, The Nettles at Common Fields, 545 SW 3rd St.
July 26 (Fri): Rakish ($25 general/$23 CFS Members/$5 students) at PRAx, 470 SW 15th St.
July 27 (Sat): seven venues, many workshops, classes, and performers (including David Ingerson, Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter, Sharon & David Thormahlen, Adams, Martin & Linahon, Erica Liebert, Corey Murphy, many others.
July 28 (Sun): Stone Porridge, Loose Flagstone, Cucunandy at Central Park

Every Saturday, 9 am to noon, the best of traditional and contemporary bluegrass and old time music, and information about local shows and festivals!

First Saturday: Rachel and Justin

Second Saturday: Dave Elliott

3rd Saturday: Gareth Jenkins

4th Saturday: Chip Russell

5th Saturday: Phil Hodgen

prior shows available on the KBOO program page at https://kboo.fm/program/music-true-vine.

Puget Sound Guitar Workshop – Undeniably the world’s greatest guitar festival and a camp for all acoustic instruments and genres, it has now expanded to four weeks of camp, each with a different flavor and different instructors.

Summer Session 1 (July 27-Aug 1): Open Tunings - Off the Beaten String (Cindy Kallet), Songs of Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (McKain Lakey), Flaming Hot Flamenco for ‘Ukulele (Daniel Ward), beginning classes in flatpicking (Laurel Bliss) and Old-Time Fiddle (Devin Champlin), and two songwriting sessions - Songwriting Launchpad (Aaron Guest) and Songwriting Workshop: Rutbusters! (Cindy Kallet).

COVID Policy:
1. Participants must have received at least one dose of the latest version of the COVID-19 vaccine (available since autumn 2023) at least 14 days prior to the event, and must provideproof of immunization.

NOTE: Vaccination exemptions may be available for participants who provide a letter from a licensed medical provider (MD, DO, ND, ARNP or PA) documenting a medical contraindication to COVID-19 vaccination.

2. Prior to arrival, participants must test negative for COVID-19 on the day the event begins, and text or email a photograph of their test to the event coordinator(s).

NOTE: We recommend testing prior to travel if possible.

Artichoke Community Music School workshop led by Julio Appling, $40 Saturday, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM 07/27/24 (1 day) Love playing but hate to practice? Looking to make your rehearsal efforts more intentional, or even fun? This workshop breaks down the whats, whys, and hows of making musical progress. Topics will include: Setting goals Establishing a routine Keeping it fun Solving technical problems Learning new music Incorporating music theory (or not) Preparing for performance Bring note-taking tools, questions, and a willingness to share your own experience, struggles, and successes. Open to all instruments, all levels.

Artichoke Community Music School class led by Steve Cheseborough, $100 for 4 sessions. Held at an off site location. Exact location will be emailed to all registrants prior to the first class.

RL Burnside and the North Mississippi Blues --

We‘ll work on the hypnotic groove of this master and associates. All levels welcome, but you should be able to keep a beat, and be eager to learn and willing to practice. Meets at an outdoor location.

Contact instructor Steve Cheseborough, chezztone(*at*)gmail.com, with any questions.

Artichoke Community Music School class led by Steve Cheseborough, $100 for four sessions. Held at an off site location. Exact location will be emailed to all registrants prior to the first class.

Bossa Nova!

After a lifetime dedicated to the blues, I have recently picked up the bossa nova habit, and I want to bring you along on my journey. You‘ll learn some new chords and maybe some Portuguese lyrics, and mainly how to get into the irresistible groove! The music of Joao Gilberto is our inspiration. All levels welcome, but you should be able to keep a beat, and be eager to learn and willing to practice. Classical-type guitar preferred. Will meet at an outdoor location.

Contact instructor Steve Cheseborough, chezztone(*at*)gmail.com, with any questions.

Jim PepperFest 2024: Speak/Sing Native. Celebrate the legacy of Kaw/Muscogee musician Jim Pepper, featuring Native artists and fry bread. A Summer Free For All cultural event. Celebrating and exploring the legacy of the great Kaw/Creek musician Jim Pepper, raising awareness of and creating opportunities for Indigenous musicians, and improving access to culturally-relevant musical education for Native American students. We are developing culturally relevant curriculum for grades 9 through 12, which we have named Speak/Sing Native™.

Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble will be back in Portland on Saturday, July 27 for a rockin‘ summertime Saturday show sponsored by Cascade Zydeco, $25 general admission/$20 Cascade Zydeco members (cash only, please), lots of off-street parking, a full bar and snacks to purchase. Doors open at 3:00 Dance lesson 3:30 - 4 Band plays 4 - 6:30 Cascade Zydeco members! Get an extra $5 discount on your admission for signing up to work at the door. Here‘s how it works in 3 easy steps: 1. Click this link to go to our invitation page on SignUp: https://signup.com/go/UyqGgRz. 2. Enter your email address: (You will NOT need to register an account on SignUp) 3. Sign up! Choose your spots - SignUp will send you an automated confirmation and reminders. Easy!

Tom’s folk music program is going on 35 years and one of the longest running music radio shows around.

You can listen on www.folkmusicnotebook.com on Saturday at 4 pm PST and repeated again on Sunday at 1 am.

Urban and country blues with R&B, soul, jazz, zydeco and classic rock, every Saturday from 5-7 pm.

Hosted by: Dr. Jane, Rick Mitchell, Steve Cheseborough, Dave Johnson, Chuk Barber.

We open up a "room" on Zoom at 6 pm Pacific Time every Saturday evening. We start singing at 6:30 pm and we keep it going until the last person leaves. Feel free to come in anytime, and stay as long as you like. We run it kind of like a physical song circle. Everyone who wants to can sing once, and then we’ll do another round, and just keep going around as long as you like. Of course, it is totally fine to just listen and some people do. For more information, go to the heading ‘Song Circles‘ on this drop down menu.

Come enjoy some 1920 – 30’s Style blues with Steve Cheseborough!

Presented by Portland Parks & Recreation, concert 6:30 pm unless otherwise listed, free, all ages, music venue listed below.

Jul 11 (Thu): Melao de Cuba Salsa Orchestra, traditional and current Cuban music (Mt. Tabor Park Amphitheater)
Jul 12 (Fri): Picante, traditional Afro-Cuban music with a fusion of Latin jazz (McCoy Park, 4677 N Trenton)
Jul 13 (Sat): Tequila Highway, upbeat cumbia and Latin funk rhythms (Gilbert Heights Park, 4209 SE 130th Ave.)
Jul 18 (Thu): Wamba, world beat with exciting African percussions (Glenhaven Park, 7900 NE Siskiyou)
Jul 19 (Fri): Ache Son, traditional and vibrant Cuban music (Glenwood Park, SE 87th Ave. and Claybourne)
Jul 20 (Sat): (starts at 6 pm) BridgeCity Soul, old and new school R&B, soul and funk (Knott Park, NE 117th Ave. and NE Knott)
Jul 26 (Fri): King Louie and Andy Stokes, dynamic sounds of soul, blues, and jazz (Jamison Square, 810 NW 11th Ave.)
Jul 27 (Sat): Glass of Hearts, Blondie tribute band (Kenton Park, 8417 N Brandon Ave.)

Aug 1 (Thu): Ashleigh Flynn and the Riveters, female rock country, and folk band (Hoyt Arboretum-Stevens Pavilion, 4000 SW Fairview Blvd.)
Aug 1 (Thu): The Norman Sylvester Band, featuring Lenanne Miller, original blues and R&B (Unthank Park, 3920 N Kerby)
Aug 3 (Sat): Barrio Mestizo, classic and contemporary salsa, cumbia, cha cha cha and more (Rutherford Park, 16555 SE Mill)
Aug 8 (Thu): Beat Frequency, pop, funk, and R&B duo (Woodstock Park, 5012 SE Harold)
Aug 15 (Thu): Yankl Falk‘s Carpathian-Pacific Express, Klezmer groove, East European fiddle (Essex Park, 7730 SE Center)
Aug 16 (Fri): Outer Orbit, soul funk dance party (Alberta Park, 1905 NE Killingsworth)
Aug 16 (Fri): Joshua Josue-El Gringo Mariachi, Americana/Chicano rock, cross-border songs, and stories of the working class (Pendleton Park, SW Iowa St.)
Aug 17 (Sat): Kris Deelane & The Hurt, Motown soul revue (Sellwood Park, SE 7th Ave & Miller)

Rootsy Americana. Original songs. Adventurous harmonies, $15 show at 7 pm (doors open at 6:30). Darling Radio melds a strong roots, old time and Americana sound with modern chamber pop and adventurous 4-part harmonies. This Pacific Northwest 5-piece plays original music for a sound that is nostalgic, stirring and fresh.

An evening with The Weeds and Cary Novotny, $20 suggested donation, all proceeds go to the musicians (doors open at 6:30 pm). Join duo John and Tyler Weed with Boston’s own multi-instrumentalist Adam Hendey for an evening of Celtic and Nordic fiddle tunes, contemporary compositions, old-time mountain music, and timeless song. Watch the folk process unfold as John Weed (New World String Project, Molly’s Revenge) and Cary Novotny (Cul an Ti Band), pass this musical lineage to next-gen banjo, mandolin, fiddler, and composer Tyler Weed. The event will feature compositions from Tyler Weed, a cutting edge, fresh voice on the U.S. scene. We are delighted to invite you back to a magical night at Hart House. RSVP to kim(*at*)kimclaughlin.com. Contact us if you have any questions.