The April 26 noon concert in Lincoln Recital Hall was ostensibly a Jazz Area concert, but since jazz is as broad a term as classical, we were treated to a…
Art & Fashion at MK
Portland State students from Alison Heryer’s textile construction course held the group show “Fabric & Form” at the MK Gallery in PSU’s Art Building on April 18. The two-hour reception…
The cure for heartache
Los Angeles neo-soul-jazz trio, Moonchild performed Thursday, April 19 at the Star Theater with Momo Pixel as one of many performances comprising Portland’s annual Soul’d Out Music Festival. There’s no…
Events Calendar
FEATURED EVENT VISUAL ART “Salt” May 1–6 Shaking the Tree Studio $30, all ages Shaking the Tree’s creative director Samantha Van Der Merwe curated nearly a dozen artists’ works inspired…
Maarquii, Natasha Kmeto let loose at Holocene
Soul’d Out Music Festival seems well on its way to being a Portland tradition. Now in its second year, Soul’d Out attracts national-tier jazz, R&B, funk, and hip-hop music artists…
Erykah Badu opens Soul’d Out Music Festival
Erykah Badu kicked off Portland’s Annual Soul’d Out Music Festival on Wednesday, April 18 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Robert Glasper’s super jazz group R+R = Now opened the…
De La Soul takes over the Roseland
De La Soul was one of six headlining acts around Portland to end the four-day long Soul’d Out Music Festival Sunday, April 22. After opening artists Lilla and Silent Heroes…
Suns’ Out, Baby!
On top of all the amazing concerts in Portland over the last week, the sun has been teasing and tempting us to run outside. The summer blues, love and nights…
PSU’s Percussion Ensemble doesn’t miss a beat
At the crack of noon on Thursday, April 5, Portland State’s Lincoln Recital Hall hosted an uncommonly sparse audience. The music department’s weekly free concerts are usually packed—not least because…
PSU’s gorgeous strings
The trouble with unfretted stringed instruments—specifically the classical violin family—is they inherently sound bad. It takes years of practice to develop the skills necessary to produce a single pleasing tone…
FYI April 17–24
FYI April 17–24 April 20 4-20! Blaze it! But, not on campus PSU is required to comply with federal law. Accordingly, marijuana in all forms for recreational or medicinal…