Thievery Corporation made its way back onto the Portland stage on Tuesday, Oct. 8 at the Roseland Theater with opening guest That 1 Guy aka Mike Silverman. Silverman opened the…
The Connection
Like some of you, but also unlike some of you, I started college a little later. My first stop instead was radio—KBOO Community Radio—where I produced a program called “The…
Lincoln Hall performances celebrate Korean and Chinese traditions
The Institute for Asian Studies is starting off the fall term with a bang, hosting two traditional events reaching thousands of years into the cultural past of Korea and China….
Cult of Orpheus’ underground artistic renaissance
Portland composer Christopher Corbell is fostering a renaissance in the local artistic community. His project, Cult of Orpheus, fuses lyrical sonnets with classical guitar and chamber instruments to create a…
Get down with free, all ages music at PDX Pop Now!
On what will hopefully be a perfect, sunny weekend, the 13th annual PDX Pop Now! Festival will be held July 22–24 underneath the Hawthorne Bridge at Audiocinema (226 SE Madison…
Summer brings symphony outdoors
The mild summer Portland is enjoying provides the perfect opportunity to take in the high arts from a lawn chair. Local symphonies will be performing outdoors in a variety of…
Get your music on with these Portland summer festivals
The expectations to have an amazing summer are always daunting. And if you’re an Oregonian, traveling to Portland and going on a grand adventure or attending one of the many…
I reads with you
Studying for finals is stressful and time consuming. Why not make it more enjoyable with this crop of instrumental albums? They’ll keep you from getting too bogged down with statistics…
Portland Cello Project plays to packed house at the Old Church
If you’ve never experienced a live virtuoso cello concert, you’ve never known the warm sorrow and deep satisfaction the instrument evokes with its range and emotive resonance. Portland Cello Project,…
History made: PSU Orchestra plays Crystal Ballroom
The Portland State Orchestra brought the high arts to local legendary rock palace, the Crystal Ballroom in a historic performance on Thursday, Feb. 25 . The venue was a first-time…
Emotionally connect through the spoken word
Activist, slam poet, and the first winner of the Women’s Poetry Slam, Andrea Gibson, is coming to the Hawthorne Theater on March 8 in Southeast Portland. Gibson was born in…