LOCAL MUSIC

Oregon brings its inhabitants and visitors an array of genres from jazz to country.

Oregon's Music Festivals are a Summer Highlight

6/19/2012 Waterfront Blues Festival Blues fans should mark their calendars for the 2012 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival July 4 – 8 on the waterfront in downtown Portland. The festival features 150 acts and ... Read more>>

Mimicking Birds: Earthly and Supernatural

5/15/2012 Mimicking Birds plays Mississippi Studios in Portland May 16 and you should be in the audience. Mimicking Birds makes music that is at once earthly and supernatural. Concepts such as environmental destruction ... Read more>>

Slow Grown Music from The Alialujah Choir

4/10/2012 The Alialujah Choir was born in graveyard. The Lone Fir Cemetery in SE Portland to be exact. In 2008, Kate Sokoloff had an idea to raise money for the endangered property, and commissioned a ... Read more>>

Guitar Manufacturers Form Partnership

11/11/2011 Though there was no rainy outdoor concert to commemorate it, no tie-dyes made for the occasion and no ten-bong salute, the combination of Two Old Hippies Guitar and Breedlove Guitars was acoustic harmony ... Read more>>

New Jazz in Portland

4/1/2011 Jazz in the Rose City is blossoming with youthful innovation these days in a Pacific Northwestern cult fueled by creativity. While expressing the independent spirit of Oregon, this emerging jazz culture ... Read more>>