Portland foursome Tango Alpha Tango’s strengths lay in the details of its ripping blues rock. Unfettered guitar solos burst out of the script of songs like The Incredible Hulk punching through a solid brick wall. Nathan Trueb’s dirty vocals land somewhere between Lou Reed and Tim Curry in Rocky Horror Picture Show, both measured and […]
Brianna Brey
Bri Brey is a Bend native who started as an intern at the Source Weekly after her graduation from the University of Oregon three years ago. She is now the full-time arts, culture and music editor.
Committed to bolstering Bend’s growing musical and arts community, Bri takes after the semi-fictional William Miller of Almost Famous. Despite a cynicism cultivated over the 20 years she’s lived in Bend, Bri loves Christmas. She loves decorating and gift giving and prides herself on having the best white elephant strategy. She once devised an It’s a Wonderful Life drinking game. Contact her at bri@bendsource.com with local music, arts and culture events (or the rules to that drinking game).
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Source Suggests 12/3-12/11
Hot Buttered Rum Your first December dose of progressive bluegrass, Hot Buttered Rum, returns to the Belfry with twang-laden country-bluegrass arrangements strapped with wholesome three-part harmonies. The band are the kinds of dudes you want to crack a beer with, kick back, and maybe even add a fourth part to those hedonistic harmonies. 8 pm. […]
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Gift Guide: The Hibernator
Gifts for “inside kids”
Here is a specific personality type: That person who loves cuddling up by the fire, throwing on a Netflix documentary and crafting their way though the winter months with the cat snuggled on their lap. Sound familiar? Someone in your life? Check out these local shops for great gifts for any lover of indoor-activities. Kinitting […]
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A Very Mariachi Christmas
Forget the Mexican hat dance
For most of us not regularly exposed to traditional Mexican music, the mariachi genre recalls little more than quick strumming, stacked harmonies and abundant horns and, of course, those lovely elaborate and colorful cowboy suits. But Jóse Hernàndez, bandleader of Mariachi Sol de México—a group he founded in 1981 at just 23-years-old in Los Angeles—explained […]
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It’s Giving Tuesday, Check Out Our Local Give Guide!
In response to the overwhelming consumer driven purchasing days, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, a new campaign to add a day of giving to the national calendar has emerged. Today! Giving Tuesday encourages folks to give back to their communities in anyway they can. Here is the explanation from Giving Tuesday’s website: WHAT IS #GIVINGTUESDAY? […]
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Meet the Artist
Maria Fernanda Bay’s whimsical portraiture
It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but Maria Fernanda Bay‘s portrait photography could be a novel. Specializing in beauty shots, maternity photos, and family and cooperate portraits, Fernanda, a recent Bend transplant from Boston, is a master of reading people and conveying their essence through photography. She has shot internationally, opened […]
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Instead of Zappos.com, try North Soles
800 NW Wall St.
By Brianna Brey The displays at North Soles are stocked, brimming with quality merchandise for the holiday season. Brown and black matte leather boots, dozens of shapes, sizes and a rainbow of colors of handbags, impeccably soft cashmere scarves and handmade baby Alpaca, Peruvian gloves. When Margaux Kellenberg-Hought started North Soles, a shoe and handbag […]
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Instead of iTunes, try Recycle Music
3 NW Bond St.
By Brianna Brey According to an article published in the New York Times last week, the Consumer Electronics Association estimates that shipments of new turntables in the United States will have grown by 5 percent this year, totaling about 84,000. This is good news for Keith Schuman, owner of Recycle Music, a shop at the […]
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Source Suggests 11/26-12/4
Zachary Lucky It may seem like an oxymoron, Canadian country music. What could be more wholly American than the twangy Nashville-esque sounds of pedal steel ringing through low and lauding laments? But rambling Canadian native, Zachary Lucky comes from the stock of country music, his grandfather Smiling Johnny Lucky, who the younger Lucky claims was […]
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Flying Solo
Brooklyn’s Christopher Paul Stelling picks his way down the left coast
“I’m writing this from an airplane. We are currently experiencing much turbulence. I’m confident, though, that all will turn out well and I will get safely to my destination…” says Christopher Paul Stelling in an email interview with the Source. That’s what it’s like being on the road as religion, he says. “It’s like that.” […]