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How lucky are we to live in a state that has almost every type of terrain: the mountains, the ocean, the valley and the desert? If you’re like me, the high desert feels its truest form when I’m headed out east on Highway 31: The instant smell of sage brush when you roll down the […]
Black Boot is the artist name for Conrad Gonzalez, who moved to Bend from Brownsville, Texas about a year ago, who plays with, “a revolving door of friends, new and old,” according to the band’s Spotify. Gonzalez currently works as a chef at Suttle Lake Lodge by day, working as a focused interdisciplinary musician during […]
Presented by Sisters Folk Festival, the Big Ponderoo Arts and Music Festival will bring Americana and bluegrass music to two stages at Sisters Art Works and Three Creeks Brewing on June 24 and 25 in Sisters. During the week, June 18-21, a bluegrass jam camp called Camp Ponderoo (now in its second year), takes place […]
Dear Source readers: In this story, I write about another 4/20 celebration happening in Bend. Is this Bend’s Christmas? Jokes aside, we have an extra special gift coming our way on Thursday, April 20 on the Midtown Ballroom’s stage — a chance to see a true legend in music history, Al Anderson and his group […]
“And I’ve been addicted ever since!” said Adam Weyer, aka, Tall Adam, aka Trippy Lights, aka Trippy Lights Bend. Weyer has been in Bend since 2003 and experimenting with projected imagery and liquid visuals for the past 15 years. What seeded from collaborating with artist friends on “Subtractive Poems” — performance pieces that entailed the […]
Twelve local bands, 12 local solo artists, one local stage. High Desert Music Collective founder Scott McClelland connects the dots between reefer’s favorite holiday and a neighborhood music festival as director of the Third Annual HomeGrown Music Festival. Solely highlighting local music, the festival takes place on Thursday, April 20 as well as Friday, April […]
What I gathered from this “study,” as we’ll call it: We have some super passionate, talented and integrated women in the Central Oregon community who truly care about all musicians in this town. For this article we’re talkin’ about girl power and putting a microscope on what it’s really like to be a female musician […]
It’s Women’s History Month, so let’s continue the dialogue on embracing fearless and eternal feminine power through music and performance art. More importantly, let’s discuss the vitality and continued progression that affects our mind, body and the modern world when we honor and practice deep-rooted historical traditions in these two mediums, especially dance. I recently […]
For this Women’s Issue I wanted to take this space to touch on femininity in a fluid form for artists that aren’t always accepted in that constraint — or to put it another way, to touch on what it means to be a woman, or to feel like a woman, shouldn’t be constructed by gender. […]
When I first saw Oliver Stone’s 1991 psychedelic and dramatic whirlwind as a teen, “The Doors” — and the way Val Kilmer truly transcended into Jim Morrison’s spirit (and fully adopted his body and voice) — the relationship between true stories in music history and filmmaking seemed like an entirely new planet to me. I […]
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