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Bringing Nashville to Central Oregonโ€™s Backyard

Southern tunes fly in to Eagle Crest July 15

Eagle Crest Resort will be filled with a certain Nashville twang on July 15, when the resortโ€™s Greenside Cafรฉ brings various acclaimed Nashville-based musicians in for a laid-back night of country music. One of the night’s performers is Austin Jenckes, originally from the Pacific Northwest, who told the Source how excited he is to be back. […]

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Melissa Etheridge Will ‘Rock Your Toes Off’

With a healthy song catalog from which to draw, the legend promises plenty of fireworks when she hits the stage

Melissa Etheridge is a survivor. For starters try coming out publicly as a lesbian in January 1992 at a time when entertainers didnโ€™t do that kind of thing, surviving breast cancer and most recently, losing a child to an opioid overdose. This kind of reclamation of self and survival over the trauma and tragedies real […]

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Wynonna Judd: ‘A Tragic Comedy’

The country star says her relationship with fans is sacred

A decade ago, Wynonna Judd played one of the most surprising and memorable shows ever at the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. Judd agreed to perform at SXSW, for no money, only if she could play in St. Davidโ€™s Episcopal Church, a venue she knew of from the time she lived in […]

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The Flame Keeps Burning

A week-long celebration honoring Jerry Garciaโ€™s legacy is happening throughout Bend

The legacy of Jerry Garciaโ€™s 30-year music career is still going strong more than 30 years after his death. Garciaโ€™s birthday, on Aug. 1, will be honored at several local venues in the days surrounding that date. Silver Moon Brewing is kicking off the celebration with a Jerry Garcia Band Night on July 22. Fans […]

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Ecologist and Musician: On Stage is Where KR3TURE Thrivesย 

KR3TURE is coming back at the end of July for his second show in Bend.

KR3TUREโ€™s (pronounced ‘creature’) first show in Bend was just last January at the Volcanic Theatre and it was sold out. Electronic and modern live music fusion that defies any sort of category is what can be expected during a KR3TURE performance. All with the goal of connection.  The mountains of Santa Cruz is where KR3TURE […]

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Warsaw Poland Bros. Bring the Ska!

35-year veteran band still rocks the energetic genre of dance music

Local live music fans can get their dance on when the longtime purveyors of ska, the Warsaw Poland Bros., hit town July 15. The Bend date kicks off a six-show Oregon run, the bandโ€™s first Oregon tour in more than a decade. This tour is a milestone for founder and frontman Chris Poland, the bandโ€™s […]

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Sarah McLachlan: Better Broken Tour

After a lengthy break, the musician has rekindled her creative side

For nearly a decade, Sarah McLachlan took a break from making music and instead was busy fundraising for the not-for-profit Sarah McLachlan School of Music, which provides free music education and mentorship to underserved children and youth facing barriers to music education access in three Canadian cities. Along with being a mom of two teenage […]

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Tedeschi Trucks Band: The Future Soul Tour

A 12-piece band blending soul, blues, country and rock

There is a saying that goes, โ€œMany hands make for light work.โ€ Itโ€™s certainly the case with the Tedeschi Trucks Band, a 12-piece thatโ€™s been driven by the marital tandem of Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks dating back to the bandโ€™s Grammy Award-winning 2011 debut โ€œRevelator.โ€ Since then, the rock and soul-fueled outfit has not […]

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O.A.R. โ€” Three Decades Tour

Making magic on stage

Chris Culos was looking at a list of 40-something songs that O.A.R. was getting ready to play as the hard-touring Maryland rock band was set to start yet another run of shows. That list included hits like โ€œLove and Memories,โ€ โ€œLay Downโ€ and โ€œShattered (Turn The Car Around),โ€ some of the bandโ€™s earliest songs like โ€œThat […]

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Only Brothers Can Sing These Types of Bluesy Americana Harmoniesย 

The Deltaz are excited to be back in Bend

The Deltaz, a brother duo hailing originally from Southern California, bring a unique sound to bluesy Americana. They have been performing together since they were teenagers. Often donning their overalls andย Vaqueroย style flat-brimmed hats, they have a perfect uniform for their one-of-a-kind genre. The Deltaz will be at the Midtown Ballroom on July 28.  Growing up. […]

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