The High Desert Chamber Music Celebrity Recital series returns for its 18th season with the announcement of renowned cellist Peter Wiley and pianist Anna Plonsky making their second appearance May 15, their first since the HDCM series began in 2017. HDCM uses live performances to promote and introduce new audiences to classical music. Chamber music, […]
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HomeGrown Music Festival Keeps on Growing
With a new venue and PNW heavyweight headliners Polyrhythmics, Glitterfox and MarchFourth, HomeGrown has let out its britches
The HomeGrown Music Festival — Bend’s showcase of local and, increasingly, regional bands, just keeps on growing. Forty bands — 24 of which are local — will play across five stages at its new host venue, Century Center on Bend’s west side. The Volcanic Theatre Pub, GoodLife Brewing Company and The Commonwealth Pub will open […]
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Fern Spores Tours the Pacific Northwest
The femme-folk-rock band brings a Washington sound to Silver Moon Brewing
After leaving her partner, homestead and job in Idaho and moving to Olympia, Washington, Alyssa Nunke desired only one thing: start an explicitly all-female band. The strategy was simple. Host an open mic night. Listen for potential members. Rinse. Repeat. And it worked, perfectly. On just her fourth night she struck gold in the form of Jade Kovatz, the other frontrunner of the band. The rest of the femme-folk-rock band Fern Spores members […]
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An Evening of Psychedelic Sounds
Three bands will immerse an audience in a feel-good experience
Local band Sun Dive is kicking off summer with two bands from Los Angeles sharing the spotlight at Silver Moon. Vinyl Williams has been creating what he calls celestial pop sounds and a universe of 3D futuristic dream worlds since 2007. He’s releasing the band’s 10th full length album, “Star Harmony,” on May 15, eight […]
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Mastersingers Mark 20 Years with Landmark Concert at Tower Theatre
Anniversary performance blends reunion, reflection, and a forward-looking vision for Central Oregon’s choral scene
The Central Oregon Mastersingers will celebrate two decades of music, collaboration, and community with a special anniversary concert, “We Are the Music Makers,” on Saturday, April 25, at 7PM. at Bend’s Tower Theatre. The performance, under the direction of Artistic Director and Conductor Christian Clark, closes the ensemble’s 20th season with a program designed not […]
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Trickster, Satsang & Harkum, Crenshaw & Mastro
Upcoming music performances range from get on your feet and dance to a soulful introspective
Trickster Trickster is about to shake up Silver Moon. The new community band aims to get the crowd singing and dancing on April 11. Trickster is a mix of local talent who share an interest in furthering the American Roots Music Tradition. They play music honoring and inspired by musical greats like Janis Joplin, Jerry […]
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Scientist to Songwriter
Creating that human connection
Texas-based songwriter Mark Winters has added Central Oregon to his Good Vibes Highway Tour this spring with a stop at Bend’s The Commonwealth Pub April 29. Winters began his career as a “Bonafide rocket scientist” and found inspiration through the connection created through music as he recently explained to the Source. the Source: When did […]
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Living in the Light Tour
Grammy-winning acoustic guitarist Tommy Emmanuel is coming to the Tower Theatre
Tommy Emmanuel is not kind to his guitars. The Grammy-winning Australian musician beats out rhythms on their soundboards, scrapes the top of them with pliers, and sands off finishes so he has yet another surface to punish. On average, Emmanuel’s guitars survive five years of this before they become unplayable. Sometimes that happens onstage, at […]
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Imani Winds X Andy Akiho: BeLoud, BeLoved, BeLonging
On April 12, a new performing arts series brings world-renowned and emerging musicians to the Tower Theatre
Central Oregon’s music scene takes a bold, resonant step forward this spring as a new performing arts series presented by OSU-Cascades and the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts —known as PRAx— continues a new performance series at the Tower Theatre. The April 12 concert, BeLoud, BeLoved, BeLonging, brings together the Grammy-winning Imani […]
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Larry and His Flask — Happily, Half Full
Bend’s homegrown Americana punk band reunites to celebrate 15-year anniversary of ‘All That We Know’
“Don’t lose hope, because it’s not impossible that we might play again.” So said Larry and His Flask member Andrew Carew, addressing fans in the farewell-ish article “Is the Flask Empty?” the Source published in early 2020. Yet to the delight of fans, Larry and His Flask are back, for the time being, at least, […]
