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Bend’s Liquid Light Guy

From $5 projectors from Bend-La Pine Schools came a business aimed at making music shows look cool
by Doone Lupine Williams

“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 […]

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HomeGrown Music Festival + 4/20 Celebration

Local grass. Local tunes. Local stage. Pretty dope.
by Doone Lupine Williams

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 […]

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11 Years of The Workhouse ▶ [With Video]

Studio space, art shop and community, The Workhouse invites the community to its anniversary party
Avatar photo by Allie Noland

This weekend, The Workhouse celebrates its 11th year of cultivating a welcoming, sustainable, creative, collaborative space for makers and buyers. Everyone is invited to the party this Saturday. With local art, sales, live music, pop-ups, creative cocktails and more, attendees will be able to show their love and enjoy the night. The open studios will […]

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FairWell Festival Releases Lineup

Zach Bryan, Willie Nelson & Family and Turnpike Troubadours headline the inaugural festival at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center
Avatar photo by Allie Noland

Big name music artists are taking over the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center on the fourth weekend in July for a three-day festival. Covering genres of folk, country, blues, rock and soul, the FairWell Festival will host 36 artists across three stages. On Friday, July 21, Turnpike Troubadours, the gritty roots rock band, will […]

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Female Musicians Unite!

What’s Bend’s music scene really like for women? We asked some of them to weigh in.
by Doone Lupine Williams

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 […]

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Adventure Meets Art Through Film

Discover Your Forest hosts Backcountry Film Festival in Bend, Sunriver and Sisters to fundraise for youth education
Avatar photo by Allie Noland

Storytelling takes many shapes and forms, and this weekend, it’s through film. The Backcountry Film Festival is coming to Central Oregon as Discover Your Forest’s major fundraiser—Bend on Thursday, Sunriver on Saturday and Sisters on Sunday. Discover Your Forest is a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting discovery of the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests and […]

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Without Music There Is No Dance

Yogini and dancer Tenley Wallace brings a fusion of tribal belly dance, yoga and teachings from ancient dances of Arabia and Asia to Bend
by Doone Lupine Williams

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 […]

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Expressing Femininity Without a Need to Define

Bend’s original drag troupe, the Cult of Tuck, returns to the stage with its show, ”RECOVERY: Our Tuck Will Go On”
by Doone Lupine Williams

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. […]

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Defying Cliché

Sarah Shook & The Disarmers bring their attitude and rich melodies to Volcanic this March
by Aaron Irons

Sarah Shook & The Disarmers shirk category, defy cliche and generally make music that sounds like nothing that’s come before. For fans of hillbilly heartache, 2017’s “Sidelong” came across equal parts barroom lament and pistol-whipping, while the sequel, “Years” (2018), maintained Shook’s now-signature tremolo with richer melodies and attitude hewn from North Carolina pine. The […]

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Source Material: Music Docs

Seven music-related films to get you through this “WTF” winter into spring mode
by Doone Lupine Williams

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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