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No Sisters Folk Festival in 2020

We’ll have to wait til next year to celebrate the beloved music festival
Avatar photo Isaac Biehl

The 24th annual Sisters Folk Festival was slated for September 11-13, but  with uncertainty stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, SFF is postponing the event until September of 2021. It’s the second time the festival has been forced to cancel in the past several years. In 2017, wildfire smoke caused organizers to make a last-minute call to […]

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Gung Ho For Shows: Primus W/ Wolfmother and Battles

Enjoy the rockers’ grand tribute to Rush at the Les Schwab Amphitheater
Avatar photo Isaac Biehl

All summer long, Primus will be touring the country while paying tribute to Rush and the Canadian band’s 1977 album, “A Farewell to Kings.” This is turning out to be quite the significant tour. For one, Rush’s “Hemispheres” tour was actually Primus bassist Les Claypool’s first concert at the age of 14. And second, the tour […]

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Best Seat in the House

Prohibitions, party-fouls and penalties to know so you won’t be that guy during summer concert poaching
Avatar photo K.M. Collins

Many seasons ago, during the Old Mill District’s annual Michael Franti psychedelic musical time-space continuum trip, a man in a capsized canoe T-boned my raft just before nightfall. Knowledgeable paddlers aboard, we auto-piloted into rescue mode. A few of us hoisted the stranger into our vessel. Others began the painstaking process of surfacing and purging […]

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School’s (almost) out for the summer!

Here’s where to send your kids for free fun and food
Danielle Meyers

What are you supposed to do with your kids and all their free time? How about something free!? Bend offers so many fun activities for kids and their parents this summer. Here’s where to start. Free Lunch For many, kids’ school meals are a substantial part of their day—so why should it be any different in […]

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Get out!

All the shows that should be on your radar this summer
The Source Staff

MAY May 24 | JMEAST, Savage Watson, Amity Kane, Just Joe, Ese Chango, Stevee Hutch | Hip-Hop | The Capitol | Indoor May 24 | Leadbetter Band Birthday Jam | Rock | The Commons | Outdoor May 25 | Lassen & Kerry | Folk | Dudley’s Bookshop | Indoor May 25 | Bony Chanterelle | Rock […]

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Low Key Crooner

Ray LaMontagne kicks off the season at the Schwab, with special guest Neko Case
Dave Gil de Rubio

Pretension, flash and lack of substance seem to be the calling card for so much of what passes for musical talent nowadays.  If this is what you might come to expect from Ray LaMontagne, look elsewhere. Ever since he burst on the scene with his 2004 debut, “Trouble,” the soft-spoken singer-songwriter has carved out an […]

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