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Band Fact Sheet: Twiddle

Known for an excellent live show, this jamming quartet brings its act to Bend

Becoming known for your live shows might be one of the highest compliments to receive as a musician. It’s a direct tribute to your skills on stage and the ability to connect with the audience. The band Twiddle happens to fall into that special category. Blending a plethora of genres togetherโ€”including rock, reggae, bluegrass, funk […]

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Source Suggests 8/21-8/28

Editor’s note: We want to acknowledge that two of the biggest acts of the summer will play the Les Schwab Amphitheater this week, Jack Johnson on Sunday Aug. 24 and Dave Matthews Band on Tuesday Aug. 26. However, both shows have been sold out since the first days of ticket release, so unless you’re a […]

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Oh, the Places You Will Go!

Summer concerts near and far

This year’s Summer Concert Guide is the Source’s compass for the upcoming months of music in the Pacific Northwest. We take you north, east, west and south for festivals, one-off shows and summer-long series that showcase nationally touring acts, underground favorites, and weekends so stuffed with pure musical summer joy that you’ll contemplate trading your […]

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Bend’s Grassy Gem

13-year-old Les Schwab Amphitheater is a teenager coming into its own

In 2001, Bend gained perhaps the most important cultural resource the town has ever seen—an 8,000-person capacity outdoor music venue on the river. Since then, concerts at the Les Schwab Amphitheater have come to mark the official start of summer, and during its tenure, the venue has drawn icons like Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, […]

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LSA Q&A

Here is a short list of what we learned at the Q&A session for the Les Schwab Amphitheater on Wednesday evening. —>There will be no chairs and blankets allowed at the Jack Johnson or Dave Matthews Band concerts because the venue had to sell 8,000 tickets to make those shows profitable. With that many patrons […]

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Good Luck Getting DMB Tickets

It’s been 43 minutes since Dave Matthews Band tickets went on sale for his Les Schwab Amphitheater performance in Bend on August 26. As far as we can tell…online tickets are already sold out. Here’s the message coming up on bendconcerts.com when we try to buy tickets… Via bendconcerts.com Better hightail it to the Old […]

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Jack Johnson Announced at LSA in August

The Les Schwab Amphitheater announced their second summer concert via Twitter: surf-worshiping acoustic pop singer/songwriter Jack Johnson on August 24โ€”just two days before Dave Matthews Band. From bendconcerts.com Johnson played the amphitheater in 2003, 2005 and 2008. Tickets go on sale Jan. 31. More information at LSA’s website. Related Stories

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