thursday 14 Patchwork Players THEATER—The Patchwork Players performs a repertoire of one-act plays to help raise funds for Circle of Friends, a Sisters-based program that connects healthy adult mentors with vulnerable children. Drinks will be available to sample and purchase from Bend Distillery’s line of Crater Lake Spirits. So raise a glass to community theater […]
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Picks 5/6-5/13
friday 8 Third Seven Album Release METAL CELLO—Local musician Billy Mickelson is only 30 years old, but he’s already releasing his 30th album. And, no, he hasn’t been putting albums out since birth—just for the last 12 years. His latest, WHITE VERSVS BLAK, draws out the cello’s natural darkness and weaves it into a half-cello […]
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Riding in on a Bear
Portlander Laura Ivancie says music runs in her family
Laura Ivancie had a vision. A vision of a woman riding on a bear, weapon in hand. Strangely enough, this obscure image coincided exactly with one that her friend, Mike Friolo, a graphic designer for Adidas and Nike, had. So, naturally, he put it on a T-shirt for Ivancie’s fans. (Check it out at store.lauraivancie.com.) […]
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Not So Lonely in San Angelo
Los Lonely Boys find community in music
When the shimmering guitar riffs and instantly catchy melodies of the Los Lonely Boys‘ hit single “Heaven” chased the song up the Billboard Top 40 charts in 2004, a literal world of possibilities opened up to the trio of brothers from San Angelo, Texas. With the major label backing of Epic Records, the obvious choice […]
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Big in Australia
Mia Dyson is all grown up
There should be a saying that goes: when you can rock a mohawk, then you can talk. Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Mia Dyson has surely earned the right, and not just because of her curly, center-stripe haircut. This accomplished musician will appear for the first time ever in Bend at the Volcanic Theatre Pub on May 4, […]
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Picks 4/29-5/6
thursday 30 Jeff Austin Band BLUEGRASS—The former mandolin player of Yonder Mountain String Band, Jeff Austin, who is celebrated for his shockingly quick fingers and improvisational skills on stage, is headed in a new creative direction as a solo artist. Performing in Bend with Danny Barnes, Ross Martin, and Eric Thorin, for an evening of […]
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Source Suggests 4/29-5/6
First Friday Party Featuring Bobby Lindstrom and Mean Ed Sharlet “The blues,” Steve Martin once explained, “just get me so blue.” But this First Friday, Bobby Lindstrom brings upbeat, bluesy rock to the Crow’s Feet Commons courtyard. With raspy vocals, high energy, and passion, Lindstrom plays a set of his favorite blues covers mixed in […]
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Source Suggests 4/22-4/29
You Knew Me When In June 2012, Cie and Karisa Hoover uprooted from their full time jobs and Nashville home in order to tour the country for a full year. But what started as a year for the married duo hasn’t stopped. They continue to play their progressive blend of indie rock and folk in […]
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Dreams in Digital
Into the Mystic Forest with Haunted Summer
When Bridgette Moody and John Seasons discovered they were having similar kinds of dreams and nightmares, the decision to collaborate musically seemed natural. Friends for more than a decade before forming Haunted Summer, Moody and Seasons found themselves in similar circumstances with their respective bands at the time. They both felt like they were running […]
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A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock-n-Roll
Leon Russell has been there, done that
Leon Russell is a Hall of Fame inductee, Grammy Award nominee for Song of the Year in 1977, and a musician who has played with musicians as diverse as Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra, and counts among his friends Willie Nelson, Elton John, and George Harrison. Reading Leon Russell’s musical biography is a matrix of […]