The Blender

As I wrote about in last week’s print edition, tonight is one of the funkiest in recent memory.
That’s because funk and jazz legend Maceo Parker is playing the Tower Theatre and up-and-coming horn player Trombone Shorty is out at the Sisters Folk Festival Winter Concert Series with his funky band, Orleans Avenue.

After selling out the Domino Room in October for a show that featured the Bay Area band’s front-to-back Americana recreation of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, Poor Man’s Whiskey is returning to Bend on Saturday (3/13) for another show at the same venue.
This time around, PMW is playing a show featuring its own bluegrass-meets-classic-arena-rock (yes, this is possible) numbers and will almost certainly draw a sizable crowd of their hardcore Bend fans.

One of our Picks of the Week in the last print edition was sending you in the direction of the Domino Room tonight where Bend’s community radio station, KPOV (106.7FM), is screening the documentary Playing For Change.

In January, Source staffer Anne Pick wrote a feature story about the CSPAN StudentCam contest, which put cameras in the hands of local students and asked them to put together a video that dealt with pressing national issues.
Several area students submitted videos and now the winners have been announced.

UPDATE (3/31) This show has been canceled. Yes, that’s a bummer.

Eric Tollefson and the World’s Greatest Lovers played the free Wednesday night show last night at McMenamins here in Bend, serving up a feast of blues rock jems before heading down to Hollywood for a show at the Whiskey A Go Go on Saturday.
I’ve got some video here, but sadly it is not of the show’s defining moment, which was when a youngish man in the crowd challenged Feverishly Dancing Bespectacled Woman (if you’ve been to a McMenamins show, you know who she is) to a dance off.

Yes, that is the real name that local blues rocking singer songwriter Eric Tollefson has chosen for his band. I profiled the red head in this week’s issue of the Source in advance of the band’s triumphant journey to Hollywood to play the Whiskey A Go Go.