Sprout Film Festival The ninth annual Sprout Film Festival comes to the Tower Theater. The films focus on developmental disabilities and all try to shine a light on the personalities and plights of some of these people. Some of the films include A Time For Georgia (following six months in the life of a four-year […]
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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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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 […]
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Film Events 4/8-4/15
Friday, April 10, 7 pm. Tower Theater. 835 NW Wall St. $13-$23 Lynn Harrell & Bach Film Screening Director John Forsen (Violin Masters: Two Gentlemen of Cremona) returns to Central Oregon with a screening of his newest film, Lynn Harrell Bach Cello Suites. What is really incredible here is that Harrell performs the first two […]
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Capacity to Overcome
Despite absentee parents, singer Neko Case raised herself into a Grammy nominated artist
On more than one occasion, singer Neko Case has claimed, “I should have been an abortion.” Her quotes typically read as a tad flippant and with a measurable distaste for the two humans who—despite clearly deficient life skills—brought her into the world and subjected her to a whirlwind of dysfunction. “My dad was mentally ill […]
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Picks 3/18-3/25
thursday 19 George Clinton & Parliament FUNK—The undisputed grandfather of funk, prolific and versatile musician George Clinton (seriously though, he’s won awards for gospel and had his music heavily sampled by hip-hop artists), is bringing his epic soul train to Bend. The influential, 73-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is a must-see. If, by […]
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When Metal Goes Acoustic
Guitar virtuosos Rodrigo y Gabriela are flamenco head bangers…sort of
Listen closely and you can hear it. Amid the flourishes of Latin strumming and percussive hand slapping, there it is—the tortured sound of grumbling heavy metal shrieks through the otherwise intimate music of acoustic duo Rodrigo y Gabriela. The story is well known—as Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero have told it many times—two teenage kids […]
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Film Events 3/18-3/25
A Survey of Open Space This full-blown adventure documentary focuses on a pair of city folk who begin a search for a truly wild place in America from the seat of a bike. Their journey begins on the Mexican border and spans the entire continent until they reach their conclusion in the Arctic. The film […]
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Picks 3/11-3/18
thursday 12 Dearly Departed WORDS—A good book can transport you to another time and place. Return the favor and bring your favorite (deceased) author into the present at this tribute to authors of yesteryear, organized by the OSU-Cascades Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing program. Readers will channel their favorite writers in word and in […]
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Film Events 3/11-3/18
20 Feet From Stardom The documentary 20 Feet From Stardom does not teach its audience any lessons we don’t know. What it does is smarter than that: Instead of spending the majority of the running time talking about how cruel and evil the music business is, the film truly succeeds by shining a light on […]