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Entertainer editor Nancy Raskauskas chats with Morgan Grace, a 1995 graduate of Corvallis High School, about her latest CD “Valentine” and her recent sucesses in the Portland music scene, where she just earned a Portland Music Award for best new artist. Grace will be in Corvallis for a show with The Bookhouse Boys at 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at Cloud 9, 130 S.W. First. St. Admission: $3. Information: www.morgangracemusic.com or www.myspace.com

Entertainer editor Nancy Raskauskas sits down with Albany native John Nelson, a.k.a. Poverty’s Posterboy, for an interview about his new CD “Barely Almost Making It” at Bogey’s Bar & Grill, which will host his CD release concert at 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 4.

Platinum will host six hilarious finalists on Saturday night

Maybe you’ve seen your share of stand-up comedy, but have you witnessed the ruthless comedic battle that is competitive comedy?

The podcast is here! Listen in as Entertainer editor Nancy Raskauskas talks with the legendary Mike Marshall and Corvallis native Alex Hargreaves of The Big Trio. The podcast also contains a preview of some of the group’s original music from their new CD, which will be available at their concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, at First Presbyterian Church, 114 S.W. Eighth St., in Corvallis. You’ll hear selections from “House Camp,” “Boston Girl” and “Three Dragons.”

Entertainer reporter Brandon Goldner sits down with Albany band The Quiet Side.

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The audience at the Corvallis Repertory Singers’ “Curtain Up!” concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, at First Congregational Church, is likely to leave humming at least one catchy tune from the last 150 years of musical history.

On recent evening, in a mostly-empty building by the Albany Airport, a group of friends and musicians gathered from parts far and wide around the mid-Valley -. and put in their earplugs.

For some reason it never seems like the holidays in Corvallis until I’ve heard the haunting tones of Andean pipes cutting through the brisk December air. The incredibally talented local band Huayllipacha is known for playing on street corners in downtown Corvallis for holiday shoppers.

Jake Payne and Dixie Creek play on a recent Friday evening at the Indoor Holiday Artisan Market in the old Albright & Raw building at the corner of Third Street and Madison Avenue in downtown Corvallis. The group is made up of, from left, Scott Eastburn on mandolin, Jake Payne on vocals and lead guitar [...]

Corvallis Youth Symphony hosts composer Bunch
CORVALLIS — At 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, at LaSells Stewart Center, Corvallis Youth Symphony will host Kenji Bunch, a native of Portland, who among many honors has been heralded as “A Composer to Watch” by the New York Times.
Bunch, who studied at Juilliard School and now teaches there, has [...]