CORVALLIS — Three years ago, French musician Eric John Kaiser moved from his native Paris, France, to the Northwest.
“I followed a young lady who was from Portland,” he said.
Things didn’t work out with the girl, but Kaiser quickly fell in love with the Rose City and its vibrant music scene and to his surprise he found that Portland crowds embraced him, even if they didn’t always understand the words….
Folk singer and musician John McCutcheon — he plays fiddle, banjo, guitar and hammered dulcimer, among other instruments—can still remember his first West Coast tour circa 1980 when he played at the Old World Deli during a stop in Corvallis…
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.
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.
You haven’t lived until you’ve experienced the Zombie Surf rock of “They Won’t Stay Dead.” The group is showcasing their undead awesomeness at 11 p.m. Halloween night at Downward Dog, next to Cloud 9 on the Corvallis waterfront. Here’s a sample of their music, which compels even the dead to rise from their graves and [...]
