Alan Singley and the Pants Machine perfome “Highway of Our Minds”

The Someday Lounge and Backspace Presents
A Benefit for Basic Rights Oregon featuring:
ALAN SINGLEY AND PANTS MACHINE
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN
SWIM SWAM SWUM
THE VONNEGUTS
PALO VERDE and
GREGORY MILES HARRIS
HERE COMES A BIG BLACK CLOUD
HEY LOVER
WORLD’S GREATEST GHOSTS
SLEEPYHEAD
DIRTY MITTENS and
ALMOST NEARLY

Someday Lounge is 21+, Backspace = ALL AGES
7pm, $7-$12 sliding scale at the door
Founded in 1996, Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) is the state’s chief advocacy, education and political organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. With twelve full time staff plus a contract lobbyist, three offices around the state, more than 10,000 active contributors and 5,000 active volunteers, Basic Rights Oregon is a formidable force in Oregon. BRO has built a diverse movement made up of GLBT folks, straight-allies, rural and urban Oregonians, business leaders, clergy, elected officials, educators, parents and more as well as coalition partners in labor, healthcare, reproductive choice, civil liberties and racial justice organizations. The organization and Oregon’s LGBT community have a history of waging large-scale statewide ballot measure campaigns. We beat back anti-gay ballot measures in 1992, 1994 and 2000. And in 2004, Oregon came the closest of any state to defeating a marriage amendment.

Due to what apprears to be a serious illness with one of the band members the Decemberists have canceled all of their remaining tour dates which include several European and North American cities and, sadly, the three-night tour wrap-up at the Crystal Ballroom here in Portland. A message on their web site includes the following…

It saddens us to disappoint our fans. We hope everybody understands it
is only because of an extreme situation that we had to cancel a tour
we’ve all been excited about doing since the idea was originally
hatched.

The Decemberists