PROMENADE
Featuring Linda K. Johnson, Bill Will, Bill Boese, Seth Nehil and more than 30 artistic collaborators
Saturday, July 19
SW Moody @ Curry - in the future site of South Waterfront Neighborhood Park
Gathering begins an hour before sunset and continues until moonrise
FREE * all ages * Bring a picnic!
More on Promenade from DK Row in the Oregonian
State of Mind at the Crystal Ballroom.
1500 high school students crammed Portland’s Crystal Ballroom on May 30th raising $18,000 to help keep music programs in Portland schools. Midway through the night four of their own, students from Grant High, took the stage with their hip hop outfit State of Mind….the place went crazy, check the video.
First Thursday: Nick Jaina
Main Lobby, Gerding Theater at the Armory
6-7:15 pm, June 6
Free to the public (all ages welcome)
First Thursday in June, Nick Jaina, one of the keystones of Portland’s indie-pop scene (alongside folks like Laura Gibson, Loch Lomond, and Menomena), performs his evocative music. An artist with fantastic momentum, OPB says Jaina’s music is “full of the kinds of songs that sound as if they could have been written in any one of the past several decades, as comfortable next to Cole Porter as they are Tom Waits or (to a lesser degree) the Black Heart Procession.” Don’t believe it, hear for yourself below.
PDX Pop Now! is pleased to invite you and everyone you know to its CD Release Benefit, an all-ages party featuring live local music as well as an amazing raffle with items from local labels and businesses. All proceeds for the show will go to covering costs for the 5th Annual PDX Pop Now! Festival (free and all-ages on July 25th – 27th). The Benefit will take place at Holocene - 1001 SE Morrison
on Thursday, June 12th. The doors will open at 8 pm and the live music starts at 9pm. The cover is $10 and that will include a copy of the 2008 PDX Pop Now! Compilation CD. PDX Pop Now! And Holocene have made special arrangements with the OLCC to allow minors into the Benefit, so this show is All-ages. Come and support Local Music!!
Here are the details in short order:
What: PDX Pop Now! CD Release Benefit (All-ages)
Where: Holocene 1001 SE Morrison Street Portland, OR 97214
When: Thursday, June 12th - doors 8/show 9
Cost: $10 w/ free PDX Pop Now! 2008 Compilation of local music
Raffle: Featuring AWESOME raffle prizes donated from generous local businesses. PDX Pop Now! still
accepting raffle prizes if you know a local business who would like to donate!
Featuring performances by:
Southern Belle
White Fang
Yacht
Fist Fite
Lykke Li on stage at Doug Fir. Pic ©Nilina Mason-Campell
Live review by Nilina Mason-Campbell:
So Mary J Blige and Jay-Z’s Best of Both Worlds tour never made it’s way to Portland, but the city got a track from that setlist when Lykke Li covered “Can I Kick It?” as her encore at the Doug Fir on Friday night. How many openers do encores? Before she even took the stage in support of fellow Swede El Perro del Mar, it seemed like it was a headline set by Lykke Li. People asked each other, “Are you here for Lykke Li?” at the venue entrance and then gathered around the stage in the front was a definite fan section that quickly dispelled at the close of her set. She purposely steered clear of her ballads and kept her time on the stage under red and blue lights very upbeat with her up-tempo songs and a guest appearance from Miss del Mar. Her songs “I’m good I’m Gone,” which is receiving tons of buzz thanks to the quirky video and first single “Little Bit” drew the biggest cheers. In between songs there were the inevitable shouts of ‘I love you” and the very warranted “You’re hot.” She was most definitely on form - far better and more charismatic then when I saw her in the daytime during SXSW in March. Night time suits her. So does Portland. Hopefully she and her megaphone will be back soon. Oh and her cute backing male musicians. Can we import the whole band?
