This blog will cover my ramblings about upcoming live music in and around Portland and recommendations for getting out to clubs and concerts . . . . and whatever else I feel like blathering about.
Monday, January 23, 2017
Time to have a Ball!
Portland’s annual Mardi Gras Ball has been listed by the New Orleans Times-Picayune as one of the Top-5 most authentic Mardi Gras celebrations in the United States outside of Louisiana. And it is no surprise given the event’s origins - a NOLA-style social club founded by ex-Louisiana residents and others (including me!) that now counts more than 100 members. This is a critical mass of Louisiana revelry with full costume finery – the crazy, the macabre, the funny, the sexy, the rude – and high-spirited indulgence.
The 2017 ball will be downtown at the Tiffany Center Emerald Ballroom (1410 SW Morrison St.).
Performers for the 2017 Portland Mardi Gras Ball include: the Northside Skull and Bones Gang; the Too Loose Cajun and Zydeco Band; BrassRoots Movement; and an All-Star Funk Revue featuring LaRhonda Steele, Karen Lovely, Christopher Worth, Michael Quinby, Dan Berkery, Chuk Barber, and Steve Kerin.
Also this year, in keeping with the theme of “Fire on the Bayou” (as in the famous Meters/Neville Brothers’ song) online ticket purchasers may include an optional donation to the Wetlands Conservancy in Oregon and the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program in Louisiana - two organizations that work to support vital wetlands restoration and preservation.
Details:
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Tiffany Center Emerald Ballroom (1410 SW Morrison St.)
Doors 6:30pm / Music 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
$30 adv. / $35 door / 21+
Tickets @ Ticket Tomato
Facebook event page
Hope to see ya there!
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Fwd: Local musicians benefit ACLU
SONGS FOR FREEDOM & JUSTICE
A benefit concert for Portland ACLU
Sunday, Jan 22, 2017, 7:00PM
Alberta Rose Theater
3000 NE Alberta St
Tickets $25
This diverse group of local musicians has donated time and talent to raise their voices in unity. All proceeds will benefit the local ACLU. Now is the time for live music and art which will help us all get through fragile times. Please join us for an evening of uplifting music for a cause that is now crucial. (Poster attached)
Partial list of performers:
Mic Crenshaw
Adam East and Kris Deelane
Mary Flower
Darrell Grant and Catherine Feeny
Ashleigh Flynn
Tony Furtado
Kate Power and Steve Einhorn
Rindy and Marv Ross
LaRhonda and Mark Steele
For questions about this show, contact Mary Flower at 503-679-1977 or mary@maryflower.com