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The Mission Theater
8:00pm Saturday, March 12, 2022

TICKETS | $15 Advanced

Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM 

All Ages | Proof of vaccination or negative PCR test taken within 72 hours of event.

New Constellations are Portland based duo Harlee Case (vocals) and Josh Smith (multi-instrumentalist and producer). As childhood best friends, Josh recorded Harlee’s first songs in his bedroom when she was 14. Josh spent the next decade playing and touring in bands around the northwest, while Harlee was spending her time building a large community around female empowerment and the legalization of plant medicine.

After 15 years of working on music separately, they have teamed up to form New Constellations. Blending powerful vocals, dancy beats, catchy guitar hooks, and energetic live shows, they have caught the attention of listeners with their debut single

“Hot Blooded’ earning over 2.5 million streams in its first year. With a combined force of killer songs and a thriving supportive community, New Constellations are set for success.

Portland Art Museum – Kridel Grand Ballroom
9:00pm Saturday, February 26, 2022

Featuring: DJ KLYPH (The Numberz & XRAY's Welcome to the Neighborhood)

Doors 8:00 pm // Show 9:00 pm

Tickets: $49.75 Advance GA //  $55.00 Day of Show

21+ // Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative Test Required

Robert Glasper is the leader of a new sonic paradigm with a career that bridges musical and artistic genres. To date, he boasts 4 Grammy wins and 9 nominations across 8 categories, and an Emmy Award for his song for Ava Duvernay’s critically hailed documentary “13th” with Common and Karriem Riggins. His work and accolades bridge all aspects of the music business, from live touring to film scoring, composing and producing.

Evolution is his hallmark. Glasper’s breakout crossover album Black Radio changed the face of the genre and set a new expectation for what popular music could be. The album won him the Grammy for best R&B album and established him as the musician of choice for some of the world’s most iconic artists; notably playing keys throughout Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly.

The ongoing Black Radio series has since become Glasper’s calling card, upholding a place at the heart of a trailblazing community: from Mos Def and Bilal, to legends including Ledisi, Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Jill Scott, and Erykah Badu. 

Glasper’s eternal pursuit to further his sound has been consistent in challenging and transforming his creative horizons across the board. Whether producing a remix album with Kaytranda or as a bandleader, he consistently defies the limits of the genre. This is evident in a portfolio that ranges from his acoustic jazz trio; which simultaneously defies and elevates the traditional idiom by uniting it effortlessly with electronics from visionary DJ Jahi Sundance, to August Greene; a collaboration with Common + Karriem Riggins, to R+R=Now a supergroup at the crossroads of hip-hop and Jazz.

In the last two years alone Glasper has seen a staggering diversity of success. He dropped Fuck Yo Feelings; a star-studded mixtape; with features from YBN Cordae to Herbie Hancock to Yebba. The album was nominated for the Grammy for Best Progressive R&B album in the recent 2021 awards.  He created an original score for the Emmy Nominated doc The Apollo and the feature film The Photograph starring Issa Rae.

He led a legendary residency at the Blue Note NYC with 56 sold-out shows in 27 days which saw everyone from Dave Chappelle to Tiffany Haddish, Chadwick Boseman, Q-Tip, Anderson.Paak and Angela Davis join him on and off stage. And, alongside long-time collaborator, co-producer, and creative partner Terrace Martin, he formed another dream team supergroup Dinner Party featuring Kamasi Washington and 9th Wonder.

In August of 2020, Robert released ‘Better Than Imagined’ which won the Grammy for Best R&B song in 2021; the first taste of his hotly anticipated forthcoming Black Radio 3 albumFeaturing H.E.R and Meshell Ndegeocello, the song advocates for Black love and the power, and responsibility, we have to improve our world; again demonstrating that, above all, Glasper is an artist at the heart of a moment – and a movement – to champion Black music, Black people, and the possibility of a better future. The hip-hop-head-nod ballad is a dedication to just that: the beauty and brilliance of a heritage that is as much Kendrick as it is Coltrane, and which seeks to empower and uplift with every offering.

In his own words:
“Black lives matter and so does black love; no one wants a life without love, but we have generations of people in our community who haven’t had the tools to actually be in healthy relationships. It seems like people are finally ready to open their eyes to systemic racism in this country, and if we’re going to talk about it, we have to also talk about how it affects our relationships — how we communicate, how we see ourselves, how we treat each other. It’s not always good, even though maybe it could be.” 

Next up for Glasper is the long-awaited release of Black Radio vol. 3, with this very special 2022 Biamp PDX JAZZ FESTIVAL appearance a showcase of those new tunes along with his now classic catalog.

TAHIRAH MEMORY
Portland native, singer, songwriter Tahirah Memory, raised by a willful, loving and resourceful mother, and shaped at an early age by the vibration and melodic hands of her jazz trumpeter father, asserted her love for music extremely early in her childhood. Tahirah’s sound, steeped in jazz, soul and R&B is unlike any other, sounding distinctly like her personal truth.

DJ KLYPH – THE NUMBERZ 96.7FM & XRAY.FM (Welcome to the Neighborhood, Sat 8-10pm)
is a Portland based radio personality who has been creating platforms for the local music scene and artists worldwide. He’s utilized terrestrial radio [The Numberz FM, XRAY FM], Podcasting [Klyph Notes] and live events [Mic Check PDX] with an ear toward lyricism and conscious hip-hop representing the underrepresented.


Holocene
9:00pm Thursday, February 17, 2022

21+ // Doors 8 PM // Show 9 PM

TICKETS: $15

OLD TIME RELIJUN

Old Time Relijun give sweaty, compulsively danceable performances that never fail to inflame their audience. Their songs are simple but no one else in the world could imitate them. Their albums are packed with sing-along hits, mixed with sonic experiments and inside jokes. 

DESCENDING PHAROAHS

Half structure, half improvisation, they draw influence from Arabic/Anatolian electric music, eastern improvisation, spiritual jazz, gamelan, British psych, and the louder side of 70s krautrock. Harmonia, Omar Khorshid, Mogollar, Ash Ra Tempel, Hawkwind, Sandy Bull, Savage Republic are inspirations.

Mississippi Studios
8:00pm10:00pm Tuesday, February 15, 2022

21+ // Doors 7PM // Show 8PM

TICKETS: $20 Advance & Day of Show

The Weather Station

Ignorance, the forthcoming album by The Weather Station, begins enigmatically; a hissing hi hat, a stuttering drum beat. A full minute passes before the entry of Tamara Lindeman’s voice, gentle, conversational, intoning; “I never believed in the robber”. A jagged music builds, with stabbing strings, saxophone, and several layers of percussion, and the song undulates through five minutes of growing tension, seesawing between just two chords. Once again, Toronto songwriter Tamara Lindeman has remade what The Weather Station sounds like; once again, she has used the occasion of a new record to create a new sonic landscape, tailor-made to express an emotional idea. Ignorance, Lindeman’s debut for Mississippi label Fat Possum Records, is sensuous, ravishing, as hi fi a record as Lindeman has ever made, breaking into pure pop at moments, at others a dense wilderness of notes; a deeply rhythmic, deeply painful record that feels more urgent, more clear than her work ever has.

MOSTLY STANDING / LIMITED BALCONY SEATING

THIS EVENT IS 21+

VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY


Doug Fir Lounge
9:00pm Monday, February 14, 2022

TICKETS | $12 Advanced

Doors 8PM | Show 9PM 

21+ | Proof of COVID vaccination or Negative Test within 48 hours required for entry

Called “one of Mexico’s greatest young talents and vocalists” by KCRW’s José Galvan, Silvana, who is 23 years old, is the new voice of a movement of independent female artists who have characterized Latin Alternative music over the past decade.

Crystal Ballroom
8:00pm Friday, February 11, 2022

TICKETS | $35 advance, $40 day of show, $40 advance 21+ reserved balcony, $45 day of show 21+ reserved balcony

Doors 6:30 PM | Show 8 PM

21+ | VENUE COVID POLICY  

Galactic bring the sound of New Orleans to the Crystal Ballroom with guest Too Many Zooz. After 25 years performing together and ten albums, the group continue to build on their jazz funk sound with the recent addition of vocalist Anjelika "Jelly" Joseph.

Core PDX
12:00pm2:00pm Sunday, February 6, 2022

An event to connect local Black and Brown farmers with local buyersBuy your CSA share! 

Meet BIPOC farmers and learn about local agriculture! 

Are you a chef? Market manager? Come meet your farmers! Join the movement that's changing the face of farming! 

Free to attend! Food trucks on site! Live music and DJ! 

LOCATION: CORE PDX, 3612 SE 82ND AVE, PORTLAND, OR 97266 

Please RSVP to enter a raffle filled with goodies from farmers! Otherwise just show up day of! 

Email sitafalfarm@gmail.com if you have questions!

Core PDX
12:00pm5:00pm Saturday, February 5, 2022

An event to connect local Black and Brown farmers with local buyersBuy your CSA share! 

Meet BIPOC farmers and learn about local agriculture! 

Are you a chef? Market manager? Come meet your farmers! Join the movement that's changing the face of farming! 

Free to attend! Food trucks on site! Live music and DJ! 

LOCATION: CORE PDX, 3612 SE 82ND AVE, PORTLAND, OR 97266 

Please RSVP to enter a raffle filled with goodies from farmers! Otherwise just show up day of! 

Email sitafalfarm@gmail.com if you have questions!

Venues all over town!
12:00am Saturday, January 1, 202212:00am Monday, January 31, 2022
All show details and ticket info can be found at: PortlandMusicMonth.org, including a list of every show, a browse-by-ear function to discover new favorites, and details on the See Shows Win Big sweepstakes, which enters fans into drawings for thousands of dollars in prizes for doing what they want to do anyway - attending shows, buying artist merch, and spreading the word.

31 days. 15 venues. And over 150 artists with $1 of each ticket supporting MusicPortlands independent musician grant fund. Come out and stand with music! 

Crystal Ballroom
9:00pm Friday, December 31, 20211:00am Saturday, January 1, 2022

TICKETS | $40 advance, $45 day of show, $45 advance reserved balcony, $50 day of show reserved balcony

Doors 9pm, Show 10pm | 21+ | Proof of COVID Vaccination or Negative Test within 72 hours Required for Entry

The Polish Ambassador is among the premier EDM/live crossover artists in the country. Founder of independent label Jumpsuit Records, an environmentalist and early progenitor of the permaculture action movement, the world's funkiest diplomat is here to party with a purpose. Enjoy an immersive, high energy New Years party at the Crystal Ballroom!

Doug Fir Lounge
8:00pm Friday, December 31, 20211:00am Saturday, January 1, 2022

TICKETS 12/31 | TICKETS 12/30 | $25 Advanced

Doors 8PM | Show 9PM 

21+ | Proof of COVID vaccination or Negative Test within 48 hours required for entry

A 2 night celebration! Y La Bamba exists in the dimension of the Mexican American imagination: somewhere cynical and optimistic at the same time. Their fifth record, Mujeres, carries on the Portland-based band’s affinity for spiritual contemplation but goes a step further in telling a story with a full emotional spectrum. Two nights at the historic Doug Fir Lounge! 

Doug Fir Lounge
8:00pm Thursday, December 30, 20211:00am Friday, December 31, 2021

TICKETS 12/31 | TICKETS 12/30 | $25 Advanced

Doors 8PM | Show 9PM 

21+ | Proof of COVID vaccination or Negative Test within 48 hours required for entry

A 2 night celebration! Y La Bamba exists in the dimension of the Mexican American imagination: somewhere cynical and optimistic at the same time. Their fifth record, Mujeres, carries on the Portland-based band’s affinity for spiritual contemplation but goes a step further in telling a story with a full emotional spectrum. Two nights at the historic Doug Fir Lounge! 

Oregon Contemporary
7:00pm Thursday, December 2, 2021
TICKETS: $8 at the door

On Thursday Dec. 2nd at the art gallery Oregon Contemporary (formerly Disjecta) the local non profit literary record label/book press Fonograf Editions will be holding a 5 year anniversary benefit fundraiser, featuring performances by Eileen Myles, Samuel Ace, Sara Jaffe, Allison Cobb and Brandi Katherine Herrera. The event will also feature an auction, with, among others, organizations such as The Poetry Foundation, Wave Books, Beacon Sound, Albina Music Trust, Audika Records, Milkweed Editions, Fence Books, and Poetry Northwest donating books, journals and records. Artworks by, among others, Pace Taylor, Ian Huebert, John Ashbery, Alice Notley and Phil Elverum will also be auctioned off at the event.

Masks and proof of vaccination will be required.
Crystal Ballroom
8:00am Sunday, November 28, 2021

All Ages Welcome // Doors @ 6:30 PM // Show 8 PM

TICKETS: $29 Advance, $35 day of show, $35 advance 21+ reserved balcony, $40 day of show 21+ reserved balcony

Blood. Spectacle. Lifestyle. Mythology. Costumes And more blood.

Beloved shock-metal outfit GWAR comes to McMenamin's Crystal Ballroom on November 28th with Napalm Death and Eyehategod. In late 2020, GWAR celebrated the 30th anniversary of Scumdogs of the Universe, which won them universal praise for their sharps riffs and humor. As for 2021 and beyond, the group have big plans to add to their legacy as they near their 37th year. A much-anticipated new album is in the works, their first since 2017's The Blood of Gods. 


Mississippi Studios
8:00pm Saturday, November 27, 2021

21+ // Doors 7 PM // Show 8 PM

TICKETS: $20 Advance & Day of Show // Friday Tix // Saturday Tix

w/Jacob Jolliff Duo 

Very few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtado embodies Americana roots music. A native of Pleasanton, California, he now makes his home in Portland, Oregon, where he’ll play back-to-back nights at Mississippi Studios! Don’t miss Tony Furtado’s 10th Annual Thanksgiving Bash and "Decembering" Album Release!

*Proof of COVID vaccination or negative COVID test required for entry. FREE onsite testing may be available - Details & testing schedule here*

ALL SALES ARE FINAL. PLEASE, DOUBLE CHECK YOUR ORDER BEFORE PURCHASING. NO REFUNDS.

GENERAL ADMISSION & FULLY SEATED

THIS EVENT IS 21+ 

VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY

Mississippi Studios
8:00pm Friday, November 26, 2021

21+ // Doors 7 PM // Show 8 PM

TICKETS: $20 Advance & Day of Show // Friday Tix // Saturday Tix

w/Jacob Jolliff Duo 

Very few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtado embodies Americana roots music. A native of Pleasanton, California, he now makes his home in Portland, Oregon, where he’ll play back-to-back nights at Mississippi Studios! Don’t miss Tony Furtado’s 10th Annual Thanksgiving Bash and "Decembering" Album Release!

*Proof of COVID vaccination or negative COVID test required for entry. FREE onsite testing may be available - Details & testing schedule here*

ALL SALES ARE FINAL. PLEASE, DOUBLE CHECK YOUR ORDER BEFORE PURCHASING. NO REFUNDS.

GENERAL ADMISSION & FULLY SEATED

THIS EVENT IS 21+ 

VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY

Dig A Pony (736 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR 97214)
8:00pm Sunday, November 21, 2021

TICKETS: $8 EventBrite, $10 @ Door

Join us for a hilarious evening with very funny comedians at a great new location - Dig A Pony located @736 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR 97214

COMEDIANS
Ben Harkins
Pedro Andrade
Hyjinx
Bjorn RG
Imani Kent

HOSTS
Joyce Nance
Todd Basil

Blind Ox Interstate
8:00pm Thursday, November 11, 2021

TICKETS: $8 EventBrite, $10 @ Door

Please join us @ Blind Ox Interstate for some hilarious Hi Octane Comedy.

COMEDIANS
Katie Nguyen
Lee Hinton
Michael Phelps
Noah Watson
Sabrena Contreras

HOSTS
Todd Basil
Joyce Nance

Keller Auditorium
7:30pm Saturday, November 6, 2021
Tickets are available from $35. Vaccines (or proof of a negative COVID-19 test) and masks are required. 

Passion, politics, and power collide in the story of Tosca—a renowned diva, in Rome in 1800, as grand opera returns to Portland with this Puccini masterpiece.  An artist activist has won Tosca's heart, and his revolutionary sympathies provoke the wrath of Scarpia, the corrupt chief of police. Her devotion and moral resistance are challenged by abuses of power, attempted rape, and tragedy—as this high drama builds to its haunting finale. October 29 - November 6 at Keller Auditorium. 

Learn more at portlandopera.org
Keller Auditorium
2:00pm Sunday, October 31, 2021
Tickets are available from $35. Vaccines (or proof of a negative COVID-19 test) and masks are required. 

Passion, politics, and power collide in the story of Tosca—a renowned diva, in Rome in 1800, as grand opera returns to Portland with this Puccini masterpiece.  An artist activist has won Tosca's heart, and his revolutionary sympathies provoke the wrath of Scarpia, the corrupt chief of police. Her devotion and moral resistance are challenged by abuses of power, attempted rape, and tragedy—as this high drama builds to its haunting finale. October 29 - November 6 at Keller Auditorium. 

Learn more at portlandopera.org
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