FREE EVENT | Info
Klyph Notes Live is starting the new year featuring Oregon Music Hall
of Fame inductee Cool Nutz.
A man who has represented Portland Hip Hop all over the world has a
lot happening and we'll cover it all (or as much as we can) including
his hall of fame induction, his new album with Maniac Loc, being on
the road tour managing for Creed Bratton...
We're also excited to be in a new location at Portland Center Stage, a
great venue in the northwest portion of the city. The live podcast
recording will now be an ALL AGES event and we'll have a number of
vendors in the building including our sponsor Akepele Apperal.
DJ O.G.ONE will be providing the soundtrack for the event that will
feature the interview, an audience Q&A and a special performance by my
guest, Cool Nutz.
This event is FREE, so lock the date in and be a part of this love
podcast recording event.
FREE EVENT
Portland based DJ Ambush and DJ Klyph bring an evening celebrating Golden Era and inspired hip hop to the White Eagle. Come through for this FREE event and hear classic cuts and remixes while grabbing a hot plate and cold beverage. You can dance if you want, but this night is about the head nod. "It's not a party, it's a vibe".
2 DJs | 4 Decks | Straight Boom Bap
Facebook Event Page: https://fb.me/e/3iZjKp0pH?mibextid=RQdjqZ
Tickets | $15
A platform for Reggaeton, Latin house, Salsa, Merengue, and Bachata to thrive.
A place for all that love latin music.
World Arts Foundation Inc.’s annual tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 16, 2023 | 1pm - 4pm | All ages | Free with suggested donation (Details below)
Highland Christian Center | 7600 NE Glisan St. Portland, OR 97213 | Masks required
Since
1976, this family-friendly event has celebrated Oregon’s African-American community. The program honors
pioneering activists, community leaders, artists, musicians, and youth whose efforts have left lasting impacts in
Oregon’s African-American community.
Here’s a link to a historical film documenting the program’s legacy.
This year’s program will feature performances and speakers including DaNell Daymon & Greater Works, Senator Margaret Carter, Arietta Ward, and Alonzo Chadwick. Lifetime achievement awards will be presented to Dr. Shon Neyland, Lakayana Drury, Candace Avalos, David Ferguson, and Dr. Steven Holt.
Additionally, the event’s Victory Village marketplace houses vendors, regional agencies, and artists.
Admission is free with a suggested donation of five dollars or five cans of non-perishable food items. This event is family-friendly.
Masking is required for entry.
XRAY is honored to join the other vendors, orgs, and artists at this year's event. We invite you to join us!
Oregon Humanities Presents
Conversation Project: Music as a Tool for Justice with Donavan Scribes
Beaverton City Library, Beaverton
6:00 to 7:30 p.m. | Free and open to the public | Register here.
Music is instrumental in shaping a place. It’s one of the most explicitly human things we can experience. In this conversation, we will look at the history of Black musicians in shaping the story of Oregon. Participants will have opportunities to connect with each other through dialogue.
Donovan Scribes is a writer, artist, producer, and speaker native to Portland. His work has appeared in The Skanner, Street Roots, the Oregonian, and other publications. His platform Gentrification is WEIRD! is dedicated to elevating and capturing Black Oregon history and shaping its future. He also has a clothing line, Ignorant/Reflections.
Learn more about Oregon Humanities' Conversation Project here.
TICKETS | $35; $40 day of show. Reserved balcony + early entry into Lola’s Room: $75; $80 day of show
Featuring Karma Rivera, DJ Spare Key
Digable Planets burst onto the music scene in 1993 with their Grammy-winning single, “Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”. Made up of Ishmael Butler (Butterfly), Craig (C Know/ Doodlebug) Irving, and Mary Ann (Ladybug Mecca) Vieira, the trio carved out a unique style of jazz-informed Hip Hop. Shortly after, Digable Planets followed up with their debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time And Space), an ambitious offering that Pitchfork praised as “a world within a world, complete with its own language and monuments.”Melding Jazz samples, and complex rhymes that touched on everything from the nuances of city life (“Where I’m From”) to abortion rights (“La Femme Fetal”), Reachin’ was a rich and vibrant artistic statement as well as a huge commercial success (RIAA certified gold).
Digable Planets immediately followed up with Blowout Comb, a bold and colorful meditation on Black liberation. While the album did not initially reach the immediate commercial successes of Reachin’, the album has aged beautifully, influencing future generations of Hip Hop heads, young Jazz musicians and Afrofuturists. The trio spent the 2000s establishing their own individual creative voices with Butler’s Cherrywine and Shabazz Palaces projects, Mecca’s work with BROOKZILL! And C Know leading Cee Knowledge & The Cosmic Funk Orchestra.
In 2015, the group embarked upon a string of wildly successful live shows and has been very active as a tight touring unit ever since. In 2017, they released Digable Planets Live, a live album that showcases many gems from the group’s catalog as well as the trio’s skill at rocking the crowd with a live band. A pioneering act that continues to cast a considerable influence, Digable Planets have left an indelible mark on music. Nearly 20 years after their debut, their music still shines and the group continues to bring their celebrated stage show to excited crowds around the world.
DEC 30 TICKETS | $30 GA, $45 Two-Night Pass
DEC 31 TICKETS | $30 GA, $45 Two-Night Pass
21+ ONLY
Ring in the new year at Doug Fir with Ural Thomas & The Pain and Hillstomp teaming up for a joyful night of dancing, cheer, and glitz. Tickets on sale now! ✨ 🎊
Universally recognized as one of the most exciting singers remaining from the original soul era, 82 year-old Ural Thomas and his band The Pain just released their third LP "Dancing Dimensions." Thomas initially made his name in the 1960s with stone cold soul classic releases like "Pain Is The Name of Your Game," "Can You Dig It," "Deep Soul," and his 1964 recording debut with The Monterays "Push - Em Up." After a musical journey that commenced in his native Portland, Oregon, and led to Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and New York, sharing stages with everyone from James Brown to Stevie Wonder to Otis Redding to Etta James, Thomas became disillusioned with the music business and returned home to the city of roses at the end of the decade - where he continues to reign as Portland's uncontested Soul Brother Number One.
Hillstomp sounds like a boom box blasting from a shopping cart. Two madmen have strapped an engine to the cart and it’s too big and running too hot. They've got a banjo and a megaphone, a washboard and a kick drum. They've stocked the cart with guitars, buckets, car parts, and microphones and they are hurtling towards a blown out bridge while the bad front wheel flaps manically. The fools think they can jump the bridge and land safely on the other side. They are very wrong but no one has told them because...well, they just seem so happy. And there you are, bouncing alongside them and deep down you hope they make it. Hillstomp is folk music in its purest form – from loud and gritty, to intricate and poignant, and most importantly, always heartfelt and true.
DEC 30 TICKETS | $30 GA, $45 Two-Night Pass
DEC 31 TICKETS | $30 GA, $45 Two-Night Pass
21+ ONLY
Ring in the new year at Doug Fir with Ural Thomas & The Pain and Hillstomp teaming up for a joyful night of dancing, cheer, and glitz. Tickets on sale now! ✨ 🎊
Universally recognized as one of the most exciting singers remaining from the original soul era, 82 year-old Ural Thomas and his band The Pain just released their third LP "Dancing Dimensions." Thomas initially made his name in the 1960s with stone cold soul classic releases like "Pain Is The Name of Your Game," "Can You Dig It," "Deep Soul," and his 1964 recording debut with The Monterays "Push - Em Up." After a musical journey that commenced in his native Portland, Oregon, and led to Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and New York, sharing stages with everyone from James Brown to Stevie Wonder to Otis Redding to Etta James, Thomas became disillusioned with the music business and returned home to the city of roses at the end of the decade - where he continues to reign as Portland's uncontested Soul Brother Number One.
Hillstomp sounds like a boom box blasting from a shopping cart. Two madmen have strapped an engine to the cart and it’s too big and running too hot. They've got a banjo and a megaphone, a washboard and a kick drum. They've stocked the cart with guitars, buckets, car parts, and microphones and they are hurtling towards a blown out bridge while the bad front wheel flaps manically. The fools think they can jump the bridge and land safely on the other side. They are very wrong but no one has told them because...well, they just seem so happy. And there you are, bouncing alongside them and deep down you hope they make it. Hillstomp is folk music in its purest form – from loud and gritty, to intricate and poignant, and most importantly, always heartfelt and true.
TICKETS | $20
The Get Down Funk Collective is an improvisational music series with a revolving artist roster busting offthe chains of musical conformity. Artist collaboration with no boundaries in the spirit of the jam is the
premise of this series. Don’t expect to see the exact same band twice.
For Episode #1 and the launch of this series, we have assembled some of Portland’s funkiest
heavyweights with a touch of jam.
Farnell Newton – Trumpet
A local funk master trumpeter/producer that toured with Grammy award winner Jill Scott, as well aslegendary bassist Bootsy Collins. Farnell has graced the stage with Stevie Wonder, Skerik, Lettuce,
Galactic and The Portland Cello Project.
Tyrone Hendrix – drums
He is a drummer, a composer, and a producer. Tyrone has laid down the rhythm for Prince, StevieWonder, Allen Stone blending elements of funk, jazz and hip hop.
Lyle Divinsky – vocals
From NYC subway performances to becoming the front man and vocalist for Colorado funk powerhouse The Motet, Lyle has performed on some of America’s most iconic stages to include Red Rocks, MSG and
Tipitina’s.
Galen Clark – keys
Keyboardist, songwriter and producer Galen Clark leads Portland based bands Outer Orbit and TrioSubtonic, and also tours nationally with Sleater-Kinney and Anna Tivel.
Tye North – bass
Portland raised and the original bass player from Leftover Salmon, Tye is fresh off a tour with KellerWilliams and Dave Watts from The Motet. Tye has toured with super group Comotion, and played withlocal favorites Porterhouse, grammy nominated Danny Barnes and Ducky Pig. Tye was also a member of
the infamous Zambiland Orchestra and has participated in several Everyone Orchestra gigs.
Kyle Molitor – Trombone
Hailing from Tigard, Oregon, Kyle was a touring member of The Bootsy Collins Rubber Band. Playing innumerous collaborations with Farnell Newton. Kyle has also played with Joshua Redman, Kelly Finneganfrom The Monophonics and Wynton Marsalis.
Tate Peterson – guitar
Originally from the bay area, Tate began his music career in Eugene founding experimental jazz rockband, Savitri. After relocating to Portland he has played professionally with his blues/R&B power trio,The Resolectrics, as well as Big E & The Stomp, Anita Lee & the Handsome Three and Black Dogs of
Skyline.
Doors 6 PM | Show 7 PM
TICKETS | All Ages Welcome
"A Radio Christmas Carol" is our re-imagined radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. First published in December 1834 and never out of print since, the novel is no doubt familiar. Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser cold of heart and spirit, is tranformed by Ghosts of Christmas into a kind, generous, and compassionate man. He gives Bob Cratchit a raise and becomes a second father to Tiny Tim. The point: humanity outweighs riches, and brings redemption.
Re-Imagined Radio first offered "A Radio Christmas Carol" in 2013. Every year since we've offered some iteration of this classic story. We like to think it has become a community tradition, bringing joy and festivities to the seasonal holidays. In 2020, pandemic restrictions prevented live performances. This year we are pleased to welcome back The Willamette Radio Workshop, directed by Sam A. Mowry, and The Holly Jolly Choir, directed by Bennett Bailey, for a live performance in Vancouver's historic Kiggins Theatre. Yes, the holiday magic returns.
TICKETS | Tickets are $40
Celebrate the holiday season with a big band musical tribute to Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite, led by Brown Branch (Domo Branch and Charlie Brown III). Presented with a 15-piece jazz band featuring an all-star lineup of Portland musicians, including saxophonists Max Roark, Nicole McCabe, Mieke Bruggeman, Devin Phillips, Hailey Niswanger; trombonists Kyle Molitor, James Powers, Adriana Wagner; trumpeters Noah Simpson, Steve Montecucco, Farnell Newton, Justin Copeland; Domo Branch on drums; and Charlie Brown III on the piano. The concert will take place on the set of It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play on the U.S. Bank Main Stage.
TICKETS | $25 Advance, $30 Day of
Rapper and producer the Grouch has been a valued underground hip-hop figure since he co-founded Living Legends, a loose collective of MCs and DJs from the Bay Area, Japan, and Europe. The crew set themselves apart from the vast majority of their fellow West Coast rap artists by favoring clear-eyed raps about everyday issues. They coupled this with a grassroots approach to the music business, choosing to self-release and market their prodigious output. The Grouch's extensive work as a solo artist and co-headliner, from Don't Talk to Me (1995), his debut, through Thees Handz (2019), a collaboration with Murs, has only reinforced the reputation he started building in the first half of the '90s.
Eligh, a self-described “genre-breaking, obsessive bass fiend” has continued to sustain himself as a salient figure for over fifteen years within the increasingly fickle and rapidly revolving world of hip-hop. The Los Angeles native has maintained his respected status by fearlessly veering from a traditional trajectory which is often limited to beats and rhymes. Instead, Eligh has chosen to fabricate projects that incorporate the gritty sounds of the UK dub scene, the unorthodox styling of indie rock, the lush guitars and honesty of folk music, and the complexity of jazz, all without losing the listener in a musically esoteric composition.
Tickets | $10 Pre-sale, $12 Door
6PM - Late
FREE | 21+
From Event Planner, DJ Alice Wonder of Down the Rabbit Hole: Bring your stack of 7" records and join us from 6-8pm for a dj round robin!! All are welcome to take a turn at the decks. Then XRAY DJs take over from 8-laaaaaate spinning their finest!!! It's going to be an awesome, wild night full of the best music in all of Portland at our favorite place- The Florida Room! Come get weird with us!!
Including sets from:
- Mating Calls w/ Martha Two Shakes & The Jerk
- The IMPACT! Sound w/ The Grand Yoni
- Big City Radio Show w/ Shawn Swagerty
- Savage Beat w/ DJ Honest John
- Meaningful Connections w/ Morning Remorse
- Six Beats Under w/ DJ Wednesday
- Beautiful Music w/ DNA
- HEAD EAST w/ Commodore Theodore
- Down the Rabbit Hole w/ DJ Alice Wonder & DJ Red Lincoln
Thursday, December 7, 2022 (Full Moon) | Doors open at 7:00pm | Show 8:00pm | The Old Church Concert Hall - 1422 SW 11th Avenue, Portland OR
Tickets here | $17 General Admission / $22 Day of Show
TOC will be celebrating the “cold” full moon with some amazing artists in December.
Haley Heynderickx is the first performance of the night. The Portland artist has built a solid fan base around the country with serene folk tunes like The Bug Collector and Oom Sha La La. Her debut album, I Need to Start a Garden, popped up on several year-end album lists (Paste, Uproxx and more) and led to her own NPR Tiny Desk Concert. After spending the fall touring with Lucy Dacus, Heynderickx returns to Portland at the historic Old Church Concert Hall ahead of a period of “rest and recording.”
New York Avant-Garde legend Robin Holcomb finishes the evening with a set blending jazz, classical, folk music and much more. Her music has been described by the New York Times as “elegantly simple as a Shaker quilt, and no less beautiful.” It’s an honor to welcome her to the TOC stage.
Tickets are available now.
TOC is thrilled to announce the return of the “We Can Listen” social justice series. Since 2016, these events have brought storytelling, documentary, music and personal expression together in Portland. The series gives Portlanders the chance to share and hear perspectives on social justice topics.
December 6th's We Can Listen will highlight Oregon’s Black food systems, and explore the systemic inequities and disadvantages that Black farmers deal with in the agricultural industry. Speakers will also shed light on the achievements made by Black farmers in local cultivation, climate justice and food access.
This panel will include farmers, food industry experts, agricultural professionals, activists and historians from the Pacific Northwest. Each guest will tell their stories from personal experiences in the food industry, and then participate in the panel.
"We Can Listen" gives Portlanders young and old multiple opportunities to hear a variety of speakers share their perspectives on today's most important social justice topics from the sanctuary of our stage. The series presents speakers, both well-regarded and new to public discourse, on topics Portlanders have demonstrated are important to them including: racism, the homelessness crisis, food stability, housing stability, immigration and refugee issues, the environment, access to clean water, gender equality, disabled rights, health care, civic engagement strategies for adults and youth, and other compelling social justice issues.
TOC is a nonprofit, non-religious, all ages performance space and historic landmark in downtown Portland.
More information theoldchurch.org and wecanlisten.org
TICKETS | $22 advance, $25 day of show, $30 21+ Balcony, $35 day of show 21+ balcony
Floater has an impressive history of releasing albums that span a vast musical spectrum and hold up over time.
The band is squarely based in guitar rock but has evolved with stylistic changes that incorporate pop notes, reggae-inflected sounds, acoustic rock, and jazz.
With intense and unforgettable live performances, their fan base has grown over the years to a fever pitch and Floater fans are legendary for their dedication. For more things Floater go to www.Floater.com
Doors 6pm | Show 6:30pm
All Ages | Free Admission | Donations Encouraged Benefitting XRAY.FM, Friends of Noise, My Voice Music, & Youth Music Project.
A Collective Fundraiser for Nonprofits Empowering Young People Through Music
Four incredible nonprofits are banding together to host the ultimate youth open mic night with special guest performer Amenta 'Yawa' Abioto!
Join us as we raise awareness and support for Youth Music Project, Friends of Noise, My Voice Music, and XRAY FM through Willamette Week's Give!Guide campaign!
Sign-up at the doors at 6:00 p.m—spaces are limited due to the nature of this special event! Performances begin 6:30 p.m.
Note: This event may be live broadcast and/or recorded. Parent/guardian permission will be required for performers under the age of 18.
All are welcome to check out our on-air studios–where the radio magic happens–alongside the latest works by dozens of Portland's dazzling dedicated sculptors, painters, musicians, photographers -- you get the picture. And we'd love to see you in the picture too! Get in here!
If you're up for it, hop on the mic** and record a wish to send into the new year on the airwaves.