Call of the Wild is an event like no other to benefit the work of Oregon Wild, our state’s premier conservation group for over 40 years. This event features casual flannel instead of black ties, campfire circles instead of white tablecloths, and custom local bites galore instead of pre-selected entrees. Guests will enjoy a silent auction, local food and drink, live music, and more. Be part of the celebration by purchasing your advance ticket. We hope you’ll join us! A camp-inspired night of festivities, Call of the Wild is a chance to see stunning photography from our 13th annual Outdoor Photo Contest, mingle with wilderness and wildlife lovers from across the state, and celebrate everything you love about Oregon. This year’s benefit will feature:
- The unveiling of the winning photographs from our 13th annual Outdoor Photo Contest;
- A silent auction featuring framed prints of the Photo Contest finalists, rafting and adventure trips, outdoor gear and apparel, packages for hikers, photographers, climbers, fishing enthusiasts, kayakers, beer lovers, foodies, and more;
- Tasty local food, local wine, and beer from Oregon Brewshed® Alliance partners;
- Wild-crafted cocktails made with local ingredients;
- Live music from Oregon's own Anna Hoone;
- and more!
This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray , Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Jesse Ed Davis, Robbie Robertson, and Randy Castillo, RUMBLE shows how these pioneering Native American musicians helped shape the soundtracks of our lives.
Join us for the 7th annual TEDx event!
Your admission includes a full day of awesome experiences:
Talks and performances by 12-14 incredible community members who have an idea worth spreading.
A delicious breakfast complete with plenty of coffee to get your day started right!
A lunch from one of our favorite food carts brought in from around Portland for you to enjoy outside or in the cafeteria.
Specially curated TED Talks around the theme "Alchemy.
Two action breaks designed to give your body and brain a break while you connect with alumni speakers and partners, enjoy some fresh air, or chat with your favorite speaker or other attendees.
A special week of live music from October 5th - October 13th at the Doug Fir Lounge. Join us in celebrating Doug Fir's anniversary with special guests and live musicians including:
10/5 - Walter TV / Reptaliens
10/6 - Open Mike Eagle / Billy Woods
10/7 - Rainer Maria / Olivia Neutron-John
10/8 - Colter Wall
10/9 - Boris' "Dear/25th Anniversary Tour" / Sumac / Endon
10/10 - Ben Ottewell (of Gomez) / Buddy
10/11 - Torres / The Dove & The Wolf
10/12 - LÉON / Wrabel
10/13 - Protomartyr / Hurry Up / The Woolen Men
THE END OF THE END chronicles the final tour from the band who forged the sound of metal - Black Sabbath. After nearly 50 years together, the Birmingham band took to the stage for the last time in their home city, bringing down the curtain on their final tour ever. They performed generation-spanning songs that have defined a genre in front of a sold-out arena and, in exclusive new interviews, the band themselves tell it how they lived it. After half a century, this is your chance to hear the final word from the greatest metal band of all time.
October 4th - Wooden Indian Burial Ground + K Skeleton
October 12th - Earth World + Le Rev
October 19th - Don Gero
October 26th - Isaac Rother & The Phantoms + The Reverberations
All times are 8pm.
Rakim
Born : January 28, 1968 // Long Island, NY, United States
Rakim Allah, a native of Wyandanch, New York, revolutionised the rap artform during the late 1980s as one half of the influential hip-hop duo Eric B & Rakim. The duo parted ways in 1992 after releasing four popular albums, including the all-time hip-hop classic 'Paid In Full'. After taking a five-year break from music, Rakim returned as a solo artist in 1997 with the album 'The 18th Letter'. He continues to record sporadically.
Libretto
Hip-hop artist out of Watts, California. Currently residing in Portland, Oregon.
FRANKIE ROSE
turned into something good. The whole record to me is a redemption record and it is the most positive one I’ve made" "I feel like I am finally free from worrying about an outcome. I don’t care. I already lost everything. I already had the worst-case scenario. When that happens, you do become free. In the end, it’s about me rescuing myself via having this record."
SUBURBAN LIVING
In early 2015, on the heels of touring throughout the U.S. and Japan, Suburban Living began writing what would become the band's sophomore full length, "Almost Paradise." During this time, a chance meeting with Philadelphia-based engineer Jeff Zeigler (The War on Drugs, Kurt Vile, Nothing) led to Zeigler offering to work with the band on their next recording. "Working with Jeff was pretty amazing. I’d never worked with an engineer that knew exactly how I wanted something to sound without me having to express it." explains Bunch. The support of Zeigler, as well as his bandmates, equipped Bunch to spearhead undeniably the best Suburban Living material to date.
A CERTAIN SMILE
45 years after Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour filmed "Live At Pompeii" in the legendary Roman Amphitheatre there, he returned for two spectacular shows; part of his year-long tour in support of his No.1 album "Rattle That Lock". The performances were the first-ever rock concerts for an audience in the stone Roman amphitheatre; and for two nights only, the 2,600 strong crowd stood exactly where gladiators would have fought in the first century AD.
Both concerts also saw very special performances of "The Great Gig In The Sky" from "The Dark Side Of The Moon", which David rarely plays as a solo artist. DAVID GILMOUR: LIVE IN POMPEII shows an artist at the top of his game, performing incredible material with his world-class band, in a unique setting, on a very special occasion.
Passes Accepted: Guest Pass and Member Guest Pass.
Music Mondays at Produce Row- Start your week off right with live music, and good food and drink! Check out their line-up for scheduled live music kicking off Mondays at 7pm! The September guest is artist/rapper Soopah Eype.
Music Mondays at Produce Row- Start your week off right with live music, and good food and drink! Check out their line-up for scheduled live music kicking off Mondays at 7pm! The September guest is artist/rapper Soopah Eype.
Music Mondays at Produce Row- Start your week off right with live music, and good food and drink! Check out their line-up for scheduled live music kicking off Mondays at 7pm! The September guest is artist/rapper Soopah Eype.
Sun Sept 24: Race Day 6am gate open, 7am staggered start
FEATURING A 5K, 10K AND 15K GEOFF HOLLISTER TRIBUTE
FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT 7AM-11AM
LOCATION: NEW START/FINISH : 6431 NE MLK JR. BLVD
VACANT LOT ON THE CORNER OF NE MLK JR. BLVD AND ROSA PARKS
The NNEBA Fellows, is a program for youth entrepreneurs ranging in ages 18-26. These young people play a primary role in producing this The MLK DreamRun –a world class USATF sanctioned event. Operated under the umbrella of the The N/NE Business Association’s board & its members the primary goals of the NNEBA Fellows program are designed to help disadvantaged youth improve and expand skills that come from operating successful businesses and organizations and use these skills to procure better employment and higher education opportunities. Simultaneously their work plan helps both connect them with the business community while leaving a sustainable and positive impact in the community.
Daniel Norgren
Touring outside of Europe for the first time this Fall, Daniel Norgren & band prepare for stateside introduction. Although his name may be unfamiliar in North America, Daniel Norgren has built a notable career over the past 10 years in his home country and across much of Europe. The combination of a deep catalog and a live show that cuts to the core have been the fuel for a steadily-growing audience where fans are currently lucky to catch him at a venue smaller than 1,000 capacity. A multi-instrumentalist whose live performance includes guitar, piano, harmonica, and accordion. Included also as part of this live band is longtime music companion Anders Grahn on bass and drummer Erik Berntsson. Norgren's sound is distinctly homegrown and authentic, and his songs are incredibly powerful with a knack for catchy melodies and vocal harmonies. This is a rare, first opportunity to see Europe's best kept secret and undoubtedly most captivating live performer - don't miss it.
William Tyler
American musician and guitarist, who plays Folk, Indie folk and Pop rock (born December 25, 1979, Nashville, TN).
Tyler was a member of Lambchop and Silver Jews before he became a solo artist. He has also played with Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Charlie Louvin, and Candi Staton.
His father is Dan Tyler (3) and his mother is Adele Tyler.
A cat will scratch it’s way into our September stories.
Storytellers! Cultural Competency Consultant/Educator, Recovering Academic, Intersectional Shero, Mistaken for a Roll of Toilet Paper in 4th-grade Marshmallow Halloween Costume, No, You Can’t Call Her a Nickname BEALLEKA, Winner Portland’s Funniest Person 2017/Winner Stand Up Best of WW 2017, Member of Lez Standup, Voted Most Opinionated in High School CAITLIN WEIERHAUSER, FBI Agent Andy Genelli in the New Discovery Series Manhunt: Unabomber, Co-Writer of the Web-Series ‘I F’ed Up Royal’ BEN WEBER, Sketch Comedy King, Actor, Past Performer for Live Wire! Radio ANDREW HARRIS and Author of Death Confetti, Duct-Taped Fifty Hall and Oates Tapes to a Teacher’s Door, Sells Thigh-Boots to Online Fetishists JENNIFER ROBIN
Hosted by B. Frayn Masters with Announcer Jason Rouse
Music by Bobby D from XRAY
A portion of our ticket proceeds for this show will support Animal Aid, a Portland non-profit serving animals and the people they love since 1969.
Klyph once again curates a night of hip-hop music for the TBA festival featuring artists representing Portland, Oregon. A night celebrating hip-hop and social consciousness with performances by Champagne Duane, Wynne & special guest DJs.
Shannon and the Clams
The American West. America’s America. It was here in three very different worlds that Shannon and the Clams were spawned. From the dark redwood forests of Oregon emerged Cody Blanchard: singer and guitarist. The dusty walnut orchards and vineyards of northern California gave us Shannon Shaw: singer and bassist. Out of the lonely dunes of California’s central coast shambled Nate Mayhem: drummer and keys. These three talented visual artists were drawn separately to Oakland, California and it was there that the Clams began playing house parties and grimy clubs.
The band was forged in the anachronistic remote communities of the west, in some strange mixture of computer show and country fair; their music is some odd alloy of The Last Picture Show and The Decline of Western Civilization. The pioneer spirit of western life is all over this band: pushing into the unknown, blazing their own trail, creating their own destiny, with the accompanying canyon-esque loneliness and untamed joy only truly known by those with the courage to pull up stakes and head off into the big empty sunset.
Gone by the Dawn, the newest Shannon and the Clams album, is their best work to date. The music is complex, the lyrical content is emotionally raw and honest, and the production is the strangest it’s ever been. The album was written as one member was recovering from a serious breakup and another was deep in one. The lyrics reflect it, and the entire album is dripping with sadness, pain, and introspection. Shannon and Cody have not written generic songs about love or the lack of it. Instead they have written about their very own specific heartbreak, mistreatment, and mental trials. The emotion is palpable. On Gone by the Dawn the Clams have DARED TO BE REAL. They’ve exposed their true emotions, which is what’s most moving about the album. People are scared to be so real. Society does not encourage it. Folks remain guarded to protect themselves from being mocked, punished, and becoming outcast . The Clams have opted to forgo the potential tongue-clucking finger-waggers, and have instead had the artistic courage and audacity to splay their pain and struggles out for all to hear. We are lucky to hear them get so damn real.
For Gone by the Dawn, the Oakland trio hooked up with studio wizard and renaissance man Sonny Smith to record the album at Tiny Telephone Recording in San Francisco. Best known as the driving force behind San Francisco’s beloved Sonny and the Sunsets, Smith uses his refreshing production techniques to create an engaging sonic landscape without compromising the Clams’ signature Lou Christie-meets-The Circle Jerks sound. The Clams have evolved: their skills are sharper, their chops are tighter and weirder and they’ve added new instruments to to the mix. A whole new dimension of the Clams has emerged.
In the West everything is big. The mountains are towering, the rivers broad, the deserts vast, the canyons deep, and the emotions huge. The Clams have painted themselves into a massive landscape of sound and desolation. Gone by the Dawn is monumental; immense, magnificent, and unforgettable. Shannon and the Clams have pioneered their way into a lonesome land where the past still lives in the long shadows of a hot afternoon, where whispering spirits follow high along canyon walls, and if you sink your fingers into the dusty hard-packed earth you pull out hands smeared with blood.
– Dan Shaw
The Shivas:
Shivas are a rock and roll band from Portland, Oregon formed in 2006. In the 10 years since forming they have brought their raucous dance party to almost all 50 states, and over 25 countries worldwide, meanwhile releasing five full-length albums and three EPs on labels such as K Records and Burger Records. With the release of their latest - TURN ME ON (out May 12, 2017 on Burger Records/Annibale Records) they set out on spring/summer tours across North America and Europe, spending a few weeks at home in their time off to finish working on their 6th LP, set to come out in 2018. Keep an eye out for an upcoming Shivas show in your town.
For more info and the venues go to: http://pdxmakerweek.com/2017/
Portland Makers exist as a vibrantly diverse fusion of
organizations, people, places, and events that converges
during PDX Maker Week to inform, inspire, and ignite.
COAST MODERN
Seattle-native Luke Atlas and LA-local Coleman Trapp met while working as Los Angeles-based songwriters, fellow rats in the race to land songs with mainstream pop artists. After more than two years of peddling some great, some terrible, and some very weird creations at the gates of the mainstream, they received little more than fleeting glances. Watching so many of their creations die on the operating table left the two burnt out and questioning their path.
With just a backpack and a tape recorder, Coleman escaped his over-saturated hometown for the mountainous serenity of Denver, CO. What was meant to be a quick, head-clearing vacation soon turned into months as Coleman blended into the community, taking a job at a family restaurant, and enjoying the simple pleasures of a "normal" life.
"I realized I didn't desire the trappings of music industry success that drove me for years," recalls Coleman. "I actually started thinking I might never go back." Without the pressure of writing-on-demand, he began messing around on a borrowed acoustic guitar and recording tossed-off ditties on an old cassette recorder. The pure, child-like enjoyment of writing only for himself led Coleman to a realization: maybe he'd overlooked a path that was right in front of him the whole time.
Soon, warbly tape recordings began appearing in Luke's inbox. "At first I didn't think much of them because they were so different, but they kept randomly getting stuck in my head" says Luke, who further encouraged Coleman's experiments. On a whim, Luke created a production around one of the acoustic demos and sent it back. Coleman was thrilled. "It felt like this could be something," says Luke. "I told him to get his ass back to LA." br>
Returning with renewed vigor and a rusted-out car hood after a Mile-High winter, Coleman quickly called a meeting with Luke. With their new musical experiments buzzing in their heads, the pair discussed creating a personal project based purely on the whims of their creative spark, wherever that led them. "After we stopped shooting at an invisible moving target and had no agenda, that's when the sound came," explains Luke. And Coleman, who had not so much as even sung "Happy Birthday" until a few years prior, began finding the confidence to take frontman status, lending his vocals to the tracks that began to take form through a playful, stream-of-consciousness process.
One of the first songs they plucked from the ether together was "Hollow Life." An anthem for restless souls everywhere, the lyrics drip with the same frustration the duo once felt for their city, while Coleman yearns for a simpler life away from it all. "Racing towards a dream on the horizon / Gimme something better than this Hollow Life," he sings over plinking marimba mashed up with angular fuzzy bass and booming 808 kick drums. br>
"The song is about finding distance from what is hindering you, whether it be physical or mental distance," explains Coleman. "But we're no gurus. We're just trying to let people know that we're here figuring this shit out too."
On the other end of the duo's musical spectrum is the bouncy tribute to nascent romance, "Dive" and the psychedelic, "Comb My Hair." Digging deeper, there is the group's wistful meditation on the passage of time, "Wild Things," and, "Frost," crackling with imperfection from Coleman's original Denver basement tapes. Clearly Coast Modern are capable of covering a large swath of musical territory, yet a strong, self-aware voice and a sense of groove tie them all together.
With their destiny now grasped firmly in their own hands, the duo are reveling in the freedom of their newfound artist status. At the will of their muses instead of the tidal flow of the pop world, the group can create the genuine, self-assured music that had been locked inside. Coast Modern is what happens when you let go of what you always thought you wanted and embrace the unexpected; when you stop chasing and start taking the lead.
Assembling a dynamic combination of never-before-seen home video footage, candid interviews and raucous performances; director Sarah Price explores the rise and fall of the seminal grunge punk band L7 . Chronicling the early days of the band's formation in 1985, to the height of their fame in the 90's; the film takes a roller coaster ride through L7’s triumphs and failures, and provides insight into the band's eventual dissolution in 2001.