The Oregon Music Hall of Fame will celebrate its induction class of 2019 with a spectacular celebration that benefits their music in the schools and scholarship programs. The night will include performances by inductees Pond, Little Sue, Sequel, Michael Hurley, and Mark Lindsay. There will also be a live auction including autographed guitars by the National, Chicago, John Prine, The B-52s, and the Indigo Girls.

This year’s inductees include the musical acts 3 Leg Torso, Dick Berk, Little Sue, Mark Lindsay, Michael Allen Harrison, Pond, and  Michael Hurley; side players Joanna Bole and bluesman John Mazzocco; and from the music industry, Larry Crane, Gary Houston, Paul Knauls, and Don MacLeod.

Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Saturday, October 12. 7:00 pm. $30.00 advance at Ticketfly.com, $35.00 day of show. VIP tickets $100.00 advance include prime seating, collectable laminated pass, a Gary Houston limited edition hand pulled signed and numbered poster plus entrance to the catered after-induction party with the inductees, musicians, and other VIPs. All ages welcome.

Songhoy Blues’ music is unique, exciting, contagious, and paradigm-shifting. These Sons of Mali are musical refugees, groundbreaking artists, virtuoso performers, and finally survivors.

Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St. Thursday, October 10. 9:00 pm. $18.00 – $20>00 Eventbrite.com. 21 & over.

The North Mississippi Allstars brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson grew up just south of Memphis and cut their teeth playing experimental rock & roll, as well as the roots repertoire pioneered by their father, Jim Dickinson, a legendary producer (Big Star, the Replacements) and session player (Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan). Their feet were firmly planted in the Northern Mississippi’s mud and music scene. The release of their debut album, “Shake Hands With Shorty,” made them one of the most celebrated roots acts around. They’ve played countless shows in front of avid crowds, touring alongside Robert Plant, Patty Griffin, Mavis Staples, and John Hiatt, among many others, and have released ten studio albums, three of which were nominated for Blues Album of the Year Grammys.

Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Friday, October 4. 8:00 pm. $22.00 advance at Ticketfly.com, $25.00 day of show. All ages.

Robert Plant – photo by Tony Kutter

In his nearly fifty-year career, former Led Zeppelin vocalist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Robert Plant has explored far distant lands, though not as forlorn lover, but rather as an intrepid musical explorer. While writing and producing his new album, “lullaby and…The Ceaseless Roar,” Plant returned to his native England enriched by all he has experienced and investigated. For the last several years Plant lived and recorded in America. He worked with musicians in Nashville, resided for a spell in Austin, and made time to drive along the byways of Mississippi, fueled by the sound of the delta blues that has inspired him since he was teenager (a car journey recollected in the tune “Turn It Up”). Previously he had traversed North and West Africa, followed the trail of the blues back to the desert, where he famously joined nomadic Tuareg musicians and others at the renowned Festival of the Desert in Essakene, Mali. But now, Plant’s creative wanderings have led him back to his native England and to a rediscovery and reappraisal of himself as an artist and songwriter.

Les Schwab Amphitheater, 44 SW Shevlin Hixon Dr, Bend. Thursday, October 3. 6:30 pm. Tickets $59.50 to $119.50 available at Bendconcerts.com. All ages.

Bettye LaVette – photo by Greg Johnson

Although not a household name, fans, critics, and fellow artists have nothing but high praise for Bettye LaVette’s live shows and her interpretive vocal skills. At seventy-two, LaVette still performs with the ferocity of a woman half her age. Very few of her contemporaries recording during the birth of soul music in the 1960s are still creating vital recordings today.

Now in her fifty-seventh year, LaVette’s career began in 1962 at the age of sixteen, and she’s received Grammy nominations, won a WC Handy Award for Comeback Blues Album in 2004, and Blues Music Awards for Contemporary Female Artist and Soul Blues female Artist, plus she has received the prestigious Pioneer Award from The Rhythm & Blues Foundation.

Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Wednesday, October 2. 8:00 pm. $35.00 at Ticketfly.com All ages.