Ken DeRouchie Band Fighting Hunger

Ken DeRouchie Band’s Holiday Food Drive Returns

The Ken DeRouchie Band will begin its forth annual food drive for the Oregon Food Bank on Saturday, November 11 and will run through Saturday, December 10. Barrels for donations will be placed throughout the metro Portland area at venues and…
Black Pistol Fire

Black Pistol Fire – Electrifying Rock & Blues Duo from Austin, Coming To Doug Fir

Black Pistol Fire is a high-octane rock duo based out of Austin, Texas by way of Toronto, Canada composed of Kevin McKeown on guitar/lead vocals and Eric Owen on drums. Drawing inspiration from blues, R&B, and rock greats such as Led Zeppelin,…
Steel Guitarist Roosevelt Collier

Sacred Steel Guitarist Roosevelt Collier Slates Two Oregon Dates

One of the finest pedal steel guitarist on the scene today is heading to Oregon for a pair of shows in Bend and Portland. A finalist in Guitar Center’s 2009 King of the Blues competition, South Florida native Collier was brought up in the…
Harpdog Brown

Harpdog Brown – Playing It Forward For United By Music

With a briefcase filled with awards, including three Maple Blues Awards naming him the best harmonica player in Canada, Vancouver’s Harpdog Brown has been called a blues evangelist — and that’s a very fitting moniker. He delivers his messages…
The Greyhounds

White Eagle Saloon Welcomes Back The Greyhounds

The Greyhounds guitarist Andrew Trube and keyboardist Anthony Farrell have been making music and touring for 15 years while refining and developing a sound Trube describes as “Hall and Oates meet ZZ Top.” The band also has strong ties to…
17th Annual Musicians Toy Run Benefit

2017 Musician’s Toy Run Benefit To Be Held On November 4

Now in its sixteenth year, the Musician’s Toy Run Benefit, hosted by Francine West, will once again hold a day-long show aimed at bringing joy to children during the holidays. The event returns to the Trails End Saloon, 1320 Main Street, Oregon…
Son Little

Doug Fir Hosts Musical Alchemist Son Little

What is the new magic of music? If you trace the path of a plan back to its beginnings, what do you find? Is it a tree, growing from seed with deep roots planted in fertile soil, branches arcing out in all directions? Or a spark in the dark,…
The Devil Makes Three

The Crystal Ballroom Presents The Return Of The Devil Makes Three

“The Devil Makes Three has a sound that is garagey ragtime, punkified blues, both old and new timey, without settling upon a particular era,” claims the band’s guitarist and vocalist Pete Bernhard.  Inspired as much by mountain music…
Michele D’Amour and The Love Dealers

Michele D’Amour and The Love Dealers Slated At Catfish Lou’s

Seattle’s Michele D’Amour and the Love Dealers will be making their debut performance at Catfish Lou’s on Saturday, November 11 to celebrate their latest release Lost Nights At The Leopard Lounge. The album is a soulful throwback to Chicago…
Selwyn Birchwood

Jack London Revue Welcomes Selwyn Birchwood

"Selwyn Birchwood is a master storyteller, both lyrically and musically. He's an impressive, hard-crunching, modern blues guitarist. His fretwork is high-energy, raw and vivid...knife-edged leads and roadhouse-rattling grooves. He is graced…