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Have you heard Halie Loren? No? Time to do something about that. The singer/songwriter and jazz singer has been touring all over Oregon of late and has become a favorite of mine. Here are some of her latest shows:
Learn more about Halie, her music and upcoming shows at halieloren.com.
Turning Pages is a new album featuring 18th-century Scottish tunes and newly composed pieces for bagpipes and fiddle. David Brewer, Rebecca Lomnicky and George Grasso will perform together on a CD Release Concert Tour in Oregon on December 5, 6 and 7. David Brewer is the awesome bagpipe, whistle and bodhran player for Molly's Revenge. Rebecca Lomnicky is a Scottish fiddle champion. George Grasso plays Irish music on guitar.
You can catch them:
For more information, call (541) 754-6462 or visit www.davidbrewermusic.com
Sounds like a good night of Celtic music!
About the Musicians
Paddy O'Brien: Button accordion icon Paddy O'Brien has amassed a veritable hoard of rare versions of tunes and stories gleaned from more than 40 years of patiently seeking out and spending time with older musicians throughout Ireland. A native of County Offaly in the Midlands of Ireland, Paddy is revered by Irish music aficionados worldwide. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant to record 500 dance tunes (a small fraction of his repertoire).
Dale Russ: Dale Russ started playing the fiddle in 1973 when first moving to Washington State from his native Connecticut. Although self-taught &150; and 100% Slovak – in 1990 he was invited to perform at the first Boston College Irish Music Festival "My Love is in America," featuring 16 of the finest Irish fiddle players living in the States. The concert was recorded and released by Green Linnet Records and won an award from the Smithsonian Institute as "Traditional Recording of the Year". His playing is known for its balance of power and elegance.
Nancy Conescu: Nancy Conescu is an internationally respected guitarist and vocalist. She has toured Ireland with the group Aontas, plays Irish music festivals and clubs in Ireland, France, Australia and the U.S.A. and performs regularly in Portland, Oregon. She has performed with Joannie Madden, Andy McGann, Martin Hayes, Kevin Burke, Patrick Ourceau, Brian Conway, John Redmond, Linka Hickman and Johnny B.Connolly.
Looking for a bit of Celtic music from stormy ol' Ireland in November, but can't make it to Ireland itself? Yachats on the Oregon coast will do just fine – head there during Nov. 7-9 for the Yachats Celtic Music Festival, with featured acts including:
Performers
Learn more: Yachats Celtic Music Festival
Over these next few days you can enjoy 2 performances of original piano music in Portland and Eugene. Louis Landon, a pianist from New York, plays Portland on Oct. 12, and on Oct. 14 he joins Eugene pianists Neil Patton and Rebecca Oswald for another night of original music. All three pianists are Whisperings Artists, and styles can range from jazz and Latin to classical and pop.
Details and Tickets
The Eugene Irish Cultural Festival's evening concert, in collaboration with the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance, is tonight at Beall Hall:
Ticket prices are $13 for adults, and $9 for students and senior citizens. Tickets are for assigned seating.
The musicians playing are:
To order tickets, call the UO Ticket Office at 541-346-4363. The Beall Hall Box Office doors open at 7 p.m. Beall Hall Concert Hall doors open at 7:30 pm. Concert starts at 8 pm.
Note About Parking: There is a lot of construction occurring near Beall Hall. There is a parking lot behind the Knight Library. To get there, go south on Alder Street and take a left across from East 16th Avenue, just south of the College of Education. Signs will lead you to the parking area behind Knight Library.
The Eugene Symphony rocked the Hult Center last night with a stellar performance of Orff's Carmina Burana. There's nothing like a good intense chorus, sung in Latin in German, that sounds all transcendent and high-minded, but really it's about drinking, getting some booty and how crappy life can be. The roast swan is a nice touch too. Now I'm obsessed with getting Carmina Burana on CD.
But what is the best recording of Orff's carmina burana? Here are some contenders I've encountered on my surfing search:
These all sound like mighty contenders, though based off the reviews, the Carmina Burana / McNair, Aler, Hagegard on Amazon intrigues me most. Jodie, are you making notes for my Christmas list?
Video may have killed the radio star, but the internet is breathing new life into classical music. It's not an in-your-face occurrence, but something gradual, something you might not even notice, lest you look over your hip-hop-fan friend's shoulder, and see a heap of Beethoven and Mendelssohn sharing space in his iTunes library.
Everything TypePad: A brief interview with Alex Ross
A Critic at Large: The Well-tempered Web: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Last day of the fundraiser. $21,000 to raise. Can the listeners of a wee radio station in the wilds of Oregon pull it off?
With aplomb.
At 1:45 p.m., KWAX finished it's fall fundraiser. They raised over $80,000 in 8 days — over $21,000 on the final day.
Congratulations, KWAX! Now it's time to get back to music...
Today is the last day of the KWAX fundraiser, and they have about $20,000 to raise between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Daunting? Um, well, yeah — $20,000 in 8 hours breaks down to about $2500 per hour.
But is it doable? I think so.
Do you like classical music? Tune in today, 91.1 in Eugene/Springfield, or listen online. And call in with your pledge, of any amount — you'll both knock down that $20,000 amount, and also get to listen to some great music.
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