MusicWatch Monthly: Festivals galore
Charles Rose
August 4, 2022
Keep keeping your fingers crossed for an Augustful of festivals, from jazz to loopers to hip-hop.
Keep keeping your fingers crossed for an Augustful of festivals, from jazz to loopers to hip-hop.
Summer brings sunny festivals to Oregon ears: Chamber Music Northwest inside, Cathedral Park Jazz Festival outside, and more.
Pride Month, Juneteenth, and more.
As musicians play canary in the Covid coal mine, youth orchestras play concerti; cellos haunt The Old Church and Dante’s; Gaytheist and Eight Bells get hard.
Earth days, green days, Russian music, new music.
Reser Center marches forth in Beaverton; Black music still matters; “Ladies’ Night” with Third Angle.
Change in the weather, change in the sound: The Oregon music scene begins to thaw and stretch its muscles.
Festivals galore hope to postpone postponement, offering live music and merch
Christmas concerts, drag shows, música latina, doom metal, and everything in between
MusicWatch Monthly: November brings a wave of sounds (and don’t forget Halloween and Day of the Dead).
Symphonies, concerti, chamber collabs, extra-curricular improv, progressive jazz, and Zoomer B.S.
September attempts to get “real” with symphonies, operas, ‘90s bands
It’s a busy August of album-release shows, neighborhood concerts, a renamed synth library, Hip Hop Week & more.
In the opening remarks at last week’s Makrokosmos festival, pianist and co-Artistic-Director Saar Ahuvia said, “live music is finally back.” That is true, with an asterisk.
As vaccination rates rise and infection rates fall, Oregon’s music world starts to take to the great outdoors.
At least April ended on a high note: FearNoMusic’s headliner show capped off its season brilliantly.
Looking forward to a wild summer where the masks start to come off and the concerts slowly start coming back.
Old Portland, new Portland, any way you like Portland: Charles Rose lends an ear to the music of March.
Portland Jazz Festival, rewatching Motchisuki, African films, Black composers, Sybarite5 and more.
This year the holidays take on a somber tone. Will we have to leave some of our favorite traditions behind?
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