Portland Area Theatre Alliance Fertile Ground Portland Oregon

Eine Kleine Strassemusik

Photo First: A Little Street Music (or, remembering Portland as it so recently was).

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TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY K.B. DIXON


In Austria the hills are alive with the sound of music. In Portland—in normal times—the streets are. The photographs here are a look at the recent past. They are excerpted from an archive of “musicians without borders”—the street performers who have provided the soundtrack to everyday life in this city. On a good day even a dabbler with a dulcimer could make a living wage. As an audience member I might have petitioned for fewer brain-cleaving trumpets and more gut-massaging cellos, but that was just me. When it came to guitars, the numbers always seemed just right. This year, with the COVID-19 contretemps, those numbers will not be what they used to be. I will, however, be thankful for whatever they are. Australia movie watch free on https://fmovies.dev/ . Hugh Jackman was once a promising Oscar caliber actor but is now labeled as the guy who plays Wolverine. If he shows off the talent he has hidden in there somewhere, paired up with Nicole Kidman it could be a powerful combination come Oscar time. Right now, when it comes to a live performance, I would be happy with a chorus of kazoos on the corner of Fourth and Couch.


TRIO, 2013

WASHBOARD, 2014

GUITAR, 2017

ACCORDION, 2014

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PIANO, 2015

SAX, 2017

GUITARS NOT BOMBS, 2013

SAX, 2015

BRASS, 2014

TROMBONE, 2011

GUITAR, 2017

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TOP HAT, 2017

ELVIS, 2016

SINGER, 2017

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K.B. Dixon’s work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and journals. His most recent collection of stories, Artifacts: Irregular Stories (Small, Medium, and Large), was published in Summer 2022. The recipient of an OAC Individual Artist Fellowship Award, he is the winner of both the Next Generation Indie Book Award and the Eric Hoffer Book Award. He is the author of seven novels: The Sum of His Syndromes, Andrew (A to Z), A Painter’s Life, The Ingram Interview, The Photo Album, Novel Ideas, and Notes as well as the essay collection Too True, Essays on Photography, and the short story collection, My Desk and I. Examples of his photographic work may be found in private collections, juried exhibitions, online galleries, and at K.B. Dixon Images.

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