Jazz, string quartet, rock violin and more set the rhythm for the new festival in a music-happy town. Next up, March 20: Peter Eldridge of New York Voices.
The warhorse-at-a-winery production featured students from the festival’s Young Artists Showcase–and a last minute replacement.
The Oregon wine country music festival’s Young Artists program is helping young opera singers get a leg up on their careers.
The festival, which starts Thursday, includes musical chestnuts as well as concerts benefiting Ukrainian relief and “Ourland,” a modern, dystopian opera.
Yamhill County calendar: Besides the photography show, the summer promises theater, music, poetry.
Many events are canceled or scaled back for 2021, as gathering in crowds remains unlikely, but it’s not all bad news.
Cut to December: It didn’t get less weird. Seeing the music and larger worlds from our almost front-row seats.
Voices from the front: Anton Belov brings a community of singers together through Facebook Karaoke.
Things are changing daily, but most local art and cultural events have been closed or postponed because of COVID-19.
July’s three-week Aquilon Music Festival in Willamette Valley wine country debuted in summer 2018, and this year, concert-goers might have a better time pronouncing its French name. “AK–will-on,” explains Chelsea Janzen, who will sing Pamina in the festival’s centerpiece opera, The Magic
Well, that was the year that was, wasn’t it? Old Man 2018 limps out of the limelight with a thousand scars, a thousand accomplishments, and a whole lot of who-knows-what. The new kid on the block, Baby 2019, arrives fit and sassy,
Last year’s music roundup first looked homeward. ArtsWatch’s 2017 music coverage focused, as we have from the outset, on our state’s creative culture: music conceived and composed in Oregon. We touched a lot of other bases, too of course, and homegrown music
When we say “hit parade,” that’s what we mean. In the first of a series of stories looking back on the highlights of 2018, these 25 tales were ArtsWatch’s most popular of the year, by the numbers: the most read, or the
When Portland Opera switched to a summer season last year, one stated reason was to avoid competition with other similar events. But operas and their American-born cousins, stage musicals, seem to be proliferating this summer. There’s no glass slipper or fairy godmother,
J.S. Bach’s two surviving Passions (St. Matthew and St. John) remain pinnacles of Western music, more than a quarter millennium after he constructed them. Neither is on the program at this year’s Oregon Bach Festival, but this summer, Oregon does offer a
Now that the sound and fury of the Fourth of July is behind us, let’s talk live music. There’s an abundance of it in Yamhill County this summer, literally anything you yearn for: pop, blues, 70s dance rock, Latin jazz, gypsy jazz,
McMINNVILLE – When I agreed this spring to come aboard as the Yamhill County correspondent for Oregon ArtsWatch, the first thing I did was to create a calendar. I’m a wordsmith by trade, but I like my information visualized so I can
As a new year begins, here’s one of our periodic roundups of recent news in Oregon music. This is only a smattering, of course. Got more news about Oregon music? Let us know, or leave it in the comments section below. High Notes
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