This year’s festival of “Black American Music” featured hot touring artists and returning Oregonians alongside up-and-coming new locals.
Presented at the 2024 Portland Jazz Festival, SKC’s latest world premiere promised to transcend artistic boundaries with innovations that take dance and sound in a new dimension, though delivered a more puzzling traditional concert dance experience.
Final three shows of 3A’s intimate series featured performances by Branic Howard, Yawa, and Methods Body.
A report from within the one-day festival of new music, hosted this year at Portland State University.
Classical mainstays move into their seasons, a choir dissents, new music sounds out, electronica and rock get experimental, plus jazz and post-punk.
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.
Two arts “lifers” drop a debut record in the midst of the 2020 debacle. The hard questions began to drop, too.
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