In Concert
[Updated June 18, 2008]
A smooth solstice
Are you looking forward to A Summer Night’s Jazz? Heck, you’re probably just hoping for a summer night. But your spirits will be on the rise Saturday, June 21, when local jazz musicians will be gathering on the Newport Performing Arts Center stage to welcome the first day of summer.
The concert, Summer Night’s Jazz, brings together a talented group of musicians for an evening of straight ahead and Latin jazz. Local vocalist Patty George will be joined by coastal musicians like Ric DiBlasi (piano), Pat George (piano), Bill Hartsell (guitar), Steve Cook (bass) and Randy Madnick (percussion). Also appearing will be Jim Cameron on piano and drummer, Ray Vance. Regional jazz artists include Paul Biondi (saxophone) from Eugene, Ron Green (trumpet) from Florence and vocalist Tobaj, bassist Larry Burnett and trombonist Keller Coker. Mario Flores from San Francisco will add Latin percussion sounds to several numbers.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students and are available at the Performing Arts Center, 777 W. Olive. For additional information call the PAC at 541-265-2787, Claire Little 541-265-2100 or visit www.justjazzoregon.com.
Free children’s concert
SoundWaves Music Festival is hosting a free concert for area children on Friday, June 20, from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Lincoln City Congregational Church, 1760 N.W. 25th St.
The event is part of a series of chamber music performances by Maestro Yaacov Bergman, pianist Gerald Robbins and an 18-member orchestra. They are a benefit for the Let There Be Arts program. The children’s concert actually is a dress rehearsal for the evening performance. Featured are works by Mozart, Dvorak and Shostakovich.
The festival consists of three chamber concerts, ranging from chamber quartets to the full orchestra, presenting music by Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Dvorak, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, and more. Many will feature solos by the renowned, spellbinding pianist Gerald Robbins. These concerts will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 19, Friday, June 20, and Saturday, June 21, also at the Lincoln City Congregational Church. Tickets are $25 per show.
A fourth concert, on June 22 at 5 p.m. at Lee Freed’s residence, will be followed by a gourmet dinner; a limited number of reservations cost $125 apiece. For further information and reservations, call the Freed Gallery at 541-994-5600.
Let There be Arts, founded in 2001 by Freed and school administrator Suzanne Dalton, brings visual and performing arts into all county schools. Partners in the non-profit volunteer organization include schools, businesses, other non-profits, foundations, artists and individuals.
The grassroots group strives to touch the lives of students throughout the community.
In the last year, they brought at least one event to every school in the county. A major source of funding is a spring gala held at the Freed Gallery each May, which raises about half of the annual $100,000 budget.
Guitarist in Bay City
The Bay City Arts Center will again be hosting Larry Pattis, an original and powerful guitar virtuoso, for a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 21.
“Come be enthralled, entranced, transported and inspired by this internationally respected artist. Larry has performed solo at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Millenium Stage, and has just returned from the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Come listen, be inspired by a fellow artist, and return uplifted and strengthened to your life to continue fighting the good fight,” said a recent newsletter from the BCAC.
Admission is $5 at the door, with food and drink for sale. The center is located at the corner of Fifth and A streets in Bay City, about six miles north of Tillamook on Hwy. 101. For details, call 503-377-9620.
Benefit at Sportsman’s Pub-N-Grub
The Retroactive Gamma Rays, a central coast band playing their own punk-infused brand of instrumental surf music, will be thowing a benefit concert Saturday, June 21, at the Sportsman’s Pub-N-Grub in Pacific City.
All proceeds will be going to Finn Hagerty, a south Tillamook County native who is undergoing cancer treatment in Washington, D.C.
Featured bands are Whale Bait (8:30 p.m.), The Descent (9:15 p.m.), The Roadside Killers (10:15 p.m.) and the RGR (11 p.m.). Admission is $5 at the door. Sportman’s is located at 34975 Brooten Road, not far from the flashing stoplight in Pacific City.
RoosterFish return
Keeping a decade-old Beachcomber Days tradition alive, the Flounder Inn Tavern in Waldport will present the beer-garden reunion of RoosterFish on Saturday, June 21. For a dozen years RoosterFish performed at various venues along the central Oregon coast, and carved a reputation for high energy sets, which could include country, blues, reggae, standards, rock and roll, and RoosterFish originals.
The Beachcombers Days Beer Garden event at the Flounder has evolved into a get-together for the band and its friends. Many musicians, who have played with the band in the past, show up to sit in. The music will start at 1 p.m. following the Beachcomber Days parade, and continue until 6 p.m. No cover will be charged for this 21-and-over show.
For details, contact Robert Rubin at 541-563-2780 or perfect@pioneer.net.
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