Oregon Music News
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June 14, 2024 • 40 mins
In the coming weeks, Amanda Gresham of United By Music will be here.
Yvonne Lerch will stop by to talk about curating the Cathedral Park Festival.
Art Levine, our National Editor hasn’t finished his 5 thousand word piece yet…and it isn’t even for us.
And you’ll meet Kenny Goldstein a bass player and mobile car mechanic.
Today Tim DuRoche pays us another visit. He’s a great hang and a terribly smart guy, a musician and former Jazz j...
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June 10, 2024 • 14 mins
Springtime at the Artichoke.
Coming up soon on Coffeeshop Conversations…Yvonne Lerch will us about curating my favorite music festival of the summer…Cathedral Park.
Also, an interesting person who combines the life of a Blues musician with a car mechanic.
And I promise our National Editor, Art Levine will finish his five or six thousand word piece on UFO’s in time to make an appearance here.
Today Amy Maxwell, founder of Ticket To...
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June 5, 2024 • 40 mins
Hi, Tom D’Antoni, as always, with another Coffeeshop Conversation from Artichoke Music.
Coming up soon we’ll have OMN’s National Editor Art Levine with a conversation on UFO’s and music, not that they have anything to do with each other.
Also upcoming, Ticket Tomato’s Amy Maxwell on the Live Nation controversy, Yvonne Lerch on booking the Cathedral Park Jazz Festival. A new episode every week.
Today, Adam East is in the building...
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May 18, 2024 • 54 mins
Six years ago, the last time David Monette was our guest on Coffeeshop Conversations, we called him “Portland’s Stradivari” because the trumpets he designs and builds are the equivalent of a Stradivarius violin…and he makes them for some of the world’s greatest musicians at his shop out near the airport in Portland.
He's back because he has a new book called “Calculus of Life: A Practical Guide to Transcendence.”
What does that hav...
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May 13, 2024 • 37 mins
Back in the Artichoke today with singer/actor Lo Steele, daughter of Portland’s LaRhonda and Mark Steele.
Coming up soon…trumpet genius David Monette with his new book on transcendence, our National Editor Art Levine on UFO’s and (maybe) music, plus Adam East the talent buyer from the Alberta Rose Theater.
But right now Lo Steele is sitting across from me.
We’re so lucky in Oregon to have musician families like this one. After you...
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April 29, 2024 • 48 mins
I hardly know what to say.
Eddie Martinez, one of the best known session guitarists in history just left the Café at Artichoke Music after nearly an hour of inspired conversation.
Now look. I don’t mean to disparage the over four hundred other guests we’ve had on in ten years of OMN’s Coffeeshop Conversations but this one is at or near the top.
It’s the third time he’s been on the podcast. I asked him to join me because he has a g...
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April 26, 2024 • 45 mins
Every year at this time, we get together with Peter Dammann, Artistic Director of the Waterfront Blues Festival and ace guitar slinger to find out who’s in the festival lineup.
He's joining me in the Artichoke Music Café. Next week Lo Steele will be here and coming up guitarist Eddie Martinez and also OMN’s National Editor Art Levine will be talking to us from Washington D.C.
But now lets turn our attention to the fourth of July a...
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April 18, 2024 • 38 mins
As promised, with me in the Café at Artichoke Music is Jennifer Carrizo, Senior Talent Buyer for the Crystal Ballroom, the Mission Theater and the Spanish Ballroom in Tacoma, all part of McMenamin’s wonderfully funky empire.
It’s hard to believe we haven’t had many from the venue management side of de bizz eh nezz. But here we are.
What does a talent buyer do? Senior or not. I’ll tell you this, the reason you can go out and hear m...
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April 10, 2024 • 33 mins
I’m happy we’re back here in the café at Artichoke Music..
Next week, Jennifer Carrizo from McMenamin’s will be here to talk about what’s going on at the Mission Theater…the answer is a lot!
But this week a new conversation from a couple of months ago (and I apologize for the delay) with one of our best singers and songwriters, Anandi.
She has a lot to say about Jazz singing, especially the Latin variety. At the time we talked she...
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March 31, 2024 • 27 mins
We’ll be back at the Artichoke Music Café next time but this episode had to be recorded today, before a fund raiser to help complete a documentary on the life and death of one of Oregon’s favorite musicians, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist member of Pink Martini and Lions of Batucada among others; Derek Reith who committed suicide in August of 2014.
Today Director Joanie Fox will talk to us about Derek, the film and the fun...
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March 26, 2024 • 8 mins
We’re not at the Café at Artichoke Music this time. We’re in Seaside Oregon at the Seaside Jazz and Blues Festival on March 16rh for a very special occasion .
We told composer/pianist Gordon Lee that we wanted to talk to him onstage about the set he was about to play and also his new album.
In reality we were going to present to him the first annual award in the name of the late beloved drummer and teacher Carlton Jackson for Excel...
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February 28, 2024 • 67 mins
Well this is getting as regular as a rainy February in Oregon. Grammy time rolls around and Cheryl Pawelski gets handed one.
She won one for It’s Such a Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers. She’s also won for The Garden Spot Programs, 1950.
She was the compilation producer on Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition), which won the Grammy for Best Historical Album.
And just a couple of weeks ago she w...
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February 10, 2024 • 36 mins
The last time Lisa Lipton sat here in the Artichoke Music Cafe was in August of 2020. I noted at the time what a busy person she was with multiple artistic and executive directorships, plus teaching and a full schedule of her clarinet playing.
She still does all that but recently she was brought on as Executive Director of 45th Parallel Universe in addition to retaining the same position with Opera Theater Oregon, as well as Co-fou...
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February 5, 2024 • 29 mins
Returning for another episode of Coffeeshop Conversations is Lisa Marcicek, known to one and all as Miz Kitty that saucy character who has a major basis in real life as hostess of Miz Kitty’s Parlour, a vaudeville show that has been in our lives for twenty-two years at various locations in Portland.
She was back this year at the Mission Theater, a favorite spot for her and the hand-picked troupe of fine performers and misfits, alo...
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January 23, 2024 • 55 mins
Guitarist/composer/teacher Dan Balmer is in the Artichoke Café this time around. He always has a lot to say. I’ve been looking forward to sitting down with him again.
Coming up soon on Coffeeshop Conversations, the new executive director of 45th Parallel Universe Lisa Lipton and a visit with Lisa Marcicek also known as Miz Kitty.
Dan Balmer has a new album called When the Night. That name. What does it mean. I mean to find out. Lis...
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January 10, 2024 • 44 mins
The Biamp Portland Jazz Festival is rapidly approaching. It runs from February 16 to March 2.
As we like to do when our major festivals come around, we ask the folks who are responsible for bringing them to us to fill us in.
And as he has been for the past few years, actually since he got the gig, Executive Director Chris Doss is in the Artichoke Café with me to tell us all about every headliner in the festival.
It’s an interesting...
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December 27, 2023 • 37 mins
I hope you have been watching the development of OMN’s young Photographer Sydney Lewis. She started shooting for us at seven years of age, under the watchful eye of her father Mike, who also takes photos for us.
Her specialty is Metal bands. Seriously. Her first shoot was at the 2019 Waterfront Blues Festival but she has shot almost exclusively Metal since then.
After the covid break she continued to shoot with more confidence and ...
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December 11, 2023 • 34 mins
We’re going to wind up 2023 with a couple of Best Of’s but next time, that precocious 11 year old OMN photographer Sydney Lewis will be here with her dad to tell us about shooting Metal bands for the past 4 years.
Today I’ve got one person who is in several of the most eclectic bands in Oregon, Galen Clark of Trio Subtonic, Outer Orbit…and others. He’s going to bring Outer Orbit and Greaterkind to McMenamin’s Kennedy School Ballroo...
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December 1, 2023 • 48 mins
Sometimes we have fresh new faces on the scene come to the Artichoke Music Café, and sometimes we welcome musicians who have been around the block a time or two. People who have long-time fans but who have never stopped evolving and discovering new music within them.
Steve Wilkinson was in Gravelpit and Mission 5 and his current band Wilkinson Blades, but he’s releasing his first solo album Truth or Consequences, recorded over eig...
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November 22, 2023 • 25 mins
I think this is the first time we’ve ever run two Coffeeshop Conversations in one week. It’s because of the concerts both Ben Darwish and Jeremy Wilson are doing this week and weekend.
Jeremy Wilson is, of course, known for his music. He was a member of the Dharma Bums and others. But he is also known and loved for starting the Jeremy Wilson Foundation which helps fund medical bills for musicians.
There are several fund-raising mus...
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