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 Curtis Salgado
November 22 - 9pm $15 Cover in advance $18 at the door Curtis Salgado has a lot to celebrate. Two years ago he was diagnosed with liver cancer and told he had eight months to live, unless he got a liver transplant which would generate medical bills upwards of half a million dollars. With no health insurance and few funds, the man who is one of America's finest blues/soul singers needed a little help from his friends. When your friends and admirers include the likes of Steve Miller, Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal, you've got a fighting chance. Numerous benefits were held in multiple cities including a benefit concert featuring Miller, Cray, Taj Mahal, The Phantom Blues Band, Everclear and Little Charlie & The Nightcats.
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Miriams Well November 29th 9pm - $5 Cover Her songs throw you inside rattlesnake country ‘til you find love lost in a ditch by the side of the road. You get Black Crowes meet The Allman Brothers meets June Carter Cash. There’s gospel inflection. There’s Miriam.
And then...there’s Miriam’s Well.
"When you listen to hundreds of new releases every year, it's refreshing to hear one that has Soul and lots of feeling to it. Miriam's Well hit that spot for me...Check it out!" -The Big B.A. KINK Radio 101.9FM, Portland, OR |
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 Kolvane
December 13th 9pm $5 Cover Kolvane is a lifetime musician/artist who founded Portland’s Rose City Kings in 2002. In 4 short years, Kolvane moved the band from obscurity to notoriety: Releasing three critically acclaimed albums; touring with Chicago Blues legend Jody Williams as his personal band; breaking into the Top 50 Roots Music Report in the Roots Blues category and continuing as the highest ranked self-released album on the RootsMusicReport.com chart for several weeks. |
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 Flextones December 20th 9pm - $5 Cover The FlexTones are a three-piece band, consisting of Rick Burch (Bass), Jon Chinburg (Drums), and Jack Hopfinger (Guitar). In addition to their respective instrumental talents, all three members of the FlexTones are accomplished singers and song- writers. Their repertoire cruises through classic rock, blues, new stuff; nearly anything anyone requests. They truly play an eclectic blend of genres and periods. In a word, The FlexTones are um… ‘flexible’. The FlexTones are a hard-working band. They typically play Friday and Saturday nights in and around the mid-Willamette Valley area. |
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 Ty Curtis Band
December 27th
9pm - $5 Cover Perhaps the late great Paul Delay said it best about Ty Curtis: “He plays it like a young man should—straight ahead and from the heart.” Northwest blues fans agree, filling the dance floors at Mac’s, Lefty’s, Rogue Brewery, the Oregon Garden, Roadhouse 101, and Chinook Winds Casino. They have opened for Curtis Salgado and for Paul deLay and performed on air for KMHD radio in Portland. In July 2007, the band made their debut at the Waterfront Blues Festival earning a standing ovation from the crowd. The summer of 2007 also included bookings at Corvallis’ DaVinci Days, the Eugene Celebration, Silverton Art Fair, Bones & Brews, KMHD’s Summer Bash and the Oregon State Fair. Meanwhile, the band’s CD, Stubborn Mind, has been receiving air play on KRVM, KLCC, KBOO, KMHD and KINK. And the CD was recently selected to represent the Cascade Blues Association in the Blues Foundation’s Best Self Produced CD competition for 2008. Not a bad start for a young band. As Greg Johnson, president of the Cascade Blues Association, said, “If you don’t know the name Ty Curtis now, remember it. I definitely foresee success in this band’s future.” |
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 Cher & The B-Siders
Saturday, January 10 - 9pm $5 Cover - High energy rock, blues & soul
The B-side… The term instantly evokes memories of the beloved 45 single and the song tucked away on the far side of the record. From time to time, the B-side would pleasantly surprise you as it matched or surpassed its popular counterpart on side A. And from time to time, a band just as surprising comes along and knocks your socks off with a one-two punch of great rocking blues and unsurpassed delivery. This is that band.
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Renee Hill Band
Saturday, January 17 @ 9pm
Rock, R&B, Country, Blues and Folk
$5 Cover
Renee grew up on the Oregon coast playing with local bands in the late 70s. She Moved to the Seattle area in 1981 and met her husband Ray Merideth of Kentucky and the two became an instant duo. They soon formed the RENEE HILL BAND and played in Seattle's Pioneer Square for two years. They found themselves in Las Vegas in 1983 where the RENEE HILL SHOW was born. Renee did some recording at RMS Studios produced by TOMMY DEVITO of the FOUR SEASONS and later released a 45 here in the Northwest of two of those songs.
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Jim Mesi January 24th
9pm - $5 Cover Portland native Mesi got his start in Brown Sugar, one of the two leaders of Portland’s thriving 1970's blues scene (the other was Sleazy Pieces). Brown Sugar was the springboard for the careers of vocalist and blues harp maestro Paul DeLay, guitarist/vocalist Lloyd Jones (the drummer then), and Mesi. When the group broke up in the 1980's, DeLay and Mesi continued as the Paul DeLay Band. Throughout the decade, the DeLay Band played to audiences of three hundred to five hundred people virtually every weekend. |
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Hopfinger January 31
9pm - $5 Cover Hopfinger... Funny name... Awesome band! This group has a ton of talent and can perform almost any song by request. From artist like Alabama to Pat Benatar, this band does it all! If this group of constant processionals can't get your heart pumping, nothing can! |
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