Music is as synonymous with the Grande Ronde Valley as hiking or biking. The ever burgeoning collection of musicians who call La Grande home provide anything from Blues to Rock, Folk to Bluegrass, Jazz to Classical, and those genres in between. Whether you’re looking to cut the rug to old-timey contra dance tunes, let your lighter compliment that special love ballad, or spend a formal night at the symphony, La Grande possesses a host of venues and performers for such an occasion.
kid yoshida’s rabble rouser hour: MAY
It is that time of the month for another installment of Kid Yoshida’s Rabble Rouser Hour. This listen supplies you with info on local goings-ons as well as introduced you to great music that has been in LG, will be in LG, or should be in LG. Enjoy. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to...
read moreSean Gaskell Performs at The Stage Door
The Liberty Theatre Foundation is proud to host soloist Sean Gaskell on Friday, May 17th at 8:00 p.m. in the Stage Door Theater. Hailing from Seattle, Wash., Gaskell will give a solo acoustic set on the Kora, an ancient 21 stringed harp from West Africa. Gaskell features traditional songs of the Mandinka people from Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, and Guinea Bissau. Kora music is traditionally...
read moreCentennial Launch Party
On May 18, 2013 from 7 – 10 pm the Art Center at the Old Library will be throwing a Centennial Celebration Launch Party! Guests will be treated to an elaborate 3-course meal while enjoying entertainment provided by The Jamie Nasario Trio. The center will also unveil The Grid Project–over 100 small works of art created by some of the area’s most prominent artists! There will also...
read moreAU, ETERNAL TAPESTRY, & CATSKILLS COLLIDE TO BENEFIT EOFF2014
A MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WARM-UP PARTY EOFF announced it’s 2014 Dates – February 20-22, 2014 – but before we can savor another year of great film and music in downtown LG we need to assist the organization in growing it’s pocket book to bring about a 5th annual celebration that continues to astound. Portland, Oregon’s AU and ETERNAL TAPESTRY will cozy up with La...
read moreSystem and Station to Land at Benchwarmers
System And Station will be promoting a new self-titled/self-released full-length album on Thursday, May 9th at Benchwarmer’s Pub and Grill in La Grande. Music will begin around 9:30pm. Their first since 2010’s A Series Of Screws, the new album finds the Portland, OR (by way of Boise, ID) quartet continuing to take their spacey and melodic math-rock and imbuing it with a no-frills...
read moreOld Death Whisper at intimate Stage Door Theater
Boise’s gritty folk-western band Old Death Whisper rides into town at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 2 to play at the local Stage Door Theater in downtown La Grande. Old Death Whisper is a cocktail of dirty western roots music and country tinged parlor tunes. The band loves good old country and folk music of early America. Sea shanties, spaghetti westerns, railroad songs, road movies and rock...
read morekid yoshida’s rabble rouser hour: April
April 2013 rabble rouser hour Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. This segment includes a grip of musicians who made it to Eastern Oregon recently while en route to/from Treefort Music Fest in Boise, ID. All happy to be in La Grande and some of which...
read morePorter & The Pale Ales
After a year of diverse events including, lectures, musical ensembles and theatrical performances, the Stage Door Theater is ready for round two. To celebrate its one-year anniversary, The Stage Door is hosting local band Porter & the Pale Ales on Friday, April 12 at 7:00 p.m. Together, musicians Matt Cooper, Greg Johnson, Mike Snider, Teun Fetz and Sharon Porter create the light, upbeat and...
read moreTreefort’s Branches Extend to La Grande
kid yoshida considers La Grande’s ties to Treefort Music Fest and the LG’s musical future… Many people from La Grande were lucky enough to make it to the most recent Treefort Music Fest , and were served a music lover’s paradise. Boise is welcoming to the influx of tourism that comes with the dynamic music scene. “It really seems that Boise is a city that’s rapidly growing...
read moreHow I Spent My Treefort Vacation
words and images by Benjamin Morgan I went to the Treefort Music Festival last weekend. I wasn’t actually planning on writing this article (as evidenced by the sporadic, less than stellar photos I took on my high-tech iPhone 3GS). But a) I’m a purebred Border Collie who needed a chew toy, and b) I had to get these thoughts out of my head so I can sleep at night. As you may or may not know (or...
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