Bend Urban Festival has created a new movement for Bend. Every Third Friday this DJ-driven event will create a new platform for an all-ages dance and community. Held at the newest movement studio, Tula Arts, in NorthWest Crossing, Lucid Dance will host a non-alcoholic (and shoeless) evening once a month that will allow freedom of…
The 4 Peaks Music Festival announced a new venue for its tenth Anniversary. After months of searching for the right home to host the milestone festival, 4 Peaks Presents found it in SE Bend’s Stevenson Ranch. The 100+ acre site maintains the same Cascade Mountain views and mellow vibe as the previous location, but with…
Les Schwab Amphitheater plans include more concerts than ever, set to bring throngs of people to the banks of the Deschutes this summer. John Mellencamp with Special Guests Jewel and Carlene Carter — June 11 The rock n’ roll icon brings hits like Pink Houses, Small Town and Jack & Diane, holding his place as…
The Sisters Folk Festival releases additional artists to continue to fill the lineup for the annual event, September 8-10. As one of the most well-respected acoustic music events in the Pacific Northwest, the Sisters Folk Festival is produced in beautiful Sisters, where “All the Town’s a Stage.” The artists booked span multiple styles, cultures and…
by JOY VICTOR of Victor School of Performing Arts How many miles of tulle does it take to make 32 tutus? It was in the costume fabrication warehouse hired by American Ballet Theatre in the garment district of Manhattan that my appreciation for the genius of dressing the best dancers in the world exploded. It…
The High Desert Chamber Music 2016-17 season, presented by Mission Building & Renovation, concludes with the annual return of Central Oregon favorites the Crown City String Quartet. As resident string quartet, this year marks their eleventh appearance in Central Oregon over the past nine years. Founded in 2007, their performances have been praised as “sublime”…
Singer-songwriter-satirist Roy Zimmerman will bring his “funny songs about ignorance, war and greed” to Bend’s Volcanic Theatre Pub Wednesday, June 7. The show is a benefit performance for KPOV High Desert Community Radio. For the past two decades Zimmerman has brought the sting of satire to the struggle for peace and justice on stage, on radio…
The Folk Alliance Region West (FAR-West) awarded Sisters Folk Festival Inc. (SFF) the Organizational Achievement Award. FAR-West is a chapter of Folk Alliance International, who fosters and promotes traditional, contemporary and multicultural folk music, dance, storytelling and related performing arts in the U.S. SFF grew from an annual folk festival into an arts organization that…
It was an audacious idea. In 1977 Sunriver residents Paul and Polly Kahle wanted to start a classical music festival in a summer resort using professional musicians from around America and they would perform in a vintage 1940’s Officers’ Club. Four decades later, the Sunriver Music Festival not only survives, but it is thriving as…
Saturday, April 8 at 7:30pm the Tower Theatre Foundation presents Les Stroud – Survivorman LIVE, a mix of survival stories from around the globe, folk roots-rock, and videography creating an inspiring concert experience. Now a fellow Oregonian, Les Stroud is best known as the Canadian Screen Award-winning producer, creator and star of the hit Discovery…
