Events
Fingerstyle guitar star Terry Robb to perform at Talent Club
Portland-based acoustic fingerstyle blues guitar virtuoso Terry Robb will perform Saturday, June 22, at the Talent Club.
June 14, 2024
Portland-based acoustic fingerstyle blues guitar virtuoso Terry Robb will perform Saturday, June 22, at the Talent Club.
There are more than 5,700 miles between Medford and Vienna, but soon, musicians from throughout Southern Oregon will close the gap by traveling to compete in the music capital of the world. First, though, the 30 students aged 10-26 in the James M. Collier Siskiyou Violins group will premiere their Vienna program at the Green Show at OSF on Friday.
Two of Ashland’s most prolific, socially conscious artists — chamber opera composer Ethan Gans-Morse and his co-writer, poet-librettist Tizania DellaRovere — are celebrating the heritage, struggles, triumphs and stories of immigrants in an opera film premiering June 22 and 23 at the Varsity Theatre in Ashland.
Something new is coming to Lithia Park. Summer Sounds will bring free concerts by indie folk stars to the park’s bandshell. Bay Area singer-songwriter Sean Hayes will headline on Monday, June 17, and Portland folk rockers Blitzen Trapper will perform Monday, July 29.
Anthony Heald and acclaimed guitarist David Leisner will offer an afternoon of Shakespeare and guitar Saturday, June 8, at the SOU Music Recital Hall.
The open, green lawns of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s courtyard will be vibrating with the tunes and sounds of performers as the Green Show returns to Ashland this Friday. The shows are free and open to the public.
It was an afternoon to dance at the ninth annual Rogue World Music Festival at Butler Bandshell in Lithia Park. The weather cooperated with a cloudless sky and a high of about 79 degrees Sunday. The festival is in its ninth year and is put on in collaboration with the Ashland Parks & Recreation Commission.
True to its name, the nonprofit organization Beautiful Music in the Park will bring, well, beautiful music to Lithia Park again this year, the second season for the program founded by longtime park cello busker Daniel Sperry, starting Saturday, May 25. The piano quintet “Friends of Flare” is set to play from 11 a.m. to noon on the small field past the lower duck pond, affectionately nicknamed the “cello lawn” after Sperry’s frequent busks.
“Spotlight on ABBA” is playing at Camelot through Sunday, May 26. At matinee and evening concerts, four talented Rogue Valley singers perform the Swedish group’s popular songs — timeless music that transcends generations and cultures.
A diverse array of performances, folk songs and other productions are coming to the Rogue Valley later this week, celebrating cultures across the globe from Classical Arabic and Andalusian music to the traditional sounds of Zimbabwe.
Ask Strider: A reader asks whatever happened to Woody the Puppy Intern? Strider has news! Woody has landed on all four paws with a new gig. And Steve, the Ashland.news crossword editor, has a new canine crossword up for solving. The excitement is pupable!
The Oregon Legislature is meeting this week to consider some major cuts to current spending levels as a large revenue deficit looms. That’s because the state’s tax code automatically replicates new federal tax cuts, including ones passed by Congressional Republicans this summer that will reduce state revenue
Michael O’Looney: Trump and the Texas Legislature are responsible for a partisan power grab that has unleashed bitterness and partisan vindictiveness, all in an effort to subvert an electoral system for partisan ends.
Councilor Bob Kaplan: While the cost of delivering kilowatt-hours to our homes has risen, Ashland Electric has been able to hold our rates steady with just one increase of 5.1% in 2021. I’m sorry to say we’re due for an increase, but fortunately it’s not likely to match recent increases elsewhere.
An estimate for the cost to abate asbestos found in the shuttered Lincoln School recently should be available as early as sometime this week, according to Steve Mitzel, operations director for Ashland School District. The cost to remove asbestos would be separate from the as yet-unknown cost for structural repair.
“We are still here” was the theme for Saturday’s Native American Heritage Celebration at Southern Oregon University, hosted by the SOU Native American Student Union (NASU) and SOU Native Nations Liaison Kenwanicahee (Kenwani) Kravitz (Madesi Bandi, Pit River Nation Winnemem, Nomtipom and Nomsus Bands Northern Wintu).
(It’s free)