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The annual Soul’d Out Music Festival started last week and ended Monday with a packed house for Reggae heavyweight, Don Carlos, and Malian electric guitarist, Vieux Farka Toure, at Wonder Ballroom – a pretty smart move for the much-celebrated stoner holiday of April 20th. We brought you a review of the Billie Holiday Tribute on […]
Siren Nation and Soul’d Out Music Festival Present A Tribute to Billie Holiday “Billie Holiday always sang from the heart,” said Natasha Kmeto, Portland-based singer, song-writer and electronic music producer, on stage at the Alberta Rose Theater on Saturday night. Standing behind her open laptop, one hand on the mic, she punched a few things […]
Kicking off a medium-sized soul music festival on a Tuesday night is a risky move, but pairing Charles Bradley with a young progressive jazz outfit is a smart move. It gave Soul’d Out a big feeling, the biggest in fact: the feeling of love. Any night of the week is perfect for love; that is […]
Portland Jazz Festival slipped by like a stealth bomber, like an underground speakeasy, like a super-hip fad, like so many things we can’t all see. The annual flower of PDX Jazz draws audiences into theaters and clubs by the hundreds with dozens of shows. After twelve years, it has earned the expectation of carrying legendary […]
Joëlle Léandre rips it. She leans in to the double bass with eyes sealed shut to block out all but tactile and audible information. It is self-imposed sensory deprivation because improvising is difficult—making music in that manner requires a certain kind of focus. Perhaps it compares to singing with virtuosity and dancing with choreography at once: […]