April
The Kairos Quartet
April 27th at 4 pm
at The Gorge Pavilion at Marine Park in
Cascade Locks
The Kairos Quartet, established in 1993, has been the quartet-in-residence at Central Washington University since 1998. Violinists Carrie Rehkopf and Heather Netz, violist Timothy Betts, and cellist John Michel have extensive chamber music experience and have toured internationally.
In addition to traditional concert performances, the Kairos Quartet is committed to educational outreach and to performing in unlikely venues in which they seek to break down the barriers between audience and performers. 'Kairos' is a Greek word for non-chronological time: those special time-suspended moments experienced by children at play, reunited friends, or artists absorbed in their work. The Quartet hopes to create many such moments
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May
Grammy®Award Winning
Tingstad & Rumbel
May 18th at 7 pm
at Bonneville HotSprings Resort
Grammy Award winners Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel have performed, recorded and touring together for over 22 years with 19 albums to their credit. Traveling to as many as 70 concert venues a year, they are friends who enjoy each other's company and truly love making music.
In 1998, American Acoustic was honored as "Acoustic Instrumental Album of the Year." A Carnegie Hall appearance in 2000. And in 2003 they received a Grammy Award for "Acoustic Garden." Nancy grew up in San Antonio and continued her musical education at Northwestern University where she was introduced to new influences, styles and intrigued by ethnomusicology which led to her joining the Paul Winter Consort. Eric grew up in Seattle and attended Western Washington University where he was trained in the Segovian classic guitar tradition. He is a product of influences like Led Zeppelin, Hawaiian slack key guitar, Ravi Shanker and Martin Denny.
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June
Ringering/Wheeler Piano Duo
June 8th at 7pm
at The Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center
The Ringering/Wheeler Duo performs 4-hand and two-piano works, specializing in music that embraces both the classical, jazz, and dance forms. They first appeared together at The Ernest Bloch Festival Two-Piano Institute in June 2003 and since then have appeared on The Forest Grove Chamber Music Series, the Aladdin Theatre, The Old Church, Linfield College, Pacific University, the “Art for the Ears” Concert Series as well as numerous other venues throughout the Northwest. In October 2005, they appeared in a live broadcast performance on KBPS 89.9. Their upcoming concert season in 2008 includes appearances in Seattle, Newport, Bainbridge Island and the Water Music Festival in Seaview, Washington.
July
The Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra
July 13th at 7 pm
at the beautiful Skamania Lodge Amphitheater
The Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra (SWOJO) features many of the finest female jazz artists in the region. Showcasing high intensity jazz, tight harmonies, and lush dynamic sounds, the band performs with a fresh energy stemming from seven years of thrilling audiences on two continents.
The Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra, co-founded by Barbara Hubers-Drake and Ellen Finn, was formed to nurture the musical, educational and artistic growth of individual musicians, to encourage women to become involved in jazz performance/composition as a career or avocation, and to foster community interest in and appreciation of jazz as an art form. Since the first rehearsal in January of 2000, the band has performed at clubs, jazz festivals, and concert halls on two continents and performed with many distinguished artists including Don Lanphere, Mimi Fox, Becca Duran, Susan Pascal, Greta Matassa, Kelley Johnson, Hazel Leach, Jill Townsend, John Thomas, and Ingrid Jensen.
The Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra Web Site
August
Karla Bonoff
August 22nd at 7 pm
at the beautiful Skamania Lodge Amphitheater
Long before Alanis and Jewel, there was a breed of singer/songwriters whose earthy anthems of soul-searching, heartache, and joy touched souls in a way few can muster today. Karla Bonoff, primarily pens moody, pained ballads that are simple and direct in style and yet as forceful and affecting as the emotions that love and love lost conjure. Of course, there's also that sweet, soft voice. Included on "All My Life" are songs made famous by Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, and Wynonna, as well as Bonoff's sole top 40 hit, "Personally," which, ironically, she did not write. Enduring favorites include "The Water Is Wide," "Goodbye My Friend," and "Daddy's Little Girl," a song recorded in 1995 by her four-member ensemble Bryndle. This essential collection stands as a testament to the ideal that the good ones are indeed ageless.
September
Stolen Sweets
September 12th at 7 pm
at the Columbia Center for the Arts
“The Stolen Sweets pay tribute to
the Rosetta Stone of ’30s-era vocal jazz, the fabulous Boswell Sisters. The
Sisters’ three-part vocal harmonies and skittery sense of danceable,
two-beat swing were unparalleled. Singers Jen Bernard, Dirty Martini’s Lara
Michell and Erin Sutherland capture all the sophistication, progressive
innuendo and sunny optimism of the Boswells with the able support of string-
copators Pete Krebs, David Langenes and Keith Brush.”
The Willamette Week
