Season of Lights Holiday Benefit Concert ~ A Celebration of commUNITY and Peace The annual Season of Lights Holiday Concert is scheduled for Saturday, December 13th, 7:00 p.m. in St. Anne's Chapel at beautiful Marylhurst University. Now in its seventh year, Peter Zisa and Friends’ free Season of Lights (SOL) concert has become an anticipated community tradition which provides a meaningful and unifying celebration of the holiday season that all members of the community can enjoy. Drawing from the four corners of the Portland metro, the program’s performers represent a collage of the cultural and faith traditions of the community.
Appearing on this year's program are La Rhonda Steele, Portland's premier gospel singer and director of the Portland Interfaith Gospel Choir, talented singer-songwriter Ilene Safyan & Chaverim performing an wonderful eclectic blend of Jewish music (Sephardic and Ashkenaz), the beautifully creative guitar compositions of John Dodge, an effervescent performance of Brazilian choros by guitarist Maria Olaya, colorful Slavic melodies performed by violin virtuoso Tatiana Kolchanova, the delicate and euphonious tones of flutist LeeAnn McKenna and Yukiko Yamaguchi (koto, Japanese harp) of the celebrated world music ensemble Thousand
Waves, and Peter Zisa himself, acclaimed classical guitarist and disciple of Spanish guitar legend Andres Segovia. While admission is free, in the spirit of unity and goodwill, SOL invites all attendees to give generously in support of two worthy and extraordinary non-profit organizations: the Community Transitional School, an independent non-profit school that serves K-8th grade children whose families are homeless. And Tivnu: Building Justice, a non-profit youth organization that builds homes for the homeless in coordination with Habitat for Humanity. "Tivnu: Building Justice is a non-profit organization that addresses the fulfillment of basic human needs through Jewish learning, leadership development, and hands-on social justice work."
For more information about Peter Zisa and Friends’ Seventh Annual Season of Lights free
holiday concert on Saturday December 13th in St. Anne’s Chapel at Marylhurst University, please phone 503-307-4907.
The Portland Mercury and XRAY FM are proud to sponsor, Late Night Action with Alex Falcone and Bri Pruett this December 4th at The Portland Art Museum. This edition's guests include Wendy Red Star, Holly Andres, Courtnay Hameister and more. Music provided by XRAY.fm's Bobby D. More info at XRAY.fm slash events.
Tender Loving Empire's Hawthorne store's grand opening celebration on December 4th, starts at 6pm! They'll be celebrating the release of the local Christmas compilation PDXMAS with live christmas tunes from...
Ritchie Young of Loch Lomond
Lots of delicious beer compliments of Fort George Brewery, and a food truck. They'll be raffles every 1/2 hour from 6:30-9:30 giving away...
TONS MORE RAFFLES!
About Tender Loving Empire:
Tender Loving Empire is a record label and Handmade goods store based in Portland, Oregon. Conceived in 2006 by Jared and Brianne Mees as a vehicle for releasing the art of friends and family, TLE has grown over the last eight years to release over 50 different albums on its record label by bands such as Typhoon, Radiation City, Y La Bamba, Finn Riggins and The Family Crest. In November 2014 TLE will open its second brick and mortar retail location at 3541 SE Hawthorne Blvd in Portland.
Title: Art Spark by RACC
Location: The Oregon Public House, 700 NE Dekum
Date / Time Thursday November 20th 5-7 pm
Text: Artist! Come to Art Spark to meet, share and learn about each other’s projects and about how RACC's supports Portland's creative community. Featured guest this month is Drink and Draw, a meetup group that offers art-focused recreational social gatherings for artists of all experience levels. So bring a pencil and pad and come on down and get your sketch on!
Where the rubber meets the dance floor!
A bicycle-themed fundraiser that highlights 20 years of work of the Community Cycling Center in Portland while celebrating in true style. Inspire our supporters to deepen their connections with us through storytelling and personal testimonials.
This event is 21 and over
The Bicycle Ball is a fundraiser for the Community Cycling Center celebrating 20 years of broadening access to bicycles in Portland. Join for vintage-style live music from the Swingtown Vipers, prohibition-era cocktails, dancing, a vintage photobooth, silent auction for one-of-a-kind balance bikes and more! Bring your dancing shoes for where the rubber meets the dance floor.
Fundraising goal: $15,000 More information can be found here.
Food & Beverage: 1 drink ticket for a custom cocktail with local Dystopia Vodka included with $15 entry. Secret Society’s food & addditonal drinks is available for purchase.
Music sponsor/partner: roaring 20's music by XRAY.FM DJs (will be live music- the “Stumptown Vipers” to start off, DJ at end)
Portland's only Smiths cover band celebrates their five-year anniversary with two sets of songs pulled from the catalogs of Morrissey and The Smiths. Admission is $5 or FREE when you become a new member of XRAY-FM! All proceeds benefit XRAY.
More info on the Facebook event page.
We'll show a preview of the work we've done so far, and we've gathered some long-time Portland artists to explore themes around this city we call home...how it's changed and how we change inside it.
Lisa Ward
DJ Theo Craig
And more!
Tuesday, October 28
Doors: 8:00pm
$5
The longest-running Bollywood Halloween party in the world is a Portland original, a wild dance party celebrating twelve years of raucous costumed merriment hosted by DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid. This year features the sensory assault of five walls of Bollywood Horror visuals by Micah Schmelzer curated from Anjali's collection of vintage and contemporary South Asian horror films.
The centerpiece of every Bollywood Horror is the highly entertaining costume contest hosted by Anjali with fabulous prizes from rad local businesses for the best costumes. Featuring only the wickedest beats from the subcontinent: cower at the thundering dhols, shiver at the piercing wails of Bollywood divas.
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St.
9pm-2am
$8 ($5 before 10pm)
Ages 21+ only w/ proper ID
An opportunity to reflect on the organization's accomplishments, and to look to the next year!
Two bands and and a silent auction!
Carl Wolfston, who holds a M.A. in political science from UCLA, began collecting buttons while volunteering for Jimmy Carter's presidental bid in 1976. "Carl in the Morning" can be heard on XRAY.fm. On air, Wolfson covers national and local politics and conducts in-depth interviw with A-list guests. Prior to his radio career, Wolfson was one of the country's top headlining comedians, specializing in current-events humor.
XRAY's own Carl Wolfson Presents the history of political buttons and some of his anecdotal stories. A selection of buttons described as "a pop art panorama of American History and political marketing" from Carl's more than 18,000-button collection will be on display in the building lobby.
Free and open to the public. More information here.
Carl Wolfston, who holds a M.A. in political science from UCLA, began collecting buttons while volunteering for Jimmy Carter's presidental bid in 1976. "Carl in the Morning" can be heard on XRAY.fm. On air, Wolfson covers national and local politics and conducts in-depth interviw with A-list guests. Prior to his radio career, Wolfson was one of the country's top headlining comedians, specializing in current-events humor.
SuperThank events bring together members of our community to share their stories about the people and organizations who are making us a better and stronger community.
Some speakers prepare in advance, and there is an open mic session, too, so please bring your own stories if you'd like to share. The SuperThank series takes place in front of a live audience. All stories are captured by audio recording and some are adapted for use on SuperThank Radio on XRAY.FM.
It’s radical community gratitude … for stuff that matters.
The details: This event will take place on the lower level of EastBurn restaurant, in the Tap Room.
Tickets are available for a sliding scale donation ($7 is suggested), which can be made now or at the door.
Confirmed storyteller lineup so far:
Dee Williams
Charles McGee
Shane Torres
Thacher Schmid
Kashea Kilson-Anderson
Gwenn Seemel
Jefferson Smith
Food and drinks will be available in the main restaurant upstairs starting at 5 p.m.
The event will take place downstairs in the Tap Room. Doors open at 6 p.m.
The show begins at 7 p.m.
PLEASE NOTE: This event is 21+
TICKETS: $7 suggested donation
Available at: http://superthankstorytelling.eventbrite.com/?aff=efbevent
Spanning 4 Four Tet studio albums, remixing, and outstanding live shows amongst many other things, Kieran Hebden’s career remains rooted in all kinds of musical camps. In the past couple of years Four Tet has released his fourth album “Everything Ecstatic”, a DVD of music videos working with directors/artists such as Woof Wan Bau and Jason Evans, a DJ Kicks compilation as part of K7’s legendary series, a compilation of his remix work, and has toured the UK, Europe, US and Japan extensively.
Come hear XRAY's DJ AM Gold spin records at the official PDX Adult Soap Box Derby after party. Full bar! All ages!
PALS is a semi-secret house show venue in SE Portland that sporadically hosts word-of-mouth concerts featuring some of this city's best talent as well as touring acts. PALS Fest is their annual festival of musical camaraderie featuring concerts at venues throughout the city.
Tonight's bill features Grandparents (psych pop), Aan (experimental pop), and Máscaras (surf kraut featuring XRAY's own Theo Craig)
Ray LaMontagne has one of the remarkable stories in music’s past decade. Since leaving his job in a Maine shoe factory to pursue his calling as a musician, he has released four studio albums and two live EPs, won awards and topped critics’ polls internationally, and established himself as one of the most distinctive talents of his generation. His songs have been featured in numerous films and television shows, including multiple performances of his compositions on American Idol.
Ray’s most recent critically acclaimed, Grammy award winning album God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 and #1 on the Digital Album chart. This marked a personal sales best for Ray and tied his debut chart position at #3 with Gossip in the Grain. God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise garnered 3 Grammy Award nominations including the coveted Song of The Year category for “Beg Steal or Borrow” and won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
LaMontagne released his new single, “Supernova” in February 2014, the first single off his 5th studio album of the same name via RCA Records. The album was produced by Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys) and recorded in Nashville, TN. His touring lineup includes Portland and XRAY's own Dave Depper (Dive Deeper).
Three classic Portland experimental pop acts (featuring XRAY's own Charlie and Marius from Heavy Breather) are back and on one fantastic bill! If you love Portland music and you don't know these groups, you need to be at this show ... it's for your own good.
$8 advance or day of show // Get tickets
9pm doors // 9:30 show
Come down for happy hour with Theo this Friday and bring some of your favorite records (think tote bag not crate of records) ... because sharing music is fun and the drinks are cheap.
This week's theme is westside.