Five Alarm Funk at the Hive
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Get your sweatbands and bottles of water ready, there will be a Five Alarm Funk party next week at The Hive. The Vancouver-based band of eight have one common...
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POAC Performance Series: Fraser & Haas
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Alasdair Fraser has long been regarded as Scotland’s premier fiddle ambassador. Natalie Haas has been described as a “sizzlingly-talented young Californian cellist.” The two of them join forces to...
Sadie Sicilia concert hopes to draw big at Panida
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For a musician eager to keep moving forward, it’s always important to challenge the boundaries and to keep experimenting. For Sadie Sicilia—formerly Sadie Wagoner—opening for Ben Harper at the...
Funk to the Nth Power
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Combining several genre influences into one unique sound, The Nth Power is not a band that plays to conventions. What they do play to is a sense of human...
Barbara Jean to play at Di Luna’s
By Dion Nizzo Reader Columnist Minstrel: [min-struh l] – A traveling musician, singer, or poet. Barbara Jean is a traveling minstrel in the purest and highest sense of the word. The musician often eluded...
An Interview with returning artists Jelly Bread
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The five-piece funk hybrid band Jelly Bread played the Hive this winter and made such a great impression, they are returning for an encore show Friday, September 11. Led...
Schweitzer’s Fall Fest back for 23rd annual beer extravaganza
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s been an interesting summer. We’ve had early heat waves, forest fires, earthquakes, smoky skies. It’s hard to believe that this weekend marks the end of summer operations for...
The glorious return of Tennis
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Picture this: a dance floor is packed to the gills with young and old, clutching drinks, shouting out the words to their favorite songs. A drummer bangs on his...
Charley Packard returns to Wednesday nights at Eichardt’s
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There are some famous pairings out there in the world; Simon and Garfunkel, Sonny and Cher, peanut butter and jelly. Charley Packard and Eichardt’s. It’s hard to think of...
