(Photo | Courtesy of Newberry Event Music Festival) Central Oregon’s Seventh Annual Newberry Event Music and Arts Festival to Defeat MS is a three-day outdoor summer multi-genre music festival well-known as a good time for a good cause. July 26-28, the 501c3 charity benefits the Oregon National Multiple Sclerosis Society. This year, the festival brings…
(Inner Limits | Photo courtesy of Inner Limits) Inner Limits, an energetic blues/funk/rock group that weaves original material and unique arrangements of solid classic blues and rock songs into each set, just released their debut album Hit the Highway. They are doing a CD release show at Volcanic Theatre on June 29 with local band…
Paulina Springs Books announced the inaugural Sisters Festival of Books (SFoB). Featuring local, regional and national authors and occurring across multiple venues, SFoB is a three day celebration of the literary culture of Central Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. SFoB will take place from Friday, October 18 to Sunday, October 20 in Sisters. Friday evening,…
Have you reserved for the Waterston Desert Writing Prize free workshops and award event on June 26? Now is the time to ensure you have a spot in one of the three creative writing workshops and the evening award festivities. If fiction is your game, sign up for critically-acclaimed novelist James Anderson’s workshop, in which…
The Central Oregon Builders Association (COBA) announces featured builders for the Seventh Annual Chefs on Tour, a preview of six homes to be on the Tour of Homes paired with local chefs in each home. This ticketed event will showcase these new construction homes in a premier networking event Wednesday July 10 from 4-7:30pm. This…
(Photo | Courtesy of PLAYA) PLAYA staff are joining forces with experts in dark-sky gazing to host PLAYA’s first official Dark Sky Gathering September 27-29 in the Oregon Outback. Participants will explore Oregon’s fall constellations, principles of astrophotography, the Milky Way, the deep silence of night on the playa and other beautiful aspects of life…
(Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters | Photo courtesy of Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters) Like the Ohio to muddy Ol’ Miss, Ashleigh Flynn follows her troubadour heart. A prolific songwriter and a performer blessed with unbridled charisma, Flynn grew up in Kentucky and cut her teeth on local bluegrass, classic rock and Motown. With two critically…
(Jackson Michelson | Photo courtesy of Nashville Music Media) Signed to a label and publishing deal with Curb Records, Jackson Michelson recently released his new single One At A Time, as well as a video to go along with it. He has several more planned releases this summer, including a radio release — all while he promotes his…
On June 27, the Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) will present Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band at the Sisters High School Auditorium in a fundraising concert for Connected by Creativity, a capital campaign of the Sisters Folk Festival, Inc. Acclaimed singer and songwriter Josh Ritter is celebrating the release of his tenth studio album…
(The George Colligan Trio. Oil on linen, 36”x48”, 2018 and The George Colligan Trio. Ink on paper, 11”x14”, 2018 by Ken Marunowski) Forget Warhol’s late sixties prophetic dictum that “In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.” Bend artist Ken Marunowski more than quadrupled that number with one hour and forty-eight seconds…
