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SUMMARY:HIT MACHINE live music
DESCRIPTION:HIT MACHINE brings a special performance to Walmart in Hood River for their Grand Re-Opening! \nALL AGES and FREE!
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SUMMARY:Happy Days at The Center (DANCE!)
DESCRIPTION:September is National Senior Center Month! We will be hosting a dance on September 12th to celebrate. Dance\, DANCE\, DANCE! Dance the night away … \nWe will have a live band (The River City Rhythm). Come in and kick up your heels from 6:00 till 8:30 p.m. We will hold a silent auction\, have finger food and no host bar.Admission is $5 per person at the door.Doors open at 5:30!
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SUMMARY:Rich Swanger: Live
DESCRIPTION:Returning to the Balch by popular demand\, Rich Swanger is a Salem\, Oregon-based songwriter with roots in folk\, gospel\, and country-blues.  \nBorn in the Appalachian hills of Pennsylvania\, Rich found harmony in church choirs and learned the sounds of classic country from his father before eventually moving to the Pacific Northwest in 2004. He’s since earned the top prize in the Portland Folk Festival songwriting category\, released four full-length albums\, and plays regularly around the Pacific Northwest as a solo artist and with his group\, The Little Known Band. \n▶️ Take a listen/watch here: tinyurl.com/swanger-preview \nCOST: Live music at the Balch is always free for guests lodging or dining. Your orders from the Bistro and bar help keep our artists playing – thank you!  \nDINING: Tables (full service) are by reservation\, and hold your spot for the show. (Reserve tables here: tinyurl.com/bistro1907.) Lawn seating is open (no res required) with counter service at Bistro 1907. No outside food or beverage\, please & thanks!   \nROOM PACKAGE: Looking to make a getaway of it? Book the Patio Sessions Package for extra perks: bundle 10% off rooms along with a $50 dining credit to enjoy dinner during the show\, plus two complimentary drinks or desserts as well. \nLearn more\, stream tracks\, & reserve tables or rooms here: balchhotel.com/music. \nAll ages: concerts are both kid and pet friendly\, but please note we kindly ask overnight guests to be ages 10+\, due to the historic nature of the property and furnishings. \nAbout the Balch Hotel: Tucked in the foothills of Mt. Hood where the Columbia Gorge meets Oregon’s High Desert\, the Balch is a 20-room landmark inn and event venue built in 1907\, just south of The Dalles in the little town of Dufur. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places\, the inn offers historic charm with modern comforts. Guests enjoy a day spa and on-site restaurant\, Bistro 1907\, which showcases local ingredients and wines grown in the Gorge.
URL:https://www.gorgecurrent.com/event/rich-swanger-live/
LOCATION:The Balch Hotel\, 40 South Heimrich Street\, Dufur\, OR\, 97021\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nick Delffs / Erisy Watt live music
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 12th\, 2025 at Trout Lake Hall \n$15 Advance // $15 Day Of Show\n6pm Doors / 7pm Show\nAll Ages \nNICK DELFFS \nNick Delffs is not a protest singer. He’s not a gospel singer. Still\, subversiveness and spirituality permeate Transitional Phase\, his long-awaited second solo album. The product of five years of musical and personal growth that coincided with widespread social upheaval and a global pandemic – just as Delffs navigated first-time fatherhood\, losing friends\, and approaching his 40s; all weaved these songs. \nNow Boise-based\, Nick Delffs has been a beloved staple of Pacific Northwest music since emerging with his Portland-based band The Shaky Hands in the mid-2000s. It was clear then\, as it is now\, that he possessed an authentic—maybe ancient—voice. Transitional Phase is some of his finest and most vulnerable work. As the title suggests\, it’s an album about opening oneself up to change\, refusing the calcification that comes with age\, and opting for wholesale transformation instead. \nIncidentally\, “Transformation” is the title of the album’s opening track. It’s a looping\, percussive opener\, a dub-inflected signal that Transitional Phase’s\nthemes of change and transfiguration will not be limited to its lyrics. Like much of the new album\, it was recorded in early 2020 at co-producer/collaborator Eli Moore’s spacious and strange studio space on Whidbey Island\, just outside of Seattle. However\, when the sessions were interrupted by the onset of the pandemic\, Delffs was forced to continue work back in Boise. He wrote constantly in the early days of the lockdown and entered a secluded vocal booth in his friend Z.V. House’s Boise studio. Delffs would send the resulting tracks to Moore\, who often took songs in unexpected new directions. “Eli added a lot\,” Delffs says. “He really put himself in it. I’m not sure I’d felt that level of deep collaboration and trust since the Shaky Hands days.” This process continued until Delffs had about three albums worth of material to sort through. \nWhen writing\, Delffs spends as much time as possible not listening to music. “That’s really helpful for me\,” he says\, “because then it becomes this thing where I need music\, I need songs—so I have to make them.” Delffs spent as much time thinking about cows—yes\, cows\, like the John Gnorski-illustrated one on the album’s cover—in the recording process as he did about any particular musical inspirations. Delffs’ recent trip to India\, his second\, was filled with cow admiration\, and he picked up some cow fun-facts along the way. “They just eat grass and somehow milk is created\,” he marvels. “Their poo and pee is antiseptic and medicinal!” \nStill\, the memory of music sneaks into the process\, as Delffs found himself thinking about Tom Petty and Talking Heads\, two artists he loved in childhood. One can hear echoes of David Byrne on the angular “Power and Position”\, which also serves as a spotlight for the unmistakable accompanying vocals from LAKE’s Ashley Eriksson\, whose voice has been heard by millions in Cartoon Networks ‘Adventure Time’ credit music. Delffs enlisted more old friends to help flesh out Transitional Phase\, including drums from Joe Plummer (The Shins\, Modest Mouse\, Cold War Kids)\, Dan Galucki (Wooden Indian Burial Ground) and Graeme Gibson (Michael Nau\, Fruit Bats); keys from Luke Wyland (Au\, Methods Body); strings and arrangements from composer Peter Broederick (Sharon Van Etten\, M. Ward); and bass by Mayhaw Hoons\, his old bandmate in The Shaky Hands. \nThe lush “Brave New World” looks outward\, juxtaposing a smooth groove from Galucki and Hoons with heavy themes of social upheaval. The titular phrase\, often used ironically\, is presented here with utter earnestness\, underscored by Broderick’s beautiful string arrangement. It’s one of three songs on Transitional Phase—along with back-to-back closers “A Perfect Storm” and “Egomaniacs”—that slowly transforms into a prayer. The chanted and sung lines might feel like nods to some of Nick’s favorite artists (including Alice Coltrane\, George Harrison\, Yamuna Devi)\, but they arrive on the album naturally. Delffs has long been fascinated with Hinduism\, and was deeply inspired by his India trip. “Meditating and chanting are such constant parts of my life these days\,” Delffs shares. “They came into this album like any other naturally flowing thought.” \n“Transitional Phase”\, the towering title track at the album’s center\, is a perfect marriage of two aesthetics. Delffs brings his vulnerable\, misty-eyed self-examination to the collaboration; while Moore and Eriksson bring LAKE’s exacting\, literate DIY Yacht funk. The result is transcendently\, sonically free\, like those particularly melodic moments spent with Peter Gabriel or Kate Bush. “In-between words and dreams\, there’s only a line\,” Delffs sings in seeming self-interrogation\, “And you’ve crossed over it so many times.” \nThe songs on Transitional Phase don’t just cross that line\, they dance on it. If the distance between waking life and dreams was narrow on Delffs’ 2017 solo debut Redesign\, it is almost imperceptible here. He sings (and speaks\, and occasionally chants) about the changing tides of our shared troubled world and all the mysterious worlds within. He yearns and searches and remembers\, and occasionally wishes he could forget. He finds faith and loses it. And when he can’t find that faith again\, he admits on “Absence of Love Song” that he’ll wait “on and on and on and on for another chance.” Maybe that’s foolish. Or\, as Delffs sings\, “Maybe it’s today.” \nERISY WATTS \nLA-based songwriter Erisy Watt crafts music that feels both rooted and expansive\, weaving storytelling into a sound that shifts from earthy to cosmic\, contemplative to playful. Described by No Depression as “what contemporary folk sounds like at its peak\,” her songs draw comparisons to 60s and 70s songwriters\, yet she explores the edges of her voice and acoustic guitar in ways that shake loose the tenets of any one decade or genre. Raised in Nashville and shaped by years in Portland\, Erisy has spent the past decade performing across the U.S. and abroad. She’s currently touring in support of her latest album\, not either or but everything.
URL:https://www.gorgecurrent.com/event/nick-delffs-erisy-watt/
LOCATION:Trout Lake Hall\, 15 Guler Rd\, Trout Lake\, WA\, 98650\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fired Up Friday 🔥
DESCRIPTION:Steak night and Walk Through Fire make for one great night to be at Zims! 🔥
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LOCATION:Zims Sports Bar and Grill\, Zims Sports Bar and Grill
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