Sisters Rhythm & Brews postpones
More sad news on the real-life concert front: The third Sisters Rhythm & Brews Festival, slated July 24 and 25 at the Village Green Park in Sisters, has been postponed to July 23 and 24, 2021. "Nearly all" performers scheduled for this year's festival will perform next year, according to the Sisters Rhythm & Brews website. Artists scheduled to perform this year included nine-piece Latin funk tribute to Black Sabbath, Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath; Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio; Mr. Sipp; Vanessa Collier and more.
Tickets will automatically roll over to next year's event. Visit the festival's COVID-19 response page here for more information and for a link to receive a ticket refund. Refund requests must be submitted by June 30 for a July refund.
Worthy Roots Relief Fund updates
Next up in this series is singer-songwriter and looping artist Greg Botsford of G-Bots and The Journeymen, who will perform at 6 tonight (link). The performance, which will be filmed professionally at Central Oregon Recording, also doubles as an Earth Day celebration, part of The Environmental Center's weeklong celebration (visit envirocenter.org for more information).
Saturday's Worthy Roots stream will feature Mark and Linda Quon, AKA The Quons. The former Parlour performers will start at 6 p.m., and you can check it out here.
The streams help support the joint fundraising effort between Worthy Brewing and the Bend Roots Revival to support musicians and industry workers affected by COVID-19. Each Worthy Roots performer for the month of April will receive $300 from the fund, said Bend Roots founder Mark Ransom. He hopes to continue awarding $300 per artist as the series continues, he said. The rest of the fund will go toward $100 individual grants for musicians or support staff such as sound engineers who are out of work during the pandemic.
"We've made a policy of selecting from those who have inquired and also those that ... the bands and the Roots team -- Ian (Egan), me, Samantha (Harber) -- want to nominate for this additional relief fund money," Ransom said. "And the way it's gonna go out is, this month it's gonna be not that much. It's gonna be probably three or $400, but $100 to say four individuals, and then next month it looks like there's gonna be $1,300 to divvy up. So in May it'll be 13 individuals that are somehow connected to the performing arts community."
Check out the poster above for May's performers.
Another stream to consider: Dinner with Maxwell
Due to the pop-up nature of these live stream shows, it's a lot harder to write about them in advance than say, a scheduled show at Volcanic Theatre Pub or Spoken Moto. I've seen artists create event pages for their streams day-of.
For this column, I've tried to round up what I can find scheduled in advance, but I wanted to make mention of a stream I've seen pop up a few times now. Keyboard and organ prodigy (not to mention Hammond artist) Maxwell Friedman played his first "Dinner with Maxwell" live stream March 30, and has since hosted a couple more over at his band's Facebook page. As the name suggests, the shows feature Friedman's jazzy, funky, solo piano stylings during the dinner hour (usually around 6 to 8 p.m. or so).
If you're feeling stressed out from all this pandemic stuff, you'd do well to tune in. Check out the Facebook page for previous performances, and stay tuned for when he announces the next Dinner with Maxwell stream.
CSM's Got Talent
With all events canceled for the foreseeable future, Cascade School of Music has launched an online talent show, CSM's Got Talent. All Cascade School of Music students are welcome to submit a video performance no longer than three minutes. The submissions will be judged at beginner, intermediate or advanced skill levels by the following panel: Marilyn Magness (Disney creative director), David Creel (artist manager), Robert Lambeth (CSM director), CSM board directors Judy Heck, Maggie Jackson, Kip Gladder, and CSM faculty members, Meshem Jackson, Seth Burrows, Nathan Wegner, Cullie Treichler, Stephanie Slade and Rick Buckley.
Follow this link for more information and this link to submit your video (if you're a CSM student).
Are you streaming live music in Central Oregon? I want to know about it. Drop me a line in the comments below or email: brian.mcelhiney@gmail.com.
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