Ben Hunter and Joe Seamons perform at Fort George
Submitted photo
Landscape by Jane Aukshunas.
‘Painting with Oil Pastels’
at the Astoria Art Loft
ASTORIA — Jane Aukshunas,
a Portland artist,offers a two-
day workshop, “Painting with
Oil Pastels,” from 9:30 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. June 6 and 7 at The
Astoria Art Loft, 106 Third St.
The cost is $235 for both days
and includes a $10 materials
fee.
In this workshop, artists
will become familiar with the
tools and techniques useful
when working with oil pastels
and learn how to manipulate
the medium and discover what
it will and will not do.
The workshop is designed
to work to each student’s abil-
ity, have fun, grow skills and
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each other. A materials list will
be supplied after registration.
For more information, visit
http://janeaukshunas.com
ASTORIA — After meet-
ing at the crossroads
of blues and folk mu-
sic in the Pacific North-
west, Ben Hunter and
Joe Seamons established
themselves as a duo af-
ter their first year at the
Port Townsend Acoustic
Blues Festival in 2012.
Delving deeper into their
shared love of tradition-
al and communal Amer-
ican musical styles, they
developed their sound
by adapting the arrange-
ments of luminaries such
as Blind Willie McTell to
their main instruments:
fiddle and banjo.
The next year at Port
Townsend, Dom Flemons
(formerly of the Carolina
Chocolate Drops) caught
their act, and invited
them to North Carolina
to form a trio. In 2013,
they recorded an album
with Flemons and began
touring across the South.
Hunter and Seamons’ duo
sound matured as they
worked with Flemons and
explored the cultures that
spawned the music they
had come to love. Now,
as they prepare to release
their own album of blues,
rags, folk songs and fiddle
tunes, they have begun to
fuse the gritty hollers of
the South with the ethos of
their home in the Pacific
Northwest. Their debut al-
bum was released Novem-
ber 14, 2014.
Ben Hunter and
Joe Seamons
8 p.m . Sunday, May 31
Fort George Brewery + Public House
All Ages
No cover
Submitted photo
Ben Hunter and Joe Seamons play at Fort George.
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