CHINOOK WINDS CASINO RESORT
America
Lands at
Chinook
Winds
The hit-producing
duo America will per
form at Chinook
Winds on May 30-31.
It's been 37 years
since this pop-rock
band formed at a U.S.
Air Force base in Lon
don. but Gerry Beckley
and Dewey Bunnell
are still Hying high.
Beckley
and
America
Bunnell found fame
rather quickly. Their
debut single, A Horse With No Name, hit No. 3 on the British charts. They then
returned to the states, where the song soon became a No. I single.
A string of hits followed shortly afterward, including / Need You, Ventura
Highway, Tin Man. Lonely People, Sister Golden Hair and You Can Do Magic.
Show time is 8 p.m. Ticket prices range from $20 to $25.
Sign Up for Spring
Golf and Poker
Tournament
Practice your putting and bluffing
for the Golf and Poker Tournament at
Chinook Winds Golf Resort on May 30-
June 1. Players will be shooting for a
portion of the more than $5,500
prize pool.
Players can enjoy an opening night
cocktail pairings party with live enter
tainment and prize drawings to kick off
the weekend. The golf tournament on
May 31 is a two-person best ball for
mat to challenge every level of play.
Golfers can start their day off right with
a continental breakfast at 9 a.m. at the
golf resort with tournament play begin
ning al 10 a.m. with a shotgun start.
Entry is only $175 for the week
end of events with hotel room pack
ages available for an additional $75 per
night. Only 100 spots are available.
Top golf prize is $400 with gross, net
and callaway divisions.
The poker tournament is included
in the entry fee for the weekend and
the top prize is $1,500. At 10 a.m. on
June 1, participants will try their hand
at Texas Hold ‘em poker.
Weekend packages include the
opening party, continental breakfast,
golf tournament, golf cart, box lunch
with golf, poker tournament and
awards dinner. The person with the
most accumulated Winners Circle
points over the weekend will earn free
entry into the next golf and poker
tournament.
The weekend will be filled with fun
and a chance to win cash and prizes.
To be one of the 100 registrants, call
guest services at 888-244-6665 or 541-
996-5825 for more information.
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Local Favorite Headlines
Comedy on the Coast
Local favorite Dave Anderson
headlines Comedy on the Coast on
May 23-25.
Comedy on the Coast audiences
will walk away wondering what hit
them. For only $15. guests can spend
the evening with three of the funniest
men in the business - Dave Anderson,
David Gee and J.P. Linde.
Dave Anderson is funny without be
ing offensive. He began his career at a
weekly comedy showcase in Portland,
Ore. Soon he was performing at comedy
clubs and colleges across the country.
He also has appeared on such tele
vision shows as An Evening at the
Improv, Fox's Comedy Express and
VHl's Stand-up Spotlight. He currently
is a contributing writer for The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno, co-host of the highly
rated Mark & Dave Show on I 190 KEX
in Portland and a frequent guest host
on the long-running morning television
talk show AM Northwest on KATU.
David Gee will emcee the evening
and keep the crowd laughing. He has
performed at such venues as The
Improv and The Laugh Factory, and
has opened for such acts as Kenny
Loggins and Bonnie Raitt. His television
Dave Anderson
appearances include feature spots on
HBO, Showtime and Comedy Central.
A regular at Harvey's Comedy
Club in Portland, J.P. Linde has been
seen on Showtime's Comedy Club Net
work and is half of the team that cre
ated Dumped and Divorced, a two-man
show that sold out for several weeks.
Show time is 8 p.m. for this age-21-
and-over event. Doors w ill open at 7:30
p.m. with a no-host bar. Tickets are $15.
Robert Mirabal Brings In the Blood io Chinook Winds
Full Concert Experience Merges Video Lightshow with Americana Roots Music,
Jazz, Electronica and Cosmic Rock
TAOS, N.M. - Whenever two-
time Grammy Award-winner and
Native flute virtuoso Robert
Mirabal takes to the concert stage,
he calls forth the spirit of The Elec
tric Mystic, merging the music of
today with wisdom for the future.
Fusing Americana roots music
with jazz, classical, electronica and
cosmic rock. Mirabal's new stage
show, hi the Blood (from the album
of the same name) puls the Ameri
can experience - past, present and
future - center stage. Sung in both
English and Tiwa, Mirabal’s first
language, love songs merge with
ghost songs that roll into Americana
ballads and full-on tribal rockers.
Mirabal brings all of this to the
Chinook Winds showroom May 24
at 6 p.m. as part of the Oregon In
dian Week festivities.
To accompany Mirabal's mys
tical message a special video pre
sentation, Spirits in the Blood, incor
porates sweeping timeless natural vis
tas with cityscapes and a heart-racing,
mind-altering high-tech lightshow.
Using exquisite time-lapse photog
raphy, thunderheads build, lightning
strikes and clouds change the subtle
light on a canyon wall. In a matter of
seconds we see the sun’s year-long
dance on the Eastern horizon, a rushing
trout stream becomes a kaleidoscopic
tapestry and the stars in the heavens
pulse out their message before streak-
Robert Mirabal
ing across the sky, all set to the cosmi
cally attuned music of Robert Mirabal.
“This collection of songs and video
reflect the traditional life I live at Taos
Pueblo and also the experiences of a
man fortunate enough to travel the
world.” says Mirabal. “Many of these
songs are sung in Tiwa, which is not a
written language, but passed orally from
one generation to the next. If you live
a traditional life, you see things differ
ently - spiritually and musically.
My music is informed by the life
I’ve lived.”
New renditions of all-time
Mirabal favorites like Medicine
Man and The Dance shimmer be
side new works like Brave New
World. Pottery Shard Man and
Holding Up The Sky that ends with
an 1866 quote from Sitting Bull
that has striking relevance today.
His ninth release overall and
second on his own label. Star Road
Records Inc. (www.starroadrecords
.com), In the Blood is Mirabal's
breakout crossover CD.
“This album honors Robert's
songs in a new way,” says Andy
Byrd, the record's producer, “mak
ing ceremony of performance and
taking us on a techno-tribal jour
ney that returns us to family, hope
and love. You've never heard any
thing like it.”
Mirabal has won many honors, in
cluding two-time Native American Art
ist of the Year, three-time Songwriter
of the Year, 2007 Best Male Artist of
the Year, a 2006 Grammy Award for
Sacred Ground, and again in 2008 for
Johnny Whitehorse Totemic Elute
Chants, Best Native American Album
of the Year.
His 2001 breakthrough PBS musi
cal production, Music From a Painted
Cave, remains a benchmark of Native'
American musical expression.
May 2008
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