North Coast Big Band presents ‘Jazz and
the American Songbook’ concert Saturday
ASTORIA — North Coast
Big Band presents “Jazz and
the American Songbook” at 2
p.m. Saturday, April 25 at the
Clatsop Community College’s
Performing Arts Center locat-
ed at 588 16th St. Admission
is $10, and all proceeds go to
supporting the PAC.
Lee Stromquist will lead
this popular band presenting
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the familiar music of Glenn
Pamela Goldsmith, left. and Rhonda Rizzo, right, will perform Spanish guitar and American piano at the Coaster Theatre on April 25.
Miller, Jerome Kern, Duke
Ellington, Count Basie, Doc
Severinsen, Jimmy Van Heu-
sen, Irving Berlin, Wingy
Malone, Cootie Williams and
Don Menza.
Featured performers in-
CANNON BEACH — Spanish Rizzo perform a mixture of 3DFL¿F 1RUWKZHVW DV ERWK D clude Bob Joiner on “All The
guitar meets modern American classical and new music. Hear solo classical guitarist and Things You Are,” Dee Wooley
piano. New meets old. Classi- their American keys and Span- collaborative performer. As on “Polka Dots and Moon-
cal meets jazz. From Claude ish strings in concert at 7:30 an educator, she is adjunct beams,” lead trumpet Terry
Bolling to Antonio Lauro, p.m. Saturday, April 25 at the JXLWDU SURIHVVRU IRU /LQ¿HOG Dahlgren on “What’s New,”
College and maintains a pri- Mike Evans on “’Round Mid-
Gershwin to Manuel de Falla, Coaster Theatre.
the eclectic Goldsmith/Rizzo
The two musicians have vate studio in Portland.
night,” Dave Drury on “Here’s
Rizzo has crafted a ca- That Rainy Day,” drummer
guitar and piano duo continues appeared together at the
its two-woman mission to cre- Umpqua Community College reer as a pianist and a writ- Ken Kirby on “Zoot Suit Riot”
ate unforgettable encounters &RQFHUW6HULHV/LQ¿HOG&RO- er. Their joint recording of and Peter Hinsbeeck on a Bud-
with genre-transcending mu- lege, The Old Church, Water “Suite for Piano and Guitar” dy Rich tune called “Groovin’
sic for fun-loving listeners.
Music Festival, Montinore by Oregon composer Jason Hard.”
Heald appears on two CDs:
Guitarist Pamela Gold- Estate Vineyards, and more.
Other great familiar tunes
Goldsmith is active in the “A Spin on It” and “Collage.”
smith and pianist Rhonda
The Goldsmith/Rizzo Duo
is dedicated to bringing great
music to everyone and to
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The concert is sponsored
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ism and Arts Commission. en’t native to North America.
Tickets cost $15 to $20. For Brought over from Europe,
more information, call 503- they differ in many ways
436-1242 or visit coaster- from native bees: They live
theatre.com. The Coaster in large colonies of 30,000 to
Theatre is located at 108 N 60,000, store food and stay
active in the winter months
Hemlock St.
— which is attractive to hu-
man agriculture.
“None of the native bees
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do this,” Freilich said. Col-
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ony numbers are drastically
smaller: 10, 20 or 40 bees
make up a colony.
Most native bees are
7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 25
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small, don’t sting and gener-
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ally go about their business
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pollinating plants without in-
108 N Hemlock St., Cannon Beach
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North America, and sever-
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al hundred live in the North
Guitar and piano duo play in Cannon Beach
include “Moonlight Sere-
nade,” “C Jam Blues,” “Tux-
edo Junction,” “Satin Doll,”
“Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,”
“New York, New York,” “Girl
Talk” and many more.
Two selections are original
compositions by members of
North Coast Big Band. Com-
poser and arranger Dave Rob-
ertson wrote a straight ahead
jazz selection called “Fughet-
tabout It” and saxophonist Pe-
ter Hinsbeek wrote “Miro’ On
The Wall.”
The North Coast Big Band
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musicians on the North Coast
and has been in existence for
more than 30 years. Members
travel from Portland, Rocka-
way Beach, Manzanita, Clats-
kanie, Ocean Park, Seaside
and Astoria to rehearse togeth-
er and perform music from the
past and present. The NCBB
delights audiences wherever it
performs.
Enjoy classical, new music with Pamela Goldsmith, Rhonda Rizzo
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American Keys
and Spanish
Strings
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The sax section of the North Coast Big Band practices.
Coast area. In many spe-
cies, the male worker bees
die each season and only the
queen overwinters. Some na-
tive bees are miners and nest
in the ground, like bumble-
bees. Some are carpenters
and nest in wood, like mason
bees. There are even cuckoo
bees that lay eggs in other
bee species’ nests.
Freilich ended his talk
with awesome black and
white 3D images of bees,
close-up under the micro-
scope. Wearing their clas-
sic red-and-blue-lensed 3D
glasses, audience members
appreciatively oohed and ah-
hed.
“It’s not in the cards to
learn all these bees. It’s not
going to happen,” Freilich
said.
The point of his talk
wasn’t to turn audience
members into Ph.D. students
overnight — rather, the point
was to simply expand aware-
ness of the vast amount of
bugs on the planet.
“Bees are only the intro to
this world right under your
nose, right in front of you,”
he said. “You can have the
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“The whole world is out
there, but it may be below
your radar. These insects
make the living fabric that
supports our lives — the eco-
system.”
Hosted by Lewis and
Clark National Historical
Park in partnership with the
North Coast Watershed As-
sociation at the Fort Georg
Brewery, Nature Matters is
a monthly winter lecture se-
ries that examines the inter-
section of nature and culture.
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one of this season.