Redmen Hall opens exhibit
North Coast Symphonic Band to present
spring concert April 17 at Liberty Theater
View artwork by artist Rachel Wolford
Guest conductor Ike Nail leads wide array of musical selections
ASTORIA — The North Coast
Symphonic Band will present
“The Best of the Guest,” a con-
cert of wind band music at 2 p.m.
Sunday, April 17 at the Liberty
Theater. The concert will feature
Ike Nail of Western Oregon Uni-
versity as guest conductor. Doors
open at 1:15 p.m. and the North-
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present a pre-show at 1:30 p.m.
Nail has won two Grammy
Awards and has had a distin-
guished career as an orchestra
and band conductor, teacher and
music director. His bands and
orchestras have won more than
a dozen state championships in
Oregon and Texas, performed
at numerous music festivals and
conventions, and performed by
invitation at the Kennedy Cen-
ter in Washington D.C. Nail was
named 2014 Music Educator of
the Year by the Oregon Music
Educators Association and cur-
rently directs the Salem Pops
Orchestra.
Nail has selected repertoire
for NCSB that shows off what
a concert band can do best. The
NCSB will display its march
skills with Sousa’s “The Fairest
of the Fair” and a marine band
arrangement of Delle Cese’s
“The Little English Girl.”
The band can also perform
transcriptions of older music,
and this concert will feature ex-
amples from the classical and
romantic periods with Alfred
Reed’s arrangement of “Vilia”
from “The Merry Widow” op-
eretta and Edward MacDowell’s
“To a Wild Rose.”
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Ike Nail will guest conduct the concert.
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The North Coast Symphonic Band will perform on stage at the Liberty Theater.
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The Northern Lights Flute Ensemble will perform the preshow at 1:30 p.m.
The band will also perform
several pieces that were written
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band. “Chorale and Alleluia” by
Howard Hanson is an example
of mid 20th century music and
“Children’s Folksong Suite”
and “Eloi, Eloi” were written by
Western Oregon University pro-
fessor Kevin Walczyk in the last
decade. Walczyk’s name may
be familiar to local listeners; he
wrote a commissioned bicenten-
nial piece for North Coast Sym-
phonic Band in 2011.
“Three Trumpeters” will fea-
ture extroverts from the trumpet
section, and, just for fun, Nail
will lead the band in a medley
of tunes by former Beatle Paul
McCartney.
Band members feel the au-
dience will especially enjoy this
concert because it features many
beautiful melodies, and they are
enjoying the repertoire them-
selves.
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enjoy the sounds of the band’s
top treble instruments. Members
include Janet Bowler, Shelley
Loring Barker, Bona Choi and
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tions will include arrangements
of Celtic and folk tunes featuring
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Regular admission is $15.
Student tickets (age 13 to 21) are
$7, and children 12 and under
are free. Tickets are available at
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located at 1203 Commercial St.,
from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday
through Saturday and two hours
before the performance. Tickets
can also be purchased by call-
ing 503-325-5922, ext. 55, or
visitliberty-theater.org for more
information. For information on
the band, visit www.northcoast-
symphonicband.org, or call 503-
325-2431.
Bayside Singers to hold two spring concerts this April
OCEAN PARK and SEAVIEW, Wash.
— Bayside Singers will pres-
ent its spring concert at the
Ocean Park Lutheran Church
at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 16.
A repeat performance
will be held at the Peninsula
Church Center in Seaview at 3
p.m. Saturday, April 23.
Bayside
Singers
was
formed in 2008 as a women’s
chorale, but there was so much
interest that men were added
in 2011. Today, the chorale
features 40 men and women
members.
Under the direction of Bar-
bara Poulshock and with ener-
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getic Barbara Bate at the pia-
no, the concerts are guaranteed
to bring back fond memories
and play off the inspiration of
spring.
Selections such as “The
Storm is Passing Over” offers
reassurance of sunny days
to come, and “All Night, All
Day,” an American spiritual,
will soothe the soul.
A free-will basket for do-
nations will be available at
the door. Funds support the
group’s purchase of music and
rehearsal expenses. For more
information, call Sandy Niel-
son at 360-665-2540.
SKAMOKAWA, Wash. — Friends
of Skamokawa’s next exhibit
starts Saturday, April 16, fea-
turing well-known local artist
Rachael Wolford. Her exhib-
it “Elements, and Exhibit of
Painting and Poetry” will be
the last one she will present at
Redmen Hall.
Wolford has been a trea-
sured contributers to the hall’s
exhibit schedule with previous
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scenes and looks at the Colum-
bia River. Her serene painting
and poetry give special insight
into what it means to live close
to such a majestic river.
The exhibit opens with a
reception April 16 and runs
through May 29. Refresh-
ments will be served.
The River Life Interpretive
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Redmen Hall, located at 1394
Washington State Route 4. For
questions, call 360-795-3007.
Redmen Hall is open from
noon to 4 p.m. Thursdays to
Sundays.
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Matt Harmon and Kali Giaritta are There Is No Mountain.
Duo brings intricate pop,
harmony to Fort George
There Is No Mountain performs April 17
ASTORIA — Portland-based
husband-and-wife duo There Is
No Mountain will perform at
8 p.m. Sunday, April 17 at Fort
George Brewery, located at 1483
Duane St. The show is open to
all ages; there is no cover.
There Is No Mountain
combines percussion, guitar,
and vocal harmony to create
pop with intricate, world mu-
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The band’s subtly virtuo-
sic style has been compared
to current acts like The Dirty
Projectors and classics like
Paul Simon’s “Graceland,” but
it is perhaps more telling that
reviewers have tried to peg
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in genres ranging from jazz
to folk, classical to psyche-
delic rock, and world music to
doom metal (all are correct).
Kali Giaritta and Matt Harmon
usually just call it “pop with a
short attention span.”
The band’s live set-up is an
exercise in multitasking: The
duo sings nearly everything in
harmony while Giaritta plays
a medley of percussive instru-
ments and Harmon animates
his acoustic guitar with nimble
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effect pedals.
African rhythms, jazz
harmonies,
shape-shifting
arrangements, theatrical mel-
odies and psychedelic swirls
seep through the Americana
exterior, making the live show
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Without help from booking
agents, publicists or managers,
the couple spent 2013 playing
122 shows and sleeping in
about 40 states.