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Hike from the Necanicum to Tillamook Head
Register for free,
inal On the Land
outing Aug. 26
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Alexa Wiley & the Wilderness will perform at 8 p.m. Sunday,
Aug. 28 at the Fort George Brewery in Astoria. notforsale
Sense of place informs
poetic songs of Alexa Wiley
ASTORIA — Oregon Music
News has described the
sound of Alexa Wiley & the
Wilderness as “wild meta-
phorical music that rocks.”
Hear the Portland-based
band perform at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 28 at the Fort
George Brewery.
The show is free and open
to all ages. The brewery is
located at 1483 Duane St.
Wiley is the singer-song-
writer who nourishes the
band’s blend of meaningful
lyrics surrounded by the ful-
ly realized Americana-rock
of guitarist Bret Malmquist,
musician Steve Dearborn,
drummer Sean Oldham and
bassist and Dale Turnbull.
The group’s recent epon-
ymous album, “Alexa Wiley
& the Wilderness,” features
songs like the folk-psych
“Oregon Rain,” spin-dance
“Water,” groovy “Must
be Birds” and rock-poetry
“Home.” The genres ex-
plored will satisfy aiciona-
dos and funabees alike who
enjoy musical exploration.
Wiley has lived in
Portland since she was 6
years old, and her music
is inspired by the Paciic
Northwest’s sense of place.
Her irst major foray into
place-based artistic col-
laboration was the co-pro-
duced Salmon Nation Artist
Project.
As a lover of the outdoors
and the Columbia River,
Wiley often donates per-
formances for local out-
door organizations such as
Outdoor School For All and
Columbia Riverkeeper. Her
anti-LNG song is featured in
“Columbia Crossings: Ore-
gon Faces America’s Energy
Future,” a documentary of
the long grassroots push in
Oregon against proposed liq-
ueied natural gas terminals.
Through her friendly
collaboration with Astoria
isherman and poet Dave
Densmore, Wiley teams her
melodies with Densmore’s
rough and real poetry to
capture moments of tran-
scendent relevance in a
show they call “For the Love
of Fish.” The duo’s blend of
artistic virtues form a com-
plementary lyrical dialogue
addressing the dificult en-
vironmental choices facing
the contemporary Northwest
community. Wiley and
Densmore have performed
together at Astoria’s annual
FisherPoets Gathering for
several years.
SEASIDE — Join North
Coast Land Conservancy
Executive Director Katie
Voelke and naturalist Mike
Patterson for an exploration
of the forests in the Necani-
cum River loodplain forest
and lower reaches of Tilla-
mook Head in their many
stages: newly planted, dead
and decaying, and every-
thing in between.
This is the inal event in
NCLC’s On the Land series
of guided summer excur-
sions. It will be held 9 a.m.
to noon Friday, Aug. 26.
Hikers will begin at Circle
Creek, one of NCLC’s largest
habitat reserves and also
one of the most dynamic.
From there, participants will
venture up Tillamook Head
and into 340-acre Boneyard
Ridge, NCLC’s newest con-
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Biologist Mike Patterson will
co-lead the hike.
servation property.
The excursion will take
about two hours, and par-
ticipants will hike between
2.5 and 3 miles. The walk
will be on mown grass path,
dirt or gravel trail, wooden
boardwalk, and overgrown
forest road and will include
crossing narrow footbridges
over creeks. Expect some
elevation gain. There are no
toilets on site, and no dogs
or pets are allowed.
Hikers should bring water
and snacks. Wear sturdy
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NCLC Executive Director Katie
Voelke will co-lead the hike.
shoes and dress for the day’s
weather. Binoculars are a
good idea for spotting birds
and wildlife. Circle Creek
Habitat Reserve is located at
the end of Rippet Road.
There is no registration
limit for this free outing.
However, registration is re-
quired; sign up at nclctrust.
org or eventbrite.com
Voelke grew up in Sacra-
Bart Budwig, Mike Midlo
play Sou’Wester Lodge
SEAVIEW, Wash. — The
Sou’Wester Lodge will
host musicians Bart Bud-
wig, of Enterprise, and
Mike Midlo, of Portland,
for a performance at 8 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 27.
The show is open to the
public, and there is no cov-
er charge. The Sou’Wester
Lodge is located at 3728 J
Place. For more informa-
tion, call 360-642-2542.
Budwig grew up on the
Idaho Palouse, with a pawn
shop trumpet and a heart
as big as a skyscraper —
if skyscrapers knew how
to be humble. He learned
melody from classic jazz
charts and learned that
fault-lines in big hearts
create drifting continents,
cut new oceans and forge
new mountains. Everyone
close to him disappeared,
whether to death or Texas,
and from Texas he got a
letter from Waylon Jen-
nings entreating him to
pick up a guitar and a pen.
Budwig doesn’t write
the big songs. He writes
the songs about the places
between the hills, in the
draws and hidden canyons,
where truth is a little more
in focus, stories can take
their time gettin’ told,
heartbreak is a place of
deep reflection, and mel-
odies don’t have to wear
rhinestone suits or drive
new, shiny cars to be beau-
tiful. He’s also not afraid of
working out of the spot-
light. Budwig engineered
not only his own 2012 full-
length “Whiskey Girl,” but
also albums and tours with
Radiation City, Holiday
Friends, Girlfriends, Misé,
mento and earned a bach-
elor’s degree in biology at
the University of California,
Santa Cruz. She worked as
a ield biologist for the U.S.
Forest Service and Bureau of
Land Management and the
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife before joining
NCLC as its irst steward-
ship director in 2005; three
years later she became its
second executive director.
She and her husband, Scott
Kirby, are expecting their
third child this fall. They
live in Cannon Beach.
Patterson is a biologist,
educator and professional
counter of things — birds,
butterlies, lowers. “The
goal is to take these dispa-
rate bits of data, stitch them
together, and ind some
portion of the ecological
whole,” he writes. Patterson
lives in Astoria and blogs
about birds and more at surf-
birds.com/community-blogs/
northcoastdiaries
Professional North Coast Women Artists
The Palette Puddlers
of Cannon Beach
are moving their Labor Day
Art Show and Sale to the
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Bart Budwig will bring his
Americana sound to the
Sou’Wester Lodge on Aug.
27.
John Craigie, Edmund
Wayne and Mama Doll.
Mike Midlo is a story-
teller disguised as a musi-
cian. His latest project, the
feral eight-song collection
“MidLo,” received a grant
from Portland’s Regional
Arts & Culture Council and
was released as a digital
download and on cassette
in March 2013.
Astoria Art Loft
103 3rd Street, Astoria
(above Dots and Doodles Art Supply
across from Burger King)
Saturday Sept. 3 rd thru
Monday Sept. 5 th
10am to 4pm daily
Fantastic Original
Artwork at Surprisingly
Reasonable Prices!