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Dick Weissman brings folk music to Astoria
ASTORIA — Banjo pioneer,
author and Americana com-
poser Dick Weissman will
return to the Northwest for a
series of concerts in Septem-
ber to celebrate the release
of his seventh CD, “Night
Sky,” and the release of his
autobiography “The Music
Never Stops.”
Weissman will perform
at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept.
12 at KALA, located at 1017
Marine Drive. Doors open at
7 p.m., and admission is $10
at the door. Refreshments
will be available.
While in graduate school
in the 1960s, Weissman
was active in the folk music
scene in Greenwich Village.
He formed the folk-pop
band The Journeymen with
John Phillips and Scott
McKenzie, producing three
Capitol albums. Weissman
worked as a musician,
record producer and song-
writer in New York before
moving to Colorado in 1972,
writing music instructional
books and teaching at Colo-
rado Women’s College and
the University of Colorado
at Denver.
In 2002, Weissman and
his wife, artist Susan Planalp,
moved to Astoria. Weissman
taught at Clatsop Community
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Dick Weissman, back right,
was a member of the sem-
inal 1960s folk music trio
The Journeyman, which also
included John Phillips, left,
who went on to lead The Ma-
mas & The Papas, and Scott
McKenzie, best known for the
hit 1967 single “San Francisco
(Be Sure to Wear Flowers in
Your Hair).”
College and worked with
musicians Gary Kieski and
David Crabtree, recording
the album “Relections.”
Weissman now lives in
Portland, where he continues
to perform, record, and to
teach seminars and work-
shops, including at Portland
Community College. He
has written or co-written
22 books on music and the
Dick Weissman will perform
at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12
at KALA in Astoria.
music business.
His new CD, “Night
Sky,” on Longbridge
Recordings, is a collec-
tion of instrumentals that
feature Weissman on banjo
and guitar, accompanied
on many cuts by Portland
multi-instrumentalist Mitch
Iimori (clarinet, dulcimer,
English horn and oboe.)
Though based in traditional
Americana music, there is a
“jazz attitude” to improvise
within his eclectic composi-
tional structures. The result
represents the broad taste of
his interests from Tunisian
to Appalachian to oddly or-
chestral. These shows weave
stories from the book with
Weissman’s instrumentals
and songs.
Coaster heatre hosts Patrick Lamb
CANNON BEACH — Patrick
Lamb will return to the
Coaster Theatre Playhouse
for another energetic concert
of jazz and rhythm-and-
blues at 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Sept. 10.
Lamb is a Bill-
board-charting artist whose
last three singles have been
top ive nationally on the
Billboard Charts. He was
recently inducted as one of
the youngest members into
the Oregon Music Hall of
Fame, he has been awarded
three Muddy Awards by
the Cascade Blues Asso-
ciation, the Hero Award
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Portland musician Patrick
Lamb will perform Sept. 10 at
the Coaster Theatre.
by Children’s Cancer
Association, the Yolanda
Denis King Award by JW
Matt Hennessey and irst
Baptist Church, and has
been given the Independent
Spirit Award by the city of
Portland.
He has regularly toured
the world, performing with
Smokey Robinson, Esperan-
za Spalding, Gino Vannelli,
Bobby Caldwell, Jeff Lorber
Fusion, as well as rock ’n’
rollers like lead guitarist of
KISS Tommy Thayer, Alice
Cooper, and lead guitar-
ist for The Doors Robby
Krieger.
Tickets cost $35 or $40
for the concert. Purchase
tickets online at coasterthe-
atre.com, at the box ofice or
by calling 503-436-1242.
ASTORIA — Downtown merchants and galleries will hold
Astoria’s Second Saturday Art Walk from 5 to 8 p.m. Satur-
day, Sept. 10. Meet artists and mingle with art lovers while
enjoying refreshments and new exhibits. Some locations are
open early or later.
ART BUSINESSES
1. Imogen Gallery
240 11th St.
Diane Kingzett of Portland brings
the new series of oil paintings “Bury
The Hatchet, Stars Are Falling” for
her second solo show at Imogen. A
painter of emotion, Kingzett leaves
preconceived ideas of content and
composition to consider her own
internal dialogue, allowing psyche
to become muse. For this series she
explores issues of turmoil, from both
a personal and global perspective.
The work echoes her response to con-
lict and hopes to ind ways to move
beyond. It invites viewers to lay down
“old relics and bones of interference
so we may see the beauty that is
ofered whether we are available to
grasp it or not,” she says. “A move-
ment toward peace over turmoil.”
2. RiverSea Gallery
1160 Commercial St.
In “Primary Practice: Explor-
ing Color,” Astoria artist Robert
Paulmenn ofers a collection of new
paintings in a wide-ranging show
that delves into portraiture, igure
study, still life and landscape. Paul-
menn is excited to paint the igure
and to “capture the subtle shift of
color and emotional energy that
each person brings to a painting.” He
is also moved by the ever-changing
quality of light in the North Coast
landscape. However, the common
thread in his work is a limited pal-
ette, which challenges him to think
of color in new ways.
Showing in the Alcove is “The
Reliquary Project,” assemblage
sculpture by Charles Schweigert
with accompanying poems by Karin
Temple, who will give a reading at 4
p.m. Schweigert’s work expands the
notion of the reliquary to include a
container for holding the remains of
something dear or something that
cannot be contained. Each vessel is
constructed with copper wire and
found metal objects that have a
patina of age. Though the sculptures
appear to be long-buried artifacts,
their themes relate to contem-
porary Northwest environmental
issues. This is a farewell show for
Schweigert, an Astoria resident for
the past seven years who is moving
to Massachusetts.
3. Old Town Framing Co.
1287 Commercial St.
Old Town Framing will welcome
Rod Nichols back for art walk. He has
been painting new work like a mad
iend, in between cooking, cleaning
and food webbing. Drop by, meet
Nichols and see his new work.
4. Tempo Gallery
1271 Commercial St.
Tempo Gallery will feature “River
Life,” a collection of paintings of isher
folk, ish and boats on the Columbia
River by artist Phyllis Taylor, who
continues to pursue her fascination
with both the river and the ocean.
Taylor will be present during art walk.
Refreshments will be served.
5. KALA
1017 Marine Drive
KALA presents two artists this
month. Paul Soriano’s igurative
paintings are rich in color, fused with
aspects of nature and often elegant
expressions in erotica. Soriano, a life
long painter who grew up in New York,
eventually moved west to open Cock
Gallery in Portland. Soriano’s works
are plays on the quantum universe.
The process begins with a 45-minute
meditation; paint is then randomly
applied to the chosen surface. The
resulting ield becomes analogous of
the universe.
Multidisciplinary artist Sergei Kh-
lopof, aka SM@ck, shows new acrylic
paintings and drawings on paper
and select acrylic on canvas pieces
from his “Alternate Evolutions” series,
previously exhibited at the former
Mark Woolley Gallery. SM@cK, who
lives and primarily works in Portland,
explores various media such as acrylic
painting, watercolors, drawings, video
and animation in his pursuit to deine
an autonomous voice and to examine
interactions with ourselves and with
local and global environments.
6. Astoria Art Loft
106 Third St.
Ellen Zimet’s marbled and tie-dye
paintings show what experiment-
ing with diferent techniques and
materials can produce. Also see the
paintings of the Palette Puddlers
painting group and other art loft
resident artists from 3 to 6 p.m.
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7. Luminari Arts
1133 Commercial St.
Luminari Arts presents the
collaborative show “Where the Wild
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