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Electric blues musician
Seth Walker to perform
ASTORIA — Fort George
Brewery will welcome a
performance by Seth Walker
at 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29. The
show is open to all ages, and
there is no cover.
In September, Walker
released his most successful
album to date, “Gotta Get
Back.” Not only was it widely
praised, it debuted at No. 6 on
the Billboard Blues Album
Chart.
When setting out to record
“Gotta Get Back,” Walker had
one goal: to return to the roots
of why he started playing mu-
sic in the first place. Produced
by Jano Rix of The Wood
Brothers, “Gotta Get Back”
features Walker’s sister and
parents on the record’s sweep-
ing string parts, all of which
were arranged by his father.
Throughout his career
spanning over two decades,
Walker has had the pleasure of
calling North Carolina, Nash-
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Seth Walker will perform Jan.
29 at the Fort George.
ville, Austin, New York City
and New Orleans home, and
each city’s musical influence
can be heard throughout the
album.
While travel and move-
ment are recurring themes
throughout the record, the
heart and soul of the album
lies in the idea of home and
family, of looking to the past
in order to find your way into
the future.
Astoria Sunday Market
hosts open house for
young entrepreneurs
ASTORIA — Astoria Sunday
Market and Clatsop County
4-H invite kids in grades K-12
and their families to its annual
Open House for the Young
Entrepreneurs / Market Biz
Kidz program.
The Open House will take
place at 6 p.m. Monday, Jan.
30 at the 4-H Club House,
located across from the
Clatsop County Fairgrounds
on Walluski Loop. The Biz
Kidz program offers young
entrepreneurs an opportunity
to become vendors at Astoria
Sunday Market.
The Open House is an
opportunity to meet other Biz
Kidz and learn about the free
Boot Camp for Young Entre-
preneurs.
The Boot Camp, set for 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. March 11 at the
4-H Club House, is basic train-
ing to become a vendor and is
designed to prepare kids for
selling their own products at
the market. Boot Camp is free
thanks to a donation by Recol-
ogy Western Oregon. Any
child age 5 to 18 in Clatsop
County is eligible. Registration
is required and can be found at
www.AstoriaSundayMarket.
com or by calling 503-325-
1010 or emailing AstoriaSun-
dayMarket@charter.net
During Boot Camp, young
entrepreneurs will be guided
through the process to become
a vendor, including developing
a product, salesmanship, de-
signing a display and planning
a budget. The day is full of
hands-on activities. Partic-
ipants must create or grow
something to sell at the market.
Stout month gears up at Fort George
ASTORIA — It started with
a simple enough idea: Take a
versatile, yet underappreci-
ated style of beer like stout,
brew as many as your boss
will allow, and put them on
tap all at once. This was the
idea Jack Harris, co-founder
of Fort George Brewery, had
over 20 years ago as a young
brewer working for Mc-
Menamins Cornelius Pass
Roadhouse.
“Nobody else was doing
it,” Harris explains. “I
certainly wasn’t paying any
attention to marketing or
filling niches; it was sort of
dumb luck on my part that
folks really responded to the
idea of celebrating a variety
of stouts during the cold,
dark days of February.”
Throughout the years,
as he moved from town to
town, he took the stouts with
him. “It’s the people I’ve
worked with since then that
have taken the idea and run
with it. That’s what makes
Stout Month such a big
deal,” he continues. “It gets
more sophisticated, elabo-
rate and popular every year.”
And now that he has
his own brewery, February
at Fort George is forever
dedicated to Stout Month,
a 28-day celebration of the
darker ales. Taps will pour
invitingly black, overflow-
ing with new stout releases
each week, and all cen-
tered around the darkest
single-day stout festival in
the world — the Festival of
Dark Arts.
Sweet Virginia Series bottle
project. That’s followed by
Matryoshka with Cocoa
Nibs & Raspberries on Feb.
19. All three Matryoshka
stouts will be on tap in the
Lovell Taproom that day.
Bottled variations of Matry-
oshka are limited and avail-
able only at the brewery.
Release the stouts
Sit down for a heady
pour, or test your tongue on
a blind stout taster tray. New
stouts are on tap every week
— with 19 alone from Fort
George this year.
• Released Feb. 1: oat-
meal stout May The Oats
Be With You; PB&J stout
Tuesday’s Lunch; Coffee
Girl, brewed with Brasilian
Santa Luzia coffee beans
from Coava Coffee Roast-
ers; Russian imperial stout
From Astoria with Love; fig
and oatmeal stout Voluptas;
bourbon barrel aged Russian
imperial stout Matryoshka;
and Matryoshka with Cocoa
Nibs (plus a bottle release).
• Released Feb. 8: bour-
bon barrel apple pie stout All
Seeing Pie; Mexican choco-
late stout Viva La Stout; and
Polish’s Black Walnut Stout.
• Released Feb. 15: plum
and black tea stout Kaiju
Stout; Keg Nog, a milk stout
spiced with nutmeg, cinna-
mon, and vanilla beans; and
Barrel Aged May The Oats
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The Festival of Dark Arts takes
place Saturday, Feb. 18.
Be With You — aged in
Four Roses bourbon barrels.
• Released Feb. 19: Ma-
tryoshka with Cocoa Nibs
& Raspberries (plus a bottle
release); Subtle Hyperbole, a
stout with Candy Cap mush-
rooms, molasses, graham
crackers and cinnamon; and
Dark Matter, an oatmeal
stout aged in pinot noir and
bourbon barrels.
• Released Feb. 22: root
beer stout Nostalgia Trip,
with sassafras, sarsaparilla,
cinnamon sticks and vanilla
bean; Kentucky Girl (which
is the Coffee Girl stout
aged in Kentucky bourbon
barrels); and dry Irish stout
Itsy Bitsy.
Matryoshka with Cocoa
Nibs will be available in
500ml bottles on Feb. 1,
the second release from the
Learn about the travels of David Douglas
ILWACO, Wash. — In the 19th
century, David Douglas’s
multiple trips to the mouth
of the Columbia River and
north up the Washingotn
coast were dogged by
stormy weather, unclear
pathways and personal
illness. At the same time,
they yielded some of his
most prized natural history
observations and warmest
personal relationships with
local people.
The next Salty Talks
presentation will illustrate
some of those connections.
Spokane, Washington, natu-
ralist and writer Jack Nisbet
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Jack Nisbet will speak about
David Douglas at the next
Salty Talks on Feb. 1.
will give the talk “‘I Do
Not Go Alone’: Traveling
from Young’s Bay to Gray’s
Harbor with David Douglas,
1825-27.” The talk is free
and will take place at 6:30
p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1 at
the Salt Pub & Hotel, locat-
ed at 147 Howerton Ave.
Nisbet’s books explore
the human and natural
history of the Intermountain
West. His focus on Doug-
las resulted in his 2010
biography “The Collector.”
His book “David Douglas:
A Naturalist at Work” is
an illustrated collection of
essays that aims to connect
Douglas’s vision of the
Northwest landscape to what
we see today.
“Jack Nisbet peels back
the landscapes of the North-
west to uncover layers of
Carnival of stouts
Voted by Willamette
Week Oregon Beer Awards
as the Best Beer Festival
in 2016, the Festival of
Dark Arts is much more
than a stout fest. It’s a full
sensory immersion into art,
craft, music and macabre
entertainment, with over 60
rare stouts all over the Fort
George block. The event
will sell out, but you can
check festivalofdarkarts.
com for full ticket, stout and
entertainment information.
This year’s festival takes
place from 2 to 10 p.m. Feb.
18 at Fort George Brewery.
Entertainent will include
a Dark Art Gallery, glass
blowing, iron forge, tattoo
artists, ice sculptor, fire
dancers, contortionists and
more. Live music will be
provided by Hillstomp, 1939
Ensemble, Ryan Sollee,
Máscaras, Three for Silver
and more.
meaning in unexpected plac-
es. He encourages us to look
with a new, but also eons-
old, light on mountains and
rivers, traditional cultures
and more recent settlers,”
said Peter Stark, author of
“Astoria: John Jacob Astor
and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost
Pacific Empire.”
Salty Talks are in
partnership with the SALT
Pub & Hotel, Columbia
Pacific Heritage Museum,
Washington State Parks and
Recreation Commission,
Lewis and Clark National
Historical Park, with support
from Friends of Columbia
River Gateway, and the Port
of Ilwaco.