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18 // COASTWEEKEND.COM Guitarist Mary Flower to perform Catch this blues musician in Astoria or Long Beach SUBMITTED PHOTO “Apples on Striped Cloth” by Judith Marsh Garrity. SUBMITTED PHOTO “Waterfall in Spring” by Jane McGeehan. View members’ art show GEARHART —Trail’s End Art Association has been promoting the arts along the North Coast for over 50 years. The gallery, at 656 A St., reopens in February af- ter a winter break with an art show featuring the talents of Trail’s End Art Association members. The public is invited to attend an opening reception for art exhibition from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4. Visitors can enjoy wine and cheese, view artwork and meet the artists. Visitors will see water- color, acrylic and pastel creations. Look for the work of Susan Bish, Lynda Camp- bell, Gheri Fouts, Judith Frederickson, Mary Ann Gantenbein, Judi Garrity, Linda Gebhart, Jane McGee- han, and Michael Muldoon. 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Doors open at 7:30 p.m., and ad- mission is $10 at the door. KALA is located at 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria. Then, Flower will perform acoustic blues at the Peninsula Arts Center at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4 as part of the center’s Feb- ruary Blues Month events. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and admission is $15 at the door or online through Brown Paper Tickets; or, call Bill at 360-901-0962. The Peninsula Arts Center is located at 504 Pacific Ave. N. in Long Beach. The concert will benefit the Long Beach Peninsula Acoustic Music Founda- tion, a 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization. An internationally known picker, sing- er-songwriter and teacher, Flower, a Midwest native, relocated from Denver to the vibrant Portland music scene in 2004. She contin- ues to please crowds and critics at folk festivals and concert stages domestical- ly and abroad, including Merlefest, Kerrville, King Biscuit, Prairie Home Companion and the Cal- gary Folk Festival. Her fingerpicking guitar and lap-slide prowess is soulful and meter-perfect, SUBMITTED PHOTO Acoustic blues artist Mary Flower will perform at KALA on Feb. 3 and at the Peninsula Arts Center on Feb. 4. a deft blend of the inven- tive, the dexterous and the mesmerizing. Her supple honey-and-whiskey voice provides a melodic accom- paniment to each song’s story. Flower is fluent in the artistically tricky Piedmont style of acoustic guitar, one that requires a deft touch, intricate picking, and an innate sense of subtle harmonics wrapped in a rousing good time. But she is equally rooted, schooled and dynamic with Mis- sissippi blues, especially when rendered on a vintage lap-slide. Stir in her love of swing, ragtime, folk and hot jazz, plus a healthy dose of her own song craft, and you have a modern artist with an ear for the traditional who brings an immediate vibrancy and dynamism in concert. Flower was a top-three finalist in 2000 and 2002 at the National Finger- picking Guitar Cham- pionship, a nominee in 2008 and 2012 for a Blues Foundation Blues Music Award, and a 2011 Port- land Muddy Award winner. Flower’s 10 recordings, including her last four for Memphis’ famed Yellow Dog Records — “Bywater Dance,” “Instrumental Breakdown,” “Bridg- es” and “Misery Loves Company” — show a deep command of and love for folk and blues string music. She continues to compose, record and tour, honing and evolving her style rooted in rich tradi- tion but always moving America’s music forward. Her devotion to the art form of American roots music is both lovingly and historically accurate, yet her creativity lends it vitality and energy that it might continue, evolve and flourish in an age of increasingly digitized and compressed music.
