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Guitarist Mary Flower to perform
Catch this blues
musician in Astoria
or Long Beach
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“Apples on Striped Cloth” by
Judith Marsh Garrity.
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“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.
Three-dimensional works
by Kathy Karbo, Jane New-
house and Jim Schoeffel in-
clude paper sculpture, fused
glass and turned wood items.
Noted photographer Richard
Newman will display some
of his most recent work.
In the foyer gallery, a wide
variety of notecards are avail-
able along with giclee prints.
There other chances to
see the show; winter hours
for the gallery are 11 a.m. to
3 p.m. Friday to Sunday.
Trail’s End Art Associa-
tion has been promoting the
arts along the North Coast
for over 50 years.
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ASTORIA and LONG BEACH,
Wash. — Nobody picks it
like Mary Flower. The
award-winning finger-
picking guitarist and
singer-songwriter will
perform on both sides of
the Columbia River this
weekend.
First, KALA will host
this Pacific Northwest
guitarist for a concert
at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3.
Accompanying Flower
will be longtime coastal
musician Peter “Spud”
Siegel on mandolin. 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,
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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.