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Grupo Condor weave together
music, history at Tolovana Hall
CANNON BEACH — The Tolo-
vana Arts Colony welcomes
Grupo Condor to Cannon
Beach 3 p.m. Saturday,
Aug. 19, for an entertaining,
enlightening and festive
afternoon of music and the
history of the Americas.
The free show — held
at Tolovana Hall (3779 S.
Hemlock St.) — touches
on Mexican, indigenous
and South American styles
and tradition, is designed
for children and families.
Adults are also encouraged
to attend.
Grupo Condor is led by
Gerardo Calderon, who
brings a wealth of musical
history and a large collection
of instruments.
Beyond the Spanish
guitar, flutes and drums, this
historic collection includes
the eclectic. The “charango,”
for instance is a small, ten-
stringed guitar made from
an armadillo shell, whose
coarse hair is known to keep
growing after the instrument
has been made. The “quija-
da,” a percussion instrument,
is constructed from a horse’s
jawbone. “Chullus” are
rattles made from dozens of
goat hooves.
Calderon began study-
ing classical guitar while
growing up in Mexico City,
though he quickly found
more traditional forms of
music, particularly those
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Astoria native Kamila
Swerdloff performs
solo set at KALA
ASTORIA — Kamila Swerd-
loff, a pianist, singer and
songwriter, will perform a
solo set at KALA (1017 Ma-
rine Drive) 8 p.m. Saturday,
Aug. 19. Doors open at 7:30
p.m. The show cost is $10.
An Astoria native and
daughter of Uta and Lucien
Swerdloff, Kamila released
her debut EP “Adalyn” in
July. CDs will be available
at the show.
Her songs are a fu-
sion of singer-songwriter,
jazz-influenced folk/pop
that draw inspiration from
her background in classical
piano paired with a deep
love and fascination of the
lyrical and melodic ingenu-
ity of folk songwriters and
the harmonic complexity
of jazz, according to press
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Kamila Swerdloff
materials.
She currently lives in
Austin, Texas, and plays
regularly with Elayne Harris
on drums and Ben Vogel on
bass.
More information can
be found at https://www.
kamilaswerdloff.com/
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Gerardo Calderon, leader of Grupo Condor
from the Andes Mountains
— which stretch 4,000 miles
from Ecuador, Peru, Chile,
Columbia and extend as far
south as Argentina — more
exciting. The history of
Mexican music alone, Cal-
deron says, is a rich tapestry.
Grupo Condor’s perfor-
mances are very interactive.
Calderon encourages the
audience to get involved and
ask questions.
“What I try to do is share
the music that we play and
also, between songs, the
history,” Calderon said.
The music has many
stories to tell: from rituals,
to folk stories, to even the
global melding of influences
of instruments and rhythms
that traveled along through
trading routes, colonization
and beyond.
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The Bar-K Buckaroos
Bar-K Buckaroos
swing into Manzanita
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Grupo Condor
The event is made
possible with support from
the City of Cannon Beach’s
Community Grant.
For more information, visit
tolovanaartscolony.org, email
tolovanaartscolony@gmail.
com, or call 541-215-4445.
MANZANITA — The Bar-K
Buckaroos — a band that
plays traditional western
swing dance music in the
style of Bob Wills and his
Texas Playboys — will per-
form at the Hoffman Center
for the Arts (594 Laneda
Ave.) 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug.
19. The show costs $10.
The group is composed
of North Coast musicians,
including Brad Griswold
on rhythm guitar, Dave
Quinton on bass, Richard
Thomasian on lead guitar,
Tom Peake on drums and
John Orr on pedal steel.
Collectively, these
musicians have played in
such notable North Coast
bands as The Floating
Glass Balls, The Bond
Street Blues Band, The
Swingcats, Acoustica and
Ma’Barley, according to a
release.
Together, they bring
their love of bluegrass,
country, jazz, blues and
reggae to create a great eve-
ning of western swing and
1920s to 1940s-era swing
music, organizers wrote.