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6 // COASTWEEKEND.COM CONTRA DANCE KICKS OFF SUBMITTED PHOTO Bre Gregg + The Brotherhood Jazzin’ it up on the Peninsula LONG BEACH, WASH. — Bre Gregg — the powerhouse jazz and blues singer of Bre Gregg + The Brother- hood — will perform with the trio at the Peninsula Arts Center 7 p.m. Satur- day, Oct. 21. Doors open at 6 p.m. Gregg is wildly soulful. When she opens her mouth, you hear a rich musical history of back-al- ley clubs filled with smoky jazz, visceral blues and deeply authentic swamp soul. Her voice is techni- cally superb after years of study and performance, but her ability to connect with the music and her audienc- es makes her performances profoundly intimate. Born into a family of musicians, Gregg was sing- ing before she could talk. After earning a degree in music, followed by study and performance in Italy, New York and California, she moved to Portland and spent the next few years entering the music scene and releasing her first CD, “On the Wind.” Bre focuses on two main projects: Bre Gregg + The Brotherhood and Midnight Honey. Bre Gregg + The Broth- erhood features Gregg’s original music and her signature vocals combined with the mind-bending lead-guitar virtuosity of Northwest treasure Dan Gildea. The Peninsula Arts Cen- ter (peninsulaartscenter. org) is located at 504 Pa- cific Ave. N., Long Beach, Washington. Tickets are $15 and available on Brown Paper Tickets, by emailing events@peninsulaartscen- ter.org, or by calling Bill Svensen at 360-901-0962. Wine, beer, and other refreshments are available for purchase. Open mic The arts center holds an open mic the Friday night before each concert. Sign- ups start around 6:30 p.m.; the music begins at 7 p.m. Singers, instrumental- ists, poets, spoken-word artists, stand-up comedi- ans and dramatists are all welcome. Or, just come to listen, and be amazed by the breadth of talent in the region. ASTORIA — Dance to live music by the Clatsop County Stringband 7 to 10 p.m. Fri- day, Oct. 20, at the Astoria Arts and Movement Center at the corner of Commercial and 10th streets. Dance caller Dave Ambrose will get beginners started with a lesson at 7 p.m. The dancing will start at 7:30 p.m. The dances SUBMITTED PHOTO The Clatsop County Stringband: (from left) Larry Moore on mandolin; Knox Swanson on guitar; Gina Kytr on fiddle; and Hobe Kytr on banjo. are easy to learn; no fancy footwork is required. All ages are welcome to this smoke- and alco- hol-free dance. Admission is $5 to $10. Children under 12 are admitted free. It’s the perfect way for a family to get out and have fun together. This is the first dance of the season. There will be a contra dance the third Friday of the each month through winter and spring. Cannon Beach concert features master pianist on stunning Steinway CANNON BEACH — Ste- phen Beus, a professional pianist, will give a classi- cal concert at the Cannon Beach Community Church 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21. He will perform on a Stein- way Model B grand piano. Tickets are $10 and only sold at the door the day of the show. This Steinway was acquired in August 2017 by the church to enhance the quality of music and musical performances in Cannon Beach and Clatsop County. The concert is being sponsored by the church — and by Escape Lodging in memory of the com- pany’s CEO, Tom Drum- heller, who died Sept. 17, 2017. Beus, a Steinway artist and longtime friend of SUBMITTED PHOTO Stephen Beus Drumheller, currently teaches piano performance at Brigham Young Uni- versity, and is an interna- tionally acclaimed concert pianist. He has been featured in piano recitals and perfor- mances across the U.S., as well as in Kazakhstan, Russia, Finland, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Georgia, China, France, Italy, Portugal, the Czech Republic and Morocco. He recently returned from an international tour in Finland and the United Kingdom. Fanfare magazine writes: “His playing is strikingly original and … he has an interpretive voice all his own … Above all, his playing is so nat- ural as to seem effortless, and the sound he produces has extraordinary richness and depth, not quite like anyone else’s.”
