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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
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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
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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.”