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The RJ Marx Quartet: (from left) John Orr, R.J. Marx, Dave Gager and Joe Church
Astor Street Opry presents one-
night-only auction, gala Nov. 18
ASTORIA — The Astor
Street Opry Company’s
annual Auction and Gala will
be held the evening of Satur-
day, Nov. 18, at the company
playhouse (129 West Bond
St.). Doors open at 5 p.m.
This one-night-only event
will feature the RJ Marx Jazz
Quartet and other live perfor-
mances with the Company’s
most favored and talented
people.
In addition, we will have
a silent and live auction with
lots of items you’ll want to
buy to complete your holiday
shopping.
And the food … well, we
are having the best, of course!
The ticket price is $20 per
person or $35 per couple.
Find tickets at brownpaper-
tickets.com.
Unable to attend this
event, but still want to
support the organization? If
you wish to make a tax-de-
ductible donation, send a
check to our mailing address
(129 West Bond St., Astoria,
OR 97103), or, if you have
a donation for the auction,
contact the executive director
at info@astorstreetoprycom-
pany.com.
Brownsmead Flats play ‘crabgrass’ at Heritage Museum
ILWACO, WASH. — The Co-
lumbia Pacific Heritage Mu-
seum will present a “coffee-
house-style” concert with the
acoustic group Brownsmead
Flats 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday,
Nov. 17, to accompany the
exhibition “Flashback: Re-
membering the ’60s.” Doors
open at 5 p.m.
Brownsmead Flats is
primarily a string band
consisting of guitars, bass,
banjo, mandolin, harmon-
ica, fiddle and hammered
dulcimer. The band plays
what they call “crabgrass,”
a folk/bluegrass style with a
maritime flavor.
This group of five are
steeped in the folk tradition.
Their original songs are rele-
COURTESY COLUMBIA PACIFIC HERITAGE MUSEUM
Brownsmead Flats
vant to today’s issues, much
like their musical heroes of
50 years ago. Brownsmead
Flats — composed of band
members John Fenton, Ned
Heavenrich, Ray Raiha-
la, Larry Moore and Dan
Sutherland — likes to play
traditional, popular and origi-
nal songs.
The group started playing
together when the musicians
all converged on Browns-
mead in the 1970s as what
Raihala called “young mar-
rieds” who wanted to try out
the rural Oregon experience.
They came from Nebraska,
Illinois, Michigan and Cali-
fornia, built their own houses
and started families. The
community had, and still has,
frequent potlucks, and music
is a big part of them.
The concert is free, but
space is limited. For reser-
vations, call 360-642-3446.
This program is made possi-
ble by a grant from Human-
ities Washington.
The Columbia Pacific
Heritage Museum is located
at 115 S.E. Lake St. For more
information, call 360-642-
3446 or visit columbiapaci-
ficheriatgemuseum.org.
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Adams & Costello
Adams & Costello meet
musicophiles at KALA
ASTORIA — KALA
welcomes coastal indie
rock duo Julie Adams and
Michael Costello in con-
cert 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is $10. A full
bar will be available.
The duo will be joined
by veteran roots rock
drummer Lawrence Alred
and recent Juilliard grad-
uate and Cannon Beach
native Lake Jiroudek on
bass.
The Cannon Beach-
based synergistic guitar
and vocal duo have been
performing and recording
together for five years.
Sharing a love of roots
music, they initially met at
a Lucinda Williams concert
in Boston. Their recent-
ly released album, “You
Better Believe It,” is a
stripped-down, bare bones,
intimate experience done
with two acoustic guitars,
live, with one- to two-take
sessions.
In addition, their video
“Invincible” celebrates the
journey and struggle to
care for Adams’ dad in the
last years of his life, while
capturing the rugged beau-
ty of Cannon Beach.
The duo will be per-
forming new material at
the KALA performance.
The venue is located at
1017 Marine Drive.
Check out the musical
couple at adamsandcostel-
lo.com.