MARCH 15, 2018 // 7
Holy Grove rocks Charlie’s
Chophouse on St. Paddy’s Day
ASTORIA — Charlie’s
Chophouse has been under-
going an extensive remodel,
and to celebrate its reopen-
ing the establishment is
throwing a free St. Paddy’s
Day party 8 p.m. Saturday,
March 17, with Portland
bands Holy Grove, Void
Realm and Maximum Mad.
Some people like their
heavy metal as “metallic” as
possible: jagged, spiky and
caustic. Holy Grove wants
it heavy — gravitationally,
crushingly heavy — but
big and warm, never coldly
metallic.
Holy Grove songs are
heavy with feeling, heavy
with conquering power and
heavy of heart. After wow-
ing Northwest audiences
for several years, the band
unveiled its Billy Ander-
son-produced self-titled
debut in 2016 — seven
songs of blazing riffs and
cloud-piercing wails, via
Italian imprint Heavy Psych
Sounds.
Fresh from a success-
ful European tour with
brothers-in-arms Gozu,
Holy Grove is back at work
with producer “engine-ear”
Anderson on their sec-
ond record, their first for
American label Ripple
Music. The band is cur-
rently making plans for a
second European tour in
the fall of 2018 and a string
of springtime shows across
the West Coast.
Holy Grove is Andrea
Vidal, Trent Jacobs, Gregg
Emley and Eben Travis.
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Holy Grove
Peninsula Arts Center welcomes Grammy
winner, Bonnie Raitt-inspired group
Folk rock songwriter
comes to Manzanita
DATELINE — The Peninsula
Arts Center in Long Beach,
Washington, has a lot going
on the weekend of March
17 and 18.
At 7 p.m. Saturday,
March 17, the venue wel-
comes acoustic guitarist
Doug Smith and his wife,
flautist and vocalist Judy
Koch Smith.
Smith is a Grammy
Award winner and the 2006
winner of the prestigious
Winfield International
Fingerstyle Guitar Compe-
tition.
His playing has been
heard on the big screen in
the popular 2007 film “Au-
gust Rush” and his original
compositions are heard
everywhere from NPR to
TCM to Martha Stewart to
“Good Morning America.”
His playing combines folk,
classical and jazz elements
and has been called “a
cross between Chet Atkins,
Leo Kottke and Michael
Hedges.”
Admission is $15 at
the door or online through
Brown Paper Tickets, or
MANZANITA — Allison
Preisinger, a Seattle sing-
er-songwriter, performs at
the Hoffman Center for the
Arts (594 Laneda Ave.)
7 p.m. Friday, March 16.
Admission is $10.
Northwest musicians
and fans have described
Preisinger’s music as raw
and honest. Her folk rock
style combines the sincer-
ity of an unplugged Eric
COURTESY PENINSULA ARTS CENTER
“Something to Talk About: A Tribute to Bonnie Raitt”
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call Bill Svendsen at 360-
901-0962.
Wine, beer and other
refreshments are available
for purchase. Concerts
benefit the Long Beach
Peninsula Acoustic Music
Foundation, a nonprofit
charitable organization.
The Peninsula Arts
Center is located at 504 Pa-
cific Ave. N., Long Beach,
Washington.
On Sunday, March 18,
the arts center is bringing
Portland’s “Something to
Talk About: A Tribute to
Bonnie Raitt” to the Inn
at Harbour Village at 5:30
p.m. Cocktail hour is 4:30
to 5:30 p.m.
“Something to Talk
About” is a musical col-
laboration, with some of
Portland’s finest singers and
players joining together to
pay tribute to the queen of
the bottleneck blues.
Raitt has not only
infused the world with
incredible music, she has
deeply inspired generations
of performers and song-
writers. She showed wom-
en that they could rock just
as hard as any man, and
proved to everyone that
female players should be
taken seriously. Simply
put, she changed the face
of music.
This is an all-star cast
Clapton with the melodic
poetry of Joni Mitchell.
Her recently released
third album, the “Jade EP,”
explores getting over what
you thought was love,
questioning where things
are headed, having no
control and the reassurance
that love is all around.
The “Jade EP” is now
available online and at Pre-
isinger’s performances.
Grammy-winning acoustic
guitarist Doug Smith, right,
with his wife, flautist and vo-
calist Judy Koch Smith
of musicians, all of whom
cite Raitt as an important
musical influence. This
rich pallet of singers and
players from different
genres are joining forces to
pay tribute to someone they
feel changed the direction
of their lives. This is a
powerful show.
Inn at Harbour Village
is located at 120 Wil-
liams Ave. N.E., Ilwaco,
Washington. Tickets are
$28 through Brown Paper
Tickets.
COURTESY HOFFMAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Allison Preisinger, a Seattle singer-songwriter notforsale