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Hot jazz with
South American flair
MANZANITA — The Bra-
zilian Strings Trio returns
to the Hoffman Center
for the Arts 7 p.m. Friday,
April 6. After a rousing
performance last year,
they’re visiting the North
Coast as part of their
West Coast Tour.
Admission is $20 cash.
The Brazilian Strings
Trio unites three of the
most innovative instru-
mentalists on the contem-
porary Brazilian musical
scene.
Ted Falcon and
Andrew Finn Magill are
both multi-genre Ameri-
can violinists who, after
years of living in Brazil,
have become ambas-
sadors of the growing
Brazilian violin move-
ment. Rounding out the
trio is Brazilian guitarist
Nando Duarte, a giant of
the contemporary Brazil-
ian music scene and an
award-winning composer
and arranger.
The Hoffman Center
is located at 594 Laneda
Ave. in Manzanita.
Master pianist performs
in Clatskanie, Raymond
Classical pianist Steven
Vanhauwaert will play two
shows Saturday, April 7,
and Sunday April 8.
Clatskanie
First, the Clatskanie
Arts Commission presents
Vanhauwaert in concert
7:30 p.m. Saturday at the
Birkenfeld Theatre (75 S.
Nehalem St.) in Clats-
kanie.
This prestigious Stein-
way pianist celebrates the
generous donation to the
Birkenfeld Theatre of a
1929 Steinway M Grand
Piano by the Max Ober-
dorfer and Diane Dillard
families of St. Helens.
Tickets are available
at clatskaniearts.org or
by calling at 503-728-
3403. Adult tickets are
$15; senior 60 and older
and students are $13, and
children 12 and under are
$10.
A reception in honor of
the Oberdorfer and Dillard
families will be held in the
ballroom of the Clatskanie
Cultural Center following
the performance.
Raymond
At 2 p.m. Sunday,
Vanhauwaert will play
the exquisite grand piano
at the historic Raymond
Theatre (323 Third St.) in
Raymond, Washington.
Tickets are $15 at the
door or $12 in advance
at the Raymond Theatre,
Raymond Pharmacy and
South Bend Pharmacy.
For more ticket in-
formation, call 360-836-
4419.
The show is sponsored
by Thrivent Financial,
Fred and Jan Kulczycki,
Ekone Oyster Co. and
Michael Plato, CPA.
Vanhauwaert is a native
of Belgium and now calls
Los Angeles home. As a
Steinway Artist he made
his official U.S. solo debut
with a recital for the Jaca-
randa series, where he was
hailed by the Los Angeles
Times’ Mark Swed for his
“impressive clarity, sense
of structure and monster
technique.”
Irish myth, song, history
and poetry at KALA
ASTORIA — Storyteller
William Kennedy Hornyak
performs “Waking Finn
Mac Cool: Tales of Ire-
land’s Legendary Poet War-
rior” 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
April 12, at KALA (1017
Marine Drive).
Hornyak teaches sto-
rytelling at Marylhurst
University and performs
throughout the U.S. He has
been a featured teller at
the National Storytelling
Festival in Jonesborough,
Tennessee, and at regional
festivals around the country.
Using the framework
of an Irish wake Hornyak
weaves myth, song, history
and poetry together in
COURTESY KALA
William Kennedy Hornyak
teaches storytelling at Maryl-
hurst University
“Waking Finn Mac Cool,” a
solo performance.
“An Irish wake was
traditionally a storytelling
occasion when anecdotal
tales and legends mixed and
mingled as people gathered
to honor the spirit of the
deceased,” Hornyak said.
Finn and his band lived
by the old code: Never
give a sword to a man who
can’t dance. They knew that
battle and bloodshed could
intoxicate a warrior and de-
stroy him and others. They
understood that his fiery
spirit needed to be cooled
and tempered by the poet’s
heart that resided within
him. They had a saying: “A
warrior must know how to
stop a battle, not just how to
start one.”
Tickets are $15 and
available at libertyastoria.
com. People 16 and up are
welcome to this perfor-
mance. A full bar is avail-
able. For more information,
call 503-338-4878.
Symphonic Band goes Scandinavian at free concert
ASTORIA — The North
Coast Symphonic Band
will give a free concert 2
p.m. Sunday, April 8, at the
Liberty Theatre with Dr. Joan
Haaland Paddock, of Linfield
College, as conductor and
musical director.
Equinox will offer a concert
prelude of jazz tunes at 1:30
p.m. Doors open at 1:15 p.m.
The program is themed
“The Scandinavian Connec-
tion” and features Paddock’s
favorite wind band selec-
tions from the Scandinavian
repertoire.
In addition to familiar
selections by Jean Sibelius,
Edvard Grieg and Carl Niel-
sen, the Symphonic Band
will perform Scandinavian
marches, selections based on
the Nordic folk tradition and
a new piece of Norwegian
jazz. Paddock has also in-
cluded highlights from “Fro-
zen,” a Disney movie with a
Scandinavian influence.
The Astoria Scandinavian
Midsummer Festival 2018
Court will appear in costume
in the lobby of the Liber-
ty during intermission to
discuss their heritage and the
upcoming festival.
Astoria Scandinavian
Heritage Association
President Loran Mathews
and Scandinavian Heritage
Park Committee Chair Judi
Lampi will be in the lobby
before the concert and during
intermission to talk about
progress for the new park.
Attendees are encouraged
to wear authentic folk wear
from Scandinavia.
For more information on
the Symphonic Band, visit
northcoastsymphonicband.
org, find the Symphonic
Band on Facebook or call
503-325-2431.
Portland bands play the Labor Temple
ASTORIA — Portland rock
bands, The Lovesores,
Bubble Cats and Down
Gown play the Labor Tem-
ple Diner & Bar 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 7. There is a
$5 cover. Attendees must be
21 and older.
The Lovesores, the
“hardest lurking band in
show business,” have been
rocking for a decade.
Down Gown has been
playing in and around PDX
for four years and released
their debut album on Cavi-
ty Search records last year.
Bubble Cats were
founded in 2011 and play
a catchy brand of poppy
post-punk.
The Labor Temple is
located at 942 Duane St. in
Astoria.
Marian DiCicco
DiCicco brings
bluesy, country
sound to
peninsula
LONG BEACH, WASH. —
Folk-oriented singer-song-
writer Marian DiCicco
comes to the Peninsula
Arts Center, 504 Pacific
Ave. N. in Long Beach
7 p.m. Saturday, April 7
(doors open at 6:30 p.m.).
Tickets are $15 at the door
or through Brown Paper
Tickets.
DiCicco picked up a
guitar at age 5 and couldn’t
put it down. Music was her
coping mechanism to being
raised in a troubled home.
Music is how she connects
with people and stays con-
nected to herself.
Influenced by the likes
of Emmy Lou Harris, Bob
Wills, Christy Moore and
Mary Black, DiCicco pre-
fers to think of each song
as a story, with pictures
drawn through notes and
lyrics. With a healthy mix
of original compositions
and cover renditions, her
sounds range from bluesy
folk and old-school country
to lively or haunting Irish.
For reservations, call
Bill Svendsen at 360-
901-0962 or visit www.
peninsulaartscenter.org/
concerts.
Wine, beer and other
refreshments are available
for purchase.
Concerts benefit the
Long Beach Peninsula
Acoustic Music Founda-
tion, a nonprofit charitable
organization.