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6 // COASTWEEKEND.COM It’s time you experienced Duffy Bishop Irish music maestro plays the Peninsula NEHALEM — Duffy Bishop and the Duffy Bishop Band plays Nehalem’s North County Recreation District Per- forming Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Wednes- day, Aug. 8. Bishop is a force of nature: a powerful blues blaster, a sultry soul singer, a pres- ence who connects with her audiences in a deeply personal way. Based in Portland and St. Augustine, Fla., Bishop has shared the stage with music legends such as John Lee Hooker, Etta James, Gatemouth Brown, Lou Raw- ls, Bonnie Raitt and Bo Diddley. Bishop is a member of the Cascade Blues Asso- ciation and the Washington Blues Society Hall of fame, and was inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame in 2016. Discover for yourself the heart, the soul, the experience that is Duffy Bishop. Tickets are available at tickettomato. com and at duffybishop.com reverbna- tion.com / Duffy Bishop on Facebook. The Performing Arts Center is located at 36155 Ninth St. LONG BEACH, WASH. — Cary Novotny, an outstanding guitarist and vocalist, sings Celtic and popular songs at the Peninsula Arts Center at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4. Novotny has been involved in the Irish music scene for 20 years. His sound has made him one of the most in-demand guitar players in Irish music today. With his rhythm, boundless energy and versatility, he varies from breakneck speed to delicate finger-style in the blink of an eye. Novotny was a founding member of former Lord of the Dance fiddle-duo, The Bridies, Johnny B Connolly’s Bridgetown and Portland’s venerable Irish band Cul an Ti. In addition, you can expect a wide range of music, from Americana to singer-song- writer favorites, from Novotny’s repertoire. The Peninsula Arts Center is located at 504 Pacific Ave. N., Long Beach, Wash. Admission is $15 at the door or online through Brown Paper Tickets, or call Bill Svendsen at 360-901-0962. Wine, beer and other refreshments are available for purchase. Concerts benefit the Long Beach Penin- sula Acoustic Music Foundation, a nonprof- it charitable organization. The Lonesome Heroes Lonesome Heroes return to Fort George COURTESY NORTH COUNTY RECREATION DISTRICT Duffy Bishop ASTORIA — The Lonesome Heroes, a band from Austin, Texas, will be in Astoria at Fort George Brewery as part of a show that begins at 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5, with Leo Rondeau, a musician based in Nashville, Tenn. Led by frontman Rich Russell, this current cast of Heroes features Rondeau’s former play- ers and tour-mates Vaughn Walters on bass and Steve Carlson on lead guitar. Austin’s Lonesome Heroes live at the inter- section of indie rock and country. The group has toured behind two albums across continents on both sides of the world, while never straying far from their “Cosmic Americana” roots. A reverence for the troubadour spirit is evi- dent in the song “Western Style Saloons” — an homage to small-town dance halls featured on the final season of Netflix’s “Bloodline” — and the linking of asphalt, mind and body in “Steel,” named KCRW’s Top Tune Download of the Day. Both appear on 2015’s album “Can’t Stand Still.” The album was praised at home by the Austin Chronicle as one of 2015’s best albums, featured abroad in Rolling Stone Australia, and received airplay on radio stations throughout the U.S., Europe and Australia. With a new album on the horizon, Lonesome Heroes are picking up where “Can’t Stand Still” left off. COURTESY PENINSULA ARTS CENTER Cary Novotny plays Celtic and popular songs.