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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.