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Evan Paul will provide piano accompaniment.
Graphic by Les Kanekuni
Celebrate Bob Dylan’s
78th birthday at KALA
ASTORIA – KALA
will celebrate legendary
singer Bob Dylan’s 78th
birthday at 8:30 p.m. Fri-
day and Saturday, May
24-25 at its downtown
performance space, 1017
Marine Drive, with trib-
utes from eight local and
regional artists.
Doors open at 8 p.m.
and tickets are $15 and are
available in advance at lib-
ertyastoria.showare.com.
There will be a full bar.
This event is for people 21
and older.
Performers will sing
works from Dylan’s more
than 60-year career, span-
ning 36 studio albums and
more than 400 songs.
Local and regional per-
formers include Luke
Ydstie and Kati Claborn
of Astoria-based duo The
Hackles, who also sing
with Blind Pilot; Adams &
Costello; Dylan Clodgo;
Birds of a Feather; Echo
Returns; Dinah Urell;
TATATA and special
guests John Moen from
the Decemberists and Jon-
athan Drews of Eyelids
will also perform.
Liam Dunne of Astoria
band Pagan Pancakes and
Soprano Jocelyn Claire
Thomas plays Nedda.
Photo courtesy Dinah Urell
Adams & Costello.
KMUN DJ will emcee.
KALA’s house band
includes guitarist Ray-
mond Martin of TATATA,
guitarist, keyboardist Gra-
ham Nystrom, singer and
bassist Rebecca Newman
of The Sharron Hartley
Band and drummer Flint
Rice.
Touring since the mid-
80s on what some have
called “The Never End-
ing Tour,” Dylan recently
played his 3,000th show in
Austria on April 19.
Dylan was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature
in 2016 for his poetic folk
contributions to American
song.
For more information,
call 503-338-4878.
Brennen Guillory plays Canio.
Scot Crandal plays Peppe.
Zachary Lenox plays Silvio.
Cascadia Chamber Opera
presents ‘I Pagliacci’ in Astoria
ASTORIA — “I Pagli-
acci,” or, “The Clowns,” an
opera by Ruggero Leonca-
vallo about love, romance
and betrayal, will be per-
formed by Cascadia Cham-
ber Opera at 3 p.m. Saturday,
June 1, at the Performing
Arts Center, 588 16th St.
The play-within-a-play
opera will feature soprano
Jocelyn Claire Thomas as
Nedda, Brennen Guillory
as Caino, Stacey Murdock
as Tonio, Scott Crandal as
Peppe, Zachary Lenox as
Silvio and piano accompani-
ment by Evan C. Paul.
Tickets are $15 and are
available at bit.ly/2HnmBn9.
The opera runs 1 hour
and 20 minutes and is sung
in Italian with English
supertitles.
Thomas is a Port-
land-based soprano and has
sung with operas around the
Northwest. She has also per-
formed in the Astoria Music
Festival.
Guillory has sung with
opera companies on both
East and West coasts, most
recently at the 31st Mahler
Festival in Colorado.
Murdock sings with Port-
land Opera and has appeared
in productions through-
out the Northwest. He has
also sung in the Astoria
Music Festival and Portland
Summerfest.
Crandal has performed
with Portland Opera, Ping
& Woof Opera and Bravo
Northwest.
Lenox has performed
with the Portland and
Eugene operas as well as
other companies through-
out the Northwest. He has
also performed in the Astoria
Music Festival.
Paul has worked with
Portland Opera, Cascadia
Chamber Opera and works
as a collaborative pianist
based in Portland.
Cascadia Concert Opera
is a non-profit perform-
ing arts organization based
in Oregon. The organiza-
tion is dedicated to engaging
communities in the musi-
cal storytelling of opera and
presents operas featuring
the region’s artists in cities
across the Northwest.