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Hood River News, Saturday, May 30, 2015
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JIM DRAKE’S ENTERTAINMENT BLOG
Soul Man: Ken DeRouchie talks about the old
River City, liking Steely Dan and his ‘best album yet’
By Jim Drake
Hood River News
MacMillan at Naked Winery
Jim MacMillan, guitar and vocals, Jerry Keith, bass
and tuba and Randy Bell, cajon and hand percussion,
will be taking a few new tunes out on the town on Satur-
day, June 6, at the Naked Winery from 7-10 p.m. Expect
all original music. Naked Winery, 102 Second St., Hood
River; 800-666-9303.
‘Century Farms’ historical
presentation June 13
Wasco County Historical Society is sponsoring a free
presentation, Century Farms and Ranches in South
Wasco County, by local historian Carolyn Wood on June
13, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Rorick House, 300 W. 13th
St. in The Dalles.
The presentation will include the 1886 McGreer Ranch
at Clarno and the 1894 Enoch Dickson Ranch at Antelope,
each having been awarded Century status by Oregon
Farm Bureau and Oregon Agricultural Education Foun-
dation. Other ranches in her research are the McKay and
Frank Forman Ranches, both having century-long Wasco
County presences.
Bonham plays House Concert
Ben Bonham, local leader of multiple bands, and his
virtuoso Portlander guitar-playing partner Jamie Still-
way have a new project underway. Enjoy a house concert
from the duo in Hood River on Saturday, June 6. The con-
cert starts at 7 p.m. 401 Montello Ave., Hood River, 541-
387-4011.
Kay Floria plays ‘Best of Gorge’
art opening First Friday June 5
The Columbia Center for
the Arts (CCA) will host a
two-month art show cele-
brating the best artwork
produced by mid-Columbia
River Gorge residents. The
2015 Best of the Gorge exhi-
bition has become an annu-
al event that brings visitors
from around the world to
experience some of the
finest art in the region. The
show runs June 5 through
August 2 at the Columbia
Center for that Arts, 215
Cascade Street, Hood River.
Kay Floria
The opening of the exhi-
bition will be celebrated at
an evening reception on June 5, the month’s First Friday,
from 6-8 p.m. Singer/songwriter Kay Floria will be ac-
companying herself on the piano, with Randy Bell on
bass.
Kay has been playing piano all her life but started per-
forming and singing three years ago. She plays keyboard
and sings with the Richard Wilkins Blues Band, a Hood
River group who formed this past year. She also plays
solo gigs performing blues, ballads and jazzy tunes. Her
style is reminiscent of the women blues artists from the
40s and 50s.
Works in both 2D and 3D will be on display, in a variety
of media, including drawing, painting, photography,
glass, ceramics, sculpture, and mixed media.
‘Going to Dogs’ benefit May 30
Hood River Adopt A Dog is holding its Annual “Goin’
to the Dogs” Rummage Sale on Friday, May 29, from 11-6
p.m., Saturday, May 30,and Sunday, May 31 from 9-3 p.m.
both days. The sale will be inside the Cody Fruit Stand
in Odell, at the intersection of Davis (Hwy 282) and
Graves Rd – easy access from Hwy 35 at the Odell exit.
Proceeds will help fund HRAAD’s mission of caring for
and re-homing lost and abandoned dogs at the Hukari
Shelter.
Entertainment listings can be e-mailed to
jdrake@hoodrivernews.com
Auditions for ‘Inherit
the Wind,’ ‘The Night
Thoreau Spent in Jail’
coming up June 28-29
MEET THE AUTHOR
Bill Weiler and Lynda
Dallman will hold audi-
tions for the plays “Inher-
it the Wind” and “The
Night Thoreau Spent in
Jail” at Columbia Center
for the Arts in the Studio
at 6 p.m. on Sunday, June
28, and Monday, June 29.
These plays were writ-
ten by Jerome Lawrence
and Robert E. Lee as co-
playwrights.
Both Bill and Lynda
think they share a com-
mon theme which they
call "The Art of Protest.'
Scripts will be avail-
able for checkout at the
CCA Gallery on Monday,
June 15. These Plays for
Nonprofits productions
are scheduled for the
weekend of Aug. 21-23
and then Aug. 27-29.
The directors need a
do z en men and six
women of all ages: a cou-
ple of teenagers, a few 20-
30, several 30-50 and a few
50+.
If people have ques-
tions please have them
contact Lynda Dallman:
lyndadocs@aol.com
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Join 2014 Pulitzer
Prize winner
MEGAN
MARSHALL
AT KLINDT’S FOR A READING
AND DISCUSSION FOLLOWED
BY BOOK SIGNING
Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 5:30 pm
One would think leading a
9-piece original soul and
blues outfit would constitute
a full time job, but Ken DeR-
ouchie honestly says he has
no ‘delusions of grandeur’
regarding his band that’s
been working hard for 19
years.
“I wish I could say it was
my full time job, but having a
nine-piece band like this
without record company
support is difficult to main-
tain on that level. But I will
say that with our new album,
“Muse,” people are paying at-
tention and we’re getting
some great gigs in the North-
west,” DeRouchie recently
said in a phone interview
from Portland.
Praising the level of musi-
cianship in his band was
easy for DeRouchie, because
he gets to collaborate with
some of Portland’s finest
singers and players, includ-
ing singers LaRonda Steele,
and Arietta Ward (daughter
of blues singer Janice Scrog-
gins). Complete with a horn
section, the Ken DeRouchie
Band is set to play the River
City Saloon on Saturday, May
30.
“It’s a Portland all-star
band, for sure, there’s multi-
ple Muddy Award winners in
the band, it’s an extreme
pleasure to play with this
group of people,” DeRouchie
said.
DeRouchie said that this
show will be a bit of a home-
coming for him because he
remembers the “rough
shape” the venue used to be
in.
“I’ve seen that venue
change and grow, and morph
over the years, because I’ve
played there on and off for 20
years. In 1993, it was pretty
rough, really. There was one
bare light bulb over the
stage, where the pool table is
now,” DeRouchie said.
DeRouchie said he also
has ties in the Gorge with
local musician Tracy Klas,
who will be bringing her
band to open the show.
“I got introduced to Tracy
way back, through the Dan
Reed Network, a big Portland
blues band in the 80s. Dan
knew Tracy, and he had a
record company that my
band signed up to. Anyway, I
had Tracy come in and sing
on our record, and I’m so
glad that she’ll be opening
our show. It’s been a long
time since I worked with
her,” DeRouchie said.
“Muse,” the band’s fourth
album, has been released on
“every digital platfor m”
available, according to DeR-
Ken DeRouchie and his band
play the River City Saloon on
Saturday, May 30, starting at 9
p.m. Local singer Tracy Klas
opens. 21 and over, and there
is a cover charge.
ouchie. He said that his
music gets downloaded thou-
sands of times per month,
but it’s not translating to
thousands of dollars.
“Spotify is one example, I
mean I get a penny a play, so
it’s only a few bucks a month.
What’s important to us is the
music is really getting out
there due to all of these plat-
forms,” DeRouchie said.
“The album has been get-
ting airplay in 17 different
countries — the record really
took off and it’s made us
busier than ever,” DeRouchie
said.
■
When asked about musical
influences, DeRouchie said
Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
‘ G ORGE’ B OOK R ELEASED
Linda and John Hardman of Cook, Wash., meet writer Janet Cook, seated at left, and photographer
Peter Marbach at Wednesday’s book release event and photo presentation at Columbia Center for the
Arts, attended by about 40 people. The “Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area” book is now on
sale at Waucoma Bookstore and Hood River News. Cook, who is The Gorge magazine editor and long-
time Hood River News staff writer and contributor, and Marbach, renowned Gorge photographer, have
co-produced four other books, but this is the first book published by Columbia Gorge Press with its en-
hanced full-color printing capabilities. The book cover features wildflowers at sunset from Dog Moun-
tain. As Cook writes in the introduction, “the Gorge boasts more than 800 species of native wildflow-
ers and flowering shrubs; 15 wildflowers are endemic, existing only here, in the Gorge.”
Radio Tierra presents
‘Independence Eve
at the Bingen Theater’
Radio Tierra, in coopera-
tion with Columbia Center
for the Arts, is proud to bring
you the live radio broadcast
of “Independence Eve at the
Bingen Theater,” July 3, 7 to
9 p.m. featuring the music of
the “Columbiaires” of “It’s a
Wonderful Life” f ame,
singer/ songwriter Alonza
Garbanzo, Mariachi Los
Temerosos De Juan Antonio,
the poetry of William
Stafford and much, much
more.
Come and celebrate Amer-
ica and the area’s rich cul-
tural diversity with the best
remembered songs through-
out decades
Tickets are $15 on-line at
columbiaarts.org, Waucoma
Book Store, or at the door of
the Bingen Theater. Food and
drinks for purchase will be
available.
that with so many members
in the band the list would be
too long to list. But his per-
sonal tendencies leaned to-
ward bands that bridged jazz
and rock.
“Steely Dan was my huge
influence. The artists that re-
ally interest me are ones like
Prince and Lenny Kravitz.
There’s a huge soul and a
deep groove influence in that
music. There’s also an eclec-
tic band called Galactic that
I’m really into,” DeRouchie
said.
■
DeRouchie credits his fam-
ily, namely his older brother,
for getting him started in
music.
“I think I’ve been trying to
play music since I was about
three years old,” DeRouchie
laughs.
A series of drumsets and
guitars through the years
paved the way for his lead
singing and rhythm guitar
playing role today.
“I was hired as a drummer
and toured with a band in
1985, days after my 20th
birthday. I’ve signed with
three different labels and
toured all over the U.S. Music
has been in my life longer
than anything else in my life.
It’s what drives me on a day
to day basis,” DeRouchie
said.
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Hood River, OR
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Complimentary hot dog, chips and
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Advance tee times required -
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Reservations begin May 15th at 800.293.0418.
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*Must be a resident of Skamania, Klickitat, Hood River or Wasco County.
**Green fee is complimentary and does not include a cart fee of $15 per player.
Golf cart is required to ensure pace of play.
The Pines Winery will be on hand with
wine by the glass.
Free and Open to the Public.
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