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December 19, 2018
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Happy Holidays
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The Boogie Cat New Year’s Eve Ball will feature “Boogie Cat” Normal Sylvester, his daughter Lenanne
Miller and Devon Phillips, on New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31 at the Eagles Lodge in north Portland.
Boogie Cat’s New Year’s Eve Ball
Big Blues party
to usher in 2019
Norman Sylvester, the “Boogie
Cat of the Northwest” is throwing
a big Blues party to bring in 2019
with style. You’re invited to join
the fun in semi-formal black and
white or whatever feels right!
The concert with dinner reser-
vations will be held New Year’s
Eve, Monday, Dec. 31 from 7
p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Eagles Lodge
Grand Ballroom, 7611 N. Exeter
and Lombard Street. For tickets,
visit tickettomato.com.
Opening up the musical en-
tertainment will be Mary Flow-
er, an internationally known and
award-winning guitarist who has
made Portland her home since
2004. Flower embodies a luscious
and lusty mix of rootsy, acous-
tic-blues guitar and vocal styles.
Lenanne Miller, a University
of Southern California Masters of
Fine Arts graduate and Norman’s
first born, will follow with a phe-
nomenal Jazz set showing her
strong vocal style.
The Norman Sylvester Review
will bring in the New Year featur-
ing Devin Philips, a New Orleans
protégé who has performed and
recorded with top jazz artists such
as Wynton Marsalis, Eddie Palm-
ieri, the Headhunters, the New
Orleans Jazz Orchestra, musician
Lenny Kravitz and Los Hombres
Caliente.
Born in Louisiana, Sylvester
has been part of Portland’s mu-
sic scene for decades. His earliest
musical influence came from hear-
ing the Spiritual Five, his father’s
gospel group, which played on the
radio and in church in Louisiana.
Other blues influences he would
hear on the back streets and from
the Juke boxes around town were
greats like BB King, Johnny Tay-
lor and T Bone Walker.
Norman’s first professional gig
was in 1963 in high school with
his friend, the late “King of Seat-
tle Blues” Isaac Scott. The Norman
Sylvester band played the first Wa-
terfront Blues Festival in 1987 and
after that performance were invited
to open for BB King at the Arlene
Schnitzer Hall. They had the hon-
or of opening for BB once again
as well as James Cotton, Mavis
Staples, Tower of Power, the Five
Blind Boys and many others.
A New
Kid
at the
Family
Farm
A pint-sized baby goat and his mom are settling into their surroundings at the Oregon Zoo.
Born on Nov. 24, the new kid named Bruce Wayne can be seen exploring the zoo’s Family
Farm with his mom Lilac. His name comes from the DC Comics character — also known as
Batman — in honor of his father Justice (as in DC’s “Justice League,” of which Batman is a
member).