June 08, 2022
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Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Juneteenth Benefit
Concert Set
Podcast Radio Show Success
Jazz composer and pianist Darrell Grant will give a special perfor-
mance on Juneteenth as part of a benefit concert for the Black
United Fund of Oregon and the introduction his new trio, DG3.
Darrell Grant trio
debuts; recording
celebrated
Portland jazz composer, pia-
nist and Oregon Governor's Arts
Awardee Darrell Grant will con-
tinue his Soul Restoration Proj-
ect with the debut of a new trio,
DG3, with Machado Mijiga on
drums and Sam Arnold on bass,
coming Juneteenth, June 19, at
The 1905 jazz club, located at
830 N. Shaver St.
Two shows will celebrate the
upcoming release of Grant’s re-
cording The New Black: Dar-
rell Grant Live at Birdland with
its first single “The New Black”
available digitally on Friday, June
17. As part of the Soul Resto-
ration mission to build community
through access and inclusion, the
admission to the first 7 p.m. per-
formance will be pay-what-you-
will. The cover charge for a sec-
ond, 9 p.m. performance is $20.
Ticket purchases will benefit the
Black United Fund of Oregon and
are available at The1905.org.
With the new DG3 trio, Grant
draws on the formative influenc-
es of piano giants Ahmad Jamal,
Ramsey Lewis, Joe Sample, and
Herbie Hancock, and blends in
contemporary sounds of a new
generation of voices like Cory
Henry and Robert Glasper.
Grant’s 30-year catalog of
original compositions and ar-
rangements are also fuel for the
inventive explorations of drum-
mer/producer Machado Mijiga
and the electric bass virtuosity of
Sam Arnold. The DG3 travers-
es from jazz, African, and soul
grooves, to Grant’s harmonic
reimaginings of pop classics by
Laura Mvula, James Taylor, and
John Lennon.
For more information on Dar-
rell Grant, visit darrellgrant.com.
Let’s Talk About Race, the
Portland produced podcast
and radio show, has soared to
new heights, recently winning
awards from three world orga-
nizations for its successful com-
munity radio and civil rights
programming.
A production of Grassroots
News NW and KBOO Commu-
nity Radio, Let’s Talk won three
2022 Hometown Media Awards
from the Alliance for Com-
munity Media Foundation; the
‘Best Podcast’ award from the
Bright International Film Festi-
val in London; the ‘Outstanding
Achievement’ award from the
Swedish International Film Fes-
tival; and ‘Honorable Mention’
from the Amsterdam Internation-
al Film Festival.
Featuring rigorous analysis of
news coverage, and the role race
plays in politics, life, and society,
Let’s Talk About Race is avail-
able on Pacifica Radio Network,
Soundcloud, Apple Podcast, and
PRX, and currently airs twice
monthly on KBOO in Portland.
The roundtable line-up fea-
tures LaNita Duke, award-win-
ning multimedia producer for
Grassroots News NW; Dianne
Johnson a professor and journal-
ist from Texas; Althea Billings, a
journalist and radio producer in
Portland; and Rev. Cecil Prescod,
a talk-show host in Portland.