August 03, 2022
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Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Lizzo Doubles
Portland Performances
Grammy award winner Isaiah Sharkley
Concert Winds Down Season
Last summer
concert in 3
part series
The 2022 Argyle Summer
Concert Series is coming to a
close. Isaiah Sharkey will be
taking center stage outdoors on
the Tasting House patio. His
music fuses together his back-
ground in rock, gospel, jazz,
R&B, blues, and funk to cre-
ate an original sound. He has
worked with D'Angelo on his
Black Messiah album, which
won the 2015 Grammy Award
for Best R&B Album, also giv-
ing Isaiah his 1st Grammy win
for his contributions.
The event will take place Sat-
Soulful Artist’s come
together for concert
The Dazz Band and Ronnie
Laws will be performing at
the Soulful Cup R&B Concert
on September 3 2022 at the
Colewood Golf Course and
the doors will open at 11am.
The Dazz Band has performed
since 1976 and continues
to perform today. The Dazz
Band's first album for Motown
was Invitation to Love (1980).
With a list of hits such as Let
the Music Play and the sin-
gle "Knock! Knock!" which
reached the top 50.
Their single “Let It Whip”
reached No. 1 on the US Bill-
board R&B chart and won a
Grammy Award for Best R&B
Performance by a Duo or
Group with Vocals. The band
released "Drop It" in 2019,
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urday August 13th at 7:00pm at
the Argyle Tasting House. They
have partnered with PDX Jazz.
The producers of the Portland
Jazz Festival put together an ex-
citing, energetic fun-filled line-
up for summer 2022. Admission
is $60, (less with a Members
Discount), including two glasses
of wine. Food from Koi Fusion
will be available for purchase.
Award winning singer and rapper, Lizzo
2022 “BET Awards.” Lizzo,
who is planning to perform at
the Moda center on November
4, will now also perform at the
venue on November 10. The
second Portland date is part of
Lizzo’s “The Special Tour,”
which begins September 23.
Grammy
award-winning
Lizzo tweeted that tickets
singer Lizzo will be doing her sold out quickly at three lo-
first tour in three years. Liz- cations, Portland being one of
zo recently appeared on the them which is why she added
“Today” show, performing in the additional performance.
concert to promote the release Tickets for Lizzo’s second
of her new album, “Special.” Portland date are available
She has also performed at the through Ticketmaster.
Lizzo adds
additional
concert date at
the Moda Center
New Shows take Audience
on Sensational Journey
Opinionated
Judge
by
Darleen
Ortega
Ronnie Laws
Imago Theatre
presents
Voiceover and
Lumen Odyssey
“Voiceover uses inner monologues in an extremist fashion to
expose the muddled minds of a choreographer” - quote and image
by Imago Theare
In a dance or theatrical per-
formance, whose intentions are
reflected in the movements of
the humans on stage? To what
degree are the performers exer-
cising agency? To what degree
are they instruments for the in-
tentions of another—the chore-
ographer, the director? To what
extent are any of those intentions
conscious? Honest?
Such questions were the play-
ful preoccupations of “Voice-
over,” which played through
July 30 at Imago Theater and is
the second of three new works
of experimental theater present-
ed by Jerry Mouawad (Imago
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