ENTERTAINMENT
Saturday, May 19, 2018
East Oregonian
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Progressive rockers turn to Celtic folk
East Oregonian
Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frank-
furter will take the stage during a
unique performance at Pendleton
Center for the Arts.
Celtic Harps, Rare Instruments
& Wondrous Stories is Saturday,
May 26 at 7 p.m. at the arts cen-
ter, located at 214 N. Main St.,
Pendleton. Admission is $15 and
advanced tickets can be purchased
at www.brownpapertickets.com.
The multi-instrumental duo will
play two Celtic harps, rare instru-
ments — including the Swedish
nyckelharpa and cittern — and
share stories. The audience will
hear traditional instrumental music
from Sweden and Ireland as well
as original compositions. The sto-
rytelling duo will present an eclec-
tic blend of music and tales from
their adventures as modern day
troubadours.
The pair share a background as
progressive rock musicians who
later discovered a love for folk and
world music on acoustic instru-
ments. Six years ago they teamed
up and have performed together at
festivals and concerts ever since.
They each hail from Oregon
and tour extensively, both as a
duo and as collaborations with
Contributed photo
Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter will present Celtic Harps, Rare Instruments & Wondrous Stories
Saturday, May 26 at Pendleton Center for the Arts.
some of the biggest names in folk
and world music. They have sold
well over a million albums com-
bined, and teach at several popu-
lar music camps and conferences.
Their shows leave audiences spell-
bound with their inspiring stories
and enchanting compositions.
Lynne is a multi-instrumental-
ist and performer who has gained
worldwide recognition for her
original music featuring her Celtic
Harp. She is widely acclaimed for
composing memorable and heart-
warming melodies on the Wind-
ham Hill/Sony music labels that
have repeatedly placed high on
Billboard’s new age music charts.
Lynne’s music is heard through-
out the award-winning PBS spe-
cial “Alone in the Wilderness,”
and she has performed on other
soundtracks for commercial TV
and independent films.
Frankfurter is a renowned
Celtic harper and world traveling
multi-instrumentalist who went
from virtuosic progressive rock
violin to intricate Swedish folk and
Celtic music. He began with classi-
cal violin at the age of 3. His early
studies and successes led him to
explore various ethnic and interna-
tional musical genres. Frankfurter
has performed for Prince Charles
and some of the top international
music festivals. He has 17 albums
to his credit, works on film and TV
scores as composer and arranger,
and continues to teach himself to
play a variety of instruments.
For more information, visit
www.lisalynne.com, www.lion-
harp.com or search YouTube.
WHAT TO DO
Festivals
Resort & Casino, off I-84 Exit 216, Mis-
sion.
Heart of the Country Rodeo
Celtic Harps, Rare Instruments
& Wondrous Stories
•Saturday, May 26;
•Quantum 9 Arena, Helix
www.facebook.com
$10/adults, $5/ages 5-12. Calcutta
Friday, May 25 at 7 p.m. at the Helix
Pub for a chance to bid on cowboys.
In addition to adult rodeo events, kids
participate in mutton busting, barrel
racing and stick horse races.
•Saturday, May 26; 7 p.m.
•Pendleton Center for the Arts,
214 N. Main St.
www.brownpapertickets.com
$15. Multi-instrumentalists Lisa
Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter play tra-
ditional instrumental music from Swe-
den and Ireland as well as original
compositions. (See story this page).
Spray Rodeo & East Oregon
Half Marathon
Tylor & the Train Robbers
•May 26-27
•Spray, Oregon
www.sprayrodeo.com
$10/adults, $5/under 12. Rodeo
action both days at 1 p.m. (Friday
slack at 11 a.m.) Event also includes
Buckaroo Breakfast, parade (Satur-
day, 11 a.m.), Cowboy Church (Sun-
day, 8:30 a.m.). Saturday’s marathon
also includes 5K and 10K options.
Contributed photo
Student artists from Nixya’awii Community School
work with Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts master
printer Judith Baumann. The Nixya’awii Community
School Student Print Exhibition opens Friday, May 25
at the gallery in Mission.
Old Iron Show
•Friday, June 1 & Saturday, June
2; 8 a.m.-dusk; Sunday, June 3; 8
a.m.-1 p.m.
•Roy Raley Park, 1205 S.W. Court
Ave., Pendleton
www.heritagestationmuseum.org
Free. Features exhibitors from
across the region with everything from
antique farm equipment and automo-
biles to engines and fixtures. Includes
demonstrations and more.
Print exhibition
features student work
MISSION — Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts is
showcasing prints produced by a select group of students
from the Nixya’awii Community School.
The Nixya’awii Community School Student Print Exhi-
bition features Ermia Butler, Dancing Star Leighton, Ella-
Mae Looney, Cloe McMichael, Kylie Mountainchief and
Tyanna Van Pelt. During the past school year, these students
have been learning printmaking in the Crow’s Shadow stu-
dio under the direction of master printer Judith Baumann.
The exhibit opens Friday, May 25 from 5-7 p.m. at
Crow’s Shadow, 48004 St. Andrews Road, Mission. The
prints will remain on display through June 29.
Prints will be available for purchase, with 100 percent of
the print sale going directly to the student artists. The exhi-
bition can also be viewed during Crow’s Shadow’s regu-
lar hours Monday through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission to the Crow’s Shadow gallery is free.
The students have been visiting Crow’s Shadow once a
week to build their knowledge of printmaking — making
multi-color linocuts and silkscreen prints. Each student art-
ist has been instructed in the technical aspects of the pro-
cesses and have produced their own limited-edition prints.
The resulting works are of remarkable quality and exem-
plify the creative potential of these talented young artists,
said Nika Blasser, Crow’s Shadow marketing director.
For more information, contact 541-276-3954, nika@
crowsshadow.org or visit www.crowsshadow.org.
Umatilla County Pioneer Days
•June 1-2
•Weston City Park, Elliott Park &
downtown Weston
www.westonoregon.com
Free admission. Firemen’s break-
fast, parade (Saturday, 10 a.m.), ven-
dor booths, carnival games, car show,
benefit barbecue and music with Matt
Borden at the Long Branch Cafe (Sat-
urday, 9 p.m.).
Art, Museums &
Authors
“Wandering Through Nature’s
Solitude”
•Thursday, May 24; 5-7 p.m.,
opening reception
•Monday-Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.;
Saturdays; 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
•Pendleton Art + Frame, 36 S.W.
Court Ave.
Free. Features nature and wildlife
photography of Pendleton photogra-
pher. Runs through July 7.
Nixya’awii Community School
Student Print Exhibition
•Friday, May 25; 5-7 p.m., opening
reception
•Monday-Fridays; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
•Crow’s Shadow Institute of the
Arts, 48004 St Andrews Road, Mis-
sion
www.crowsshadow.org
Free. Features student prints
created under the guidance of mas-
ter printer Judith Baumann. Runs
through June 29.
Open Regional Photography
Exhibit
•Tuesday-Fridays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.;
Saturdays, noon-4 p.m.
•Pendleton Center for the Arts,
214 N. Main St.
www.pendletonarts.org
Free. Features 125 photos, taken
by 65 adults and teens from across
the region. Runs through June 29.
Gallery visitors can vote for people’s
choice award.
Annual BMCC Student Art
Show
•Monday-Thursdays, 9:30 a.m.-
1:30 p.m.
•Betty Feves Memorial Gallery,
Blue Mountain Community College,
2411 N.W. Carden Ave., Pendleton.
Free. Includes drawings, paint-
ings, sculptures and ceramics. Gal-
lery visitors can vote for the People’s
Choice Award. Gallery also open by
appointment (541-278-5952). Runs
through May 31.
•Monday-Saturdays,
p.m., regular hours
10
a.m.-5
Will West Groove Trio
•Wednesday, May 30; 7-9 p.m.
•Great Pacific Wine & Coffee Co.,
403 S. Main St., Pendleton
No cover. All ages. The trio is pro-
moting a new live album. Also, Port-
land Cello Project’s Skip vonKuske on
cello and mandolin, Don Henson on
percussion, xylophone, typewriter and
more. The result is high octane folk,
roots, pop and jazz grooves.
Tyler Brooks
•Thursday, May 31; 7 p.m.
•40 Taps, 337 S.W. Emigrant Ave.,
Pendleton
No cover. Pendleton singer-song-
writer to perform. Jack Simons
Open Mic at GP
•Thursday, May 31; 7-9 p.m.
•Great Pacific Wine & Coffee Co.,
403 S. Main St., Pendleton
No cover. All ages are welcome
during the last Thursday of each
month. Bring your instrument, voice,
family and friends.
Night life
Midway Charity Pool Tourna-
ment
•Saturday, May 19; 2-5 p.m.
•Midway Bar & Grill, 1750 N. First
St., Hermiston
$10. Proceeds to benefit Herm-
iston Desert Shrine Club for the
Shriners Hospital in Portland. Event
includes a spaghetti feed for $5 and
raffle. (541-567-5180).
Karaoke w/DJ David
•Saturdays; 8 p.m.
•Riverside Sports Bar, 1501 Sixth
St., Umatilla
Saturday Trivia Nights
•Tamástslikt Cultural Institute,
near Wildhorse Resort & Casino.
www.tamastslikt.org
$10/adults, $9/senior citizens, $6/
youths. Traveling exhibition from the
Smithsonian Institution explores the
beauty and essential nature of water,
the challenges of maintaining global
water sources and promoting conver-
sation. Runs through July 14.
Grill, 149 E. Main St., Hermiston
thepheasant.ticketleap.com
$10. The CPB returns to keep the
party going during Horse Sale Week-
end.
The Wasteland Kings
•Saturday, May 19; 9 p.m.
•Hamley Steakhouse & Saloon, 8
S.E. Court Ave., Pendleton
No cover.
Naughty Pine
Music
Mix It Up!
•Saturday, May 19; 6-9 p.m.
•Hodgen Distributing, 4340 West-
gate, Pendleton
www.oregoneastsymphony.org
$40. The 21-and-older Oregon
East Symphony fundraiser features
Pendleton alt-country band Imperial
Twang and cocktail hour music by
jazz singer-songwriter Lincoln Barr.
A barbecued pulled pork meal will be
served. Also features live/silent auc-
tions. Advance tickets at Pendleton
Art + Frame, symphony website and
www.brownpapertickets.com
The Wiz Kid
•Saturday, May 19; 8 p.m. No cov-
er
•Wildhorse Sports Bar, Wildhorse
Resort & Casino, off I-84 Exit 216, Mis-
sion.
Cory Peterson Band
“H2O Today”
•Saturday, May 26; 9 p.m.
•The Pheasant Blue Collar Bar &
Grill, 149 E. Main St., Hermiston
No cover. Eastern Oregon kid
comes home for local tour. Features
Tylor (Bushman) Ketchum and his
band, who released their first album
last year. “Gravel” features gritty
Americana and outlaw honky tonk.
•Saturday, May 19; 9 p.m.
•The Pheasant Blue Collar Bar &
•Thursday, May 24; 7 p.m.
•40 Taps, 337 S.W. Emigrant Ave.,
Pendleton
No cover. Music features a mix-
ture of lover’s rock and high energy
reggae.
Tylor & the Train Robbers
•Friday, May 25; 9 p.m.
•Hamley Steakhouse & Saloon, 8
S.E. Court Ave., Pendleton
No cover.
Lincoln Barr & Andrew Nor-
sworthy
•Saturday, May 26; 7-10 p.m.
•Great Pacific Wine & Coffee Co.,
403 S. Main St., Pendleton
No cover. All ages. Pendleton mu-
sician Lincoln Barr invites his good
buddy, who he describes as a stellar
singer/songwriter/guitarist, to Pend-
leton to provide a glimpse of what
makes the town so special.
•Saturdays; 9 p.m.
•Midway Bar & Grill, 1750 N. First
St., Hermiston
No cover. Join in for trivia fun and
a chance to win prizes. Also features
DJ music.
Wino Wednesdays
•Wednesdays, 2-6 p.m.
•Echo Ridge Cellars, 551 N. Thiel-
sen St., Echo
Karaoke at the Packard
•1st/3rd Wednesday, 9 p.m.-mid-
night
•The Packard Tavern, 118 S.E.
Court Ave., Pendleton
No cover.
Thirsty Thursdays
•Third Thursday; 5-8 p.m.
•Midway Bar & Grill, 1750 N. First
St., Hermiston
No cover. Special guest breweries
offer tastings.
LOL Comedy Jam
•Thursdays; 8 p.m.
•Wildhorse Sports Bar, Wildhorse
Resort & Casino, off I-84 Exit 216, Mis-
sion.
No cover. May 24: Alex Elkin,
Spenser O’Neill; May 31: Harry Riley,
Jynx Jenkins
Wine tasting
•Fridays, 4-8 p.m.
•Sno Road Winery, 111 W. Main
St., Echo.
Jessie Leigh
Karaoke w/DJ David
•Friday, May 25; Saturday, May
26; Sunday, May 27; 8 p.m. No cover
•Wildhorse Sports Bar, Wildhorse
•Fridays; 8 p.m.
•Riverside Sports Bar, 1501 Sixth
St., Umatilla
Jonathan Olley/Lucasfilm via AP
Alden Ehrenreich appears in a
scene from “Solo: A Star Wars
Story.”
MOVIE REVIEW
Battle for the
soul, tone of
‘Star Wars’
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
CANNES, France — When J.J.
Abrams was a “Star Wars” nov-
ice, Lawrence Kasdan, the writer
of “The Empire Strikes Back” and
“The Return of the Jedi,” had some
advice for him: “Star Wars” is not
important.
“But what is important is the
way people feel about it,” said
Kasdan. “And they are very com-
mitted to it. What they’re commit-
ted to is a certain kind of film.”
The question of what constitutes
a “Star Wars” film, how it should
feel and what it should sound like
was at the center of the battle over
the Han Solo spinoff “Solo: A Star
Wars Story” and the dispute that
resulted in directors Chris Miller
and Phil Lord being replaced in
mid-production with Ron Howard.
Though the pace and improvisa-
tional manner of Lord and Miller’s
direction was part of the clash, the
main issue was, simply, tone.
Lord and Miller, the filmmak-
ing duo of irreverent, highly meta
comedies like “21 Jump Street”
and “The Lego Movie,” wanted to
push “Solo” into “Guardians of the
Galaxy” territory. Kasdan did not.
“You can have fun with the
tone but you never make fun of the
tone, in my world,” Kasdan said in
an interview alongside his son and
co-writer John Kasdan, the morn-
ing after the “Solo” premiere at the
Cannes Film Festival. “We live in a
very meta culture and there’s a ten-
dency to make fun of these things
before they’re even anything.”
The pains of finding the balance
between recapturing the feel of
Lucas’ original trilogy and allowing
a new generation of filmmakers to
put their own stamp on “Star Wars”
may be the most pressing creative
issue before Lucasfilm president
Kathleen Kennedy. Beneath the
billions of dollars in box office and
merchandise, there are hints of a
growing existential crisis in the far,
far away galaxy as it gets further
and further removed from George
Lucas’ original vision.
The first spinoff, “Rogue One:
A Star Wars Story,” saw Gareth
Edwards booted for Tony Gil-
roy. Colin Trevorrow (“Jurassic
World”) was to helm 2019’s Epi-
sode IX before “Force Awakens”
director J.J. Abrams was brought
back in the fold.