Cultural Calendar

Parkrose Marketplace is a monthly community market. It’s a Saturday and Sunday outdoor market open from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM with over 60 vendors, live music, great food, and treasures of all kinds to be found. Art, craft, clothing, jewelry, handmade soaps and lotions, spices and sauces, and much, much more to be discovered – and purchased! Leashed and picked-up-after dogs are always welcomed. A family friendly beverage garden for you to have lunch and a beverage. Our great vendors Level Beer, Catman Cellars wine and Wild Roots distillery are here to serve. You’ll love the diversity of our vendors and shoppers!

All Celebration Works concerts are FREE and open to the public.
Join us in person or online at http://www.firstpresportland.org/music-arts/celebration-works

Mary Flower, internationally-known musician and teacher, will sing and play you through the music that paved the way to jazz, and later, rock and roll. The early guitar players like Blind Blake and Rev. Gary Davis mirrored the piano players of the day, performing on six strings what nobody thought possible.

Our Community Spotlight is Menucha Camp and Conference Center’s Music Programing! Check out their Blues in the Gorge program at https://menucha.org/programs/blues!

Sir John Tavener (1944–2013)
Panikhida (Choral Memorial Service) (1986)

John Michael Boyer (b. 1978)
Byzantine Chants for a Funeral, in English (2013)

We all need ways to grieve the losses due to COVID-19. Cappella Romana offers here the rarely heard funeral service for mixed voices by the late Sir John Tavener, with Byzantine funeral chants  composed by John Michael Boyer for Sir John’s funeral in 2013. These works help us to embrace courage and hope for the future.

Performed in memory of those who have died from COVID-19.

Cascadia Composers is excited to announce the opening concert of its 2021-2022 season: Crossing Paths—New Music of Healing and Renewal. This unique concert experience will be our first live event in many months and will take place at the Leach Botanical Garden (6704 SE 122nd Ave, Portland, OR 97236-5037) on Sunday, September 26th at 5 p.m.

Audience members may stroll the woodland grounds in a comtemplative setting between musical ensembles and sound installations creating an atmosphere of meditation and reflection.

Hear soothing and upbeat performances by Justin Bulava, clarinet, Amelia Lukas, flute, Alexis Mahler, violin Hannah Penn, mezzo-soprano, Kate Petak, harp and Dylan Rieck,
cello.

Soak in new sounds from composers David Bernstein, Antonio Celaya, Jay Derderian, Theresa Koon, Kevin Bryant Lay, Mei-ling Lee, Lisa Marsh, Jan Mittelstaedt, Paul Safar, Walter Saul, Greg A Steinke, Mark Vigil and Linda Woody.

Gate opens at 4 p.m. with the music beginning at 5 p.m.

Before the music begins, guests are welcome to explore the upper and lower gardens and enjoy a sound installation courtesy of Daniel Brugh. Guests are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs and may pack in a picnic to enjoy on the upper garden grounds. Alcoholic beverages are permitted but no food or beverages will be sold on-site.

At 5 pm audience members will rotate through performances by three different musical ensembles spaced in different locations around the upper garden: solo flute; mezzo-soprano and harp; and violin, clarinet and cello. Concert guests may experience the music at each location in any order they choose. Each ensemble’s set will last approximately 20 minutes, with two 10-minute intermissions.