04/15/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // The Boogie Cat, Norman Sylvester on Sunday, April 18th's Bravo Youth Orchestra's Crossing Borders event....he'll also sing a little for us.
04/08/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // Has your creativity taken a nose-dive during the pandemic? Therapist Dino Paris explains why and offers some ways out
04/01/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM DANTONI // Siren Nation's Artistic Director December Carson on their 14th Annual Billie Holiday Tribute show, Saturday, April 3.
03/25/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // JD Stubenberg and Lisa Boyle are still at work on the new Jimmy Mak's four years after it closed. That's a ray of hope in bad times for music and musiciains. JD tells us about it.
03/11/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // George Colligan, Jazz composer, pianist and teacher has a new album as a leader and drummer with his band Theoretical Planets
03/01/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // John Averill, March Fourth bandleader and founder talks about Thursday's streaming 18th anniversary show featuring the best of MF's last three Crystal Ballroom anniversary shows.
02/25/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // Curtis Salgado's new album Damage Control is a brilliant, inspiring, funkCurtis Salgado rocks on: it's a rocking, inspiring, funky, Bluesy work of art. Perhaps his best. Listen ...
02/19/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // PDX Jazz Executive Director tell us about all the music in the 2021 Portland Jazz Festival February 17-27. Listen to him run down the whole festival. All the guide you'll ever need.
02/18/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // Meet singer/songwriter Carl Solomon. He's part of Soldier Songs and Voices an Artichoke weekly online ZOOM event.
02/11/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // John Stowell has not missed a beat, a new album, lots of teaching and gigs including one on Saturday 2/20 at The Sea Crab House in Seaside.
02/04/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // Jeff Langston can play in any genre on his bass and has toured the world with Antony and the Johnsons. Back in his home in Oregon he has built a following playing with a lot of others ...
01/28/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // Moses Barrett is the Junebugs' band leader. Listen to how that led to helping to found Left Door Streaming, one of the most active live-streaming companies in Oregon.
01/21/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // Oregon's Jarrod Lawson has a new album called Be the Change. If you've been waiting for a new album from Jarrod, he'll tell you all about it. Includes the title tune at the end ...
01/08/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // Ben Landsverk is one-half of Wonderly with Jim Brunberg. They make music for films...just about for everything. They have new music and videos out now. He also is co-founder of Low Bar ...
01/07/2021 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // Composer Andrew Durkin and Saxophonist Mary-Sue Tobin on the long-awaited release of the Quadraphonnes/Dukin collaboration. Listen to a track at the end of the conversation.
12/31/2020 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // The second of our two best Coffeeshop Conversations of 2020. Tony (TC) Coleman, BB King's drummer for 35 years talks about BLM, racism, Mr. King and a whole lot more. Gather 'round ...
12/23/2020 | 0 comments
From April of 2020, Storm Large right in the thick of the first wave of Covid-19. First of two best-of' 2020 Coffeeshop Conversations. Next one runs New Year's Day..
12/17/2020 | 1 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // Final new episode for 2020 with someone who has been facilitating our recordings at Artichoke, and a musician himself...Jason Alberger.
12/08/2020 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // Jana Cushman of Darkswoon on....well, a million things. You'll like her, dark though she may be.
11/27/2020 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // Catón Lyles, percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, actor visits Cafe Artichoke for a genre-bending conversation.