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09/03/2025

Debra Giannini's Semi-Farewell Tour / Coffeeshop Conversations #443

By TOM D'ANTONI // After half-a-lifetime in Portland, Debra Giannini is leaving town. For good? TBA. Her Savoring Time tour begins in Portland on Sunday 9/21 at Rose City Book Pub, 6pm NE Freemont and 13th and then Tuesday 9/30, 6:30pm at Snugg for a Songwriters in the Round with Rozz Rozabek and Steve Wilkinson. It ends in Kansas also TBA.

First of all, thanks for all the Birthday wishes. Much appreciated. Of course, it’s another reminder of my age. Not much I can do about that. Thanks also once again to Paul K Ward for recording and editing at his studioblue in Northeast Portland as is our guest. I’m at my desk again in Northwest Portland. You know lots of musicians moved to Portland because of our music scene, at least in part. Today we’re talking to Debra Giannini who has lived all over the place, moving to Portland in 1990. She had multiple careers, the musical one being as a singer/songwriter and folk music artist. But she’s about to leave town, to a degree. And as such she’s about to launch a farewell Portland tour, singing and playing guitar and baritone ukulele. She’s calling it “The Savoring Time Tour.” It begins in Portland and ends (if there is such a thing) in Kansas where she will light like a butterfly on a leaf. That seems like a good time for me to stop talking and let her explain herself

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