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02/24/2026

Terry Currier: What becomes of Music Millennium after he leaves

By Tom D'Antoni // Coffeeshop Conversations #451 -- For decades Terry Currier has been the central figure in Portland's music scene. Now he is gong to find another owner for Music Millennium. Why? How? Who?

This was supposed to have run a couple of weeks ago but that awful flu intervened, both for me and Paul K Ward...and we were never even in the same room together.

We're both back at work. Sorry to keep you waiting.

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A couple of weeks ago we got the news that Music Millennium owner Terry Currier was, at 70 years of age, looking to the future of Music Millennium and handing off to another owner  or owners the home of recorded music in Oregon…after forty-two years at that magnificent museum of music on East Burnside.

I’m at my desk in Northwest Portland, at the controls engineering, producing and editing is Paul K Ward in his Studio Blue in Northeast Portland.

And in his office at Music Millennium is our guest Terry Currier to tell us how all of this happened, how he sees his future and that of the record store.

He’s no stranger to Coffeeshop Conversations. He’s been a guest once a year for …well for EVER. Welcome

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