New Monsoon w/ Poor Man's Whiskey @ Aladdin Theater ~ Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

San Francisco’s rock quintet, New Monsoon, has been transforming audiences across the country into dedicated fans with a relentless touring schedule. Their exhilarating marriage of acoustic and electric instruments comes together in an irresistible blend of sophisticated songcraft, inventive musical exploration and down home rock-n-roll. The band’s just released album New Monsoon V was produced, mixed and engineered by John Cutler, best known for his production work with The Grateful Dead on the platinum album In the Dark (co-produced with Jerry Garcia) and Without a Net (co-produced with Phil Lesh) and the Jerry Garcia Band’s How Sweet It Is. Jambase raves that “New Monsoon V moves with muscular dexterity, avoiding overplaying at every turn, always serving the songs and one another in a way only thousands of shows and countless hours of woodshedding can produce.” Online tickets are available here.

Portland Cello Project

Aladdin Theater
August 8th, 2008
Nico Muhly

Aladdin Theater
August 15th, 2008
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FRIDAY, JULY 25  
Courtney Jones
Aladdin Theater
$10.00 adv / $12.00 dos * 8:00 PM
Courtney Jones' unique sound and songwriting style has been compared to Sarah McLachlan meets KT Tunstall, with a hint of Keane thrown in just for good measure. Her upcoming record boasts a roster of talent usually reserved for a major label artist with a major label budget. She is neither...yet. Peter Malick, who early on spotted, gigged with, and later produced the then unknown Norah Jones just before her runaway success with "Come Away With Me", is producing the 12 track debut album. Mark Needham, who struck multi-platinum success with several mixes on The Killers critically acclaimed and Grammy-nominated "Hot Fuss" album (including the mega-hit "Mr. Brightside") is on board to mix the tracks. Jones' backing musicians include Lucinda Williams' current touring rhythm section, Butch Norton and Dave Sutton. Peter Malick adds his guitar genius, and Stevie Blacke, whose recent work includes projects with the ultra-hot Colbie Caillat, Anna Nalick, Timbaland, and Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson, provides the lush string arrangements for her songs. Paula Cole's touring bassist John Ossman and the legendary Bob Glaub make guest appearances as well. The 21-year-old Miss Jones wrote each of the songs on the album.

  SATURDAY, JULY 26

Live Wire!
Aladdin Theater
$15.00 adv / $15.00 dos * 8:00 PM
"Variety for the ears, Vaudeville for the mind", Portland's own eclectic radio variety show recorded here at the Aladdin and aired on OPB radio throughout the state, is back for another season of intellect meets irreverence; interviews with intriguing meets oddball, extraordinary musical guests; original sketch comedy with Faces for Radio Theater, and house band Ralph Huntley and the Mutton Chops. Billed by the Oregonian as "the retro-hip kid sister of A Prairie Home Companion," why don't you come on down and see what all the fuss is about? www.livewireradio.org for schedule and information. Reserved seats are available for $25.

THURSDAY, JULY 31  
David Bromberg and Special Guest, Angel Band
Nordstrom Hall - Seattle, WA
$37.50 adv / $40.00 dos * 8:00 PM
He can awe an audience into pindrop silence with a solo acoustic blues or goose his fans to their feet with a bluegrass reel by his Quartet or an R&B romp by his Big Band. David Bromberg has spent his life absorbing traditional music from its surviving creators and their recordings so convincingly – while adding his own instrumental twists – that he has become a part of musical tradition itself, as close to the source of American roots music as anyone alive. Folk, blues, bluegrass, ragtime, you name it – he has become The Real Deal. Three long-awaited words: David Bromberg’s back! Roots music fans around the world rejoiced in the 2007 release of Try Me One More Time, the first new CD in almost two decades by guitarist/vocalist David Bromberg, a master practitioner of folk, blues, bluegrass and other musical genres. This new recording is undiluted David: one man, one acoustic guitar, and a repertoire of mostly traditional material performed with the intimate, assured touch of a musician who has nothing to prove. The members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) was obviously impressed: in December 2007, Try Me One More Time was named a finalist in the “Best Traditional Folk Recording” category of the GRAMMY Awards.





Aimee Mann




Priscilla Ahn
LoLa's Room
August 27th, 2008 - 8PM



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