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Google Trends: Portland Music Edition

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2008-12-13 00:25:52 by NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL in local Cut
This week Google released its 2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist , a list summerizing the years most popular searches. In the matter of Top Sources for Political News, Fox ranked number one in searches this year. Scary! Lets move on to fluffier stuff: Twilight was the third fastest rising image search term of the year, no doubt fueled mostly by...
 
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Portland Jazz Festival: SAVED!

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2008-10-01 18:40:21 by CASEY JARMAN in local Cut
I spent a lot of time at last years Portland Jazz Festival. Not only was it packed with fine, adventurous music (I caught Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, the Classical Jazz Quartetall really fun shows), but it unveiled the Portland Jazz Orchestra as a year-round, fest-supported ensemble. The groups debut performance as official festival homies...
 
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Does Seattles Music Scene Have a Portland Problem?

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2008-02-26 22:06:16 by CASEY JARMAN in local Cut
Is this just another Seattle-scene obit or are they really onto something So asks Athima Chansanchai of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a recent blog post . Shes a little worried after reading a Corey DuBrowa-written feature in this months Paste Magazine that calls into question the relevance of Seattles music scene. That article pinpoints a...
 
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Alaska Airlines to the rescue: Portland Jazz Fest revived

2008-10-01 13:44:06 by Jazz beyond Jazz in Jazz Beyond Jazz
 
The Portland Jazz Festival , pronounced dead on September 8 due to the pullout of Seattle-based title sponsor Qwest Communications, now rises from its ashes on the wings of Alaska Airlines and an advisory board of local businesses and individuals. According to a press release issued today by PDX Jazz, the fest's umbrella organization, "the 6th...
 
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Bad news from the Northwest: Portland Jazz Fest dies

2008-09-08 13:17:16 by Jazz beyond Jazz in Jazz Beyond Jazz
 
The demise of the Portland Jazz Festival was announced today by press release from its membership umbrella organization PDX Jazz, cancelling plans for February 2009 due to the pullout by title sponsor Qwest Communications. Despite concerted attempts by festival producer Bill Royston, no other funder stepped up to support the five-year-old...
 
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The Former Portland Jazz Festival

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2008-09-09 08:05:00 by Rifftides in Rifftides
The Portland Jazz Festival is no more. Word went out that next year's edition has been scrubbed and the festival will not be revived. Here is part of the official announcement Operations and planning for the 2009 February event could not continue because of a decline in funding and sponsorship support. Shortfalls accumulated to a total need of...
 
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Rives / Matthews / Jenkins / Hannafin in Portland

2008-01-20 09:20:26 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
From Portlands Creative Music Guild The Creative Music Guild and the Portland Art Center Present: Wade Matthews & Stephane Rives Duo w/ JP Jenkins & Matt Hannafin Rives/Matthews duo joined by JP Jenkins & Matt Hannafin at 8PM on Thursday, February 14th, 2008 at the The Portland Art Center at 32 NW 5th Street in Portland. Tickets are $12.00 for...
 
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Portland Cello Project

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2008-08-08 13:31:00 by Captain Obvious in Captain Obvious
You Should Know If you love indie music (which you probably do, since you're on this blog) and you're like me and think that cello is one of the more elegant instruments out there, then mark your calender for August 12th, which is the date Portland Cello Project's self-titled album is set to be released. The 8-16 member cello ensemble...
 
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Dazed and Confused Mag Knows Portland (And Has an E*Rock Mixtape to Prove it!)

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2008-01-09 20:45:43 by CASEY JARMAN in local Cut
Im not so hip. I hadnt heard of Dazed & Confused , the UK magazine that calls itself perhaps the most influential monthly magazine in the world. Not sure about that, but the magazines website, Dazed Digital, is certainly hip enough to dig its claws into Portland and come out with. In an ongoing series of posts dubbed Portland Special, D&C has...
 
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