LEFTOVER SALMON with special guest: JUNE 28

The sound of Colorado's legendary Leftover Salmon is unmistakable: fluid, loose-limbed, and simultaneously rootsy and daring. Fusing an unrivaled improvisational fervor to a dizzying combination of bluegrass, Cajun, funk, Southern rock, boogie, Caribbean, Latin, and jazz influences, Leftover Salmon has earned a legion of diehard fans, critical accolades, and a reputation as one of the most exciting, engaging concert experiences to ever hit the road.

TICKETS:   
General Admission $24. Doors open at 6pm. Show starts at 6:30pm. Tickets available at Newport Avenue Market, in-person or charge-by-phone, 1121 NW Newport Ave, Bend,  541-382-3940  

Band website: http://www.leftoversalmon.com/

BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS with special guest: AUG. 1

Colorado rock band Big Head Todd & The Monsters (“Bittersweet,” “Broken Hearted Savior,” “Resignation Superman”) are known for their timeless songwriting, powerful live performances, and unique sound – all reasons the band has garnered a sizable loyal following during their two decades making music.  Today, the ever-evolving outfit continues to sell out venues coast to coast, including their always-epic annual shows at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. In fall 2011, Big Head Todd and The Monsters helped make history when they performed “Blue Sky” to the crew of space shuttle Discovery, becoming the only band to ever play a shuttle Wake Up Call live from NASA’s Mission Control.

Also last year, Big Head Todd and The Monsters gathered some of the greatest living blues musicians to record the critically acclaimed 100 Years of Robert Johnson (Ryko/Big Records), a stirring tribute album featuring 10 potent interpretations of some of the most vital and durable music of the past century. Big Head Blues Club, as the ad hoc ensemble called itself, featured a rotating cast of both blues legends and keepers of the flame including B.B. King, the now deceased Hubert Sumlin, Honeyboy Edwards (who also recently passed, at age 96) and many others. 

TICKETS:
General Admission $26. Doors open at 6pm. Show starts at 6:30pm. Tickets available at Newport Avenue Market, in-person or charge-by-phone, 1121 NW Newport Ave, Bend,  541-382-3940 

Band website: www.bigheadtodd.com

As early as her first album, Dreamland, in 1996, her husky voice, her way of telling the story of her life, her failures, her losses, her insistence on the precariousness of existence, endow her with the aura of a princess of postmodern melancholy, of a duchess of heart-rending despair. Neither a show-off nor a crooner, between jazz and folk, she has created a very special kind of bittersweet climate. The neo-Billie Holiday label cropped up quickly because it was easy. “I was looking for a model to become a woman, and it was Billie Holiday who showed me the way. The school of Billie is a school of life, more than a school of singing,” she acknowledges. However, to find the real key, one must look to Bessie Smith, the Queen of Blues, discovered when Madeleine was very young.

General Admission $25. Doors open at 6pm. Show starts at 6:30pm. Tickets available at Newport Avenue Market, in-person or charge-by-phone, 1121 NW Newport Ave, Bend,  541-382-3940  

Band website: http://madeleinepeyroux.com/