Before we go on Summer Vacation in July and August, this very special edition of Three Friends Monday: Caffeinated Art will be an extended version of the very popular Show and Tell Open Mic – it’s our way of saying “thank you” to everyone who has made this the consistently high-quality event that it has become.
We’ll begin at 7:00 and go until we run out of people who want to share (or 9:45, whichever comes first).
7 p.m., Three Friends Coffee House,
SE 12th and Ash, Portland, Oregon
7 p.m., Three Friends Coffee House,
SE 12th and Ash, Portland, Oregon
Tags: Christine Homitsu White, Franny French, Jon Ross, Luke Lefler, Mary Slocum, Norval Willey, Patrick Bocarde, RoseDrop Rust
Unfortunately, we have not been posting any new podcasts since April 2010 while we, foiled by our own success with this program, pondered how to proceed. We have decided to take down some of our older files, starting with 2008 and working forward. We are planning to make this archive accessible but eventually this site will only be hosting podcasts that are less than ten weeks old. Our podcasts have always been free to download, so we suggest taking advantage while you can. To those of you who have linked to specific files: please be advised may soon find those links dead. And to all of you who have enjoyed and supported the podcasting: thank you, and please bear with us through this transition – all of this requires a lot of volunteer time to execute, and we appreciate your patience.
Luke Lefler,
Producer, Digital Media
Show and Tell Gallery
Tags: Luke Lefler
Michael Hagmeier is a mulit-instrumentalist and composer who plays didjeridu, percussion, and guitar. As a composer he blends music from world traditions with western chamber music. He has played at Seattle’s Folklife Festival, and Monterey’s One World, One People festival, as well as various spiritual retreats on the west coast, and regularly plays guitar and percussion for the Portland Dances of Universal Peace circle. Michael also occasionally plays with Meydan, a group that plays traditional Turkish and Balkan music.
Kristen Huerta is a flutist and aspiring supervillan under the tutelage of LeeAnn Sterling; hatching her world domination schemes one sonata at a time; except for today, she has progressed to concertos. She lives and works in the Land of Rain and Hippies (occasionally know as Portland, Oregon); is kept by a fan-tailed goldfish who likes to dance, an indoor snapdragon, a small cactus, a sister/roommate/illustrator, and an anti-social guinea pig. In the odd chance that she has spare time she sleeps, plays frisbee, devours delicious food, and enjoys making music. For her next adventure she is hoping to continue her musical endeavors by studying music business to become a successful cat herder (talent manager).
7 p.m., Three Friends Coffee House,
SE 12th and Ash, Portland, Oregon
Tags: Charis, Kristen Huerta, Leaha Phillips, Michael Hagmeier
Chris Cottrell
Chris Cottrell was born in Portland, Oregon but grew up on Maui. His fiction, reviews and poetry have appeared in The Scene, Alchemy, Willamette Week, Portland Review (which he now edits), Clackamas Literary Review, Nervy Girl! and Alembic (formerly Mercury). Cottrell has been awarded the 2009 Shelley Reece award and the PSU/Literary Arts Writers in the Schools Residency and Internship for 2009-2010. His is the first poetry MFA awarded from Portland State University.
Nicholas Karavatos lives near Dubai, teaching literature and writing at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He’s been an Assistant Professor there since 2006. He taught general studies at a small private college in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman from 2001 to 2006.
Nicholas Karavatos
Nicholas recently published his first book: No Asylum (Arcata: Amendment Nine, 2009). David Meltzer writes on the back cover: “Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of great range and clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it voiced with an impressive singularity.”
Carolyn Brazda
Carolyn Brazda was the finalist for the 2008 and 2009 Academy of American Poets Award. She lives and writes in Portland, OR.
7 p.m., Three Friends Coffee House,
SE 12th and Ash, Portland, Oregon
How does suffering a great loss impact someone’s art beyond providing material for poems, songs and visual art? For some artists, telling, singing, or painting their grief allows them to fully understand and make sense of their experience, especially when it is articulated to an audience. Local painter and musician Helen Amirian (who performs as The Crash and Betty Show) will share her songs and the stories behind them, including her experience of losing her sister violently and unexpectedly. Audience members are invited to bring a notebook – there will be time to write or draw your own stories of loss and to share these, if you like.
7 p.m., Three Friends Coffee House,
SE 12th and Ash, Portland, Oregon
Rogers Truax
Rogers Truax chooses to fly under the radar pursuing a compulsion to draw blood from the status quo. In a time and place often beyond parody, his rants and reflections aspire to create satire indistinguishable from truth. Locally, he has read his poetry at Café Lena, the Alberta Street Public House, the Blue Monk and 3 Friends Coffee House and his work appears in: Broken Word – The Alberta Street Anthology (Vol. 2) and Blown Out: Portland’s Indie Poets.
Mindy Dillard
Mindy Dillard is a performance-artist/singer-songwriter originally from Salt Lake City, UT. She earned a BFA in Acting at the University of Utah and has appeared in plays and musicals in regional, college and community theater. Her favorite roles have included Laura in The Glass Menagerie,and Fiona in Brigadoon. She moved to Portland in 2006 to apprentice with Sojourn Theater Company, which creates socially relevant performance pieces through a process called “devising.” In addition to being a registered yoga teacher she also teaches theater and music to kids. She writes songs on the guitar, meshing writing with music with theatrical performance – it’s the best fit yet. She is working on a one-woman operetta that uses fairy-tale archetypes to explore body image and finding authentic connection in our world. She also really likes dark chocolate truffles and magic. Listen to her music at www.myspace.com/mindydillard
7 p.m., Three Friends Coffee House,
SE 12th and Ash, Portland, Oregon
Tags: David Deserano, Mindy Dillard, Rogers Truax
Dan Weber
Gifted storyteller and cowboy at heart, the winner of the 2009 West Coast Songwriter Competition & 2009 Song of the Year Awards, Dan Weber is described as a “cross between Kris Kristofferson & Townes Van Zandt.” In other words: a songwriter’s songwriter.
Chris Harris
Uniquely talented and soulful Chris Harris, a displaced Texas singer/songwriter, plays his molasses-over-sandpaper vocals to poignant effect. When combined with his fingerstylings on guitar, the result is a wonderful and rueful sound certain to capture any listener’s heart.
Russell Thomas
Russell Thomas‘ extensive catalog of more than 200 original songs (as well as a few carefully selected cover tunes) reveals a wide range of emotions and ideas and reflects his diverse background. It allows him to tailor his show to the audience and to the venue; you’ll never see the same show twice. His strong vocals captivate, soothe and excite and his unique style on guitar make him a special presence on any stage.
7 p.m., Three Friends Coffee House,
SE 12th and Ash, Portland, Oregon
Tags: Chris Harris, Dan Weber, Russell Thomas
Nikki Jauron
Nikki Jauron is a Portland, Oregon native whose interests include music, family, community, LGBTQ issues, media literacy, promoting the conservation of our plants and animals, and conceptual art. Since 1993, she has become a vocal member of the Portland community and has been involved in many activities, with a focus on alternative education, healthy self-based understanding, effective self-healing methods, spirituality and love. Nikki is prolific and continuously driven to provide an alternate outlook and sometimes controversial spin to the current overall status quo in a natural and peaceful way.
7 p.m., Three Friends Coffee House,
SE 12th and Ash, Portland, Oregon
Tags: Jay Elbrecht, Nikki Jauron, Smitty Amabilis
Ray Ottoboni
Acoustic folk musician Ray Ottoboni has been playing in Portland for over a decade; his music is right from the soul and his words are socially in tune with this world; his most recent record is Creston Park.
Bluesy storyteller Shannon Gray is a young, old soul whose sound is steeped in the times of American music past.
Michael Hart‘s latest album is entitled Gaia’s Birth/ Our Requiem.
7 p.m., Three Friends Coffee House,
SE 12th and Ash, Portland, Oregon
Tags: Michael Hart, Ray Ottoboni, Shannon Gray
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