Upcoming Events
The Whiteside Theatre presents: EVENT | Tarts Take Over the Whiteside Saturday, September 21 7:30 pm Doors open at 6:30 pm Advanced Purchase: $10 At the Door: $15 Tart of the Valley Burlesque has become a staple for entertainment in the Willamette Valley, and now they're coming to the Whiteside! We're pleased to be hosting this alluring, sassy, and thought-provoking Burlesque troop. Ages 18+ only due to ADULT CONTENT |
The Whiteside Theatre and Corvallis Folklore Society present: CONCERT | Carrie Newcomer Sunday, September 29 7:00 pm Doors open at 6:00 pm Reserved: $30 (Available online or by calling 800-838-3006) General Admission: $25 (Available at Grass Roots Bookstore and Corvallis Brewing Supply) Tickets available at the box office at 5:45 on the day of the event. $2 off with CFS or Whiteside membership Carrie Newcomer is a performer, recording artist, and educator, described as a prairie mystic by the Boston Globe and one who asks all the right questions by Rolling Stone. Her song I Shouldve Known Better appeared on Nickel Creeks Grammy award-winning gold-certified album This Side, and she earned a regional Emmy for the PBS special An Evening with Carrie Newcomer. Carrie is the 2019 recipient of the Shalem Institute Contemplative Voices Award. Recent media appearances include PBSs Religion and Ethics and Krista Tippetts On Being. In the fall of 2009 and 2011 Newcomer was a cultural ambassador to India, invited by the American Embassy of India, resulting in her interfaith collaborative benefit album Everything is Everywhere with world master of the Indian Sarod, Amjad Ali Khan and his sons Ayan and Amaan. In 2012 and 2013 Carrie traveled to Kenya and the Middle East performing in schools, spiritual communities and AIDS hospitals. Carrie has 17 nationally released albums on Available Light and Rounder Records, including The Point of Arrival, The Beautiful Not Yet, A Permeable Life, and Everything is Everywhere. Newcomer has also released two companion books of poetry and essays, A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays and The Beautiful Not Yet: Poems, Essays, & Lyrics. Newcomers first theatrical production, Bettys Diner: The Musical, was performed at a sold out run at Purdue University in 2015 and is now available to interested theaters, universities, and spiritual communities. In 2016 Carrie presented the Goshen College commencement address and was awarded an honorary degree in Music for Social Change. She regularly works with Parker J. Palmer in live programs, including Healing the Heart of Democracy: A Gathering of Spirits for the Common Good and What We Need is Here: Hope, Hard Times, and Human Possibility. Newcomer and Palmer also are actively collaborating on The Growing Edge, a website, podcast, and retreat. Spirituality and Health Magazine named The Growing Edge collaboration as one of the top ten spiritual leaders and programs for the next 20 years. Three of Newcomers songs are included in Palmers newest book. Other special collaborations include presentations with neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor, author Rabbi Sandy Sasso, and environmental author Scott Russell Sanders. |
The Whiteside Theatre presents: CONCERT | John McEuen and the String Wizards - Will the Circle be Unbroken Thursday, October 3 7:00 pm Doors open at 6:00 pm Advanced Purchase: $30 At the Door: $40 $2 off with Whiteside membership When John initiated the "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" album with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band it brought together the icons of Bluegrass, Country, and West coast country rock: Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Jimmy Martin, Roy Acuff, Junior Huskey, Oswald Kirby, Vassar Clements, and Maybelle Carter. Six hot August Nashville recording days produced this benchmark album, relevant to this day (Still in Amazon's top 30). McEuen has now assembled a unique cast for a special night to share the music and memories of the landmark Will the Circle Be Unbroken record and his incredible career with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The cast includes: Les Thompson bass, vocals, bouzouki an original NGDB founding member John Cable guitar/vocals/mandolin also toured Russia as NGDB member. Matt Cartsonis vocals/mandola/guitar 25- year music partner with John All join host John McEuen with his banjo, guitar, fiddle, and mandolin as they share, in front of a movie screen, hits and stories behind the music leading up to that magic time when three generations came together. His multi-media show with archival photographs, film, (including 8mm footage from 1967), Circle session photos, narrative (and early) NGDB music takes us on his 50+ year journey - interwoven with Dirt Band favorites and hot bluegrass. A unique part of the show covers the 1977 Russia trip, and what happened behind the Iron Curtain to the first American band to tour there – 28 sold out shows. The evening features classic NGDB favorites and music from McEuen’s new highly praised record - Made in Brooklyn - on Chesky Records. (Stereophile Magazine’s Record of the Month; also honored with Best America album by the Independent Music Awards, March 2018). The audience sees the entire span of John McEuen’s years in music, and is taken back through some of the best years of their lives. Some of the show’s music includes: Mr. Bojangles, Some of Shelly’s Blues, Dance Little Jean, Keep on the Sunny Side, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, House at Pooh Corner, Earl’s Breakdown, Wreck on the Highway, Cannonball Rag, Dismal Swamp, Way Downtown, I Saw the Light, Acoustic Traveller, Fingerbuster, Long Hard Road and the Grand Ole Opry song John’s first book (released May 2018) The Life I’ve Picked, has over 60 5-star reviews on Amazon. John was recently inducted in to the American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame. Check out www.johnmceuen.com |
The Whiteside Theatre and Corvallis Folklore Society present: CONCERT | Che Apalache Thursday, October 10 7:00 pm Doors open at 6:00 pm Reserved: $30 (Available online or by calling 800-838-3006) General Admission: $25 (Available at Grass Roots Bookstore and Corvallis Brewing Supply) Tickets available at the box office at 5:45 on the day of the event. $2 off with CFS or Whiteside membership Immigration is a powerful topic for Che Apalache bandleader Joe Troop. A polymath, polyglot, and world traveler, Troop left home at a young age, emigrating from this country in search of a better life. Raised in the North Carolina Piedmont, in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, Troop came of age to the music of bluegrass and all-night jam sessions at festivals, but being a young, queer man in the South, at a certain point he no longer felt welcome in his own home region. He took refuge abroad, traveling Europe and immersing himself in his two great loves: music and language. He studied Spanish in Spain, spent summers in Morocco, and eventually moved to Japan to teach English. He carried his music and his fiddle with him always, picking up elements of flamenco, jazz manouche, and swing. In 2010, Joe immigrated to Argentina, and, looking to make friends and build a scene, he began teaching bluegrass. Nine years later, Che Apalache, led by Troop, features three powerhouse Latin American musicians two from Argentina, Franco Martino (guitar), Martin Bobrik (mandolin), and Pau Barjau (banjo) from Mexico and has been taking audiences by storm with their fusion of Latin and American roots music. Famed banjo player and cross-genre trailblazer Béla Fleck was so taken with the band that he signed on to produce their new album, Rearrange My Heart, coming August 9, 2019, on Free Dirt Records. I love to work with music that intrigues, excites and inspires me, Fleck explains, and that describes Che Apalache to a T! We first met at my Blue Ridge Banjo Camp last year. They had come from Buenos Aires and asked to play for me. I was blown away and they blew away the crowd a few days later. Its been a blast to get to know them in the creative environment; together we've come up with what I believe is a truly striking album. I hope you'll enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed producing. With Béla Fleck as producer and a new album on its way, Che Apalache is a success story, but Troop hasn't returned to the States after over a decade abroad to comfort listeners. He's here to challenge the narrative, to speak directly on what American policies and perspectives are doing to the world. We're trying to take our message to the people who most need to hear it. Troop explains. We want to have respectful dialogue with people that arent coming from the same place we are, and we want to challenge their way of thinking. Opening with a traditional greeting in the Uruguayan murga style before segueing into the song María, which has touches of candombe, flamenco and Spanish Sephardic Jewish music, Che Apalaches global sensibilities are clear. The heart of the album, though, lies with the powerful song The Dreamer, written about Troop's friend Moises Serrano. A queer North Carolinian immigrant from Mexico and a DACA recipient, Serrano was raised in the same region as Troop. The Dreamer states Che Apalaches mission: subvert the narrative from within. We're reeling people in with music they understand, Troop explains, but then we give them a twist. This is all intentional, I've had years living outside this country to think about how to do this. The power of the subversion lies in how well Troop understands Appalachian and Southern audiences, and also in an honest love for the music. The band spent years perfecting Stanley Brothers-style harmonies, trying to get the sound just right. They then married that sound with brutally honest lyrics lamenting Trumps rhetoric for The Wall. This level of subversion brings its own risks though. They sang the song at a famous Virginia fiddlers convention the same day that Nazis marched in the streets of nearby Charlottesville, and had to drop everything and run for safety when an enraged audience member stormed the backstage to attack them. Che Apalache was formed to enjoy music, to honor it, and to bridge the gap between North and South America, creating a vision of a truly American music. Through the controversy and the political fire that fuels Che Apalache's music, Troop hasn't lost sight of what first inspired him, the first moment he fell in love with the music. At just fourteen years old, in a small diner in Boone, North Carolina, he heard a humble man playing with his friends and family. That man was Doc Watson. For Troop and Che Apalache to come full circle and to create a new album with another legend of bluegrass, Béla Fleck, that's the American dream that Che Apalache embodies. |
The Whiteside Theatre presents: EVENT | Pegasus Puppet Theatre: Legends of Coyote Friday, October 11 6:00 pm Doors open at 5:00 pm General Admission: $10 Kids 4-16: $6 Kids 3 and under: Free Nearly every indigenous culture in the world tells ‘trickster tales’. Prevalent in North America are stories about the infamous Coyote! Coyote Tales is a compilation of two hilarious stories and is performed with puppets, masks, and costumes inspired by Pacific Northwest Native American art. |
The Whiteside Theatre and Haus of Dharma present: EVENT | Broadgay! A Musical Theater Drag Review Saturday, October 12 8:00 pm Doors open at 7:30 pm Advanced Purchase: $7 At the Door: $10 The Whiteside Theatre and Haus Of Dharma are partnering to put on our very first drag extravaganza- Broadgay at the Whiteside!!! Join these lovelies as they pose, and pose, and pose to your favorite contemporary and classical musical theatre, broadway, and showtune numbers. The show features local Haus Of Dharma performers and and guest performers from all over the region. Hosted by Haus Mother, Frisky the Transgender Reindeer. A little Great White Way at the Whiteside!!! CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT |
The Whiteside Theatre and Corvallis Folklore Society present: CONCERT | Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves Sunday, October 13 7:00 pm Doors open at 6:00 pm Reserved: $20 (Available online or by calling 800-838-3006) General Admission: $18 (Available at Grass Roots Bookstore and Corvallis Brewing Supply) Tickets available at the box office at 5:45 on the day of the event. $2 off with CFS or Whiteside membership Described as a can't-miss pair in 2019, by Paste Magazine, Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves create a sound that is adventurous, masterful, and original, as they expand on the eccentricities of old songs, while never losing sight of what makes them endure. Already leaders in the young generation of roots musicians, de Groot has become known for her intricate clawhammer banjo work with Molskys Mountain Drifters, while Hargreaves has brought her powerhouse fiddling to the stage with Gillian Welch and Laurie Lewis. Their new album on Free Dirt Records is a powerful opening statement that has been called a big step forward (CBC Q) and dives deep into the old-time style and comes up with something wonderfully fresh (Vinyl District). Ranging from intricate banjo-fiddle instrumental performances inspired by early commercial and field recordings to more contemporary tunes and songs from the likes of Judy Hyman (the Horseflies) and Alice Gerrard, their repertoire reflects on which voices we seek to hear as we explore the expansive, diverse canon of American roots music. Their rendition of Alice Gerrard's song Beaufort County Jail is included in Rolling Stone Country's 10 Best Country and Americana Songs to Hear. ...de Groot and Hargreaves have used their platform to broaden our horizons, both of the music our forebears created and the causes they sought to advance in their art. ~No Depression ...two of the foremost old-time virtuosos on the scene today, executing these timeless songs and melodies with a clean and straightforward approach that sacrifices neither innovative thought nor modern embellishments to do so. ~ The Bluegrass Situation |
The Whiteside Theatre and the Corvallis Folklore Society present: CONCERT | Daimh Sunday, October 20 7:00 pm Doors open at 6:00 pm Reserved: $30 (Available online) General Admission: $25 (Available at Grass Roots Bookstore and Corvallis Brewing Supply) $2 off with Whiteside, CFS or OSS membership Tickets available at the box office at 5:45 on the day of the event. Gaelic Supergroup and unchallenged champions of straight in the eye Highland music are based around West Lochaber and the Isle of Skye. Formed around the turn of the century and taking the name from the Gaelic word for “kinship” Daimh (pronounced Dive) have taken their contemporary take of Highland and Gaelic music to over 20countries, setting audiences alight from Moscow to San Francisco. With a reputation as giants of the Bagpipes and Fiddle, Angus Mackenzie and Gabe McVarish lead the melodic powerhouse with fellow founder member Ross Martin underpinning the groove on the Guitar. The Band is joined by “new guy” Murdo “Yogi” Cameron on Mandola and Accordion to complete the instrumental line up. Daimh has always had the renown and notoriety of working with some of the finest Gaelic singers in Scotland and the current line up only serve to cement that distinction with the addition of the Gaelic firmament’s most rapidly rising star, Ellen MacDonald on vocals. Recent accolades include last year’s award for the “Best Folk Band in Europe” at the prestigious Folkherbst competition in Germany and most recently the winner of “Folk Band of the Year” at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards |
The Whiteside Theatre and Corvallis Folklore Society presents: CONCERT | Alan Reid and Rob Van Sante Thursday, October 24 7:00 pm Doors open at 6:00 pm Reserved: $20 (Available online) General Admission: $15 (Available at Grass Roots Bookstore and Corvallis Brewing Supply) $2 off with Whiteside, CFS or OSS membership Tickets available at the box office at 5:45 on the day of the event. Alan was a vital member of Scotland’s legendary folk group Battlefield Band for 40 years. His groundbreaking keyboard work helped cement the band’s reputation as one of the most influential of its generation, while his songs steadily gained admirers. From beautiful ballads to a musical cycle on the life and times of Scots-born sailor John Paul Jones Alan has forged a reputation for composing songs with beguiling melodies and strong historical content. He was nominated in the 2009 Scots Tradition Awards in the ‘Composer of the Year’ category. With the ’Batties’ Alan recorded almost 30 albums, won awards and toured all over the world, appearing at festivals in North America, Europe and Australia and New Zealand. His contribution to the band’s story has helped enshrine its stature in Scottish culture, confirmed when the band was inaugurated int the Scots Traditional Music Hall of Fame in 2016. Alan has continued developing his songwriting in his partnership with Rob. He has written songs for several drama pieces, one of which was featured in the National Theatre of Scotland’s 2014 powerful production ‘Glasgow Girls’. He has been a regular teacher of Scots song at the prestigious Swannanoa Gathering in North Carolina and has guested both in Linn Records mammoth 12 CD series of the Complete Songs of Robert Burns and on the CD ‘Life and Times of Scrooge’, the solo album of Tuomas Holopainen of metal band heavyweights ‘Nightwish’. The album gained a gold disc in 2014. |
The Whiteside Theatre presents: CONCERT | Jonathan Richman featuring Tommy Larkins on the drums Saturday, October 26 7:00 pm Doors open at 6:00 pm Advanced General Admission (14+): $20 General Admission (day of the show): $25 Tickets available at the box office at 5:45 on the day of the event. $2 off with Whiteside membership Singer/Songwriter troubadour Jonathan Richman puts on more than a concert, he hosts a party! Interaction with the audience is an integral part of the performance. Jonathan has been playing music, recording and touring for most of his life. In the 1970s his band The Modern Lovers was influential on the then-burgeoning punk rock and later new wave and indie musical styles. The band's first album is on Rolling Stone magazine's lists of greatest albums of all time. Jonathan's songs have been covered by Iggy Pop, David Bowie, the Sex Pistols, and Siouxsie & the Banshees. |
The Whiteside Theatre & Corvallis Folklore Society present: CONCERT | McKasson & McDonald Sunday, October 27 7:00 pm Doors open at 6:00 pm Reserved: $20 (Available online) General Admission: $15 (Available at Grass Roots Bookstore and Corvallis Brewing Supply) Tickets available at the box office at 5:45 on the day of the event. $2 off with Whiteside, CFS or OSS membership Ryan McKasson and Eric McDonald are masters of tradition who purposefully explore the dark corners floating on its edges. Their individual artistry is enhanced when together. In short, the sum creates a greater whole. The result is an alluring complexity, full of spontaneous musicality. Pulling from parallel strands of influence, they create a swirling level of intensity that traverses darkness, light, and everywhere in between. An air of mystery pervades a sound compelling enough to transcend boundaries and appeal to music lovers of all stripes. Devon Leger of Hearth Music says, “This duo really shows how two masterful musicians listen and play off each other." The music this duo creates is to share, and live performance is the forte. Their mutual attitude stretches beyond the music. The two have been good friends ever since they met, and this is present in their live performances, which are full of organic banter and good humor to go along with the music. They create an environment of their own design, drawing in listeners without pretense. Despite both living active musical lives thousands of miles apart these two musicians have committed to working together to forge a new musical path. |
The Whiteside Theatre and Corvallis Folklore Society present: CONCERT | Tom Paxton and the Don Juans Saturday, November 9 7:00 pm Doors open at 6:00 pm Reserved: $35 (Available online) General Admission: $25 (Available at Grass Roots Bookstore and Corvallis Brewing Supply) Tickets available at the box office at 5:45 on the day of the event. $2 off with CFS, OSS or Whiteside membership Collectively, their songs have been covered by: Harry Belafonte, John Mellencamp, Miranda Lambert, Neil Diamond, Ray Charles, Nancy Griffith, Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Janis Ian, Kathy Mattea, John Denver, Faith Hill, B.J. Thomas, Blake Shelton, Peter, Paul & Mary and Bob Dylan… just to name a few! Within days of writing and playing together, they knew they were onto something. Now they’re taking it on the road! |
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