ARTS - Live & Local!

A weekly highlight reel of upcoming arts and culture events in the lower Columbia Pacific region, hosted by Carol Newman.

ARTS! – Live & Local July 12th, 2024

Friday, July 12th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests: Executive Director Danyelle Tinker & Committee Member Nancy Montgomery with The Ten Fifteen Theater’s PERFORMATHON. Artist, Pianist, Composer Jennifer Goodenberger on her show The Art of Collage at Astoria Art Loft. Store Operations Manager Patrick Kint on the 50th Anniversary…

ARTS – Live & Local June 28th, 2024

Friday, June 28th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests: Actors Katherine Lacaze, Cathey Ryan, David Sweeney in “Meshuggah-Nuns” at the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach. Conductor Terry Dahlgren & Musician/Publicist Kathleen Strecker with the North Coast Symphonic Band’s “Spirit of America” at the Liberty Theatre in Astoria. Executive Director…

ARTS – Live & Local June 21st, 2024

Friday, June 21st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: From Denmark for the 57th Astoria Scandinavian Midsummer Festival, Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard with band members Mikkel Grue, Sebastian Bloch & Sune Rahbeck.  Plus ScanFest’s Janet & Lloyd Bowler. Director Carly Keone & Actors Molly Oien & Robert Scherrer from…

ARTS – Live & Local June 14th, 2024

Friday, June 14th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Musician & Committee member Dan Gerth on Make Music Day sponsored by the Arts Council of Clatsop County. Steven Amaya, host of KMUN’s Father Figures, exploring the topic. Director Tim Murphy & Actor & Board president Jon Osborn with Astor Street…

ARTS – Live & Local! June 7th, 2024

Friday, June 7th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! guest host Joanne Rideout with: Kate Cooper, Heidi Dowell & Duane the dog from the South Pacific County Humane Society in Long Beach with Art Pawtraits. Executive Director Kari Henningsgaard from the Wildlife Center of the North Coast in Astoria. Artist Morrison Pierce and Harmonicist…

ARTS – Live & Local! May 31st, 2024

Friday, May 31st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Radio Producer & Filmmaker Barbara Bernstein with her documentary “Once a Braided River” screening at the Columbian Theater in Astoria. Performers at the 14th Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering at the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts: Gerry Carthy, Baron Collins-Hill,…

ARTS – Live & Local! May 17th, 2024

Friday, May 17th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Ukrainian American ethnomusicologist, folklorist, and singer Nadia Tarnawsky leads the vocal ensemble Cappella Romana in village folk songs, sacred chants, and choral works for A Ukrainian Wedding at Grace Episcopal Church in Astoria. Board member Ken Richards, Delores Richards & Mary…

ARTS – Live & Local! May 10th, 2024

Friday, May 10th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: North Coast Chorale’s Helen McClaine and Soloist Keith Workman with ’The Macabre’ at the Charlene Larsen Center in Astoria. Marketing & Operations Director Jenni Tronier & Play Director Markus Brown with “2 Across” at the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach. Design…

ARTS – Live & Local! May 3rd, 2024

Friday, May 3rd at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Soprano Minntah Haefker and Drummer Brent Follis with the debut of The Minntah Quartet at Carruthers in Astoria. Educator Dr. Jenni Newton on the third annual North Coast Inclusion Seminar at Astoria High School. Mary Blake with ‘A Pollinators Affair –…

ARTS – Live & Local! April 26th, 2024

Friday, April 26th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Jessi Just, Executive Dir of the Heart of Cartm on the Trash Bash Art Festival 2024 at White Clover Grange in Nehalem. Cannon Beach Gallery Director Summer Peterson and Science Illustrator and Wildlife Artist Nora Sherwood with “Reserve Inspiration” opening for…

ARTS – Live & Local! April 19th, 2024

Friday, April 19th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Director Roy Seiber with the Cannon Beach Chorus concerts, “The Colors of Life”, in Seaside, Cannon Beach, Nehalem & Tillamook. Lee Stromquist and Dave Drury with the North Coast Big Band’s Benefit the PAC Concert at the Charlene Larsen Center in…

ARTS – Live & Local! April 12th, 2024

Friday, April 12th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests:   Deputy Director Norma Hernandez with Consejo Hispano’s first annual ‘Golpetazo del Año’ at CC Fairgrounds expo annex.   Photographer Don Frank with a new exhibit “Inky Daydreams” at Imogen Gallery in Astoria.   Artist and Printmaking Instructor Ben Killen Rosenberg &…

ARTS – Live & Local! April 5th 2024

Tillamook Artist, carpenter, craftsman, beekeeper and surfer Henry Stanley on his Surfboard exhibit at Bay City Arts Center. Editor-in-Chief Asher Finch and Faculty Advisor Kama O’Connor with RAIN MAGAZINE at CCC Towler Hall. Classical Pianist Andrei Andreev performs a benefit concert for Cascadia Chamber Opera’s summer Festival at the Charlene Larsen Center in Astoria; joined…

ARTS – Live & Local! March 29th 2024

Friday, March 29th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Tracy Abel from Tolovana Arts Colony on “Get Lit at the Beach”, a gathering for readers and authors in Cannon Beach. Executive Director Jennifer Crockett on the Liberty Theatre’s 99th Birthday Bash in the Liberty McTavish Room with live Jass. Ceramic…

ARTS – Live & Local! March 8th 2024

Friday, March 8th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Rita Smith, Denise Cox & Ann Erickson with Peninsula Players production of “Nunsense” at the River City Playhouse in Ilwaco, WA. Soprano Camila Parias & Hideki Yamaya on vihuela present “Songs of the Spanish Renaissance” at Peace First Lutheran Church in…

ARTS – Live & Local! March 1st 2024

Friday, March 1st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Band member Jack ‘Yankl’ Falk on Trio Deloria concert of Klezmer, Romanian & Hungarian fiddle virtuosity and more at the Larsen Center in Astoria. Tolovana Arts Colony Program Coordinator Andrew Tonry on the fourth annual Cannon Beach Comedy Festival. Astoria H.S. production of…

ARTS – Live & Local! February 23rd, 2024

Friday, February 23 at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Anna Kaufman, NCCWP Astoria Coordinator with Poet Jennifer Nightingale, on the North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection Forest Poets Event in the Lovell Taproom at the Fort George in Astoria. From the 27th annual Fisher Poets Gathering: Nels Ure (Commercial Fishermen…

ARTS – Live & Local! February 16th, 2024

Friday, February 16 at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Founder Virginia Carlson and Candy Nichols with the 2024 Sunday Afternoon Live season at the Historic Raymond Theatre in WA. Bette Lu Krause, Rita Smith & Christl Mack of The Oyster Crackers in concert at KALA in Astoria. Adria Badagnani on…

ARTS – Live & Local! February 9th, 2024

Friday, February 9 at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Author & Storyteller Paula Charles launches her debut novel “Hammers and Homicide” at Lucy’s Books in Astoria. Operations Manager Mary Korte and Owner Thandi Rosenheim on the 2024 Sou’Wester Art Week in Seaview, WA. LaRee Johnson with her program on Mary…

ARTS – Live & Local! February 2nd, 2024

Friday, February 2 at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: CCC Art Professor, Gallery Director & Exhibit Founder Kristin Shauck with invited Artists Arnold Pander & Penny Treat in Au Naturel – The Nude in the 21st Century at the Royal Nebeker Gallery. Director Danyelle Tinker and actor Michael Murdoch from…

ARTS – Live & Local! January 26th, 2024

Friday, January 26 at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Jenni Tronier, Mick Alderman & Toddy Adams with David Auburn’s drama “Proof” at the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach. Dr. Jeannine Jordan on the multi media performance at Grace Episcopal Church in Astoria, part of Pipe Organs of the PNW Coast,…

ARTS – Live & Local! January 12th, 2024

Friday, January 12th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Painter & Printmaker Nicholas Knapton with “Conversations with Gavi”, an exhibition of diverse works created in Astoria & Berlin; at Imogen Gallery in Astoria. Lower Columbia Preservation Society’s VP Astronemis Ray and AA Jaime Lump with an update on LCPS, including…

ARTS – Live & Local! January 5th, 2024

Friday, January 5th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests:   Encaustic Painter Elise Wagner with her pop up exhibit ’20 Years in Wax’ at CCC Royal Nebeker Art Gallery.   Writer, Filmmaker Flax Glor on his class ‘Writing About Film’ at Clatsop Community College.   Musicians Len Bergman, Allyson Fabela…

ARTS – Live & Local! December 29th, 2023

Friday, Dec 29th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: CCC Historic Preservation Program Founder and Instructor John Goodenberger with Ales & Ideas lecture “Searching for Astoria’s Pauper Cemetery” at Fort George Lovell Showroom. Indigo Artist and Weaver Iris Sullivan Daire and son M. Tully Daire, currently a Student and Weaver…

ARTS – Live & Local! December 15th, 2023

Friday, Dec 15th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Textile Artists & Painters Jenny Rideout and Amelia Santiago from Hook, Pulp & Weave, on exhibit at Imogen Gallery in Astoria. Pianist Jennifer Goodenberger and Flutist Shelley Loring with their Holiday Concert at the Cannon Beach Community Church. Artist & Musician…