Euphonium player Dr. Paul Niemisto, founder & director of the 7 piece Finnish American Brass Band ‘Ameriikan Poijat’, in concert in Astoria, Naselle, WA and more. Diana Thompson, coordinator of Water Music Society’s Jazz & Oysters 2024, at the Port of Peninsula in Nahcotta, WA. CCO Director & Soprano Bereniece Jones-Centeno, Astoria Conservatory Director Lisa…
ARTS - Live & Local!
A weekly highlight reel of upcoming arts and culture events in the lower Columbia Pacific region, hosted by Carol Newman.
Friday, July 26th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests: Astoria Visual Arts Executive Director Annie Eskelin with participating Artists Joanne Lumpkin Brown & Philip Barasch in the AVA Astoria Open Studios Tour. Director of Appelo Archive Center Annika Kay and Serena Travis with ‘A Taste of Festival’, this year’s…
Friday, July 19th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests: Susie McLerie and Joseph Stevenson on the music & dance legacy in Clatsop Co and the world by Jeanie McLerie. Katrina Gasser Sturgeon and Amy Boyovich on Community Competitions, exhibitions by and for all at the Clatsop County Fair in…
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…
Friday, July 5th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests: Chair Nancy Allen & Gardener Susan Filkins with the Water Music Society’s Music in the Gardens Tour on the Long Beach Peninsula, WA. Artists Kitty Paino and TJ Lev on the Trail’s End Art Association & Gallery Annual Judged Show…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Friday, May 24th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Author & Naturalist Dr. Robert Michael Pyle with his new poetry book “The Last Man in Willapa” at KALA in Astoria. Director Jolene Magee & actor Deborah Jensen with “Exit, Pursued by a Bear” at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria….
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…
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…
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 –…
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…
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…
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 &…
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…
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…
Friday, March 22nd at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Nancy McCarthy on the Northwest Authors Series Writers Read Celebration at the Cannon Beach Library and more. Director Edward James & actors Nancy Watkins & Natan Ezra in ‘The Rise And Fall of Little Voice’ at The Ten Fifteen Theater…
Friday, March 15th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Captain Thron Riggs with his book ‘A History of Pilotage on the Columbia River Bar” at the CC Historical Society TNT @ the Fort George Lovell Room. Authors Kama O’Connor and Deb Vanasse with The Writer’s Guild of Astoria in honor…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…