Gorge Giggin’ Guide - Oct. 6 - 12
The Gorge Giggin’ Guide is Throwing It Down this week:
The Music, The Comedy, and Yes, an Actual Throwdown! White Salmon is Keeping up the Festival Pace as the Mountain Town Throwdown celebration returns!
Use The Guide and Get Out There!
The Dalles is
Little Music City
Tuesday, Oct. 6
Little Music City was founded in The Dalles, Oregon by a group of individuals passionate about music and their community. https://www.littlemusiccity.com/
Tuesday October 6, 2026
7:00 PM Reddy Black Trio at Zim’s Sports Bar
Al Hare
Wednesday, Oct. 7
Hood River Brewing Co. in Hood River features live music onstage at the taproom from local and regional acts.
Wednesday, Oct. 7, Al Hare, 6:30 p.m.
Gorge Speakeasy
Season Premier!
The Ruins in Hood River presents National and Regional touring musical acts, films, and other community events. https://www.theruins.org
Gorge Speakeasy: Storytelling Event: Season Premier!
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 7-9 p.m./Doors 6 p.m.
Join us for an evening of storytelling in Hood River that strengthens the community! Community members take the stage to share stories centered around a theme of the month. You can sign up to share a story, or just sit back and listen. Admission is by donation of any size, but a $10 donation gets you signed up for the chance to win prizes; we donate proceeds to a local non-profit each month to keep our community strong through the joy of sharing stories. Learn more, sign up for email updates or volunteer to share a story at: itsangiemarie.com/gorgespeakeasy
Mt Hood Winery Sip & Sound Series
Thursday, Oct. 8
The Pines Tasting Room in Hood River hosts live music featuring local and regional musicians.
Thursday, Oct. 8, Jeff Minnick, 4-6 p.m.
Mt. Hood Winery in Hood River hosts live music featuring local and regional musicians.
Thursday, Oct. 8, Chic Preston, 4-6 p.m.
Little Music City was founded in The Dalles, Oregon by a group of individuals passionate about music and their community. https://www.littlemusiccity.com/
Thursday October 8, 2026
7:00 PM Jeff Carrell at Bargeway
COMEDIAN JERRY WAYNE LONGMIRE
Friday, Oct. 9
Granada Theater: Music and Movies
The Granada Theater in The Dalles presents family entertainment, movies, regional touring acts and more.
COMEDIAN JERRY WAYNE LONGMIRE
Friday, Oct. 9, 7 p.m. Tickets at:
https://granadatheatrethedalles.com/10-9-comedian-jerry-longmire/
Meet Texan comedian Jerry Wayne Longmire. He’s from East Texas and considers Houston his home. He grew up with his father, who worked in a junkyard. Longmire worked many trade jobs, including owning a construction company in Montgomery County, which he sold in 2019, trading his hard hat for the comedy stage.
The Dalles is
Little Music City
Little Music City was founded in The Dalles, Oregon by a group of individuals passionate about music and their community. https://www.littlemusiccity.com/
Friday October 9, 2026
7:00 PM Alonzo Garbonzo at Bargeway
7:00 PM Matt & Mary at Freebridge Riverfront
7:00 PM Walk Through Fire at Zim’s Sports Bar
Dirty Riders
Hood River Brewing Co. in Hood River features live music onstage at the taproom from local and regional acts.
Friday, Oct. 9, Dirty Riders, 7 p.m.
Supernova
The Pines Tasting Room in Hood River hosts live music featuring local and regional musicians.
Friday, Oct. 9, SuperNova, 6-9 p.m.
Funknalia
Saturday, Oct. 10
Double Mountain Brewery in Hood River brings local and regional music to the stage.
Saturday, Oct. 10, 7:30-9 p.m.
Live Music featuring Funknalia
BARN BURNER Dance Party with The Animeros
The Trout Lake Hall in Trout Lake, Washington brings live music and community events to its historic venue. https://www.troutlakehall.com/
BARN BURNER: The Animeros
A hypnotic blend of psychedelic Cumbia, Salsa, and West Texas soul
Saturday, October 10/$20 Advance // $25 Day of/6 p.m. Doors / 7 p.m. Show/All Ages
BARN BURNER shows are all about the dancing! No matter who might be on the stage, you are guaranteed to groove.
With musical notes that span well beyond genres like bolero, psychedelic, and cumbia, The Animeros not only make their audience hit the dance floor, but they also invite their listeners and tastemakers alike to a glimpse of their rich cultural upbringing. The group who is made up of Nick Tozzo (drummer and percussionist), Nicolas Sanchez (bassist), and Mauro Lopez (guitarist) craft a genre-blending sound that drifts between the lush jungles of Colombia, the palm-lined streets of 1960s coastal Mexico, and the dusty cantinas of West Texas.
Chasing Ebenezer at Bargeway
Little Music City was founded in The Dalles, Oregon by a group of individuals passionate about music and their community. https://www.littlemusiccity.com/
Saturday October 10, 2026
7:00 PM Chasing Ebenezer at Bargeway
7:00 PM Matt Martin at Zim’s Sports Bar
The Gold Souls headline the White Salmon Mountain Town Throwdown
White Salmon Mountain Town Throwdown
Saturday, Oct. 10
One day. One town. One big throwdown.
Tickets:
HEADLINER: THE GOLD SOULS
Funk. Soul. Blues. Groove.
We’re bringing The Gold Souls to White Salmon for a high-energy live show under the big tent. The Sacramento-based band brings driving grooves, rich soul textures and blues storytelling together into a sound that’s built for the dance floor. Their current lineup features a powerhouse vocalist, rhythm section, keys, guitar and a three-piece horn section.
Come ready to dance. COME FOR THE PARTY. STAY FOR WHITE SALMON. Mountain Town Throwdown is a great reason to make a weekend of it.
Music at The Pines
Sunday, Oct. 11
The Pines Tasting Room in Hood River hosts live music featuring local and regional musicians.
Sunday, Oct. 11, Alonzo Garbanzo, 3-5 p.m.
Lou Hazel
The Trout Lake Hall in Trout Lake, Washington brings live music and community events to its historic venue. https://www.troutlakehall.com/
Lou Hazel / Jeffrey Silverstein
Folk indie, weathered with warmth from the East Coast
Sunday, Oct. 11/$15 Advance // $20 Day of/5pm Doors / 6pm Show/All Ages
Lou Hazel grew up along the Allegheny River, where New York meets Pennsylvania and Northern Appalachia slips into quiet obscurity. In a landscape of cold towns, blue-collar fatigue, and early brushes with hardship, music wasn’t inherited. It was uncovered. There were no venues, no mentors, no real sense of a scene... just whatever you could scrape together with curiosity and a cassette deck.
Jeffrey Silverstein is home. His third full-length album, Doggone, is evidence of that long-journeyed fact.Meeting at the intersection of the loner-folk, cosmic country and kraut-laden choogle, from Doggone's opening pulse of rhythms to its closing cascade of synths, listeners encounter a musician fully rooted in the creative community around him and firmly held by the life he's built over the last decade.
Hood River Brewing Bluegrass Jam
Monday, Oct. 12
Hood River Brewing Co. in Hood River features live music onstage at the taproom from local and regional acts.
Monday, Oct. 12, Bluegrass Jam, 5:30-8 p.m.
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