Gorge Giggin’ Guide Highlights June 18-25
New! Gorge Gigging Guide Highlights gives you a quick look at the week ahead in music, comedy, performance, festivals, and more! It’s a Great Way to get a handle on planning for the Best in what The Gorge has to offer!
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‘Cause they can’t go if they don’t know.
Funk Music + Fun = Funds for Friends
Wednesday, June 18
Double Mountain Brewery in Hood River
Artist Mark Nilsson Benefit - Brain Surgery Fundraiser, Music with Funky Cranium, 7 p.m.
Local Ladies Band Funky Cranium brings the Funk, and Fundraising efforts to Double Mountain for the benefit of artist Mark Nilsson, who is recovering from brain surgery.
Jackson Park Hood River!
Thursday, June 19
Juneteenth in The Gorge
Black in the Gorge is hosting their 3rd Annual Juneteenth! Come join us on Thursday, June 19, from 3-9 p.m. in Jackson Park in Hood River for this FREE EVENT celebrating black culture through a full day of music, dancing, a marketplace to shop, community tables, a Cake Walk, traditional red beans+rice, cornbread and peach cobbler, awesome kid activities AND a raffle to win a bunch of great prizes!! EVERYONE who wants to come CELEBRATE with us is welcome!
MUSIC LINE-UP INCLUDES: Red Elk Drum will be doing our land acknowledgement so make sure you are there at the start!, Jujuba, Chibia, our local Unity Freedom Choir, and our headliners, Portland’s Queen of Soul, LaRhonda Steele + band and the incredible saxophonist Eldon T. Jones! Jackson Park in Hood River.
Get Ready to Rumble!
Friday, June 20
The Rumble feat. Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr: Summer Solstice Party
The Ruins in Hood River. Doors at 5:30 p.m. Outdoor venue. All-ages. Pets not allowed.
Tickets are $20 in advance (click here,) or $25 at the door.
On Mardi Gras morning, your eyes may feast on the intricate and elaborate beadwork of the Indians as they dance down the street, but the first thing you'll hear when they make their way toward you is the back line, known as "the rumble". Featuring seven GRAMMY-nominated musicians, The Rumble is more than just a band — it's an opportunity to be immersed in a wholly unique facet of New Orleans funk in the vein of The Meters and The Neville Brothers — but updated, modern and vibrant benefiting the next generation — with electrifying brass and the singular visual splendor of the Black Masking carnival tradition.
"Fusing Mardi Gras Indian culture with swaggering Bayou funk in a defiant, delicious gumbo, The Rumble featuring Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr. is among the more exhilarating bands to bubble up from New Orleans onto the national landscape in some time."- Live For Live Music
(psst: New Iberians = Zydeco Cajun Dance Music!!)
Saturday, June 21
32nd Annual Gorge Blues and Brews Festival
Skamania County Fairgrounds in Stevenson, Washington
Friday, June 20 – Saturday, June 21
Friday, 6 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Saturday, 2 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Join the fun at the two days of award-winning live blues music on two stages, featuring microbrews, wines, and spirits from the Columbia Gorge region, and local food! Tickets at:
Caparulo promises to “roast The Dalles”
Comedy Night with John Caparulo
w/ Three opening acts
The Granada Theater in The Dalles
Doors: 6 p.m. Show: 7 p.m.
About the show
If you've ever wanted to hear a comedian roast The Dalles without mercy, THIS is your chance. Get ready for unfiltered comedy, zero small talk, and a night you’ll be quoting for weeks. Get your tickets or regret it, www.granadatheatrethedalles.com
“A comedian known for his sharp wit, unique delivery, and brilliant affinity for cuss words, John Caparulo is a seasoned comic whose dry, no-nonsense Midwestern sensibility endears him to audience members of all kinds. He began his comedy career performing in clubs in Cleveland and Pittsburgh in the late ‘90s before coming to Hollywood to hone his skills on stage and work the door at the legendary Comedy Store.
Caparulo’s breakout performance at Montreal’s Just for Laughs in 2003 led to spots on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and he appeared over 150 times as a panelist on Chelsea Handler’s popular E! show Chelsea Lately.”
Classical music awaits!
Sunday, June 22
Orchestra Open House, A Free Concert for Kids and Families
The Dalles Civic Auditorium
Sunday, June 22, 2 p.m.
Orchestra Open House, A Free Concert for Kids and Families
Join Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association’s Sinfonietta for our final concert of the season -- a FREE easy-to-enjoy introduction to our orchestra, with music from Broadway to the classics. Reserve your space here.
Deke Dickerson: Best Dressed Band this week??
Monday, June 23
Deke Dickerson and the Whippersnappers w/ Big Ron & Medium Ben
The Ruins in Hood River. Doors at 5:30pm. Outdoor venue. All-ages. Pets not allowed.
Tickets are $20 in advance (click here,) or $25 at the door.
Journeyman musician/singer/entertainer Deke Dickerson is keeping America’s roots music alive by interjecting new creativity into genres that flourished in decades previous. Such efforts have rewarded him with the Ameripolitan Music Award for Musician of the Year, among other accolades.
Dickerson’s newest band venture is Deke Dickerson and the Whippersnappers. The Whippersnappers are an energetic backing band of younger musicians from Los Angeles: Bert Avalos on guitar, Zander Griffith on bass, and Dylan Patterson on drums. With Dickerson’s experience entertaining audiences worldwide and the Whippersnappers’ shot in the arm of rockabilly excitement, the band has been thrilling fans all over the United States (playing such festivals as Viva Las Vegas and touring the East and West Coasts) and Europe (at festivals like the Rockabilly Rave in England and the Rockin’ Race Jamboree in Spain).
The band released their debut album, Honky Tonkin’ Rhythm, in 2023 on Major Label Records and have been touring behind it since.
Check out the Local Calendar for more ‘Elvis’ Sightings!
Tuesday, June 24
Ruins Tuesday: Igor & The Red Elvises w/ Lucky Nate & The Love Wagon
The Ruins in Hood River
All Ruins Tuesdays shows are a $5 cover if you arrive before 7pm, and $10 cover if you arrive after that. Tickets for these shows are only available at the door.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. No early entry! We aren’t ready for you until 5:30 p.m. The shows are all-ages until 7 p.m. and then 21+ after.
Igor Yuzov was born in Germany, raised in Ukraine and studied in Russia. He grew up in the former Soviet Union, where folk music was the norm and rock’n’roll was illegal. A rebellious streak, led him to seek out the forbidden music. As soon as it became possible, Igor left Russia for America with his “Folk’n’Roll” band Limpopo, and was personally greeted by Ronald Reagan.
In 1993, Limpopo won Ed McMahon’s Star Search and their popularity began to blossom. In 1995, Igor dreamed that Elvis Presley came to him and told him to start playing rock’n’roll. Igor and his Russian friends became Red Elvises and gave street performances on Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade. As their crowds grew larger, the City of Santa Monica ordered them to discontinue their street performances.
Quinton Parker
Wednesday, June 25
Thunder Island Brewing in Cascade Locks presents live music, trivia nights and more.
Wednesday, June 25, Thunder Island Brewing Sunset Series music with Quinton Parker (Americana/Gorge singer-songwriter), 6:30-8:30 p.m.
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