This week The Gorge Giggin’ Guide is Giving A Hoot - that’s right, we’re taking a 100% Deep Dive into The Dalles Hoot Lineup! Get ready to peruse bio’s, photos and non-AI generated content on the inaugural concert festival put together by The Dalles Overground. Word on the street indicates Sold Out Shows at The Granada - but there’s still plenty of music to explore!
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The Dalles Hoot Music Schedule
(Note: Granada Theater Shows are Sold Out)
The Spotify Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3vcoQDQX9V2y1ZERYTAP2p?si=95b7dcdf35c54901&nd=1&dlsi=5570a04a08fc45d7

Trayecto Effectivo

Trayecto Efectivo is a fresh, dynamic group from Hood River, Oregon, rooted in the rich tradition of Mexican music, blending classic sierreño influences with their own distinctive sound. Formed in May 2023, the band came together through mutual friends and a shared love for music. The group’s core consists of Jose Magaña (vocals and armonía), Wes Pulido (requinto), and his younger brother River Pulido (tololoche).

Robert Francis

Americana Singer-songwriter. Eight albums to date, latest release “State Line” (single). Robert Francis is a multi-instrumentalist, Americana singer-songwriter. His debut full-length album, One By One, was released in August 2007 by Aeronaut Records, gaining him notice for its "emotional darkness and musicality."

Forrest VanTuyl

Forrest VanTuyl is a songwriter and poet from Goldendale, Washington. His work is based on years spent packing mules and cowboying in the remote alpine and canyon country of Eastern Washington and Northeast Oregon. He has performed at The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, written music for the US Forest Service, and been published in the New York Times.

Margo Cilker

American Country. Latest album: “Valley of Heart’s Delight.”

Cilker lives in Goldendale, Wash., and works on her ranch with her husband, sometimes doing local live shows.

Laura Gibson

American singer-songwriter. A native of the small rural Oregon town of Coquille, singer/songwriter and classically trained cellist Laura Gibson is part of a Pacific Northwest folk-pop scene that grew out of Portland-based indie label.

DJ Aniali

Few DJs can be said to have changed the sound of their city but that is exactly what DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid have done since they first introduced Portland, Oregon nightclub audiences to the many varied sounds of Global Bass at a rowdy New Year’s Eve debut in 2000. They are most known for incinerating dance floors with the heavy dance floor artillery of South Asia, but the duo scour the globe for any hard-hitting music that combines local music traditions with window-rattling production.

Holy Catholic Social Club

A PDX Rock n’ Roll band with two albums: “The Oh-K Motel,” and “Worship Service.” The music leans toward original country-indie twang but expect a cover of the irreverent “Plastic Jesus,” an AM-radio hit frequently used for DJ Don Imus’s radio show in the 70s.

Isabeau Waia’u Walker

Isabeau Waia’u Walker has had to get creative to attempt the question of genre: “bright gloom,” “joy adjacent;” “island of broken, demented toys.” Hailing from her homeland Hawaii and having spent the latter half of her life in Oregon’s Pacific Northwest. Unless touring with Y La Bamba, in which she sings backup vocals, her feet and roots are always close to the shores of the Pacific Ocean (yearning for and pulled by her packs). Experience, observations and negotiations with race, culture, gender and class are inextricably woven into her purpose and product. Songs of love. Songs of community and fight, of life and self. She lives in attractive vulnerability and sincere humility despite the power of her performances and songs.

Cimiotti

Cimiotti began when Paul Collins walked out of his local synth store with a copy of Light in the Attic’s box set, “I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1990”. The collection maps out a musical history of American new age music that he had previously overlooked. “Va Piano” is Cimiotti’s first long player, as well as the label’s first vinyl pressing. Recorded in Southern Italy, and Jackson Heights, NY, “Va Piano” showcases a variety of musical approaches. From solo electric guitar work, to immersive synthesizer tapestries, to narcotic ballads. It’s a grounded and sometimes brooding listen. For fans of The Durutti Column, Roedelius, and Townes Van Zandt.

Vandoliers (Texas Country/Punk)

The collection of songs on Vandoliers’ fifth album, Life Behind Bars, offers a window into frontwoman Jenni Rose's journey through addiction and gender dysphoria — a journey that has culminated in her decision to come out as a trans woman while working in the macho worlds of Texas country and punk rock. Ten years into their career, the band’s latest work is as upbeat and sing-along ready as ever, but with a little more stripped-down and intimate feel than their typical fare, in addition to being lyrically more substantive and, at times, more politically pointed. Bars is fearless and fun, a bold entry in a musical space that is still too often hidebound by tradition.

1876

1876 is an indigenous punk rock band from Portland OR, that proudly hails from the Blackfeet, Northern Cheyenne, Comanche and Yakama nations. Mixing traditional indigenous instruments with punk rock, they have created a sound they have dubbed “pow wow punk rock.” 1876 discography spans three eps titled “Pow Wow Punk Rock (1 2 and 3)” streaming anywhere you listen to music. Get your elbows greased in the pit. Hear the sounds of indigenous triumph in their sing along choruses. Feel the heart beat of their people, with their pow wow drum. Pow wow punk rock; if you’re for it, it’s for you.

DJ Rescue

Zia McCabe, also known as DJ Rescue, is a Portland-based musician, producer, and founding member of The Dandy Warhols. With decades of international touring experience, she brings a deep crate-digger sensibility and eclectic musical fluency to her DJ sets. DJ Rescue blends psych rock, glam, indie, sleeze, soul, and unexpected underground gems into danceable, mood-driven journeys.

Darci Carlson

Straight up Country - No Chaser. Seattle’s Outlaw Country Queen Darci Carlson is a high energy, no non-sense Singer Songwriter currently residing in Austin Texas. Voted Ameripolitan Music’s 2017 Outlaw Female of The Year, this DIY firecracker of a front woman has over a decade long presence in the country music scene and can be found performing across the country with her 4 piece band.

200e

Billed at ‘Pendelton Folk,’ the band’s Bandcamp page provides a cryptic listen to the group’s music created 14 years ago - a collection of original introspective material that sometimes sounds a bit like psychedelic 60s folk and then drifts into quirky, modern singer-songwriter demos.

https://200e.bandcamp.com/album/200e

Sundiver

Sundiver is a Gorge band delivering convincing modern rock and extended space ballads. Their 2019 album “Orion” delivers nine original songs that still hold up - their complex arrangements and the musical landscape is impressive - and almost guarantees you’ll want to listen to them over and over.

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