This Week the Gorge Giggin’ Guide is Not Foolin’ - we’re taking you on a tour of the Week’s Best Music, Art, and Comedy shows. Have Fun and Get Out There!

The Dalles is
Little Music City

Tuesday, March 31

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 March 31

Reddy Black Trio at Zim’s Sports Bar & Grill, 7 p.m.

Hope in the African Wild

with Ellen Donoghue, PhD

Events at Bingen Theater

Tuesday, March 31 - 7:30

Tickets:https://www.bigbritches.org/hope-in-the-wild

In the vast landscapes of southern Africa, something extraordinary is happening. Communities and endangered carnivores are beginning to coexist. This visually stunning presentation reveals the power of collaboration, wisdom-sharing, and dedication at the heart of modern conservation.

Wednesday, April 1

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

April 1, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Hood River, 13 Railroad Street, Hood River, OR 97031, USA

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.

Doors open at 6 p.m., stories start at 7 p.m.

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.

Open Mic with Kerry Williams is Wednesday, April 1, from 6-8 p.m. at Tabby’s Bar & Grill, at the Hood River Golf Course on Country Club Road. It’s April Fool’s Day, so extra points for singing a silly song!

Friday, April 3

COUNTY LINE Tribute to Johnny Cash

Live Music at Trout Lake Hall

The Trout Lake Hall in Trout Lake, Washington brings live music and community events to its historic venue. https://www.troutlakehall.com/

Friday, April 3

$12 Advance // $15 Day Of Show6 p.m. Doors / 7 p.m. ShowAll Ages

Gorge local Americana and roots-rockers County Line present an evening of favorites from the Man in Black. Get yer dancing shoes on and come boogie to a set of original County Line tunes and a set of Johnny Cash!

COUNTY LINE is a Columbia River Gorge-based quintet playing an original mix of roots-rock and Americana music. The line-up includes Kerry Williams on mandolin and guitar, Jeremy Hadden on bass, Tim Ortlieb on drums, Larry Wyatt on guitar, and songwriter Matt Mesa on guitar. They are a lively presence on stage showcasing some fiery picking and harmony vocals.

Ordinary Days: a musical

A co-production of Theatre CamilleLynne and Columbia Center for the Arts

Music and Lyrics by Adam Gwon

Directed by Tay Camille Lynne

Musical Direction by Duncan Krummel

Performance Dates:

April 3, 4, at 7:00 PM

April 5, at 2:00 PM

April 10, 11 at 7:00 PM

From one of musical theatre’s most exciting contemporary composers comes Ordinary Days, a refreshingly honest and funny musical about making real connections in the city that never sleeps (but probably should at some point).

Four young New Yorkers intersect as they each search for fulfillment, happiness, love, and cabs. Through a score of vibrant, memorable songs, their experiences ring startlingly true to life. Ordinary Days is for anyone who has ever struggled to appreciate the simple things in a complex place. With equal doses of humor and poignancy, it celebrates how millions of individual stories combine in unexpected ways to make New York City such a unique and extraordinary home.

Saturday, April 4

Comedy Night at The Bingen

Playing With Men

with Jon Bennett

Saturday, April 4 - 7:30 p.m.

Tickets at:

https://www.bigbritches.org/playing-with-men-tickets

Playing With Men is another deeply personal and thought-provoking show from Jon Bennett, reflecting on his early years as a talented junior footballer in Southern Australia. His football career, once filled with promise, faced an abrupt halt when real-life challenges and a community tragedy forced him to reconsider his path. Now, as a celebrated comedic storyteller, Bennett uses this show to explore themes of masculinity, community, friendships, life, and death, all through the lens of football.

Gorge Speakeasy Presents: An Evening with Buddy Wakefield: World Champion Spoken Word Artist

The Ruins in Hood River

Buddy’s been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and the BBC, signed to both Sage Francis' Strange Famous Records and Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records, and has performed in over 2,000 venues across the globe — from the Great Lawn of Central Park to San Quentin State Penitentiary.

Sat. 4/4/26, Indoor Venue, 18+

Tix: $20 in advance (click here) or $25 at the door. Kaylan Krebsbach opens the show.

In 2001, Buddy left his desk job in Gig Harbor, WA, sold everything he owned, moved into a Honda Civic, and set out to “live for a living,” touring poetry venues for two years. He never stopped.

Buddy isn’t concerned with what poetry is or is not. So, this performance is raw, funny, disarming, and unlike anything you've seen in the Gorge.

Buddy Wakefield is a three-time Individual World Poetry Slam champion, an actor, writer, and the most toured performance poet in history.

He’s been a busker in Amsterdam, a street vendor in Spain, a team leader in Singapore, a re-delivery boy, a candy maker, a street sweeper, a bartender, a maid, a construction worker, a bull rider, a notably slow triathlete, and more.

Sunday, April 5

Open Mic Night with Lincoln Crockett (Free/All Ages)

Live Music at Trout Lake Hall

Sunday, April 5

Doors at 5 p.m. Sign up by 5:30 p.m. Open Mic 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Open Mic Night with Lincoln Crockett every 1st Sunday

Join us in bringing the good times to the Hall every month! Historic room, great sound, supportive audience. Early and fun. Upright piano available! We want to hear you! Come be a part of it.

Bring your songs or come to listen. We hear sung and instrumental originals and covers by rockers, campfire folkies, bluegrass pickers, blues hounds, country stalwarts, even had spoken word poetry that went over gangbusters. Music knows no bounds and over its 100+ years this room has heard it all.

Monday, April 6

Bluegrass/Old-Time Acoustic Jam

Thunder Island Brewing in Cascade Locks

Come enjoy the Bluegrass/Old-Time Acoustic Jam the 1st Monday of every month from 5-8 p.m. and share acoustic bluegrass and old-time music with friends.

ACOUSTIC stringed instruments only - guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, bass, dobro, ukulele or other traditional acoustic instruments.Come prepared to have fun and share a song or tune with the group! Or enjoy the live music while dining in the main dining room or out in the beer garden! (space and weather depending)

Everybody’s Brewing in White Salmon brings local and regional music to the stage.

Monday, April 6, Eric Leadbetter (Rock/Blues), 6-8 p.m.

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