The sounds of a guitar wobbling with expertly manipulated pedal work is infectious in its own right. But only when coupled with eccentrically beautiful vocal talent does it truly become something special. In this category of “something special” we are introduced to the debut album from Portland band No One of Consequence, Believable Dream. The album kicks off with an absolute jam in the title song, “Believable Dream”. The guitar, played by lead singer Julia.
Live music and movies are coming to Portland’s Zidell Yards this summer
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
Renderings show off plans for Portland s new socially distanced music venue, The Lot at Zidell Yards, located at the foot of the Ross Island Bridge along the south waterfront. Courtesy of Fuller Events
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Are you finally ready to think about getting outside and mingle, safely, with other human beings? The Lot at Zidell Yards, a socially distanced outdoor venue in South Portland, announced its summer schedule Tuesday, so get out your calendar and start planning.
“The team at The Lot can’t wait to bring live shows back to our community, provide local artists with a home for the summer and give our audience the opportunity to safely come together and celebrate,” said Christina Fuller, co-owner and partner of Fuller Events, which manages the venue. “Today’s announcement is just the beginning of a summer of great programming, which we’ll conti
by Blair Stenvick • May 11, 2021 at 11:51 am
A rendering of the Lot at Zidell Yards courtesy of Zidell yards
The Lot at Zidell Yards a new outdoor event space that neighbors OHSU s buildings on the South waterfront announced a full lineup of summer concerts and film screenings this morning. Planned musical acts include Ural Thomas & The Pain, Y La Bamba, and Federale, and tickets for some shows are already on sale.
The new slate of acts is welcome news for those who hope to achieve some level of post-vaccination revelry this summer, as it s still unclear when indoor concert venues will be willing and able to reopen in Oregon. While some movie theaters have reopened, attendance capacity is still limited. Zidell Yards bills itself as our city s premier socially-distanced, outdoor performance venue, meaning attendees won t have to worry about being thrown back into a big crowd after a year of avoiding contact with most other humans.
Having given up his rock star dreams as a teenager in Cincinnati, Ohio in the mid-90s,
Andy McFarlane spent much of his adult life as an educator, a profession he was drawn to after spending time in Mexico in his early 20s. It was a serendipitous reunion with an old high school musician friend,
Matt Drenik (
Lions,
Battleme) in Portland a few years ago that inspired McFarlane to start sharing poems, lyrics and music he had been writing over the last couple of decades. Under the name
Far Lands, McFarlane quietly released
Oh What An Honor, Oh What A Drag in 2017 on a label he runs with Drenik called Get Loud. For his sophomore release,