PGS is a monthly meeting free to the public providing two hours of guitar music. It’s also a nonprofit membership organization providing a place to meet other players, makers, and teachers, and it's a friendly place to discover and share new tunes, techniques, and styles. We welcome all kinds of music and all skill levels. Meetings start with open mic time and end with a half-hour Featured Performer set.
PGS meets at the Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis Street, Portland from 7:00 to 9:30 PM on the first Monday of every month (second Monday if the first is a holiday). Meetings are always free and open to the public.
PGS meets at the Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis Street, Portland from 7:00 to 9:30 PM on the first Monday of every month (second Monday if the first is a holiday). Meetings are always free and open to the public.
Dan Balmer
Tuesday, February 12, 7:30
Experience Music Series
PCC Rock Creek Campus, Building 3
The Experience Music Series at Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus presents jazz guitarist Dan Balmer and his band. Balmer has been has been called "the model of what a contemporary guitarist should be" by the LA Times and will perform music from his ninth CD, "Not A, The." Dan says of the CD, "this CD presents the music I've written in the past few years reflecting my growth as a composer and guitarist with soulful, heartfelt compositions reflecting fatherhood, divorce, and the death of my father."
From coffee house gigs at fifteen to chart-topping success with the Tom Grant Band in the 90s, world tours with two-time Grammy Award winner Diane Schuur and contemporary jam-bands, Dan Balmer brings fire and heart every time he plays the guitar. His playing spans nearly one hundred CDs including twelve as a leader from which his original works have appeared internationally in television, film and radio.
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Tuesday, February 12, 7:30
Experience Music Series
PCC Rock Creek Campus, Building 3
The Experience Music Series at Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus presents jazz guitarist Dan Balmer and his band. Balmer has been has been called "the model of what a contemporary guitarist should be" by the LA Times and will perform music from his ninth CD, "Not A, The." Dan says of the CD, "this CD presents the music I've written in the past few years reflecting my growth as a composer and guitarist with soulful, heartfelt compositions reflecting fatherhood, divorce, and the death of my father."
From coffee house gigs at fifteen to chart-topping success with the Tom Grant Band in the 90s, world tours with two-time Grammy Award winner Diane Schuur and contemporary jam-bands, Dan Balmer brings fire and heart every time he plays the guitar. His playing spans nearly one hundred CDs including twelve as a leader from which his original works have appeared internationally in television, film and radio.
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Portland FolkMusic Society
presents
Tish Hinojosa
Friday February 15, 7:30pm
Reedwood Friends Church
Tish Hinojosa is a singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas. Her blend of folk, country, Latino, and pop music has an undeniable far reaching appeal, garnering her honors such as a White House concert and teaming up with great artists including Joan Baez, Flaco Jimenez and Pete Seeger; as well as being a featured artist on Austin City Limits and A Prairie Home Companion. Tish has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe and continues to draw a loyal and growing audience.
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Tish Hinojosa
Friday February 15, 7:30pm
Reedwood Friends Church
Tish Hinojosa is a singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas. Her blend of folk, country, Latino, and pop music has an undeniable far reaching appeal, garnering her honors such as a White House concert and teaming up with great artists including Joan Baez, Flaco Jimenez and Pete Seeger; as well as being a featured artist on Austin City Limits and A Prairie Home Companion. Tish has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe and continues to draw a loyal and growing audience.
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Scott Kritzer |
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Saturday, February 16 | 7:00 PM
PSU Lincoln Recital Hall
$15 | Tickets & Information
Mr. Kritzer’s consummate commitment to technical excellence as the solid structure beneath an unparalleled sense of musicality has brought him decades of accolades from audiences and critics alike, in concert halls in San Francisco, Frankfurt, Vancouver, B.C., Los Angeles, Sapporo, Japan, Washington, D.C., Munich, and New York. He has debuted to critical acclaim in London’s Wigmore Hall and New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall. In 1996 he was chosen by then Senator Mark O. Hatfield to represent the State of Oregon in a performance at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
In addition to his performing and recording career, Mr. Kritzer is a highly sought after instructor of the classical guitar. Some of his students have won regional, national and international guitar competitions and have gone on to attend such notable institutions as The Julliard School, The Royal Conservatory of Music, The Julliard School and his alma mater, The San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
PSU Lincoln Recital Hall
$15 | Tickets & Information
Mr. Kritzer’s consummate commitment to technical excellence as the solid structure beneath an unparalleled sense of musicality has brought him decades of accolades from audiences and critics alike, in concert halls in San Francisco, Frankfurt, Vancouver, B.C., Los Angeles, Sapporo, Japan, Washington, D.C., Munich, and New York. He has debuted to critical acclaim in London’s Wigmore Hall and New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall. In 1996 he was chosen by then Senator Mark O. Hatfield to represent the State of Oregon in a performance at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
In addition to his performing and recording career, Mr. Kritzer is a highly sought after instructor of the classical guitar. Some of his students have won regional, national and international guitar competitions and have gone on to attend such notable institutions as The Julliard School, The Royal Conservatory of Music, The Julliard School and his alma mater, The San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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Portland International Guitar Series
presented by U.S. Classic Guitar Pepe Romero Friday February 22, 8pm Eliot Chapel, 1011 SW 12th Ave (Master Class Thursday February 21, 7-9pm) Pepe Romero has been honored by kings, heads of state, and major institutions -- the encomiums continue to pour in. But to Romero, his most important contribution has been reaching the common man. He has communicated the richness and beauty of the classical guitar to millions of people throughout the world. He has, indeed, become an ambassador of classical music, and, correspondingly, of the classical guitar. Tickets & Information |
Devin Kosloff, Classical Guitarist
Saturday February 23
7:30 p.m.
Casa Della Zisa
$20 seat, $15 PGS members, students, and senior citizens. RSVP - casadellazisa@gmail.com or call 503-307-4907
Devin Kosloff earned a masters in music performance degree from PSU, where he studied with Bryan Johanson and Jesse McCann. As one of Collegium Musica’s performing artists, Devin conducts engaging music workshops and performance presentations at schools in the Portland and Beaverton.
Saturday February 23
7:30 p.m.
Casa Della Zisa
$20 seat, $15 PGS members, students, and senior citizens. RSVP - casadellazisa@gmail.com or call 503-307-4907
Devin Kosloff earned a masters in music performance degree from PSU, where he studied with Bryan Johanson and Jesse McCann. As one of Collegium Musica’s performing artists, Devin conducts engaging music workshops and performance presentations at schools in the Portland and Beaverton.
Nat Hulskamp & ArtMax Academy
present
Antonio Rey, Flamenco Guitarist
with Mara Rey
The Old Church
Thursday March 7, 7:30pm
Flamenco Guitar Workshop, Wed March 6
Antonio Rey is one of the of the leading flamenco guitarists of Spain today. Antonio Rey's career began at the age of ten. He was soon performing on international stages and winning prestigious awards for his incredible virtuosity, such as the Premio Nacional de Guitarra (also won by Paco de Lucia and Vicente Amigo), National Competition of the Art of Flamenco of Córdoba, Niño Ricardo National Competition of Flamenco Guitar, International Flamenco Guitar Competition of Jerez and others. He has performed with many of the most important flamenco artists, such as Diego El Cigala, Antonio Canales, Diego del Morao, Richard Bona, Estrella Morente, Joaquín Cortés, Miguel Poveda, among others. Rey has performed in prestigious concert halls around the world including Tokyo, Moscow and across Latin America and Europe and Iran. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see one of the top living flamenco guitarists perform in Portland!
Antonio Rey will be accompanied by renowned flamenco dancer and singer Mara Rey from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.
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present
Antonio Rey, Flamenco Guitarist
with Mara Rey
The Old Church
Thursday March 7, 7:30pm
Flamenco Guitar Workshop, Wed March 6
Antonio Rey is one of the of the leading flamenco guitarists of Spain today. Antonio Rey's career began at the age of ten. He was soon performing on international stages and winning prestigious awards for his incredible virtuosity, such as the Premio Nacional de Guitarra (also won by Paco de Lucia and Vicente Amigo), National Competition of the Art of Flamenco of Córdoba, Niño Ricardo National Competition of Flamenco Guitar, International Flamenco Guitar Competition of Jerez and others. He has performed with many of the most important flamenco artists, such as Diego El Cigala, Antonio Canales, Diego del Morao, Richard Bona, Estrella Morente, Joaquín Cortés, Miguel Poveda, among others. Rey has performed in prestigious concert halls around the world including Tokyo, Moscow and across Latin America and Europe and Iran. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see one of the top living flamenco guitarists perform in Portland!
Antonio Rey will be accompanied by renowned flamenco dancer and singer Mara Rey from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.
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Portland FolkMusic Society
presents Guy Davis - An Ambassador Of The Blues Friday March 15, 7:30pm Reedwood Friends Church “Truth be told, there just aren't many who can deliver Americana in as interesting and entertaining a manner – or give acoustic traditional blues such a contemporary sound – as Davis, and it sure is a lot of fun hearing him explore the different sides of the genre.” -The Blues PowR Blog Guy Davis once said, “I like antiques and old things, old places, that still have the dust of those who've gone before us lying upon them.” Blowing that dust off just enough to see the beauty beneath is something Guy has excelled at for over twenty years of songwriting and performing. It's no wonder his reverence for the music of the Blues Masters who've gone before him is evident in every album he's ever recorded or concert he's given. More Information |
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Portland FolkMusic Society
presents
Nina Gerber and Chris Webster
Friday April 19th, 7:30pm
Reedwood Friends Church
Music fans know Nina Gerber and Chris Webster as two extremely skilled and artful musical talents. Webster's voice is uniquely compelling while Gerber's guitar stylings are beautiful and powerful. Whether presented with folk, country, bluegrass, rock, or blues, Nina is able to fall into leads which have rare reverence for the true feeling of a song, always emphasizing taste over technical display. With originals, tasteful covers, soulful ballads, jazzy tunes and sweet folk; together they're magic!
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Nina Gerber and Chris Webster
Friday April 19th, 7:30pm
Reedwood Friends Church
Music fans know Nina Gerber and Chris Webster as two extremely skilled and artful musical talents. Webster's voice is uniquely compelling while Gerber's guitar stylings are beautiful and powerful. Whether presented with folk, country, bluegrass, rock, or blues, Nina is able to fall into leads which have rare reverence for the true feeling of a song, always emphasizing taste over technical display. With originals, tasteful covers, soulful ballads, jazzy tunes and sweet folk; together they're magic!
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Portland FolkMusic Society
presents
Dave Stamey
Friday May 17th, 7:30pm
Reedwood Friends Church
Dave Stamey has been a working cowboy, rancher, mule packer and dude wrangler. Presently he is one of the most popular Western entertainers working today. The Western Music Association has seven times voted him Entertainer of the Year and Male Performer of the Year along with five times Songwriter of the Year. Performing songs of the American west, this cowboy has delighted audiences in 23 states.
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presents
Dave Stamey
Friday May 17th, 7:30pm
Reedwood Friends Church
Dave Stamey has been a working cowboy, rancher, mule packer and dude wrangler. Presently he is one of the most popular Western entertainers working today. The Western Music Association has seven times voted him Entertainer of the Year and Male Performer of the Year along with five times Songwriter of the Year. Performing songs of the American west, this cowboy has delighted audiences in 23 states.
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