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.
Doug Smith
Tuesday, January 15, 7:30
Experience Music Series
PCC Rock Creek Campus, Building 3
The Experience Music Series at Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus presents Grammy winner Doug Smith, master of contemporary fingerstyle acoustic guitar, in concert. Friend of the Portland Guitar Society, Doug's playing combines folk, classical and jazz elements and has been called “a cross between Chet Atkins, Leo Kottke and Michael Hedges.” Billboard magazine has written, "Inviting melodies...stunning fingerpicking."
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Tuesday, January 15, 7:30
Experience Music Series
PCC Rock Creek Campus, Building 3
The Experience Music Series at Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus presents Grammy winner Doug Smith, master of contemporary fingerstyle acoustic guitar, in concert. Friend of the Portland Guitar Society, Doug's playing combines folk, classical and jazz elements and has been called “a cross between Chet Atkins, Leo Kottke and Michael Hedges.” Billboard magazine has written, "Inviting melodies...stunning fingerpicking."
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Portland FolkMusic Society
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True North
Friday January 18, 7:30pm
Reedwood Friends Church
Northwest powerhouse of intelligent, memorable songs, with lush instrumental and vocal performances; along with crazy-good picking and the harmonies of a band deeply rooted in traditional folk and bluegrass genres. Fronted by award-winning singer/songwriters Kristen Grainger and Dan Wetzel, True North is rounded out with two Pacific Northwest bluegrass superstars Martin Stevens and Josh Adkins.
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True North
Friday January 18, 7:30pm
Reedwood Friends Church
Northwest powerhouse of intelligent, memorable songs, with lush instrumental and vocal performances; along with crazy-good picking and the harmonies of a band deeply rooted in traditional folk and bluegrass genres. Fronted by award-winning singer/songwriters Kristen Grainger and Dan Wetzel, True North is rounded out with two Pacific Northwest bluegrass superstars Martin Stevens and Josh Adkins.
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Portland International Guitar Series
presented by U.S. Classic Guitar Judicael Perroy Friday January 25th, 8pm Eliot Chapel, 1011 SW 12th Ave (Master Class the following day) Judicaël Perroy has become widely known as an extraordinary virtuoso classical guitarist and musician with several prizes to his credit. In 1997 he captured the prestigious first prize of the 15th Guitar Foundation of America International Competition and Convention awarding him tour of the United States and Canada with more than sixty concerts and master classes. In between his North American tour that year, he gave several concerts in France where his performances were broadcast live on France-Musique followed by extensive recital tours throughout the world. Tickets & Information |
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Oleaje Flamenco at Tablao Artichoke
Sunday January 27th, 7pm Artichoke Music, Powell Blvd. Tablao Artichoke is presented by Espacio Flamenco and Artichoke Music. The project aims to create space for regular flamenco performances in Portland in an intimate tablao setting. This dynamic trio features Israel Heredia, a true master of Flamenco guitar from Granada, Spain in his first Portland appearance, alongside the powerful vocals of Samir Osorio and the compelling artistry of dancer Amelia Moore. Together they create a show that highlights the expressive range of Flamenco, with sublime and haunting melodies, and ferocious rhythmic power. www.oleajeflamenco.com. Tickets & Information |
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Note: Israel Heredia will conduct a flamenco guitar workshop the same day, from 11:30-2:00. Contact Brenna McDonald (brenna.mcdonald@gmail.com) for more information.
Musical selections will encompass Spanish popular music, ballet, opera, zarzuelas, and flamenco guitar and dance. The featured work is Duende, by Luis Serrano Alarcon. Also showcased will be musical selections from the zarzuela, a dramatic art form which includes song, dance, speaking and instrumental interludes and Spanish ballets. Selections from La Vida Breve, a zarzuela by Manuel de Falla, concludes with the final tragic dance by the young gypsy Salud. The Intermezzo from La Boda de Luis Alonso by Gerónimo Giménez will feature both Spanish dancing and a virtuosic castanet solo. The Ritual Dance of Fire, an audience favorite dance feature from the ballet El Armor Brujo by Manuel de Falla, which will be also be danced. Procuro Olvidarte by Manuel Alejandro and Ana Magdalena.
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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
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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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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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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.
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.
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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
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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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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
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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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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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