ARTS - Live & Local!

Friday, July 11th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Director Jerr Harding with actors Carly Keone, Robert Scherrer & Molly Oien in PAPA’s production of “Into the Woods” at Fort Columbia Theater in Chinook, WA. Artist Capt Thron Riggs on his benefit art show “Wildscapes” at the NCRD Gallery in...

Friday, July 4th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Altos ChrisLynn Taylor and Nancy Montgomery on the North Coast Chorale’s Broadway Benefit Concert for the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts. Charissa Lynne with Ceasefire Now, Oregon Coast on the documentary film No Other Land at The Ten Fifteen...

Friday, June 27th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Water Music Society’s Nancy Allen with the 20th annual Music in the Gardens Tour on the Long Beach Peninsula, WA. Trombonist Brian Bergman & Trumpeter Brian Woosley with the North Coast Symphonic Band’s “Americans We” concert at the Liberty Theatre. North...

Friday, June 20th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Clarinetist and Singer Jack ‘Yankl’ Falk with Klezmer & East European music by the Carpathian-Pacific Trio at KALA Performing Space in Astoria. Quilters Laurie Caplan and Janet Kemp on the June Quilt Show of the Clatsop Quilters Guild at Warrenton Grade...

Friday, June 13th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Senior Court Princesses Emily Herzberg, Ava Thornton, Olive Thompson & Chaperone Melissa Schacher plus Miss Scandinavia Queen 2024-25 Audrey Cereghino for the 2025 Scandinavian Midsummer Festival at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds. Artists Agnes Field and Kate Speranza on “Sointula: A Place...

Friday, June 6th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Violinist Audrey Cereghino & Cellist Dylan Morrow, soloists, & Violist Betsey Ellerbroek, in concert with the North Oregon Coast Symphony at the Nehalem Elementary School & the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts. Barbara Anne Gaidosh, Oregon Folksinger, in concert...

Friday, May 30th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: A full house of Musicians with the 15th Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering at the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts in Astoria. Alison Helzer, Brian Oberlin, EZ Marc Poschman, Grant Flick, Pat MacSwyney, Sally Bacon, Tim May, Tyler Jackson and...

Friday, May 23rd at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Writer & Director Marco Davis, Music Director Skyler Butenshon and Stage Manager Sylvia Thorpe with “AGAIN! The Act of Perfection” at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. Artists Christine Eagon and Chris Williams with their four women show, “Summer Magic ~...

Delphine Criscenzo, Little Island Creamery Events Coordinator, and Bruce Watts, cofounder Astoria Jazz Fest/Jazz on the River, bring Shirley Nanette & the Beacon St Titans to Puget Island, WA. Artists Rachel Siegel and Dardinelle Troen, Astoria Visual Arts Board Members, with CREATE 8 x 8, a benefit for the AVA. Composer & Pianist Jennifer Goodenberger...

Friday, May 9th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Delores & Ken Richards and Mary Ann Ylipelto on the 15th Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering at the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts & other venues in Astoria. Tenors Alvis Porter and Chad Johnson with the North Coast Chorale’s Spring...

Friday, May 2nd at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Choreographer and Performer Andrea Parson & Director Katherine Murphy Lewis with “You Can’t Be Serious” @ The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. Heart of CARTM’s Executive Director Jessi Just on the 26th annual TRASH BASH with Trash Art, Trash Tales, Trashion...

Friday, April 25th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Lâm Quang on his Collaborative Installation commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the American war in Viet Nam & honoring family; Faculty Plus Show @ Royal Nebeker Gallery in Astoria. Elise Wagner & Ren Allen from Pier 11 Studio...

Friday, April 18th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Sarah Cohen, Lisa Nelson & Alex from the Astoria Conservatory with Mary Davies from Assistance League on A Midsummer Night’s Dream Ballet at the Liberty Theatre. Lee Stromquist & David Drury from the North Coast Big Band with NCBB Presents Jazz...

Friday, April 11th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Kristin Shauck with Nichole Warwick & Missy StRain on the Faculty Plus Art Show @ CCC’s Royal Nebeker Gallery. Brian Bergman & Laurie Swanson with the North Coast Symphonic Band’s “Suites & Pieces, Novelties & Bits” @ Liberty Theatre. Liz Talley...

Friday, April 4th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Adria Badagnani on the Manzanita Writers Series Airlie Press Poetry Event with Daneen Bergland & Irene Cooper at the Hoffman Center for the Arts. Faculty Adviser Kama O’Connor on the public reading of RAIN Magazine 2025 at Clatsop Community College Towler...

Friday, March 28th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Directors Rita Smith & Pamela Klifar with Peninsula Players’ production of “Disaster” at the River City Playhouse in Ilwaco, WA. Director Markus Brown & Actor Judy Goff-Menegat with “Marjorie Prime” at The Ten Fifteen Theatre in Astoria. Musica Maestrale’s Hideki Yamaya...

Friday, March 21st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Wild Salmon Center Community Engagement Coordinator Avi Goldschmidt on Rand Schenck, author of “Forest Under Siege: The History of Old Growth After Gifford Pinchot” at Fort George Brewery. Katy Menne, Arts Council of Clatsop Co board member & CRMM education director...

Friday, March 14th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Charlene Larsen & Deac Guidi from Partners for the PAC with Phyllis Nybakke Cavens on “Love the Larsen Center”, a fundraiser and celebration of Jan & John Nybakke, at the Larsen Center in Astoria. Violist Betsey Ellerbroek & Oboist Laurie Swanson...

Friday, March 7th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Artists Denise Monaghan & Matthew Dennison with “The Power of the Wild” at Imogen Gallery in Astoria. Event Coordinator Liz Talley & Marketing & Photography Director Sora Blu with the 6th Annual Sou’Wester Arts Week in Seaview & Ilwaco, WA. Andrew...

Friday, February 28th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Adria Badagnani on the Manzanita Writers Series Literary Weekend with Poet Didi Jackson at the Hoffman Center for the Arts. Nancy McCarthy & Jennifer Nightingale with 13 writers in the NW Authors Series ‘Writers Read Celebration’ at the Cannon Beach Library....

Host Carol Newman interviews a rotation of guests on art, culture and local events. Guest details to follow. 

Friday, February 14th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Events Coordinator Delphine Criscenzo on the Big River Book Festival at Little Island Creamery in Cathlamet. Artist & Retired Merchant Marine Marilyn Dreher-Loving with life stories on the sea and in the arts.

Friday, February 7th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Kristin Shauck, Founder of “Au Naturel: Nude in the 21st Century”, with Painters Roger McKay and Phil Mancill on the 15th Annual Exhibit at CCC’s Royal Nebeker Art Gallery. Artist John Willis with his solo show “A Painters View” at Made...

Friday, January 31st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Playwright Michael Alderman, Director Susi Brown & Actor Ethan Taylor with “The Mystery of Marie Roget” at the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach. Conductor Terry Dahlgren & Saxophonist & Publicist Kathleen Strecker on “A Little Night Music”, the NCSB concert on their 45th...

Friday, January 24th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Theater Director Danyelle Tinker and Play Directors Deborah Jensen and Ryan Hull with ‘One Act Wonders’ at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. PAPA BOD members, Director Angela Grote & Stage Manager Jerr Harding, with Actor Liam McCaughey on ‘Dear Jack,...