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Back at World Cup Coffee and Tea for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation Mini-episode. The Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival is upon us and today I’m with Steve Kerin of about a million bands and a founding member of Oregon’s only Mardi Gras krewe, the Mysti Krewe of Nimbus. OMN will have a booth for the eighth year in the Louisiana Pavilion which the Krewe is in charge of for the first time. Make...

Glad you have returned to OMN’s Coffeeshop Conversations which always take place at World Cup Coffee and Tea, NW 18th and Glisan. Today we’re going to find out why Rob Stroup…singer, songwriter, composer, producer and recording engineer is moving his studio and the rest of his life from Portland, where they all were born, to New Mexico. I know, surpising,right? Rob and his wife Naomi…a duo they ca...

Happy you’re back with us in World Cup Coffee and Tea for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. With me today is a guy I’ve known to say hi to, to do a little business with but we’ve never really sat down an shot the shit. He’s always been kind of a mystery to me. He’s Nicholas Harris, who also helps run Soul’d Out Productions…that’s the Soul’d Out Festival, but he’s also running the newest Jazz/So...

It’s another day in the coffeeshop and another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation at World Cup Coffee and Tea NW 18th and Glisan in Portland. A reminder that you can find these on iTunes, SoundCloud and TuneIn. Just search for Oregon Music News and there we are. Today in the coffeeshop we’ve got Blues/Soul singer Duffy Bishop, who moved a couple of years ago to Florida, with her cats and husband and coll...

June 1, 2017 Back in the coffeeshop with an old friend, right here at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. This podcast is now also available for you to listen to and even download on iTunes, SoundCloud and TuneIn. Just search for Oregon Music News. The old friend is Ron Rogers. His band, The Wailing Wind has been around for seems like ten years. Ti...

May 30, 2017 Hey. Welcome back to OMN’s Coffeeshop Conversations, this being another Mini-episode and the coffeeshop being World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Gilsan. I want to remind you that this podcast is also available on iTunes, SoundCloud and TuneIn. Just search for Oregon Music News and bookmark it. Today singer/bassist Lisa Mann is here. I wanted to talk to her about her participation i...

May 26, 2017 Hey. Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Gilsan in Portland. I’m Tom D'Antoni. Happy to let you know that Coffeeshop Conversations can now also be found on iTunes, SoundCloud, TuneIn and soon to be on Stitcher. Just search for Oregon Music News when you get there. Downloadable, too. Today Amy Maxwell pays a return visit to the coffeeshop. She was one of our first vis...

Hi there. Tom D’Antoni back with another OMN Coffeeshop Conversations Mini episode, something we started a few weeks ago. You can count on one full and one mini episode per week. And did you know we’re also on iTunes, SoundCloud and TuneIn? We are. Just search for Oregon Music News to find every past and present Coffeeshop Conversation. Of course, that coffeeshop is World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW...

May 17, 2016 As we wander on into our second hundred of these, let me welcome you back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Glisan in Portland for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. With me today is Dusty York. Dusty is/was a saxophonist, keyboardist, composer, label owner and now, somewhat suddenly he’s a standup comedian. How did this happen? It has been quite a while since he sold his hor...

May 9, 2017 This is our one-hundredth Coffeeshop Conversation. We started with Mary Sue Tobin on December 4, 2014 and with the obvious exception of a few weeks, we’ve been right here at World Cup Coffee and Tea, NW 18th and Glisan for each one. We’ll have Mary Sue back soon, but I’ve asked filmmaker Beth Harrington to return because she was a great guest early on, and also because she’s working on...

May 6, 2017 This is the second of our Coffeeshop Conversations Mini-episodes. Yes, I said “mini.” Even the world “campy” is campy, I know. Whatever. Josh Malm has been here before. On his new album, Saints & Renegades, he’s billing himself as Josh Allan Malm, he’s aka Redwood Son, also the name of his band, he’s been known as Josh Malmtree and I think Prince. Maybe not. He’s releasing his new albu...

May 3, 2017 Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. As you know, from time to time I like to bring in a member of the OMN family and let you meet them. Today it’s Stephen Blackman, who has done a lot of good things for us including handling all of the Portland Jazz Festival Jazz Conversation recordings. He’s a guitarist, singer, compo...

April 24, 2017 Welcome back to another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation at our home for these things…World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan. Tony Furtado is here today. He is known world-wide as a stringed instrument player, especially the banjo and more often than not these days, as a singer/songwriter. He has a new album out, a live one called Cider House Sessions – Live at Reverend Nat’s and...

April 19, 2017 Welcome to the first of our Coffeeshop Conversations mini-episodes. I figured why not do some of these around a particular event. They don’t have to be a full hour’s worth, but maybe something you’d like to hear. At World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland is the smiling face you remember from being behind the bar at Jimmy Mak’s that’s right, JD, who’s real name is...

April 13, 2017 As we inch slowly toward sun and warmth, we’re going to find out all, and I do mean all, about the 2017 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, June 30 to July 4th because Festival Artistic Director and ace guitarist Peter Dammann is in the Coffeeshop today. Welcome to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. This will be the thi...

April 6, 2017 Back in World Cup Coffee and Tea in Portland at NW 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. With me today is one of those people behind the scenes who’s name you may only know if you read liner notes…that is if you still buy CDs. His name is Bob Stark and he’s a recording engineer, a producer, arranger, mixer and composer. He has worked on Grammy winners by Esperanza...

March 30, 2017 Back in the World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glilsan after a week off keeping company with the flu, it’s another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. With me today is a singer whose name you may recognize if you were a music fan in Portland twenty years ago. She was the queen of Portland Blues singers back then. Her name is Sheila Wilcoxson. All of a sudden she was gone from the scen...

March 17, 2017 Hi there. Welcome back to OMN’s Coffeeshop Conversations here at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Gilsan. I’m trying to get over the flu or bronchitis or whatever that bug is that seems to have infected everyone in town since Trump was inaugurated. My voice will be back soon. When we recorded this Coffeeshop Conversation with guitarist/composer/luthier Mike Doolin, I was a fu...

March 9. 2017 From the cupping room at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland Oregon, here’s another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation In the coffeeshop with me is the singular Tony Starlight who gave up his night club a couple of years ago and now is the proprietor of Tony Starlight’s Showroom. What’s the difference? Keep listening. What will he bring us today? One never knows. He’s...

February 28, 2017 Karen Lovely returns to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan today for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation, the 92nd of them. Karen has finished her new album, but it’s not out yet. She’s got some crowd-sourcing to finish up. It’s been a great year for her since she was here in the Fall of 2015. Her last album was a hit…we’ll find out all about it and also about her new...

February 23, 2017 Welcome back to the coffeeshop…World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland. It’s another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. If you were in New Orleans you would have been celebrating Carnival for weeks now. Mardi Gras is coming up on Fat Tuesday, February 28. But did you know that there’s also Fat Monday. It’s called Lundi Gras and here to talk about it is New Orleans na...

February 16, 2017 Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. We’ve got saxophonist/vocalist/composer Chelsea Luker in the coffeeshop today. You know her from the Quadraphonnes sax quartet. You may know her from one of her other bands, Joy Tribe. Joy Tribe calls itself a World Funk band. We’ll find out what that means. She is classically...

February 8, 2017 Today at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland we’ve got probably the best known Jazz musician in Oregon. Mel Brown is here for a Coffeeshop Conversation. Mel is here to talk about a special performance which includes John Faddis at the upcoming Portland Jazz Festival commemorating the 100th year of Dizzy Gillespie on Wednesday, February 22. We’ll find out all...

January 25, 2017 Back in the coffeeshop again. That coffeeshop being World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan. Man, this is number 88…and I’m not tired of doing them. Today the other half of Kate Power and Steve Einhorn is here. The Steve half. They came back to Portland in January of 2015. They had been gone for four and a half years. For decades they were the owners of Artichoke Music, a s...

January 12, 2017 Back in World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for this OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. and with me today is bassist Dave Kahl. He’s a Bluesman and has been for a long time, a fixture on the scene with many bands, including the legendary final Paul deLay Band with the big man, David Vest, Peter Dammann and Jeff Minnick among others. These days he’s in two or three or four ban...