Oregon Music News

January 5, 2017 Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for this week’s OMN Coffeeshop Conversations. You know, there are an awful lot of internationally known musicians who live in Oregon. They don’t necessarily work a lot here, they make their money all over the world and then come home to live here. One of them is guitarist Jennifer Batten. She’s a lot more than a guitari...

December 29, 2016 Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Today we’ve got Clark Salisbury, guitarist/oud player and now one of the folks behind the group calling itself “While Rome Burns.” They’re doing what amounts to the fiddling, although no fiddles are required, the fiddle represents all instruments. The Rome in the title refers t...

December 22, 2016 Back in the cupping room at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan our OMN Coffeeshop Conversations home, I’m Tom D’Antoni. Today we’ve got Dean Mueller in the room, a bass player formerly with the Insomniacs, still with Duffy Bishop when she comes up from Florida, bandleader with partner Julie Amici and for the past couple of years, promoter and curator at the very popul...

December 8, 2016 We’re in the cupping room at World Cup Coffee and Tea, NW18th and Glisan in Portland for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. With me today is the spectacular Soul singer Saeeda Wright. You may know her from her time as a backup singer with Liv Warfield. Saeeda was right along with Liv as Liv’s career blossomed…recorded with her, appeared on the network TV shows. You may also know...

December 1, 2016 Welcome to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another Oregon Music News Coffeeshop Conversation. Joining me is one of those people who is hard to categorize…as if we needed categorization. That’s another topic. The topic today is Andrew Durkin, who is generally lumped into the Jazz category, but he’s much more than that. He has a new album, his first in a long time...

November 21, 2017 Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan, home of OMN’s Coffeeshop Conversations. Today we’ve got Paul Brainard, a very recent inductee into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. If there is a more versatile musician around here I haven’t met him. This weekend (November 25-27) he’s hearding the horn section of the band at the annual Next Waltz show at the Alberta R...

November 17, 2016 Back in the ole Coffeeshop again...World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan…and it’s not very old, but you know what I mean. I mean this is the 80th OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. This time I’m in the cupping room with Portland Cello Project’s (those are two url's) Gideon Freudmann, as you might expect, a cellist and composer. It’s the tenth anniversary for them and to celebr...

November 1, 2016 Back in the cupping room at World Cup Coffee and Tea again for another in the endless series of OMN’s Coffeeshop Conversations. I’m Tom D’Antoni and with me today is the legendary and extremely celebrated Blues guitarist, composer and producer Terry Robb. He’s in the Oregon Music Hall of fame. He won the Cascade Blues Association’s Best Guitarist Muddy Award so many times, they ha...

October 20, 2016 Welcome back to the cupping room in World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. I’m Tom D’Antoni and taking a minute off from the endless road is John Averill, one of the founding members of March Fourth, the giant endless party since March the Fourth, 2003 when they formed. Before going back out on the road in their bus full of 20 music...

October 12, 2016 Hi there, welcome to another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation from World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland. I’m Tom D’Antoni Last week, we sat down with singer/songwriter Josh Malm Tree, just a few days before he moved to Nashville. He was a part of the Eckrich Music City Sing Off on Tuesday night (October 11), but he’s fixin’ to stay a while and try his hand and car...

September 29, 2016 Back in the coffeeshop again for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation, as always, right here at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Gilsan in Portland. Happy to have Soul singer Andy Stokes in today and he’s got with him his new album, Full Circle. We’ll find out the meaning of that title and a lot more from a man OMN called “Oregon’s King of Soul” in a story last year. He’s...

September 15, 2016 Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland for another in the long line of Coffeeshop Conversations. Hard to believe this is number 75, but it is. Joining me today is journalist Cervante Pope. You may recognize her from the pages of Oregon Music News which is where she got her start in Portland. These days, however she is also the editor of The De...

September 5, 2016 Time for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation conducted right here at world famous World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland. With me today is someone you have heard, and if you pay attention you’ve seen in almost every major venue in Oregon. You’ve seen her behind the sound board sliding pots, turning dials, punching buttons and screens. She makes the sound happe...

August 25, 2016 Welcome back to the Coffeeshop…World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland and another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Today Jim Brunberg, musician, music venue owner and now a podcaster with his twin seven-year-old daughters Vern and Dana. You know him from his music, from being one of the founders of Mississippi Studios and Revolution Hall. He’s a busy guy and we’re g...

August 9, 2016 Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Today composer/pianist/drummer George Colligan is here. He’s headlining the Third Annual Montavilla Jazz Festival the weekend of August 20 and 21…that’s a Saturday and Sunday. OMN is a media sponsor once again. George blew into town…well he moved here, but it felt like that…a few...

July 27, 2016 Welcome back to the coffeeshop in which we conduct the OMN Coffeeshop Conversations, that being World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland, Oregon. With me today is the mult-talented singer, dancer, band leader Pepe Raphael, he of the Bottle Blondes, Pink Martini and his new adventure Duo Kitty ~ Raphael. A vocal duo with Megan Yvonne. They will be staging a unique an...

July 15, 2016 Well the Blues Festival is over and it’s time to get back to the normal cycle of OMN Coffeeshop Conversations right here in World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland. With me in the place is drummer Tyrone Hendrix and if you have heard funky music around here, you most likely have heard him…with Liv Warfield, Doo-Doo Funk, Farnell Newton, you name it and he has provi...

June 23, 2016 We're back at World Cup Coffee and Tea for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. The 2016 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival is coming up and I thought you’d like to meet the person who is responsible for allowing OMN to have our famed “Comfy Booth” at the festival since 2010. She’s Amanda Gresham who’s Delta Music Experience Louisiana Pavilion near the Front Porch Stage is also home t...

June 15, 2016 Coffeeshop conversations is back. I’m OMN’s Tom D’Antoni and today we’re not in our usual spot, the cupping room at World Cup Coffee and Tea and that’s because our guest is in Los Angeles where she had a gig last night. Liv Warfield, as most of you know, had a great run while she was living in Portland, Growing as an artist and a person. Then she was enfolded in purple as a singer wi...

May 26, 2016 It’s another day in the Coffeeshop…World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan…and another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. with me today is bass player John Mazzocco who has been a major part of the Oregon music scene for decades as a member of Paul deLay and Curtis Salgado’s bands, and the several bands he’s in now. He toured with John Lee Hooker for three years. Boogie Woogie piano...

May 18, 2016 We;re in the coffeshop again. As always, it’s World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. With me today is an Oregon Music Hall of Fame member…known to all as the Boogie Cat, the best dressed man in town…Norman Sylvester. An Oregonian since 1957, he’s been playing music for almost as long as he’s lived here. He’s a Blues and Soul guitarist,...

May 12, 2016 Back in World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland Oregon. This is another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Today it’s…well I suppose we should call him a keyboard player because he can play them all but I think Louis Pain would rather be known as an organist because we’ve seen him so many times sitting behind the mighty, mighty Hammond B3 and playing with people like Paul...

May 5, 2016 We’re not at our usual stand, World Cup Coffee and Tea for this OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Because he’s so busy, we came to the temple of records to meet the Grand Vizier of music in Portland, Music Millennium’s owner Terry Currier. If there’s a more central figure in the music industry around here, I’ve never met him. Most of the time, when he’s interviewed, everybody always asks hi...

April 28, 2016 An apology to Ms. Day and the rest of you. The author of this piece made a stupid mistake when recording and it sounds like we're in the bottom of a large metal cylinder. The author of this article feels like an idiot. Sorry. --The Author of this Article Welcome to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another Oregon Music News Coffeeshop Conversation. In the coffeeshop...

April 21, 2016 Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Today we’ve got a true renaissance man with us. I know that term gets thrown around, but in this case it fits well. Composer/multi-instrumentalist David Ornette Cherry comes back to Portland to write but when he’s not here he’s constantly in motion, travelling coast-to-coast and w...