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We’ve got some exciting Coffeeshop Conversations coming up. In the next three weeks we’ll have Jeremy Wilson, Miz Etta, Arietta Ward and also pianist Kerry Politzer in the Artichoke Café. Today James Latham is here with me. He’s the mastermind behind the Tom Waits tribute show on Sunday, November 6 at the Alberta Rose Theater. We’ll find out the lineup of Portland singers and players who are tackl...

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A middle of the night interview with Carley Harvey who will sing at Newberg ’s Meraviglioso Winery at 4 p.m, Saturday October 22 show, followed by a 10:30 p.m Tuesday show at Garages Music in Lake Oswego and an appearance next Friday in Camano, Washington. “I

Hey. Welcome back to the Café in Artichoke Music. Next week Farnell Newton will pay a return visit and the following week, Jeremy Wilson will be here for the first time to talk about his foundation and what he’s doing musically. Today, sitting across from me armed with a pile of harmonicas is Arthur Moore who has seen and heard and played with a lot of the great Portland Blues musicians and is the...

I’ve been looking forward to being back here in the Café at Artichoke Music with Cheryl Pawelski from Omnivore Recordings since she and I first geeked out in April of 2021 after Omnivore won a Grammy for a Best of Mr. Rogers release. I am going to tell you how Omnivore defines itself because it’s succinct and I am lazy. Says here, “It specializes in historical releases, reissues and previously uni...

Welcome back to the Café in Artichoke Music. I’m Tom D’Antoni, Next time we’ll bring back for a new visit Cheryl Pawelski of Omnivore Recordings, one of my favorite guests. Across the table today is Peter Bilotta, Executive Director of Chamber Music Northwest. Their new season has just started and he’s going to tell us about the entire rest of the season, which as you know, is something we like to...

Things are still returning from pandemic exile. October brings the return of Miz Kitty’s Parlour, the vaudeville show from Lisa Marsicek who is the Miz Kitty Character. Lisa and her troupe of vaudevillians will be at the Old Church Concert Hall on Saturday October 29. She is with me in the Artichoke Café which is where she staged the first Parlor twenty-one years ago…when the Café and Artichoke we...

We’re really cranking up since my return to the Artichoke Café a few weeks ago. Next week Lisa Marsicek, known to all as Miz Kitty of Miz Kitty’s Parlor will be here. The following week, Chamber Music Northwest’s Executive Director Peter Bilotta will talk about their new season. And the week after that Cheryl Pawelski of Omnivore Records will be here to geek out with me about their newest releases...

Welcome back to the Café in Artichoke Music. I’m Tom D’Antoni. Sitting across from me is Pepe Raphael, a singer and dancer who may be best known for his Pepe and the Bottle Blondes ensemble. He was a member of Pink Martini too. He’s pretty much legendary around here and even moreso since he added a spectacular handlebar moustache. While keeping the Bottle Blondes always at the ready, his main proj...

Thanks for finding another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation from the Artichoke Music Café. I’m Tom D’Antoni. With me Is drummer/composer/journalist/intellect and all-around talented guy Tim DuRoche. He is, what amounts to kicking off the fall music season on Wednesday September 7 with a weekly-month-long concert series at the Turn! Turn! Turn! club. In Portland. Each performance with a different ensemb...

From the cozy Artichoke Music Café, I’m glad you joined us again. This week sitting across from me is one of Portland’s best drummers, Tyrone Hendrix who plays in several bands, we’ll get an update on that. He’s also a part owner of the Alberta Street Pub where he has had a hand in booking and playing, of course. We’ll also find out about his son who is also a drummer…..and the rest of his family....

From the Artichoke Music Café…and it’s a good feeling to say that again….I am sitting across from Paul Ward, the new Artichoke Executive Director and Board Chair. He’s been on the job for a matter of weeks but he’s full of ideas and has experience in both music, he’s a pianist, and business with multiple degrees and an excellent track record in running companies. Bob Howard, who just retired from...

Coffeeshop Conversations has returned to the Artichoke Music Café and it’s great to be back and just as great to be sitting across from Reggie Houston, saxophonist, vocalist and composer who moved back home to New Orleans a few years back but is making a visit to Portland in anticipation of moving back to his adopted home. We’ve missed him, his music and his spirit. He is a fountain of knowledge,...

Over the years of this podcast…eight to be exact…one of our favorite guests has been OMN’s National Editor Art Levine. He’s a journalist with international cred. His book Mental Health Inc is a very serious work. He has been an editor at the Washington Monthly and has written very funny pieces for National Lampoon, among many others. We always have fun when he’s on this podcast. We’re going to tal...

Just a few more weeks until we’re back in the Artichoke Music Café. The podcast which goes up on August 19 with Reggie Houston, fresh from New Orleans will mark our return home to Artichoke. The 19th also marks the start of the three day Montavilla Jazz Festival, and as we always do, joining me electronically to talk about the full lineup is one of its curators, specifically Program Director, guit...

Welcome back to not the Artichoke Music Café. We’ll be back there on August 18 and talking with Reggie Houston who will obviously be in Portland. Today I am officially ending further discussion of what did you do during the pandemic. I’m about to talk with singer/pianist/composer Rachel Taylor-Brown, one of my favorite musicians on earth. We should consider ourselves lucky to hear what she has to...

I’m counting the days until I am recovered from the back surgery and can get to the Artichoke Café and sit across the table from our podcast guest. That will be on August 16 and it will also mark the return to Portland (for a visit) by Reggie Houston who moved back to New Orleans a couple of years ago. Today marks a Skype return to Portland by Jazz guitarist/composer Margaret Slovak who has had an...

Hey. I have recovered enough from back surgery to make it over to my desk and start a whole new round of Coffeeshop Conversations episodes via Skype and other methods. I hope to be sitting in the Artichoke Café in another month. I said hope to. I know that today our guest is Bobby Smith, XRAY radio DJ (and he’ll make some news about that). He’s archivist for the Albina Music Trust who, along with...

The Waterfront Blues Festival is right around the corner…the Fourth of July weekend, as you know. Over the years, OMN has given you inside looks at how it runs, besides keeping you informed about the musicians. Today Louis Pain is here, or King Louie as he likes to be known. We all know he’s a master of the Hammond B-3, but did you know he has a thriving business renting them…including at the Blue...

Regular listeners to this podcast, and even irregular listeners may or may not remember that for the past few weeks I’ve invited some of my favorite guests to come to the Artichoke Café while I have a window between surgeries. I’ll still make episodes, but for a little while they’ll be via Skype or something like it. Today I am happy to have Ramsey Embick here with me. You may know him from his Ja...

Returning to the Artichoke Music Café with me today is Third Angle New Music Artistic Director, flutist Sarah Tiedemann, a Coffeeshop Conversations favorite. The 22-23 season has been announced and Sarah is going to tell us all about what looks to be a very exciting musical experience for everyone…musicians and listeners. After a couple of years of the pandemic, you might say this is the first yea...

Pretty Gritty, a duo featuring Sarah Anne Wolfe and Blaine Heinonen has been around since they moved to Portland from the D.C. area twelve years ago. Now Sarah is moving to the East Coast and Blaine is staying put, putting at least a temporary end to the collaboration. Maybe, maybe not. Their farewell concert is Saturday, May 28 at Artichoke Music in the Café which is where I’m about to talk with...

We’re still back at the Artichoke Music Café this week for a special occasion, the final day as Executive Director for Bob Howard. He’s retiring, there is a new head honcho in charge, his name is Paul K Ward. Bob shepherded Artichoke’s move from Hawthorne to Powell Boulevard and guided it through the pandemic. Not an easy job. The café is crowded today. Bob refers to several of the people here wit...

We are back at the Café at Artichoke Music with one of our favorite guests. And while I have this window of a month or so to be here and not on Skype before my next surgery, I’m bringing back some folks who have made great guests. Today it’s Lloyd Jones, singer, composer, guitarist and a guy who is full of great stories from a very long and productive career that’s still going strong. I see he has...