[NewMusic] North by Northwest

[Tim DuRoche]

If any of you all are heading up toward Portland (or Olympia, Vancouver BC, Seattle) this summer for festivals, let me or others in this neck of the woods know--perhaps something can be set up along your journey to parts further and farther to the north.
   
  In Portland, The Someday Lounge (which Lucio Menegon  just played at on a bill with me) is a very supportive environment for improv/experimental/jazz-based and other out in orbit aesthetics.  Also a little cafe/bar called Valentines is attractive for small electronics, laptop, microskronk, freejazz, etc. In Astoria (which is lovely in a very sleepy, one-morning-in-Maine kinda way), Paul Hoskin books a series: pchoskin at peak.org. Other possibilities abound as well.  
   
  Sorry about that Bay Bridge thing--kaboom.
   
  TdR