$10 at the door, cash preferred, 7-8:30pm

Joseph Konty and his band of troubadours bring Joseph’s eclectic singer-songwriter sound to Old Market Pub in PDX. A blend of Soul, Troubadour, Americana, Folk and honky Tonk with dashes of rock-n-roll & funk. His concerts a blend of his own creations and songs that helped shape him by other artists. You’ll come to be entertained and left exhausted from dancing, stories and a level of music care. 

For more visit: 

www.josephkonty.com 

All Socials: @josephkonty

tickets $15 at afton tickets

Alan is just getting off the road, Dave's about to go out again. Come see them make music together for this rare event!

FREE Show!

Draw close and witness the wonders of Andrew & Courtney’s Mystery Box – a tiny traveling universe of clarinet, accordion, and musical mystery. Blending Eastern European flavors, jazz, and original compositions, illuminated by the glow of deep listening – the kind that sparks spontaneity.

It’s two friends, two masterful musicians, opening a small box of wonders, and finding inside a magical world accompanied by an orchestra of lightning bugs.

No two nights unfold the same way. The whole experience feels like a diorama come to life, wandering onto a stage, and gently insisting you lean in closer to catch every detail.

Courtney Von Drehle — accordion

 (3 Leg Torso; Carpathian Pacific Express; Michelle Alany & the Mystics)

Andrew Alikhanov — clarinet

 (Peabody-trained; Chervona; Michelle Alany & the Mystics)

tickets $15 at aftontickets

Songwriters in the Round

Ben Rice-guitar fire, soulful vocals, and heartfelt songwriting

Timothy James-honest songwriting, a plethora of influences with a distinct sound

Kivett Bednar-gritty Texas Blues meets the heart of the Pacific Northwest

Justus Reece-blues and jazz fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter

Tevis Hodge Jr.-his performance oozes with originality and passion, covering multiple blues idioms, jazz, jug band, folk and more

$15 at afton tickets

Ben Rice might be described as quiet and unassuming—until he picks up a guitar. A three-time Blues Music Award nominee, Rice has built a reputation as one of the most expressive and versatile artists in today’s roots and blues scene. While he began in traditional blues, over the years he’s expanded his sound with soul, R&B, folk, and country, creating a welcoming front-porch atmosphere where every listener feels at home.

Raised on a mix of vinyl treasures—his dad’s Steely Dan, Bob Marley, and Marshall Tucker alongside his mom’s Al Green, Barry White, and George Benson—Rice discovered the guitar at age seven and never looked back. His early thrift-store finds introduced him to Mississippi John Hurt, Bukka White, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Robert Cray, influences that shaped his fearless, inventive, and powerful guitar style. Whether on a steel resonator or his custom electric, Rice’s intensity and originality consistently turn heads.

Audiences are equally drawn to his heartfelt songwriting and evocative vocals. “My goal is to reach people in a way that they need to be reached,” Rice explains. “To say things they may not get to say or hear things they may not normally get to hear.” In performance, he treats every song as a story, channeling the emotion of its characters and inviting listeners to find their own meaning within the music.

Over the years, Rice has shared stages with blues and soul luminaries such as Curtis Salgado, Johnny Rawls, and Vanessa Collier, further cementing his standing in the American roots community. In 2023, he unveiled a bold new chapter with his horn-driven ensemble, Ben Rice & The PDX Hustle. With its blend of horns, vocal harmonies, piano, and organ, the group captures the raw energy of Rice’s live show and delivers it with a groove that has been igniting audiences across the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

With his new album Fallen Angel (2025), Rice showcases not only his fearless guitar work and emotive voice but also his evolution as a songwriter and bandleader. The record is both a tribute to his late drummer Chandler Bowerman and a testament to resilience, creativity, and the deep joy of making music.

Ben Rice’s journey has already brought him acclaim, collaborations with legendary artists, and international tours. But it’s clear that his greatest triumphs are still ahead.

advance tickets $15 (+$2.64) click here aftontickets or available at the door.

KIM FIELD AND THE PERFECT GENTLEMEN is an all-star roots-music group based in Portland, Oregon. Fronted by harmonica player and vocalist

Kim Field, the band includes Vyasa Dodson (guitar and vocals), Whit Draper (guitar and vocals),

Denny Bixby (bass, keyboards, and vocals), and Jimi Bott (drums).

The group’s members have performed throughout the United States and Europe at such showcases as Portland’s Waterfront Blues Festival, the San Francisco Blues Festival, the Chicago Blues Festival, the Tampa Bay Blues Festival, Canada’s Tremblant Blues Festival, the Lucerne Blues Festival, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, and on the Legendary Blues Cruise. Individually, the members of the Perfect Gentlemen have been honored by the Cascade Blues Association with a total of nearly 30 Muddy Awards for their instrumental prowess and their recordings. Drummer Jimi Bott and guitarist Whit Draper have both been inducted in the Cascade Blues Association’s Hall of Fame. Bott was the winner of the 2015 Blues Music Award for best blues drummer and has won 12 Cascade Blues Association Muddy Award for best drummer, an award that is now named after him.

With their international reputations as true blues stars, and the release of their new album "Don't Need But One," Kim Field and the Perfect Gentleman have established themselves as one of the Pacific Northwest’s premier R&B acts.

tickets $15 at aftontickets

High energy blues-rock

With infectious grooves, electrifying guitar work, and performances that'll have you on your feet from the first note, they're exactly the kind of band that makes the blues unforgettable whether you're a blues purist or just love great live music.

2020 International Blues Challenge Finalist

7x Cascade Blues Association Muddy Award Winner

The venue is inside the building. There will be signs on the glass doors at the East side of the parking lot

*ADA accessible

*full bar (and mock-tails!)

*dance floor

*Hawaiian bento from Bamboo Grill https://bghawaiiangrille.com/

*parking lot (payment required)

*all ages until 9pm

$15 at afton tickets

Ben Rice might be described as quiet and unassuming—until he picks up a guitar. A three-time Blues Music Award nominee, Rice has built a reputation as one of the most expressive and versatile artists in today’s roots and blues scene. While he began in traditional blues, over the years he’s expanded his sound with soul, R&B, folk, and country, creating a welcoming front-porch atmosphere where every listener feels at home.

Raised on a mix of vinyl treasures—his dad’s Steely Dan, Bob Marley, and Marshall Tucker alongside his mom’s Al Green, Barry White, and George Benson—Rice discovered the guitar at age seven and never looked back. His early thrift-store finds introduced him to Mississippi John Hurt, Bukka White, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Robert Cray, influences that shaped his fearless, inventive, and powerful guitar style. Whether on a steel resonator or his custom electric, Rice’s intensity and originality consistently turn heads.

Audiences are equally drawn to his heartfelt songwriting and evocative vocals. “My goal is to reach people in a way that they need to be reached,” Rice explains. “To say things they may not get to say or hear things they may not normally get to hear.” In performance, he treats every song as a story, channeling the emotion of its characters and inviting listeners to find their own meaning within the music.

Over the years, Rice has shared stages with blues and soul luminaries such as Curtis Salgado, Johnny Rawls, and Vanessa Collier, further cementing his standing in the American roots community. In 2023, he unveiled a bold new chapter with his horn-driven ensemble, Ben Rice & The PDX Hustle. With its blend of horns, vocal harmonies, piano, and organ, the group captures the raw energy of Rice’s live show and delivers it with a groove that has been igniting audiences across the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

With his new album Fallen Angel (2025), Rice showcases not only his fearless guitar work and emotive voice but also his evolution as a songwriter and bandleader. The record is both a tribute to his late drummer Chandler Bowerman and a testament to resilience, creativity, and the deep joy of making music.

Ben Rice’s journey has already brought him acclaim, collaborations with legendary artists, and international tours. But it’s clear that his greatest triumphs are still ahead.

Americana & Roots

For fans of Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard, James Taylor, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Songwriters in the Round-Denny Bixby, John Bunzow & Lex Browning

Americana & Roots

John Bunzow is an inspired and innovative American roots singer/songwriter/guitarist of depth, substance and groove. 

“John destroys the boundaries between great rock, country, r&b, and soul music by owning his noteworthy sound with respect to the great artists who came before.” Ray Kennedy, Five time Grammy winner. Producer, Engineer, Musician (Steve Earle, Billy Joe Shaver) 

Bunzow, based in Portland with regular commutes to Nashville, has built a long and storied career. Infused early with a strong love of Southern music – thanks to kin from that part of the country – John has developed his own unique fusion of roots rock and blues, seasoned with everything from reggae and country rock to pop. 

 
He counts among his “Mt. Rushmore of influences,” as he puts it, Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard, Tom Waits, Mike Bloomfield, Albert King, country picker Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Webb, Randy Newman, Steve Earle, and Jerry Garcia, among many. 

During his early years, Bunzow performed with bands that favored original music, including the Cowboy Angels and the X-Angels, as well as working as a solo singer/songwriter and even trafficking in a country music tour of truck stops and county fairs. John found himself bouncing around various music scenes including San Francisco, Seattle and LA. But it was in Nashville that his songwriting created new opportunities, Bunzow says. “My focus was always as a songwriter, and that is what brought me to Nashville – twice.”  

For fans of Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard, James Taylor, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Celebrated Multi-instrumentalist Mark Shark is thrilled to be sharing this special evening of music at DeNicola’s Italian Restaurant. During his long and storied career Mark has had the good fortune to share the stage and studio with many of his own personal heroes Jackson Browne, Jesse Ed Davis, Taj Mahal, John Trudell, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan…

Michael was John Lee Hooker’s lead guitarist for 13 years.“Michael Osborn is one of the most authentic blues guitarists around today. His style goes straight to the heart of the blues and he’ll steal your show if you don’t watch out!” ~ Robben Ford

Americana & Roots —-Ben and John…improvising on each other’s songs!

$15 cash at the door. We’ll be in the back room away from the TV’s

Aslin is a songwriter and performer born and raised on Sauvie Island making intimate, lyric-driven indie music. She grew up playing shows around the state, recently returning home to Portland after completing her degree in music business in Tennessee. Her latest EP, Inflight, details her journey of leaving home, chasing her dream of playing music across America, before finally returning home—balancing folk-inspired songwriting with atmospheric production.

Aslin has opened for artists like Phoebe Bridgers and continues to build a name for herself in Portland’s music scene through live shows, self-released records, and a deep archive of unreleased songs.  Check her out here

Ben Rice is a three-time Blues Music Award nominee whose blend of guitar fire, soulful vocals, and heartfelt songwriting has earned him acclaim across the roots and blues world. Raised in Portland, Oregon, on his parents’ eclectic vinyl collection, Rice developed a fearless guitar style that draws from Mississippi blues, soul, R&B, folk, and country. His music carries the spirit of timeless tradition while sounding fresh, inventive, and deeply personal.

Over the years, Rice has shared stages with Curtis Salgado, Johnny Rawls, and Vanessa Collier, and toured widely as both a bandleader and sideman. In 2023, he launched Ben Rice & The PDX Hustle, a horn-driven ensemble that channels the raw intensity of his live shows and gets audiences on their feet. With his new album Fallen Angel (2025), Rice continues to carve out his place as one of the most compelling voices in modern Americana and blues.

Sleeper Wave, the Cascade Blues Association's representatives at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis opens for The Dave Fleschner Trio.

The Dave Fleschner Trio will be playing blues classics as well as the bluesier compositions from Dave Fleschner’s Catalogue.

This will be your last chance to catch Sleeper Wave and support them before they head to Memphis to represent Portland.

The Dave Fleschner Trio:

◦ Very inventive and swingin’ – Mike Finnigan

◦ Dave is . . killin’ it on there. The songs are great! – Curtis Salgado

Dave, Dan and Charlie have been making music together off and on for decades. This trio begins with the vehicles for improvisation – a range of original tunes from Dave’s catalogue, as well as a variety of jazz classics. Well versed in the old school organ trio tradition of Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, Groove Holmes and Don Padderson, the Dave Fleschner trio has a modern approach to this canon, drawing inspiration from artists as varied as Herbie Hancock and Ornette Coleman. You’ll find funk, soul, blues and world music influences in their special blend of groove-based improvisation.

Tickets $15 at afton tickets or at the door (doors at 6:30pm)

Join us for a fundraiser and send-off for Sleeper Wave, who will be representing the Pacific Northwest Blues Community in Memphis at the International Blues Challenge Youth Showcase.

Also performing are Lilla, the Nikki Jones Band, and a jam wirh Rae Gordon & Dave Fleschner

$10-$50 sliding scale

raffle & silent auction!

Full band!

All ages

Reserved tickets with meal required for a table seat ($25 music, +$35 meal)

General admission $25

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The Steele Family Christmas show is an annual Portland tradition!  We are so excited that this year the family will present this show at HōKū Events on Madison!

Mark, LaRhonda, Lo and Sarah are happy to share Music and Joy in their Soul Filled way this Holiday season.

Get ready to sing along, dance and enjoy yourself with the Steele Family Band.

Come celebrate the lighting of the menorah with us!

Info and ticketing coming soon…special catering for this event!

Alan Hager

He first picked up a guitar at age ten and became a blues and jazz prodigy. He was playing local clubs as a teenager before heading to Boston’s Berklee School Of Music, where he studied under the tutelage of jazz guitar legend Pat Metheny. A year later he was studying classical music at the famed New England Conservatory of Music, where he graduated in 1979. During the 1980s he toured as part of a classical guitar duo and took up teaching, which he still does. But he never fell out of love with the blues, especially the old Delta sounds of Charlie Patton, Tommy Johnson and Skip James.

Albert Reda has played his bass and shared his vocals with Northwest music artists such as Alan Hager, Ellen Whyte, Bill Rhodes, John Bunzow, Jon Koonce, Lloyd Jones, Duffy

Bishop, Terry Robb, Kim Field and many others. He’s received a baker’s dozen of Muddy Awards from the Cascade Blues Association and has been inducted into their

Hall of Fame.

Albert Reda

Albert Reda has played his bass and shared his vocals with Northwest music artists such as Alan Hager, Ellen Whyte, Bill Rhodes, John Bunzow, Jon Koonce, Lloyd Jones, Duffy

Bishop, Terry Robb, Kim Field and many others. He’s received a baker’s dozen of Muddy Awards from the Cascade Blues Association and has been inducted into their

Hall of Fame.

Dave Fleshner’s Blues cabaret with guest Nandi Johanssen

Nandi is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist. He grew up in Trinidad, California , and began learning the violin at age 3. After moving to Astoria, New York at the age of 13 , he formed his first punk rock band, No Questions Asked (NQA) followed by the pop/rock band, 3:00 Prophet, embracing a strong following in the indie rock scene at the time.

Bentos from Bamboo Grove Hawiian Grille available; and full bar.

Tickets $15 in advance/$20 at the door at afton tickets or at the door night of.

The Beacon Street Titans are a seven-piece jump jazz-blues Portland-based band. Every performance by the Titans is powerfully entertaining and highly energetic, with a groovy rhythm section, tightly arranged horns, and a repertoire that combines an exciting variety of styles.

tickets available soon at aftontickets.com

True Northwest Roots. tickets $15-$35 at afton tickets

About Tin Compass …rich, soulful melodies, KC Craine and Tin Compass craft all original songs deeply rooted in the spirit of the Pacific Northwest. Veteran players bring a seasoned depth to a warm, vintage-inspired sound—steeped in elements of folk, country and soul, with an organic, upbeat vibe. The bans is currently working on their first album "It's Not The Destination, It's The Ride" set for release next year. 

https://TinCompass.com.

Join The Dave Fleschner Trio with special guest Curtis Salgado for a fun evening of jazz, blues, soul and R&B improvisation

Celebrated Multi-instrumentalist Mark Shark is thrilled to be sharing

this special evening of music at DeNicola’s Italian Restaurant

A Portland treasure, the DeNicola family has been providing

delicious Italian meals from their family recipes for 40 years.

Alan Hager

He first picked up a guitar at age ten and became a blues and jazz prodigy. During the 1980s he toured as part of a classical guitar duo and took up teaching, which he still does. But he never fell out of love with the blues, especially the old Delta sounds of Charlie Patton, Tommy Johnson and Skip James.

Albert Reda

Albert Reda has played his bass and shared his vocals with Northwest music artists such as Alan Hager, Ellen Whyte, Bill Rhodes, John Bunzow, Jon Koonce, Lloyd Jones, Duffy

Bishop, Terry Robb, Kim Field and many others. He’s received a baker’s dozen of Muddy Awards from the Cascade Blues Association and has been inducted into their

Hall of Fame.