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Jet Black Pearl

  • Old Market Pub & Brewery 6959 SW Multnomah Blvd Portland United States (map)

Tickets $10 at the door, cash preferred

Doors open at 6:30pm

Live Looping Accordion Songstress

Hailing from The Netherlands, the inimitable Jet Black Pearl spent many years in France before settling in Portland, Oregon. 


Jet is a creator of alternative worlds filled with surreal humor and wry observations. With her loop station, she records grooves and layers of flute, vocal percussion and harmonies while squeezing one hot accordion.

It all started 25 years ago in the back of a thrift store in Prague. Jetty Swart (Jet Black Pearl) stumbled upon a fancy accordion. She smuggled it back home to the Netherlands, stared at it for a couple of weeks before she realized that5 years ago in the back of a thrift store in Prague. Jetty Swart (Jet Black Pearl) stumbled upon a fancy accordion. She smuggled it back home for a couple of weeks before she realized that now she had to learn how to play it, and write songs.

And sing them.

 Since then, Jet has performed in big tops, prisons, living rooms, tunnels, gardens sheds, barges many years in France, and just when the French started to give her several French songwriter awards (Mais oui!), she moved to Portland, Oregon. Now she sings in French and English, but always with a Dutch accent.

 Her smartly wacky songs sound like a mad hatter’s European tea party with a funky attitude. Before your very eyes, she creates grooves and loops of flute, plastic bottles, rubber pigs, vocal percussion and harmonies, while squeezing her red accordion. She also might do a little dance for you. But watch your own feet... they're already wiggling!

We’ll be in the back room away from the televisions…

They have a huge menu, a parking lot, and shows are all ages… 

 Please support the restaurant/bar!

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