Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
You almost need a scorecard to keep up with the musical Cowsill family. The Cowsills – with three of the original seven siblings – are playing at Jazz Fest in New Orleans this April. They’re best known for their late ’60s hits ”Hair,” ”Love American…
Fortune’s Folly will be playing at the Axe & Fiddle on Friday, Feb. 7. Bradley Cook/The Chronicle COTTAGE GROVE – I owe a lot to my good friend, Jim Guthrie. Besides years of deep friendship and hours of storytelling, Guthrie is the reason I ended…
Aunts Abby and Martha (played by Nikki Pagniano and Marcee Long) carefully planning charitable acts of kindness. Photos provided/Cottage Theatre COTTAGE GROVE – The Cottage Theatre’s 38th season opened with gusto Friday night thanks to a relic of a farce, ”Arsenic and Old Lace.” Transported…
THURSDAY, FEB. 27 • Umphrey’s McGee (jam band) McDonald Theater, 6 p.m. • Lyle Lovett (singer-songwriter) Shedd Institute, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY, FEB. 28 • Tatiamo (Americana, folk, country) Saginaw Vineyard, 6 p.m. • Jesse Boden Band (Americana, roots rock, blues) The Brewstation, 7 p.m. •…
So, who’s up for a festival? If you’re a local musician, or a musician-in-training, the 18th annual Florence Winter Music Festival might be worth the 90-minute trip just for the free workshops being offered. Of course, seeing Livingston Taylor and the Kathy Kallick Band, who…
The Jobe Woosley & Co. band plays a blend of original music and classics from the ’60s and ’70s. Woosley (right) is joined by Kate Kisselburgh and Justin Schepige. BRADLEY COOK/THE CHRONICLE COTTAGE GROVE – In so many different ways, the Jobe Woosley & Co.…
After being transported back in time to German-occupied WWII France, where she finds herself a member of the Bernhardt family, modern teenager Nicole Burns (Katie McKillop) – wearing the requisite yellow star marking her as a Jew – visits with ”boyfriend” Jacques (Alec Jenkins) in…
Pendleton Highway includes four members who live in Springfield: Jimmy Smith, his wife, Kim, and daughter, Becca Horsley; Rich Lee; as well as Joe Ficek from Eugene and Huck L Berry from Mount Pisgah. Photo provided SPRINGFIELD – Pendleton Highway is a country band ……
COTTAGE GROVE – Jan. 31 is the deadline for local writers to submit entries to Cottage Theatre’s first new script contest. The theatre is seeking a playwright collaborator to help craft its 2020 summer youth production. For more than a decade, Cottage Theatre has provided…