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| | Celtic Series: Le Vent du Nord
Sunday, Oct. 2 at 7 pm
The award winning and highly acclaimed band Le Vent du Nord are a leading force in Québec’s exciting and progressive Francophone folk movement. The group’s vast repertoire draws from both traditional sources and original compositions, while their highly rhythmic and soulful music, rooted in the Celtic diaspora, is enhanced with a broad range of global influences. | Buy Tickets |
| | Fellow Pynins
Monday, Oct. 10 at 7 pm
Fellow Pynins is an award winning contemporary folk duo with a keen and bucolic sense of vocal harmony and song craft. The live performance is a whimsically emotional escapade through the chasms of our, yes, feelings. Wielding claw-hammer banjo, Irish bouzouki, mandolin, and acoustic guitar the duo of Dani Albert and Ian George sing predominantly original music as well as reworked traditional ballads gathered from their travels. In May 2022, they released their sophomore album, “Lady Mondegreen,” a collection of traditional songs with adventurous arrangements and a Fellow Pynins rustic sound. | Buy Tickets |
| | Culture, Of Course! Dinner & Auction
Saturday, Oct. 15 at 5:30 pm
Four courses of fun and fundraising, including entertainment, a mystery wine pull, live auction and the Totally Tangible Paddle Raise. Enjoy a sumptuous plated dinner in the delightfully decorated LCCC auditorium. Presented by Kyllo's Seafood & Grill, Signe Grimstad & Associates, Edward Jones Investments (Wendy Wilson) and Oregon Coast Bank. It's an (Art) Work in Progress! Only 100 tickets will be sold, $125 per person. | Buy Tickets |
| | Celtic Series: Tannahill Weavers
Sunday, Oct. 23 at 2 pm
Born of a session in Paisley, Scotland, and named for the town's historic weaving industry and local poet laureate Robert Tannahill, the Tannahill Weavers have made an international name for their special brand of Celtic music, blending the beauty of traditional melodies with the power of modern rhythms. Their diverse repertoire spans the centuries with fire-driven instrumentals, topical songs, original ballads and lullabies, and humorous tales of life in Scotland. | Buy Tickets |
| | J.J. Gregg, Ravi Albright & David Van Auken
Thursday, Nov. 3 at 7 pm
The Cultural Center welcomes this trio of musicians from Portland and Seattle, performing classical Indian songs as well as modern takes influenced by western jazz. Gregg combines years of performing jazz, punk and experimental rock with more than a decade of musical training in India with guru Ustad Usman Kahn. He’ll be joined by Ravi Albright on tabla and David Van Auken on guitar. All tickets $20, LCCC Membership Discount will apply. | Buy Tickets |
| | Celtic Series: Ye Vagabonds
Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 pm
Brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn grew up playing music together around their hometown of Carlow, a small town in the southeast of Ireland. After moving to Dublin in 2012, they quickly became a staple of the live music and session scene in Ireland,
playing their own original songs as well as folk songs from Ireland, Scotland, England and America. | Buy Tickets |
| | Celtic Series: The Gothard Sisters
Sunday, Dec. 4 at 2 pm
Step into the holiday season with an LCCC favorite: The Gothard Sisters, a dynamic musical group of three siblings who play contemporary Celtic folk music. Through over 10 years of performing, touring and writing music together, the optimistic style of their music and performances continue to resonate with their fans, building a loyal international following. | Buy Tickets |
| | Celtic Series: Kalos
Sunday, Jan. 15 at 2 pm
Kalos is made up of three innovative interpreters and composers of Celtic roots music: Eric McDonald, Ryan McKasson and Jeremiah McLane. They are masters of tradition who purposefully explore the dark corners floating on its edges, delivering an alluring musical complexity full of spontaneity and joyful exuberance. They set the standard for traditional repertoire with an underlying drive and pulse charged with rhythmic electricity and integrity. | Buy Tickets |
| | Celtic Series: Newberry & Verch
Sunday, Feb. 12 at 2 pm
Joe Newberry comes from a family of singers and dancers. He took up the guitar and banjo as a boy and learned fiddle tunes from great Missouri fiddlers. April Verch grew up listening to her Dad’s country band play for dances in the Ottawa Valley. She started step dancing at age three and fiddling at age six. In a Newberry & Verch show, delighted audiences see first-hand the roots of their music, their love of performing, and their strong musical connection. Original songs join timeless classics. Stories warm the heart, and give audiences a chance to understand where the music comes from. Lively fiddle and banjo numbers combine with traditional dance steps to illustrate happy times when people made their own fun. | Buy Tickets |
| | Celtic Series: St. Paddy's Day with Tiller's Folly!
Sunday, March 12 at 7 pm
Celebrating their 25th Anniversary west coast Celtic roots band Tiller’s Folly share tales as old as time with a modernly lyrical twist. Inspired by true heroes and villains and backed by their patent mix of acoustic Celtic-influenced roots sound, they tell stirring stories of intrigue and adventure. Across nine Albums, Tiller’s Folly has united communities around the world with songs steeped in Scottish, Irish, American and Canadian roots music traditions. Their lively songs of war, highwaymen and moonshiners, their ballads of love turned sour and the lonely immigrant’s sorrow and the whimsical west coast sea shanties compel audiences to tap their feet, clap their hands and sing along with gusto. Their global fanbase has fallen in love with timeless hits like ‘Water at the Bar’, ‘Death & Taxes’, ‘Ghosts of Read Island’, ‘Spanish Banks’ and ‘Steamboatin’ Jamiesons’ to name just a few. | Buy Tickets |
| | Celtic Series: Old Blind Dogs
Sunday, April 30 at 2 pm
As recent inductees to the BBC ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 'Trad Music Hall of Fame' the 'Dugs' will celebrate 30 years on the road in 2022 by launching their fourteenth studio album 'Knucklehead Circus’ in Winter 2021. A joyous, uplifting and fun album full of compelling energy and intoxicating rhythm on which ‘OBD' continue to innovate within their tradition while faithfully revealing its essence. Here’s to many more years of Old Blind Dogs! | Buy Tickets |
| | Celtic Series: DAIMH
Sunday, May 21 at 2 pm
Gaelic Supergroup and un-challenged champions of straight in the eye Highland music are based around West Lochaber and the Isle of Skye. Formed around the turn of the century and taking the name from the Gaelic word for “kinship” Daimh (pronounced Dive) have taken their contemporary take of Highland and Gaelic music to over 20 countries, setting audiences alight from Moscow to San Francisco. | Buy Tickets |