Charbonneau Music Stage Concert Series

Charbonneau Arts Association presents the Oregon Old Time Fiddlers’ Association (OOTFA) Spring Jamboree as a part of their Charbonneau Arts Music Series.

The Oregon Old Time Fiddlers’ Association (OOTFA) is a nonprofit organization with representation across the nation. The organization is dedicated to the perpetuation and promotion of old time music. Old time music is loosely defined as that played on traditional instruments dating from the first half of the 20th century and earlier. Many of the tunes they play date from the 18th century. Members of OOTFA will be coming to Charbonneau from around the state.

The Spring Jamboree is hosted by Charbonneau Arts Association (CAA) and proceeds from the event go to supporting teachers and students in the performing arts programs at Wilsonville and Canby Schools.

FREE Educational Workshops are open to students and adults who want to learn to play Americana Acoustic music; bring your violin, guitar, bass, or mandolin. If you want to bring your instrument to the workshops, please sign-up online at the OOTFA website: https://ootfa.org/

Workshop Instructors – fiddle:

Noon – 1:30 pm :  Carol Ann Wheeler
1:30 – 3:00 pm:  Eileen Walter
3:00 – 4:30 pm:  Gary Schuh

Workshop Instructors – other:

Noon – 1:30 pm:  Jodi Vaughn, bass
1:30 – 3:00 pm:  Andy Emert, guitar
3:00 – 4:30 pm:  David Altman, mandolin

Concert Tickets:

Three ways to purchase $15 tickets:

• Online
• In-Person at the Activity Center
• In-Person at the concert

Food/beverage can be purchased at the Market Café connected to the Clubhouse. https://www.charbonneaugolfclub.com/the-market-cafe/.  Table Seating is available in the Market Café, under the Golf Course patio, and in the Clubhouse.

This is a fundraising event to support the performing arts teachers and students at Canby and Wilsonville schools.

Led by Nick Luchterhand, the Canby High Jazz Band has competed and received high marks at several Oregon competitions, often finishing on or the near the top consistently.

• 2nd at the OSAA Band/Orchestra State Championships
• 4th at the Oregon Music Education Association Jazz Championships
• The wind ensemble and jazz band also took 1st place in their respective competitions at the Northwest Oregon Conference league championships
• Won the Northwest Invitational Concert Band Contest at Clackamas Community College

“It’s a very special group of students,” Luchterhand reports. “Competition is not everything, but it’s a tangible mark of success, and a tangible mark that these kids are getting a quality music education, which is the most important thing to me.” In addition to his teaching at Canby High School, he is also a saxophone player in the Portland area, and a full time doctor of music education student at Liberty University. As a student growing up in nearby communities, Nick has fond memories of having performed as a student here in Charbonneau.

Food/beverage can be purchased at the Market Café connected to the Clubhouse.  https://www.charbonneaugolfclub.com/the-market-cafe/.  Table Seating is available in the Market Café, under the Golf Course patio, and in the Clubhouse.

Charbonneau Arts Association presents “Sally Harmon on Grand Piano” as part of the 2024 Music Stage at Charbonneau series of concerts.

With twenty-six releases and well over a million recordings sold, Sally thrills audiences internationally with her passionate and entertaining piano appearances. Her formal training from age four through her Master’s Degree, plus being on a university piano faculty does not stop her from her antics on stage. Sally parodies classical music, tells wild stories and plays beautifully woven melodies of her own with grace, passion and virtuosity.

Her husband Frank is an accomplish jazz bass player, and has instilled in her an appreciation for swing, jazz, and pop influences. Now Sally’s music is a marriage of many styles.

Sally says “I like smaller, more intimate types of venues, like Charbonneau, where I can improvise and have more fun. I love being around people and entertaining. I like that “one on one” feeling that happens in smaller rooms. I use my classical training to do arrangements of popular and most requested songs that everybody like to hear.”

Food/beverage can be purchased at the Market Café connected to the Clubhouse. https://www.charbonneaugolfclub.com/the-market-cafe/.  Table Seating is available in the Market Café, under the Golf Course patio, and in the Clubhouse.

Charbonneau Arts Association presents vocalist Rebecca Hardiman in a repeat performance of Remembering Patsy Cline, after the 2023 concert was sold out. She is supported by accomplished musicians Ray Hardiman, Paul Brainard, Whitney Moulton, and Kurt Deutscher.

This is part of the 2024 Music Stage at Charbonneau series of concerts.

Rebecca has toured Europe performing at the Montreaux and North Sea Jazz Festivals as well as several jazz venues. She started her professional career as part of the Boston based vocal jazz group The Ritz, performing at the Montreal Jazz Festival as well as jazz clubs throughout the country.

Rebecca returned to her home state of Oregon where she started the vocal jazz group Euphoria and performed at major festivals and jazz venues in the Pacific Northwest for over a decade, most notably opening for Mel Torme’ in 1993 at the sold out Hult Center in Eugene, Oregon. Rebecca now performs throughout the Pacific Northwest and has been invited to perform at jazz clubs, festivals, restaurants and other venues across the country.  Rebecca also leads a group that performs the hits of Patsy Cline called Remembering Patsy Cline. In 2023, Rebecca’s Patsy Cline concert sold out here in Charbonneau. Rebecca has released five CDs, several EPs and singles – several being submitted for Grammy consideration and ending up on the ballot.

“In the overpopulated field of jazz singers which includes quite a few strong talents, Rebecca Hardiman stands out from the crowd. She has a beautiful voice, not only sings perfectly in tune, but caresses the center of each note and swings up a storm” ~ Scott Yanow, Jazz Journalist/Historian – LA Jazz Times

Food/beverage can be purchased at the Market Café connected to the Clubhouse. https://www.charbonneaugolfclub.com/the-market-cafe/.  Table Seating is available in the Market Café, under the Golf Course patio, and in the Clubhouse.

Charbonneau Arts Association presents “History of Rock” with Two Bit Brothers as part of the 2024 Music Stage at Charbonneau series of concerts.

Travel through time with great music from the 1950’s through the 1970’s.  Starting with the rockabilly and early country of the 1950’s, you’ll hear great tunes from famous artists such as the Everly Brothers, Sam Cooke, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash.  The 1950’s were the foundational years which inspired and set the tone for the coming generation of great music. Move into the 1960’s with the British Invasion by the Beatles coupled with the emerging folk scene with music by artists like Bob Dylan, Donovan and Simon and Garfunkel.  The 1960’s created the blend of folk and rock which set the stage for the next generation of music, the emerging 1970’s rock scene in the US. The decade of the 1970’s was shaped by a blend of the sounds of Motown, blues, rock and country.  Groups such as America, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Santana, The Band, Eric Clapton and Loggins and Messina filled the airways.  The 1970’s also saw another influence, the impacts of country on rock and roll.  The Eagles dominated radio with their blend of country rock and three part harmonies. Join the Two Bit Brothers on this amazing and magical musical journey.

The Two Bit Brothers have been performing in the Pacific Northwest for many years and consist of a duo of Bill Valach and Dwaine Wisthoff.  The Two Bit Brothers have performed over 150 local shows per year and their soulful and heartfelt performance style speaks to their passion for music.  The Two Bit Brothers enjoy being able to provide the music that can lift your spirit and bring a smile to your face.  https://2bitbrothers.com/

Three ways to donate and/or purchase $20 tickets for the concert:

• Online
• In-Person at the Activity Center
• In-Person at the concert

Food/beverage can be purchased at the Market Café connected to the Clubhouse. https://www.charbonneaugolfclub.com/the-market-cafe/.  Table Seating is available in the Market Café, under the Golf Course patio, and in the Clubhouse.

Charbonneau Arts Association presents John Nilsen on the Charbonneau Grand Piano.

This is part of the 2024 Music Stage at Charbonneau series of concerts.

Reviewers report Nilsen’s performances are a joyful listening experience, a display of extraordinary musicianship, and a cool lay down of harmonic vocab and inventiveness. Nilsen is noted for his blend of Americana-country-rock-tinged influences with more sophisticated chordal voicing associated with Elton John and others that aren’t afraid of diminished, augmented or extended voicings. Pour your favorite glass of wine or beer and be drawn into John’s world where the Grand Piano has no limits.

“John Nilsen’s career is the envy of many musicians.”  – The Oregonian, Portland, OR.

“John Nilsen is one of those unclassifiable artists that seems to be a NW specialty.  His shows are highly recommended.”  –  Willamette Week, Portland, Or.

“Anybody that can sell over a million albums is a big deal.” – Terry Currier, Mgr., Music Millennium, Portland, Or.

Music Bio: John Nilsen is a pianist, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and one of the Pacific Northwest’s most successful performance and recording artists.  Nilsen’s label, Magic Wing, has a catalog of twenty titles, all distributed internationally. Many have been licensed in countries outside the United States, including Germany, Great Britain, The Philippines, Canada, Taiwan and Singapore.  John, has performed in all fifty U.S. States countless times has toured Japan and Europe.  He is coming to Charbonneau thanks to a personal invitation from one of our Charbonneau residents and professional musician in his own right, Wayne Richards.

Three ways to purchase $20 concert tickets:

• Online
• In-Person at the Activity Center
• In-Person at the concert

It is general seating – no reserved seating.

Food/beverage can be purchased at the Market Café connected to the Clubhouse. https://www.charbonneaugolfclub.com/the-market-cafe/.  Table Seating is available in the Market Café, under the Golf Course patio, and in the Clubhouse.

Charbonneau Arts Association presents this one-of-a-kind concert as a special project benefiting the performing arts teachers and student programs of Canby schools.  There are three parts of this concert:

• Big Horn Brass annual holiday concert program.
• Canby High School Jazz Band award winning program.
• A special performance of an original work commissioned by CAA and performed by the combined musicians of BHB and Canby Jazz Band students.

BIG HORN BRASS (BHB): Founded in 1983, the professional performers of BHB include thirteen brass and two percussionists, the finest you will hear anywhere. They combine their diverse musical skills and love of music with exacting perfection from each element in their repertoire.  Programs may include movie themes from Disney and composer John Williams, Beatles tunes, classical, romantic, renaissance, ragtime, marches, brass band, patriotic, civil war, contemporary, original, and even big band charts. We also feature commissioned works that are original, unique, and fun.

But Big Horn Brass is best known for our Holiday-Christmas show. This annual concert typically includes original arrangements from the Stan Kenton Library; unique and compelling arrangements by Oregon’s Phil Neuman and Washington’s William Berry; traditional favorites for classical brass by Leroy Anderson and James Burden, soaring melodies by movie composer Jerry Fielding; and engaging performances by one of our outstanding jazz vocalists.

CANBY JAZZ BAND: Led by Nick Luchterhand, the Canby High Jazz Band has competed and received high marks at many Oregon competitions, often finishing in or near the top on a consistent basis.  “It’s a very special group of students,” Luchterhand reports. “Competition is not everything, but it’s a tangible mark of success, and a tangible mark that these kids are getting a quality music education, which is the most important thing to me.” In addition to his teaching at Canby High School, he is also a saxophone player in the Portland area, and a full time doctor of music education student at Liberty University. As a student growing up in nearby communities, Nick has fond memories of having performed as a student here in Charbonneau.

Three ways to purchase concert tickets:

• Online
• In-Person at the Activity Center
• In-Person at the concert

There is no food or beverage served at this concert venue.