Led by Seattle saxophonist Jack Klitzman, the group includes professional musicians with backgrounds from jazz and rock to swing, who focus on preserving the spirit and sophistication of Steely Dan's music.
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The event on June 27 and 28 is the fair's 10th annual gathering in Toledo and is one of the central Oregon Coast's most distinctive summer traditions, drawing thousands of visitors eager to step into a world inspired by the past.
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At the Lincoln City Sunday Market, which takes place outside the Lincoln City Cultural Center, visitors can find everything from fresh produce and watercolors to a buttery, flaky pastry that originated in northwestern France.
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Along with fireworks over the Pacific and a special glass float drop, country music star Joe Nichols will headline a weekend of festivities as Chinook Winds Casino Resort celebrates its 31st anniversary starting on Friday, June 19.
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Hooper, who has a master of science degree, uses thick, crabbing rope and other retired fishing gear to weave her creations, turning them into intricate, large-scale tapestries that depict the marine ecosystems the fishing industry depends on and shapes.
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“Wild Things” will make nature-loving hearts sing on Saturday, June 13, when the third annual festival enlivens downtown Yachats in this celebration of Oregon’s coastal outdoors.
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An array of art will be featured, with the Yaquina River Museum of Art launching a brand-new selection of giclée prints featuring the works of museum founder Michael Gibbons.
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Bust out the boots and saddles — or at least a hankerin’ for a good time — and mosey into downtown Yachats for the eighth Yachats Pride festival beginning Friday.
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The newest exhibit at the aquarium will take visitors deep into Amazonian forests, among the most biodiverse and threatened ecosystems on Earth, with the largest temporary collection of animals the aquarium has housed in decades.
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Called “one of the funniest comedies ever” by Life magazine, the play follows newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter as they begin married life in a cramped Manhattan apartment. Paul is a serious young lawyer while Corie embraces spontaneity and romance.
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The Fleet of Flowers, the annual Memorial Day ceremony at Depoe Bay honoring seafarers and those lost at sea, will take place on Monday, May 25 at the harbor, with a ceremony hosted by the U.S. Coast Guard chief at Depoe Bay and a parade of boats bedecked with flowers.
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One show features "wearable art" by fiber artist Kay Klose, whose pieces involve the labor-intensive process of nuno felting, using soap, water and friction to sculpt fabric. The other show includes paintings and drawings by Ben Soeby and Booker Bartow.
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The festival began as a smaller event than it is today and gradually expanded over the years. This year’s edition will be the largest and most ambitious yet, featuring three stages, more than 35 artisan vendors, food and a host of activities.
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The third annual Lincoln County High School Art Show will be on display through June 7 and include paintings, drawings, woodworking pieces, murals, photography and more by students countywide.
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The 17th annual Be Jeweled show on May 9 will include more than 2,000 donated pieces, spanning everything from vintage pins and pendants, to earrings, necklaces and bangles.
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The event will include live entertainment, featuring Ballet Folklorico Oregon Coast, along with authentic cuisine, a beverage garden and crafts by local artisans.
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Festivities begin Friday, May 1, and continue through Sunday, with the Blessing of the Fleet, a ceremony that honors local fishermen and their families, while welcoming owners wishing to have their vessels blessed.
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The biting satire follows an ordinary man whose life is transformed when a television producer offers him an outrageous bargain: $1 million to spend in a single week, after which he must die.
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Milo Graamans will perform a wide selection of music to raise money for Oregon Coast Council for the Arts Summer Youth Camps, which tries to make art accessible to children.
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Discover the craft behind local writing when Willamette Writers Coastal Chapter presents Central Coast Spotlighters at Newport Public Library this Saturday, April 18.
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The organization’s largest fundraiser of the year, the event brings together contractors, suppliers and businesses large and small, offering a platform to showcase their products and services.
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The production, with music and lyrics from Stephen Sondheim based on a book by James Lapine, features a large cast of Oregon Coast performers, with vocal direction by Katrina Theodore and orchestra conducted by Terry Voss.
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Flamy Grant will take the stage at Yachats Community Presbyterian Church next Wednesday as she usually does: in high heels, bright colors and heavy makeup.
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The ArtFit Oregon movement studio presents “Enchanted Garden,” a show that includes aerial and dance moves, for the first time this Saturday, April 4 at the Newport Performing Arts Center
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Richard Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death, “Tristan und Isolde,” will screen at the Newport Performing Arts Center this Saturday, March 28.
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Pieces collected for the “Somebody Told Me… Communicating with Thread” exhibition will be on display at the Yachats Commons this Saturday and Sunday, March 28 and 29.
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The humorous and moving play follows 30-year-old Leah, who arrives at the Manhattan apartment of her 91-year-old grandmother, Vera, after completing a cross-country bicycle trip.
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The 14th annual Festival of Illusions features a host of favorite magicians, including The Amazing Bubble Man along with Jeff Evans, Louie Foxx, Matt Baker, Joe Black and Professor DB Schreiber.
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Don’t miss the closing weekend of “Frozen – the Broadway Musical” from Coastal Act Productions at the Newport Performing Arts Center this Friday and Saturday, March 13 and 14.
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The Oregon Coast Symphony Festival continues its free Sunday chamber music series with a performance by Trio Musicorum Medicorum and the Cherry City String Quartet at Atonement Lutheran Church in Newport this Sunday, March 15.
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