10th Annual Induction Ceremony
The 10th Annual Oregon Music Hall of Fame (OMHOF) Induction Ceremony and Concert with be held again this year at the Aladdin Theater on Saturday, October 8th at 7pm. BUY TICKETS
The event will honor 9 Oregonians who significantly influenced the world of music from here in Oregon. It is also a benefit for music education in the state of Oregon.
Here are the 2016 scholarship winners. Ready to head for the next round of music education in their lives. (Lauren Kim could not be with us at this event).
To be eligible for the Hall of Fame, an artist must have been born in Oregon and worked professionally in the music industry for at least 20 years – or have worked professionally in the music industry for 20 years after moving to Oregon.
Awards will also be presented for Album of the Year and Artist of the Year.
Portland supper club owner and entertainer, Tony Starlight, will once again preside as Master of Ceremonies.
Musical performances will include performance by a number of this year’s inductees including Duffy Bishop, who is regarded as one of the all-time premier blues vocalists of the Northwest. Fernando, along with special guests Pete Krebs and Paul Brainard, all 3 being inducted will perform songs from Fernando, Krebs and Brian Berg, another of this year’s inductees who passed on last year. There will also be a performance from 3 Leg Torso, who share Album of the Year honors with Sleater-Kinney. 3 Leg Torso creates charming, elegant and daring modern chamber pop music infused with equal parts tradition and innovation
15 autographed guitars will be in an auction with the proceeds going to help put music education in schools in Oregon without programs. This year’s signed guitars include Ry Cooder, Culture Club, Weezer, Chicago, Steve Miller and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings.
Elliott, Powell, Baden and Baker, a long-time sponsor of OMHOF, is this years presenting sponsor. Additional sponsors include Berkley North Pacific, Oregon Mutual, Safeco, Liberty Mutual, Mutual of Enumclaw, Travelers, Willamette Week, KINK, KGON, 94.7/Alternative Portland, SIR Portland, Portland Music, Ninkasi, Oregon Music News, Vortex Music Magazine, Classic Pianos, Benson Hotel and Five Star Guitars.
Tickets will go on sale Wednesday July 13th. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. A Special VIP ticket is available for $100 and includes prime seating, a hand signed and numbered silk-screened Gary Houston poster and admission to the after show VIP catered party. Tickets are available at www.ticketfly.com and at the Aladdin box office. For up to date information, check omhof.org
ARTISTS
BRIAN BERG: Singer/songwriter/guitarist Brian Berg spent his formative years playing in bands in Salem and working in a record store. He became a mentor to many area musicians along the way, including OMHOF Inductee, the Dharma Bums. In the mid-90’s Brian fronted his band 44 Long, The band released “Collect Them All” in 1997 and “Inside The Horses Head” to critical acclaim, including press in Rolling Stone and Billboard Magazine. The band’s reputation live made them one of the top live acts around. After the band dissolved, Brian continued writing songs and playing solo but in 2006 released a new 44 Long album. In 2012, the songs intended to be the 3rd album was released digitally. Brian passed away in Fall of 2015.
DUFFY BISHOP: Vocalist Duffy Bishop has been performing professionally since her teens. While building a reputation as one of the best rock and blues performers in the state of Washington, Duffy played Janis Joplin in a Seattle production and ended up touring with Big Brother & the Holding Company. She released 2 albums with the Rhythm Dogs before putting together the Duffy Bishop Band releasing 6 albums. In 1995, Duffy moved to Portland. She is in the Cascade Blues Association and Washington Blues Society Hall of Fame, and a recipient of both organizations’ Lifetime Achievement Award. The Cascade Blues association renamed the Female Vocalist Award the Duffy Bishop Award due to her winning the award so many years in a row,
FERNANDO VICICONTE: Argentinian born Fernando got his major musical start in LA, fronting a hard rock band. In 1994 he moved to Portland and released “Season In Hell” in 1996 a county flavored rock record and built a reputation as a solid performer in the clubs of Portland. He followed this up with the harder edged “Widows” and 2 years late with a Spanish language album “Pacoima”, exploring Tex-Mex, border rock and Mexican R&B. 5 albums have followed including “”Old Man Motel” (1999) “Dreams Of The Sun and Sky” (2001), “Enter To Exit” (2006), “True Instigator” (2010) and “Leave The Radio On” in 2015. Magnet Magazine named Fernando one of the best new artists of 2006 and “Enter To Exit” received critical acclaim in Billboard, Paste, and No Depression among others.
PETE KREBS: Pete Krebs ended up in Portland in the 80’s and has been a music fixture ever since. There was HairBedPeace and Grind. Grind turned into Thillhammer, a regular at the Satyricon. Then came Hazel, who released 2 albums on Sub Pop and one for Caroline Records. Their live shows were legendary. Taking a left turn from the loud post-punk sound of Hazel, Pete has played numerous styles of music. He started the bluegrass based Golden Delicious, fronted the folk band Gossamer Wings, played Django Reinhardt inspired music with the Kung Pao Chickens and started the band The Stolen Sweets based on the music of the Boswell Sisters. He’s also slipped in a couple solo recordings and is now playing honky-town with his band the Earnest Lovers.
SLEATER KINNEY: Originally formed in Olympia, WA in 1994, Sleater-Kinney members Carrie Brownstein (guitar and vocals) and Corin Tucker (guitar and vocals) moved to Portland and took on their 4th drummer Janet Weiss in time to have her play on “Dig Me Out”, their 3rd release following their self titled debut in 1995 and the follow up “Call The Doctor” in 1996. This solidified the band and they went on to release “The Hot Rock” (1999), “All Hands on the Bad One” (2000), “One Beat” (2002) and “The Woods” (2006). Their fan base grew around the world with each release. Rolling Stone Critic Greil Marcus named them best American Rock Band in 2001. In 2006, Sleater-Kinney took a 7-year hiatus before returning with “No Cities to Love” in 2015. That year Stereogum’s Tom Breihan called them the greatest rock band of the past two decades.
SIDE PLAYERS
PAUL BRAINARD: Paul Brainard has been the go to guy for the past couple of decades if you needed a steel guitar player. He also had the talents on guitar, dobro and trumpet and was known for his instrumental arrangements of horns and strings and production skills. His recording and stage credits read like a who’s who including many Oregon artists like The Decemberists, Dandy Warhols, Fernando, Blitzen Trapper, and Richmond Fontaine to artists like Kim Ritchey, The Sadies and even Kenny Rogers. Most of the time he is a regular guest with many local artists as well as fronts multiple bands of his own including a jazz organ trio, the Hawaiian-influenced Pu Pu Platters and his Fun Machine Orchestra.
TIM ELLIS: the music bug bit Tim Ellis early. By the age of 15, LA based Tim Ellis was giving guitar lessons and playing in bands. In the mid-80’s, he moved to Portland. He was an amazing guitarist and worked for 20 years as a teacher at the Portland Adventist Academy with both guitar and production classes. He also worked for a local recording studio, which inspired him to start one of his own, Kung Fu Bakery. It became one of the premiere places in the Northwest to record. Artists such as the Decemberists, Pink Martini, the Shins, Wayne Newton and Steve Martin recorded at the studio. And along the way, Tim played guitar on many recording sessions that happened there. Tim passed on due to cancer in March of this year.
INDUSTRY PEOPLE
DAVE CUTTER: Dave Cutter has been part of the local music landscape since 1962. He has touched millions of people’s ears though his sound company Sundown Sound that debuted in 1971 at a Fleetwood Mac/Jacob’s Ladder show at the Paramount Theater. Sundown did 12 show that year and by 1989 they doing sound for 300 shows a year from San Diego, California to Palmer, Alaska. Sundown put sound systems in many venues in Oregon as well as did sound for almost all the major promoters over the years. The Roseland Theater still has one of Dave Cutter’s sound system in place, a system the late Prince stated “He had never heard such a stereophonic system like it before.” Dave also donated his time and services to many musical events in this city.
BART DAY: One of Portland’s best entertainment lawyers, Bart Day has been an intricate part of the Oregon music community. He has extensive legal experience with music royalty matters and drafting, licensing for television and film, digital media, publishing and rights clearance issues. He has worked with hundreds of local artists in the Oregon music community. He served as a board member for the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of the Recording Arts from 2000 to 2004. He has served as a board member since 2010 for Painted Sky, a non-profit organization founded to provide music, dance training and find performance opportunities for Native American Youth. He also has volunteered his time to many musical causes and events in the Oregon music community.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
SLEATER-KINNEY: After a 7 year hiatus, Sleater-Kinney returned with their 8th release “No Cities To Love” in January of 2015. Critics and fans around the world praised the album, with many of them stating it was the bands best album to date. Jon Pareles of the New York Times said it was “the first great album of 2015”, full of “Hurtling, bristling, densely packed, white knuckled songs that are all taut construction and raw nerve”. Music journalist Graham Reid said it had “all the stabbing energy of Gang of Four, the blazing passion of Siouxsie Sioux and the drama of Hole at their (rare) best”.
3 Leg Torso: “And To All A Goodnight” from 3 Leg Torso is a Christmas album but definitely not your typical Christmas album. The band interweaves a mix of modern chamber music, Klezmer, Gypsy, Latin and other world music forms. There is a combination of joyful and dark takes on some of your holiday favorites such as Silent Night, Joy To the World and Baby It’s Cold Outside. . Guest vocalists include Storm Large from Pink Martini and Valerie Day from Nu Shooz.
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
SLEATER –KINNEY: The band not only put out their first album in a decade, “No Cities To Cry”, they embarked on a tour, playing live for the first time in 7 years. The tour kicked off in Spokane, Washington and ended up going around the globe including stops in the UK, Germany, France, and The Netherlands among others. The tour lasted nearly 4 months with a second added. The live show received the same kind of accolades at the album.
For additional information, please contact Terry Currier at terry@omhof.org or 503-231-8943.
