2019 Oregon Music Hall of Fame Ceremony Announcement
OREGON MUSIC HALL OF FAME
2019 INDUCTION CEREMONY
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12TH 7PM
ALADDIN THEATER
3017 SE MILWAUKIE AVE
PORTLAND, OR 97202
The Oregon Music Hall of Fame (OMHOF) is proud to announce our 2019 Hall of Fame Inductees. This year’s Induction Ceremony will be held on Saturday, October 12th at the Aladdin Theater, with performances by Little Sue, Michael Hurley, Sequel and Pond with special guest Mark Lindsay. Title Sponsor for this year’s event will be Elliott Powell Baden & Baker, the presenting sponsor for the 13th year. Additional sponsors include Willamette Week, Portland Music, Five Star Guitar, Youth Music Project, Oregon Screen Impressions, KISN-FM, Stoller Family Estates, 94.7-FM, Ninkasi Brewing, The Skanner, KGON-FM, Classic Pianos, East Portland Rotary, KINK-FM and Oregon Music News.
OMHOF was formed in 2003 to both promote and preserve the musical arts in the state of Oregon. OMHOF began the statewide scholarship program in 2007 and is active in raising funds and implementing music education in schools that do not have music programs. Over 5000 kids per year are reached in K-8 schools throughout the state with the Music In The Schools Program with Aaron Meyer. OMHOF also has a statewide scholarship program in place since 2007.
INDUCTEES
MUSICIANS
Mark Lindsay
As the front man, Mark Lindsay, born in Eugene, already has a spot in the Oregon Music Hall of Fame with Paul Revere and the Raiders. He was the vocalist, saxophonist, writer and producer. He also had a slew of single hits including “Arizona,” a million seller. After leaving the band, he became head of A&R for United Artists Records and played a role in developing the careers of Gerry Rafferty, Kenny Rogers and many others. He has composed music for everything from commercial jingles to movie sound tracks, hosted successful radio shows on both KISN and K-Hits and in 2007 opened “Mark Lindsay’s Rock and Roll Café.” in Portland. He continues to tour, often with the Turtles’ Happy Together show, and in 2013, Lindsay recorded an album of new material entitled, Life Out Loud. This month he joins Quentin Tarantino at the NARAS’ Grammy museum to discuss the sound track of the movie Once Upon a Time -in Hollywood, curated by Tarantino himself and featuring a batch of Raiders & Mark Lindsay songs.
3 Leg Torso
3 Leg Torso formed in 1996 as a violin, accordion and cello trio intent on creating original modern chamber music. Since that time, founding members Bela Balogh (on trumpet and violin) and accordionist Courtney Von Drehle have overseen a few different line-ups, now featuring the mallets/percussion of T.J. Arko and the acoustic bassist, Mike Murphy. The group has released three award winning instrumental albums. They have worked with filmmakers including Oscar nominated documentarian Morgan Spurlock. In 2003, Courtney was awarded a fellowship at the Sundance Film Composers Lab and in 2010, his work in the Oscar nominated documentary “The Final Inch” was nominated for an Emmy. 3 Leg Torso continues to perform on a national and local level with a variety of Symphonic groups and on their own.
Little Sue
Susannah Weaver, or Little Sue, as she has been affectionately known for the last two decades grew up in West Virginia and moved to Portland in the 1990s, with her band, The Crackpots.
She has been a fixture in the local folk and alt-country scene in Portland for over 25 years and a big part of the Laurelhurst scene. Her quirky lyrical style, solid guitar playing and bee-strung voice have won over music lovers of every age and stripe. Sue has released 8 CD’s including this year’s 20th anniversary re-release of crow and new CD title Gold, on Portland label Secret Sound. She has shared the stage with Neko Case, Roger McGuinn, Loudon Wainwright II and Bob Dylan among others.
Michael Allen Harrison
Michael Allen Harrison, a graduate of Parkrose High School, is a pianist, composer and one of Oregon’s most prodigious music creators. Since 1986 he has released over 50 CD’s of his own albums including collaborations with Julianne Johnson, Katie Harmon, Tim Ellis and Aaron Meyer. Finding a pianistic niche between Jazz and Classical music, he has performed for the likes of Bill Clinton, Al Gore and The 14th Dalai Lama. His Christmas shows at The Old Church have become one of Portland’s most popular holiday traditions. He has created the successful “Ten Grands” concert series and is the founder and president of “The Snowman Foundation,” a non-profit organization dedicated to providing instruments, instruction and inspiration to deserving children. Harrison has many film and theater compositional credits and every year contributes original music to the Portland Festival Symphony and was honored in 2008 by the Oregon Symphony with a two-hour presentation of his original music.
Michael Hurley
Pennsylvania native, Michael Hurley, grew up with Jesse Colin Young and made fast friends with the Holy Modal Rounders and is one of the last survivors of the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960’s. As with the Rounders, he put down roots in Oregon. He is best known for his ironic lyrics, mountain music styles on fiddle and guitar. He released his debut album on Folkways back in 1963, recorded on the same reel-to-reel tape recorder used to capture Lead Belly’s last sessions. Since then he has released 32 albums on a variety of labels: Raccoon/Warner, Rounder, Portland’s Mississippi Records and his own Bellemeade Phonics. He is credited with coining the term ‘lo-fi’ to describe under produced recordings. An accomplished artist, Hurley has created covers for most of his own albums and a cartoon series called “Boone & Jocko.” He currently lives in Astoria and released his newest CD in 2018, titled Living Ljubjljana on Feeding tube Records.
Pond
Pond formed as a rock trio in 1991 in Portland and their performances at the 1992 New Music Seminar got ecstatic reviews in the British press. Guitarist Charlie Campbell, drummer Dave Triebwasser and bass man Chris Brady released their debut single, “Young Splendor/Tree” on Portland’s Tim Kerr Records gained wide recognition, including ‘Single Of The Week’ in London’s Melody Maker magazine. Pond released two albums on Sub Pop and their last one, Rock Collection, (not to be confused with the song “Rock Collection,” off their second, and last, Sub Pop record, The Practice of Joy Before Death) was a full-length on Sony’s Work label, which spawned a single, “Spokes” before disbanding in 1998. Voodoo Doughnuts Records released a live CD in 2017, Live At The X-Ray Cafe; November 6th 1993.They performed one show to commemorate the closing of The Satyricon in 2010. Pond was one of the few bands to come out of the Northwest back in the 90’s that were able to rise above the “Grunge” trend.
Joanna Bolme
Joanna Bolme grew up in the Portland punk scene as a guitarist and bass player with Calamity Jane, an all female band and later with Quasi, The Minders and Jr. High and the Spinanes. She’s also a founding member of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks. Bolme was a long-time friend of Elliott Smith and worked to mix his Either/Or and the posthumous album of his work, From a Basement on a Hill. Her studio engineering credits also include work with Fernando, Richmond Fontaine and the compilation To Elliott From Portland.
John Mazzocco
John Mazzocco has been a featured bass player in Oregon for many years. Graduating from Wilson High, he attended Mt. Hood Community College’s music program and after stints with Thara Memory’s Big Band, power pop band, the Results and Jazz/Funk group Lights Out, he got a call to tour with John Lee Hooker and backed him up him for three years in the early 1980’s– later convincing Hooker to headline the first Waterfront Blues Festival in 1988. Over the years he played with Michael Osborn, harpist Paul Delay, Terry Robb and Curtis Salgado, Richard Burdell among many others. In the last few years he can be heard with funksters, Soul Commanders and a jazzier unit, Heavy Sugar. He also has a thriving business, Blue Dot Communications that trains business leaders how to make presentations.
HERITAGE AWARDS
Dick Berk
Jazz drummer and bandleader, Dick Berk was born in San Francisco and studied at the Berklee College of Music. He was the drummer in Billie Holiday’s band at age 17and played a jazz drummer in Martin Scorsese’s film “New York New York.” In 1962, he moved to NYC, eventually playing drums for Charlie Mingus, Mose Allison, Cal Tjader and George Duke. In 1980 he founded “The Jazz Adoption Agency” a band he had for the next 20 years, releasing six CD’s. He came to Oregon at that point, though he toured on an international level and recorded extensively with the best. Dick performed right up to the end, where he could frequently be seen jamming at Coyotes in Hillsboro or Wilf’s. He passed away at the age of 74 in 2014, but those in the know will always be proud of the Jazz star we had in our midst.
Paul Knauls
Paul Knauls moved to Portland in 1963, purchasing a nightclub on North Vancouver Avenue called “The Cotton Club”. It was an instant success, hosting touring Jazz musicians and late night visits from Sammy Davis Jr., Joe Louis, the Kingston Trio and Mama Cass. He helped spawn musical careers like that of Mel Brown, Billy Larkin, Shirley Nanette and Ron Steen, who played his first gig for Paul. After urban renewal decimated the area and built the Memorial Coliseum, he opened up several new clubs like Geneva’s and Paul’s Cocktails. After his days in the restaurant business, Knauls concentrated on the betterment of the Northeast community: a charter member of the Albina Lion’s Club, work with the Junior Achievement Program at both Humboldt and Jefferson schools; tutoring in the HOSTS (Help One Student to Succeed) program at King School and serving for six years on the board of the Urban League.
From the “Good in the Hood” Parade to the erection of the Martin Luther King Jr. statue on MLK Boulevard, Paul Knauls continues to make his neighborhood a better place to live, and is lovingly known as “The Mayor of Northeast Portland.”
INDUSTRY
Don Macleod
On March 15, 1969 Don MacLeod, his wife Laureen and music stalwarts Dan and Patty Lissy opened the doors at Ides of March/Music Millennium. The quiet corner of Southeast 32nd and Burnside would change forever to become one of America’s most important indie record stores. MacLeod was a Tektronix engineer, who wanted something more. Portland’s music market was stodgy and MacLeod chose to rack most everything that could not be found elsewhere. By 1979, the store had expanded its floor plan, installed a stereo store, and added the Classical Millennium wing within the same building. He co-founded Burnside Records and the earlier Intergalactic Trading Company, the largest import vinyl mail order company in America and presented concerts by Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart and Gabor Szabo. MacLeod wanted a personal change, however, and sold the business to start a fruit and nut orchard in Clark County, only to save his store from bankruptcy and assume a half million-dollar debt five years later. The store thrives today under the leadership of Terry Currier. Music Millennium founder, Don MacLeod, passed away in 1995, leaving a monument for Portland’s music community.
Gary Houston
Gary Houston is a graphic designer and illustrator with studios in North Portland and an international clientele. His posters promote music events including the Waterfront Blues festival and the Oregon Hall of Fame Induction ceremony. His artwork is created in a variety of ways: scratch board illustrations, some are hand cut films (Rubyliths) and some are inked. His illustration company, Voodoo Catbox, formed by Houston and partner Mike King in 1995, is proud that every poster is handmade using traditional methods. A Portlander for over 30 years, Houston has always been a notable artist of his craft, locally and nationally, doing visual works for such national acts as: Willie Nelson, Ben Harper, Moonalice, Steve Martin, Little Feat, Los Lobos, The Grateful Dead, Social Distortion, David Byrne, The Black Crowes, Wilco, and many others. His artwork has been seen on hundreds of local and national CD covers as well.
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Larry Crane
Recording engineer Larry Crane opened his Jackpot! Studio in 1997 to capture the exploding music scene in Portland. He was one of Elliot Smith’s closest friends, who partnered on the building the space to record his material. Crane was trusted to organize and release of Smith’s music posthumously. Crane’s clients include: Built to Spill, Quasi, Stephen Malkmus, Gossip, She & Him, M. Ward, Sleater-Kinney, Eddie Vedder, The Decemberists, R.E.M., Sonic Youth, Spoon and Summer Cannibals. He is the founder, co-owner (with publisher John Baccigaluppi), and Editor of Tape Op magazine, which began publishing in April 1996 and now has the largest circulation in the world of a magazine devoted to music recording. He offers a variety of teaching opportunities, on-line workshops and speaks at gatherings like SxSW, CMJ and NARAS events. He has been a guest lecturer at various colleges discussing the recording arts and music business.
Ural Thomas- Artist of the Year
Ural Thomas was born in Portland in 1939. In his teens Ural was performing with a doo-wop group, the Monterays, and in 1964 recorded his songs “Deep Within My Heart” and “Push ‘em Up” for the regional Sure Star label. By 1966, he signed with LA producer/writer Jerry Goldstein on the UNI label, recording “Can You Dig It?” with Mary Wells, Brenda Holloway and Mary Wilson backing him up. He’d established himself nationally, appearing at the famed “Apollo” club in Harlem, opening for the likes of Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding and The Rolling Stones. By the mid 70’s he’d moved back to Portland where he hosted jam sessions and played music with friends. In 2010 he was coaxed out of semi-retirement and back into the recording studio for the first time in 40 years. His current band Ural Thomas and The Pain spent the last few years forging their sound and last year released their latest album on the Tender Loving Empire label, the well-received and aptly titled The Right Time.
I’ll be Your Girl, The Decembrists- Album of the Year-
The Decembrists’ album, I’ll be Your Girl, follows a string of special musical collections by a band known for their lyrical depths, story-telling and clever musical simplicity, influenced by the British folk revival. This is their fifth release on Capitol, who signed the band in 2006. Band leader Colin Meloy describes the album’s content as political, stirring his emotions from our last presidential election: “It was about finding the balance between real rage and humor “ This record, produced by John Singleton, introduces synth sounds to the band’s folk/rock stylistic base. The result is an album that expands the boundaries of The Decembrists universe while maintaining the foundation that made us fall in love with them in the first place.
For additional information, contact
Terry Currier : terry@omhof.org
