Music Events June

June 7 - Friday @ 7:30 pm - The Shedd Institute

There can be no doubt that Frank Vignola is now one of the world's most highly sought after acoustic guitarists. He has amply demonstrated his mastery of every genre from fusion and commercial pop-jazz to hard bop, post-bop, swing, rock, and blues.

Cited by jazz guitar legend Les Paul as one of the top five guitarists of all time, Vignola has toured and recorded with Bucky Pizzarelli, Les Paul, Lionel Hampton, Donald Fagen, Queen Latifah, Ringo Starr, Madonna, David Grisman, and Mark O'Connor.

June 12 - Wednesday @ 7:30 pm - The Cuthbert Amphitheater

Winner of 17 Grammy Awards, Tony Bennett’s career has enjoyed three distinct phases, each of them very successful.

In the early '50s, he scored a series of major hits that made him one of the most popular recording artists of the time. In the early '60s, he mounted a comeback as more of an adult-album seller. And from the mid-'80s on, he achieved renewed popularity with generations of listeners who hadn't been born when he first appeared.

June 14 - Friday @ 7:00 PM - Hult Center for the Performing Arts

Justin Shandor brings back the magic and glamour of Elvis Presley, with historic hits like Jailhouse Rock, Don't Be Cruel, Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog and Can't Help Falling in Love in an dynamic performance that will make any Elvis fan swoon!

Hailed as Best New Tribute Artist by Elvis Tribute Artist Radio and a winner in the Midwest, Canadian and Las Vegas Elvis Impersonator Contests, Shandor was endorsed by Elvis Presley Enterprises in 2010 as "the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist."

June 18 - Tuesday @ 7:30 pm - The Shedd Institute

"Denmark’s Harald Haugaard, a charismatic virtuoso (…) it was blisteringly fast tunes that stood out for their wonderfully clean playing and Haugaard’s dynamic delivery” -- The Strad

The Shedd Institute is pleased to welcome Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard Quintet back to the Jaqua Concert Hall, as a part of their American tour in support of their newest CD, Open Eyes.

June 21 - Friday @ 5:30 pm - The Cuthbert Amphitheater

Damian “Jr Gong” Marley & Stephen Marley Soulstice 2013 will be a community-based, family-friendly musical and cultural festival produced to celebrate the emergence from the long Northwest winter, and the coming season of growth and renewal in order to cultivate a deeper sense of awareness around our relationship to the earth.

This event is a rare opportunity for communities from across a wide spectrum of our region to be connected by their love of music and inter-dependence with each other and this, our land.

June 21 - 23 - The Shedd Institute

Women's A Cappella Festival

In an effort to further the reach of powerful female a cappella in America - and around the world - WACA has founded what will become an annual festival dedicated to fostering the creativity and unique spirit of women in the a cappella community.

June 22 - Saturday @ 4:00 pm - The Cuthbert Amphitheater

Beats Antique & Shpongle Soulstice 2013 will be a community-based, family-friendly musical and cultural festival produced to celebrate the emergence from the long Northwest winter, and the coming season of growth and renewal in order to cultivate a deeper sense of awareness around our relationship to the earth.

This event is a rare opportunity for communities from across a wide spectrum of our region to be connected by their love of music and inter-dependence with each other and this, our land.

June 24-July 14 - Eugene, Portland, and five other cities

The 2013 event June 24-July 14 celebrates Helmuth Rilling’s 80th birthday and honors his 44th and concluding season as artistic director.

Rilling, who turns 80 on May 29, conducts Beethoven’s monumental Missa Solemnis as the opening concert, Bach’s St John Passion in four lecture-demonstrations and a full concert, and Bach’s B Minor Mass in Portland and Eugene as the Festival finale.

June 27 - Thursday @ 7:30 pm - The Shedd Institute

Austin, Texas-based fiddler/singer/songwriter Carrie Rodriguez blows the lid off with her fifth album,

Give Me All You Got, her first release of largely original tunes in years. “I’m laying out some extreme emotional highs and lows,” she says. “Take ‘Brooklyn.’ It’s very autobiographical, and I remember thinking, would I really want to share this? I decided, of course, why hold this back?”

June 28 - Friday @ 7:30 pm - The Shedd Institute

“The only thing that matters is the song," says Madeleine Peyroux. That conviction along with a one-of a-kind voice, has carried the Jazz artist from busking on the streets of Paris, all the way to mainstream recognition.

Through intensely distinctive renditions of old classics and modern tunes by the likes of Leonard Cohen and The Beatles, Peyroux has proved to be an uncannily insightful ‘interpreter’ with her consistently impeccable choice of material.