21 & Over | $15 Advance, $20 Day of Show | The night before Thanksgiving is ALWAYS a great party night and AITK brings the funk! Ants In The Kitchen is a group of accomplished Portland, Oregon musicians performing high-energy Rock, Soul, Blues, and Funk coversâŚfrom Tina Turner to Beastie Boys to AC/DC to Bruno Mars! Come get down and do some pre-emptive turkey day calorie burning!
Join us for Tuesday Blues at the beautiful Hoku Events on Madison
And weâre turning it up to 11(pm) with 2 hours of live music followed by 1 hour with some of your favorite Blues DJs each week
Host: TBA
7:00- All levels Blues dance class
8:00 - 10:00- Live Blues Music
10:00- DJ: TBA
Masks encouraged, provided, and appreciated
Currently 21+
$0- $20 Sliding Scale Admission
Volunteer opportunities available
No one turned away for lack of funds
Tuesday Blues is a weekly social partner dance event in Portland established in 2003.
Portland Blues & Jazz Dance Society is a non-profit dedicated to dance education, supporting live blues music and creating a joy-filled community for dance and music lovers.
Tuesday Blues is a POC & LGBTQIA safer event. This means bigotry of any kind is not tolerated. If you experience or see anything questionable, please let someone on the Portland Blues & Jazz Dance Society team know. Thanks for helping keep our dance a safe.
This event was last updated on: 6/19/2025
Alberta Rose Theatre is proud to present the legendary Chris Smither. Born in Miami, during World War II, Chris Smither grew up in New Orleans where he first started playing music as a child. The son of a Tulane University professor, he was taught the rudiments of instrumentation by his uncle on his motherâs ukulele. âUncle Howard,â Smither says, âshowed me that if you knew three chords, you could play a lot of the songs you heard on the radio. And if you knew four chords, you could pretty much rule the world.â With that bit of knowledge under his belt, he was hooked. âIâd loved acoustic music â specifically the blues â ever since I first heard Lightninâ Hopkinsâ Blues In My Bottle album. I couldnât believe the sound Hopkins got. At first I thought it was two guys playing guitar. My style, to a degree, came out of trying to imitate that sound I heard.â
The 20th release, All About the Bones (release date: May 3, 2024 on Signature Sounds/Mighty Albert, distributed by Redeye) is as elemental as the inky black shadows cast by a shockingly bright moon. Featuring eight brand new Chris Smither songs and Smither renditions of Eliza Gilkysonâs âCalm Before the Stormâ and also Tom Pettyâs âTime to Move Onâ, the listener is welcomed into some gothic mansion on an imaginary New Orleans street, and there in the lamplit parlor confronts the band, a minimalist skeleton crew: Smitherâs inimitable propulsive guitar and rumbling baritone are joined seamlessly to producer David Goodrichâs carpetbag of instruments, Zak Trojanoâs rock-steady, primal drumming, BettySooâs diaphanous harmony vocals, and the flat, mournful flood of Jazz legend Chris Cheekâs saxophone. Recorded at Sonelab Studios in Easthampton MA by Justin Pizzoferrato All About the Bones has a feel that is somehow baroque and austere at once.
In 2026, the independent film The Singers, in which Chris made his acting debut, won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. Directed by Sam Davis, Chris joined producer Jack Piatt and fellow cast members at the Oscars to celebrate.
CUT COPY (DJ SET) at Realm on Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 9:00 PM PST. Genres: EDM.