proudly present:
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NORTHWEST PASSAGE
A dinner lecture series examining the history of independent music in the NW
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THURSDAY, MARCH 11th | 7PM (Presentations @ 7:30PM)
The Waypost | 3120 N Williams Ave
$12/ 10 members (includes vegetarian dinner)
* Seating limited to 75 people
Purchase tickets:
Or buy in-person (starting March 1) at:
Mississippi Records
and The Waypost
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“A Life in Soul”
URAL THOMAS
Longtime Portland R & B and soul singer
“Rock n’ Roll, Race & Poster Art”
JOE KREGAL
Slide lecture of 60s/ 70s Portland rock posters w/ music clips
“Hippies, psychedelics and the 60s Portland folk/ acid rock scene”
VALERIE BROWN
Writer and cultural historian
Guest interviewer ERIC ISAACSON
Founder and proprietor of Mississippi Records
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PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES
URAL THOMAS began his musical career at the tender age of 5 years old, singing in his family’s church. He has played as a backup musician for some of the Northwest’s most well-known bands, including the Kingsmen, Paul Revere and the Raiders, the Cavaliers, the Vikings, Billy Larkin and the Delegates and Neil Diamond, as well as performing as a solo act, and as lead singer with The Invaders, Monorays and Mumble Gumbo. His music repertoire spans blues, funk, jazz and country. He was recently featured in the documentary film Wheedle’s Groove: Seattle’s Sacred Soul of the 1960s and ’70s.
JOE KREGAL has been a longtime member of Portland music community, having played in rock bands since the late 1950s. In the unique position of being a white musician playing in mostly African American R & B groups in its formative years, Kregal has been actively working to archive and preserve the history of early rock n’ roll through his personal collection of posters and ephemera.
VALERIE BROWN, now a freelance science journalist, was a professional musician in Portland during the 1970s and 1980s. She is the author of Music on the Cusp: From Folk to Acid Rock in Portland Coffeehouses, 1967–1970, published in the Summer 2007 issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly.
ERIC ISAACSON has co-run Mississippi Records, a record shop specializing in hard-t0-find vinyl releases since 2003. Also a record label, Mississippi Records’ releases have focused on historical and archival material. The label has released 52 records to date, all on vinyl-only format.
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IN THE FUTURE:
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THURSDAY, APRIL 8th
“Echoes of the Past” with FRED & TOODY COLE
(The Weeds, Dead Moon, The Rats, Pierced Arrows, etc.)
on the birth of garage punk and DIY in the Rose City
+ Plus a live set in tribute to DEAD MOON by MYSTERY SURPRISE MUSICAL GUESTS
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THURSDAY, MAY 13th
“What Was Me”
CALVIN JOHNSON
(K, Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System, the Hive Dwellers, etc.)
Playing songs and talking on ‘80s / ‘90s / ‘00s / ‘10s punk / independent music scene
VANESSA RENWICK
(Oregon Dept of Kick Ass)
Presents new audio project (w/ Erin Yanke) about demolished House of Sound building in N Portland
“Bigger Than Hip-Hop”
COOL NUTZ
Tells us the origins of PDX beats
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NO-ONE SHOULD MISS IT.