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“Wild metaphorical music that rocks” has been used to describe the sound of Alexa Wiley & the Wilderness, a Portland-based band with an abundance of long-time local musical roots.

Pete Krebs, Doug Sammons (Midnight Serenaders) playing 20s/30s jazz, Hawaiian, and exotica with vocal harmonies…

“Jazz Matinee”!

https://waysidersband.com

We are excited to announce the first ever Laurelthurst Open Jam every MONDAY night in May, hosted by Jack McGrane of Bodhi Mojo. Hone in your group improvisational skills in a low key and supportive environment. Bring your own axe if you can and arrive early to get a guaranteed spot on the sign up sheet. Feel free to contact Jack with any questions @ jackmcgrane25@gmail.com

https://www.instagram.com/dadweedpdx/

Ripping, newer local bluegrass combo, now playing the first Tuesdays of every other month for our stringband happy hour! FREE SHOW, but do tip the band, though!

https://jacksonandthejanks.bandcamp.com/album/jackson-and-the-janks

Jackson and the Janks are a New York based rock and roll and rhythm and blues garage gospel band. Known to light up the floor with fresh and time honored dancin’ music. Sacred steel lifting you up and bass saxophone holding it down.

QuEasy Gumbo (Jimmy Russell + Sean Badders of the Quick and Easy Boys, plus one of their incredible drummer friends and immaculate keyboardist Steve Kerin) return for their FREE monthly Wednesday extended happy hour show!

LEWI LONGMIRE leads the Left Coast Roasters (Bill Rudolph, Ned Folkerth and Dan Eccles) through a couple of sets of rockandroll, songs both original and familiar. Thursday Therapy is the name of the game!

http://www.lewilongmire.com

Rowdy roots rock and roll with a classic heart!

Lovely Portland chenteuse brings a monthly night of song down to our Pub!

More details TBA!

Riotous and raucous soul music with Steve Kerin (keys), Brian Foxworth (drums), Ben Jones (bass), and Chance Hayden (guitar)!

https://www.facebook.com/vintagesoulpdx

https://503cruisecontrol.bandcamp.com/
Cruise Control is a band of friends from Portland, Oregon who strum up their love for classic country music through a filter of power pop songwriting. (Think wholesome Carter Family harmonies meets The Velvet Underground, or The Louvin Brothers jamming with Dwight Twilley.) On their debut album, “1st”, the vocals weave sweet like threading sugar while acoustic rhythms give way to big-time choruses, blending twangy picking and fuzzy leads.

https://www.ravensingstheblues.com/steel-fringe/

About

THE RESOLECTRICS

Expanding on their love of American R&B, The Resolectrics are a rock & soul power trio exploring the vast landscapes of roots music with layered harmonies, multi-tonal guitar tracks, and ambitious arrangements. Since releasing their “Booker T. meets The Band” debut record, High Water, guitarist Tate Peterson, drummer John Becher, and bassist Bob Dunham have honed a leaner, meaner approach through continuous gigging and constant refinement. The band’s latest record, Open Seas, adds some timeless, British Invasion-style psychedelia to the mix along with a touch of horns and harmonica that help reconnect the music to its soul-based heritage.

A newer, allstar roots rock band made up of familiar LT faces!

Fine bluegrass matinee show for the whole family!

ALL AGES WELCOME

Fire & Stone

Longtime Laurelthirst roots-rock rowdies host their Sunday “church” show!

Continuing the tradition of local roots-rock rowdies like Jimmy Boyer, Jeffery Frederick, and the Holy Modal Rounders, the Freak Mountain Ramblers keep the music of our people alive. Be having’ things on a Sunday!

Usual suspects: Lex Browning (guitar, fiddle), David Reisch (bass) and Roger North (drums), with Tate Peterson and Pete Krebs (guitar, steel), plus occasional special guests!

Tonight Lewi and Dave Reisch are gone, being subbed by Freddie Stephenson and Matt Voth!

A bunch of old friends hanging out and playing roots and country music they love.

Core band:
David Lipkind, Dave Reisch, Ben Nugent, Lewi Longmire, and Jason Montgomery. Darrin Craig is on break.

We are excited to announce the first ever Laurelthurst Open Jam every MONDAY night in May, hosted by Jack McGrane of Bodhi Mojo. Hone in your group improvisational skills in a low key and supportive environment. Bring your own axe if you can and arrive early to get a guaranteed spot on the sign up sheet. Feel free to contact Jack with any questions @ jackmcgrane25@gmail.com

The Jackstraw boys return for their “2nd and 4th Tuesdays” regular bluegrass happy hour!

Incredibly talented picker and dreamy singer Clayton Eiberg is stepping out from his juggernaut bluegrass band Dadweed to do an intimate show of him solo or backed with a few tasty friends!

Everything this fella touches is golden, come see what he’s singing about now!

https://samweber.fun/
Sam Weber (born October 26, 1992), is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, music producer and recording engineer. His own recorded works and collaborations with Bahamas, Madison Cunningham, and producers Robbie Lackritz and Tyler Chester have yielded millions of streams.

https://amosheart.bandcamp.com/
Amos Heart is a songwriter from Portland, OR now based in the city of Eugene, OR. Collaborating with modular synth artist Ann Annie, Heart and Annie created The House on the Hill, a personal look at the life of Heart.

LEWI LONGMIRE leads the Left Coast Roasters (Bill Rudolph, Ned Folkerth and Dan Eccles) through a couple of sets of rockandroll, songs both original and familiar. Thursday Therapy is the name of the game!

http://www.lewilongmire.com

Rowdy roots rock and roll with a classic heart!

An evening of intimate songcraft from two excellent troubadours!

ADVANCE TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT. Cash cover charge admission still available on day of show.

https://louhazel.com/

Lou Hazel grew up along the Allegheny River, where New York meets Pennsylvania and Northern Appalachia slips into quiet obscurity. In a landscape of cold towns, blue-collar fatigue, and early brushes with hardship, music wasn’t inherited. It was uncovered. There were no venues, no mentors, no real sense of a scene… just whatever you could scrape together with curiosity and a cassette deck.

That absence of direction, guidance, and art shaped Lou’s songs as much as any influence. His music echoes the loneliness of those forgotten towns and the strange resilience it takes to create something where nothing was planted. Blending folk, indie, and an eye for the overlooked, Lou writes like someone who’s learned to pay attention. His songs are spare, vivid, and weathered with warmth. 

After years of solo touring and home recording, Lou found grounding in Durham, North Carolina, where a vibrant music scene and chosen community have helped shape his recent work. His latest record, Riot of the Red, captures the urge to get away from it all—the noise, the headlines, the weight of a world gone sideways—and find stillness in the simplest things: a long drive, a bare sky, a familiar chord. Lou Hazel makes music for those who had to teach themselves how to listen.

https://www.alexarosemusic.com/

In 2019, she released her debut album Medicine For Living, the title track of which won Merlefest’s revered Chris Austin Songwriting Contest. Her 2021 follow up Headwaters garnered national attention from American Songwriter and Rolling Stone, among others. Rose wrote most of the album in the early stages of the pandemic, which she astutely characterizes as having “that weird lucid feeling of not-time.”

“Headwaters are the source of a river. The furthest point from where water merges with something else. They are not mighty. Just a network of small tributaries, like a creek, not necessarily picturesque, but they’re the most important part of the river. Water is fluid and inconsistent and sacred and indifferent. You can be miles down a river, but you’re still at the origin. And in that way, water feels like it has transcended time. That’s how these songs found me—the same way memories do, in that slivering, elusive water. As quickly as you come across them, you bend in another direction.”

Perhaps following in the steps of her great grandfather, Rose’s songs feel like oil paint landscapes of her own life in the mountains, often wringing out the beauty in mundanity and exploring timeless topics. Her earnest, well crafted stylings are a multi-layered merger of old country music and traditional folk songs, colored by rock and roll and mountain soul.

Our longtime dusty country-roots songwriter James Low returns to a monthly appearance here at the LT Pub for happy hours!

https://www.facebook.com/TheJamesLowIrregulars/

Janet Julian returns with her folk-rock group, playing a MONTHLY all ages show for everyone!

http://krisdeelaneandthehurt.com

Kris Deelane is making a loud noise in the Portland Rock scene. With her nine piece soul band The Hurt, Kris is amping up her performances in and around Portland and the Pacific Northwest. A true road warrior with years of solid touring experience, Kris is keeping it local and in the moment with shows all over town. From The Alberta Rose Theatre to The Doug Fir, McMenamin’s Edgefield to Al’s Den at the Crystal and a standing residency at Laurelthirst Public House, she and the band are everywhere. Summer 2015, Kris Deelane and The Hurt performed at Oregon Country Fair, What The Festival, and Dixie Festival, and also opened for 3 Dog Night, and Martha Davis and the Motels.

The Hurt is ten players strong and features a number of Portland music luminaries including Ned Failing (Mexican Gun Fight/Floydian Slips) on drums, Steve Kerin on keys (Too Loose Cajun Band, Atomic Gumbo, Rose City Kings and winner of the Cascade Blues Association’s “Keyboardist of the Year”), Greg Hyatt on bass (Five Easy Pieces, Zoo People, Berthaline, and Lapdog, featuring members of Toad The Wet Sprocket), Heidi Shuler (Merl Saunders) on percussion and Alan Toribio (Mexican Gunfight) on guitar. With her backing singers, The Lady Parts, and horn section, Kris is dipping into deep cuts and old school favorites from the soul sounds of the 60’s and 70’s. Think Motown to Memphis, Stax to Atlantic records, Aretha to Etta. It’s all here!

https://www.harvestgoldny.com/fortunate-gold/
Raucous tribute to the music of Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield and CSNY / now also bringing in the music of CCR and John Fogarty!

https://bundyband.com – Sweet Preserves is a Bundy offshoot!
Traditional acoustic New Orleans jazz for your all ages matinee dine and dance pleasure!

Longtime Laurelthirst roots-rock rowdies host their Sunday “church” show!

Continuing the tradition of local roots-rock rowdies like Jimmy Boyer, Jeffery Frederick, and the Holy Modal Rounders, the Freak Mountain Ramblers keep the music of our people alive. Be having’ things on a Sunday!

Usual suspects: Lex Browning (guitar, fiddle), David Reisch (bass) and Roger North (drums), with Tate Peterson and Pete Krebs (guitar, steel), plus occasional special guests!

Pete Krebs and friends bring swinging country in for a Monday evening’s entertainment.

We are excited to announce the first ever Laurelthurst Open Jam every MONDAY night in May, hosted by Jack McGrane of Bodhi Mojo. Hone in your group improvisational skills in a low key and supportive environment. Bring your own axe if you can and arrive early to get a guaranteed spot on the sign up sheet. Feel free to contact Jack with any questions @ jackmcgrane25@gmail.com

A delightful mix of jug, blues, country, blegrass and hokum sounds from this ebullient ensemble that’s been rocking Portland for decades

https://www.facebook.com/paganjugband

The Pagan Jug Band is an all-acoustic, boot-stompin’ band featuring a mean banjo and a rockin’ guitar – throw in more strings, some brass, and a washboard and you’ve got a band that really knows how to get folks out of their seats and onto the dance floor! On any given Tuesday in Portland you’ll see them playing their weekly “Pagan Tuesday” show – where the band sometimes swells up to 10 members as long-time fans and random passers-by join them on stage to keep the music communal. The Pagans have a large body of original songs that they mix seamlessly with carefully curated covers and traditionals.

Bluegrass from the swamps of Portlandia!

Scott and band return for their extended happy hour show! 6-9pm, FREE, but do tip the musicians!

Another night led by Scott tonight, featuring Micah Kassell on drums, Tye North on bass, Chelsea Luker on winds and Jeff Baxter on keyboards!

LEWI LONGMIRE leads the Left Coast Roasters (Bill Rudolph, Ned Folkerth and Dan Eccles) through a couple of sets of rockandroll, songs both original and familiar. Thursday Therapy is the name of the game!

http://www.lewilongmire.com

Rowdy roots rock and roll with a classic heart!

In celebration of his (would have been) 84th birthday, a passel of Laurelthirst community members and other Portland Snock-o-philes will get together on stage and play songs of Michael Hurley. Performers TBA, but some possible and likely suspects are:

The Croakers (Dave Reisch, Rachel Blumberg, Nate Lubmard and Lewi Longmire), Alela Diane, Larry Yes, Sam Molinaro, Dan Wilson, and more!

No cover charge, no money needed. This evening is all about the love and the music.

https://www.ashleighflynnandtheriveters.com

With what PopMatters describes as “tenacious swagger,” critically-acclaimed solo artist Ashleigh Flynn recently dialed up the volume and debuted an all-female rock band as a nod to the “Rosie the Riveter” archetype from WWII.

​Flynn grew up in Kentucky and cut her teeth on local bluegrass music and Motown. A prolific songwriter and performer blessed with unbridled charisma, she arrived on the Americana scene in 2008 with the release of her third LP, American Dream, a poetic lament to the elusiveness of that national ethos. A Million Stars followed in 2013 – a rollicking journey celebrating the women pioneers of the American West.

Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters’ inaugural LP hit the streets in 2018 featuring a sound that hearkens back to early Stones, ‘70s psychedelic country rock, and alternately charms like a Sunday afternoon front porch session…

Our all-time favorite Portland Rock & Roll Bar is going to get a little Phishy as The Walkaways make their winter Laurelthirst return! Come see if we can squeeze onto the stage and groove to only the finest selections from the Phish Covers Cover vault.

https://www.joshcolemusic.com
Josh Cole has been playing bluegrass in the Pacific Northwest for over 25 years. It started in the late 90s, when he first heard “Midnight Moonlight” from Old and In the Way. That moment forever bonded Josh to bluegrass music.

He went on to serve as President of the Oregon Bluegrass Association and continues to host “Music From the True Vine” on KBOO-FM, the longest running bluegrass show West of the Mississippi. 

Josh’s influences include Ralph Stanley, Larry Sparks, and Bill Monroe, many of whom are featured on the Josh Cole Bluegrass Show, his podcast with nearly 200 episodes of traditional bluegrass recordings. 

Josh has played in dozens of bands, along with running his own hard-driving bluegrass band for nearly two decades. That’s why hometown fans have lovingly nicknamed him “The Elvis of Portland Bluegrass.”

SPECIAL SATURDAY EVENING APPEARANCE!

QuEasy Gumbo (Jimmy Russell + Sean Badders of the Quick and Easy Boys, plus one of their incredible drummer friend and incredible keyboardist Steve Kerin) return for a special SATURDAY happy hour show of funky NOLA tunes at the Laurelthirst! FREE, tip the band and the bar!!

https://www.facebook.com/THEKUNGPAOCHICKENSPDX/
The return of our favorite local Django Reinhardt-inspired Roma/gypsy jazz enthusiasts!

Now with a FREE, ALL AGES “3rd Sunday” Matinee!

Longtime Laurelthirst roots-rock rowdies host their Sunday “church” show!

Continuing the tradition of local roots-rock rowdies like Jimmy Boyer, Jeffery Frederick, and the Holy Modal Rounders, the Freak Mountain Ramblers keep the music of our people alive. Be having’ things on a Sunday!

Usual suspects: Lex Browning (guitar, fiddle), David Reisch (bass) and Roger North (drums), with Tate Peterson and Pete Krebs (guitar, steel), plus occasional special guests!

Tonight Lewi and Dave Reisch are gone, being subbed by Freddie Stephenson and Matt Voth!

A bunch of old friends hanging out and playing roots and country music they love.

Core band:
David Lipkind, Dave Reisch, Ben Nugent, Lewi Longmire, and Jason Montgomery. Darrin Craig is on break.

We are excited to announce the first ever Laurelthurst Open Jam every MONDAY night in May, hosted by Jack McGrane of Bodhi Mojo. Hone in your group improvisational skills in a low key and supportive environment. Bring your own axe if you can and arrive early to get a guaranteed spot on the sign up sheet. Feel free to contact Jack with any questions @ jackmcgrane25@gmail.com

The Jackstraw boys return for their “2nd and 4th Tuesdays” regular bluegrass happy hour!

Closed Thursdays, Dec. 25th and Jan 1st so that folks can get a litlle rest, fun, family and friends time for the holidays!

Stay safe and cozy out there!

EXTENDED HOLIDAY FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR TODAY: 6-9pm!

LEWI LONGMIRE leads the Left Coast Roasters (Bill Rudolph, Ned Folkerth and Dan Eccles) through a couple of sets of rockandroll, songs both original and familiar. Thursday Therapy is the name of the game!

http://www.lewilongmire.com

Rowdy roots rock and roll with a classic heart!

http://www.jtwiseband.com
The husband and wife roots songwriters are dynamic, not ordinary and cross the musical traditions. They are frequent NW performers at festivals and venues. Performing rollicking guitar driven and rhythmic music.

JT is influenced by all the great guitarists and has a stylized sound whether on the acoustic or electric guitars. He is joined by bassist wife Maggie. Ken Woodside often joins them on drums. Follow their journey filled with characters, funny tales, and stories of a life well traveled. Topped with plenty of musical twists and turns, jams and vocal harmonies.

“I listen to this band and can’t figure out what makes JT’s guitar leads so different and so great. He sounds like no one else on the planet. I’m on the edge of my seat listening”! – Mary Flower.

The Stomp has been continuing to share the songs of Eric “Big E” Schweiderman in his absence, since he moved away.

Dan Davis, Tucker Jackson, Steve Kerin, John Becher, and Tate Peterson all hold forth!

https://www.facebook.com/BigEandtheStomp

Solidly earthy Americana and folk-rock with a touch of Island breeze!

The Beavs’ are BACK with a pack of their buddies, ready to make holiday cheer in a musical madness!

https://supernaturalbeavers.bandcamp.com

https://www.facebook.com/SupernaturalBeavers/

Pete Krebs, Doug Sammons (Midnight Serenaders) playing 20s/30s jazz, Hawaiian, and exotica with vocal harmonies…

“Jazz Matinee”!

Longtime Laurelthirst roots-rock rowdies host their Sunday “church” show!

Continuing the tradition of local roots-rock rowdies like Jimmy Boyer, Jeffery Frederick, and the Holy Modal Rounders, the Freak Mountain Ramblers keep the music of our people alive. Be having’ things on a Sunday!

Usual suspects: Lex Browning (guitar, fiddle), David Reisch (bass) and Roger North (drums), with Tate Peterson and Pete Krebs (guitar, steel), plus occasional special guests!

https://www.portlandcoverband.com/
Portland’s premier all-star cover band comes in for an evening of FREE frivolity for a happy hour show!

We are excited to announce the first ever Laurelthurst Open Jam every MONDAY night in May, hosted by Jack McGrane of Bodhi Mojo. Hone in your group improvisational skills in a low key and supportive environment. Bring your own axe if you can and arrive early to get a guaranteed spot on the sign up sheet. Feel free to contact Jack with any questions @ jackmcgrane25@gmail.com

https://tonyfurtado.com

Eclectic bluegrass/newgrass and string and sounds featuring banjo picker and slide guitarsman Tony Furtado, with band: Tye North on bass and Micah Kassell on drums.

“Very few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtado embodies Americana roots music. Tony is an evocative and soulful singer, a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist adept on banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele who mixes and matches sounds and styles with the flair of a master chef. “

Closed Thursdays, Dec. 25th and Jan 1st so that folks can get a litlle rest, fun, family and friends time for the holidays!

Stay safe and cozy out there!

THE RESOLECTRICS

Expanding on their love of American R&B, The Resolectrics are a rock & soul power trio exploring the vast landscapes of roots music with layered harmonies, multi-tonal guitar tracks, and ambitious arrangements. Since releasing their “Booker T. meets The Band” debut record, High Water, guitarist Tate Peterson, drummer John Becher, and bassist Bob Dunham have honed a leaner, meaner approach through continuous gigging and constant refinement. The band’s latest record, Open Seas, adds some timeless, British Invasion-style psychedelia to the mix along with a touch of horns and harmonica that help reconnect the music to its soul-based heritage.

https://waysidersband.com

QuEasy Gumbo (Jimmy Russell + Sean Badders of the Quick and Easy Boys, plus one of their incredible drummer friends and immaculate keyboardist Steve Kerin) return for their FREE monthly Wednesday extended happy hour show!

Lovely Portland chenteuse brings a monthly night of song down to our Pub!

More details TBA!

Our longtime dusty country-roots songwriter James Low returns to a monthly appearance here at the LT Pub for happy hours!

https://www.facebook.com/TheJamesLowIrregulars/

Janet Julian returns with her folk-rock group, playing a MONTHLY all ages show for everyone!

https://www.ashleighflynnandtheriveters.com

With what PopMatters describes as “tenacious swagger,” critically-acclaimed solo artist Ashleigh Flynn recently dialed up the volume and debuted an all-female rock band as a nod to the “Rosie the Riveter” archetype from WWII.

​Flynn grew up in Kentucky and cut her teeth on local bluegrass music and Motown. A prolific songwriter and performer blessed with unbridled charisma, she arrived on the Americana scene in 2008 with the release of her third LP, American Dream, a poetic lament to the elusiveness of that national ethos. A Million Stars followed in 2013 – a rollicking journey celebrating the women pioneers of the American West.

Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters’ inaugural LP hit the streets in 2018 featuring a sound that hearkens back to early Stones, ‘70s psychedelic country rock, and alternately charms like a Sunday afternoon front porch session…

https://www.joshcolemusic.com
Josh Cole has been playing bluegrass in the Pacific Northwest for over 25 years. It started in the late 90s, when he first heard “Midnight Moonlight” from Old and In the Way. That moment forever bonded Josh to bluegrass music.

He went on to serve as President of the Oregon Bluegrass Association and continues to host “Music From the True Vine” on KBOO-FM, the longest running bluegrass show West of the Mississippi. 

Josh’s influences include Ralph Stanley, Larry Sparks, and Bill Monroe, many of whom are featured on the Josh Cole Bluegrass Show, his podcast with nearly 200 episodes of traditional bluegrass recordings. 

Josh has played in dozens of bands, along with running his own hard-driving bluegrass band for nearly two decades. That’s why hometown fans have lovingly nicknamed him “The Elvis of Portland Bluegrass.”

https://www.facebook.com/THEKUNGPAOCHICKENSPDX/
The return of our favorite local Django Reinhardt-inspired Roma/gypsy jazz enthusiasts!

Now with a FREE, ALL AGES “3rd Sunday” Matinee!

A delightful mix of jug, blues, country, blegrass and hokum sounds from this ebullient ensemble that’s been rocking Portland for decades

https://www.facebook.com/paganjugband

The Pagan Jug Band is an all-acoustic, boot-stompin’ band featuring a mean banjo and a rockin’ guitar – throw in more strings, some brass, and a washboard and you’ve got a band that really knows how to get folks out of their seats and onto the dance floor! On any given Tuesday in Portland you’ll see them playing their weekly “Pagan Tuesday” show – where the band sometimes swells up to 10 members as long-time fans and random passers-by join them on stage to keep the music communal. The Pagans have a large body of original songs that they mix seamlessly with carefully curated covers and traditionals.

Bluegrass from the swamps of Portlandia!

Pete Krebs, Doug Sammons (Midnight Serenaders) playing 20s/30s jazz, Hawaiian, and exotica with vocal harmonies…

“Jazz Matinee”!

The Stomp has been continuing to share the songs of Eric “Big E” Schweiderman in his absence, since he moved away.

Dan Davis, Tucker Jackson, Steve Kerin, John Becher, and Tate Peterson all hold forth!

https://www.facebook.com/BigEandtheStomp

Solidly earthy Americana and folk-rock with a touch of Island breeze!