October 2020
Caleb represents the best of the Northwest music scene and his music has inspired many people across the globe. Caleb has been touring nationally and internationally for over 20 years. He first toured with acclaimed folk-rock band Calobo, a luminary in the Northwest’s burgeoning 90's music scene. He has been leading his own band, the Caleb Klauder Band, since 2000, a venue for his original and timeless songs.
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Halloween is here! Time for the ghoulish, frightfully foolish, frightening Asian ghost stories! Eth-Noh-Tec dredges up from the darkest tales of demons, talking corpses, vengeful ghosts from China, Tibet, India and morbidly more. Known for their style of movement theater storytelling, Eth-Noh-Tec will feature one of their signature tales, “The Dirtball,” inspired by the 16th Century folk writer Pu Songling and his version of “The Painted Skin”: A kind old couple take in a servant girl, rescuing her from a cruel master. The sweet young thing is not what she appears to be! The only hope of surviving nights of terror is to follow the instructions of a wild and crazy itinerant: “Eat the Dirtball!”
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A special double bill: Chill Collins - Space sounds, glitter fuzz, archipelago dream noise (among other nonsense). Check into a room at the Chillton with these local boi’s slick shoed indie rock, glamorous punk, and wild and viscous jams. Kellen and Kique is a clanky bones music group that is trying to use polyrhythms to summon anti-colonial spirits from the island deep.
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JP, Gordon, and Anita will be playing live online, with all the excitement in the moment that brings. As always, they guarantee to keep you humming, singing, sighing, and laughing along. While the mode of musical delivery may be different, they will be sharing their usual inimitable mix of fiddle, guitar, bass, and three-part vocal harmonies with a side helping of mandolin, ukulele, banjo, and of course a seasoning of musical saw. There will be new songs and old, new jokes and old, from swing to hoedown to cowboy tunes to jazz standards to waltzes to originals, to, well, you never know what will catch their fancy, and yours. And boots...
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Join Gordon, Melinda, JP, Anita and Z for a live streaming of a rehearsal for the answers to these and many other questions about this Orcas institution. Over the years, many folks have said they would like to be “a fly on the wall” at a Symphony practice—perhaps to see if these non-symphonic musicians are having as much fun as it seems from the audience at shows. Here is their chance! The usual mix of voice, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, bass, banjo, concertina, ukulele, and musical saw will be wielded by our fearless cast, along with various objects seldom seen on a concert stage.
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