One of the gazillion things I love about Portland is the access to affordable and eclectic opportunities to both watch and participate in the performing arts scene. For the moment however, I am going to focus on music.
Being a small business owner with an early bedtime, I don’t get out much these days. But sometimes great music will come and find you. Several months ago I met Marie Schumacher at CubeSpace’s monthly nonprofit networking event. Marie and I got together over coffee so that she could pick my brain about consulting and her organization PDX Vox. As a thank you, she sent me a copy of her CD Sometimes at Night, which was some of the best new music I had heard in months (if not years).
Fast forward to now. After many, many months, Marie sent me an email about an upcoming gig on June 1st at 1pm in the afternoon at Springbox Gallery, 2375 NW Thurman St., Portland. Yes, this is a show that is business-owner and parent friendly. How cool is that!??!?!?!? And with a suggested donation of $5-$10, it is cheap to boot. That alone is cause for some serious celebration.
But wait, there’s more. Portland also has a great new resource to find new music, with an emphasis on the homegrown stuff from the Pacific Northwest. When OPB shifted their on-air music programming to an online music page, that opened up a whole new world for those of us who didn’t stay up late enough to listen to David Christensen’s music show Ecleticity. Now we can access streaming music and well as download studio performances and check out playlists and all sorts of fun stuff.
I still don’t sit still long enough to listen to as much music as I would like, but I am enjoying these new opportunities nonetheless and invite you all to join me.
Think you might be interested in checking out this event this weekend:
Nutrisoda, the Beverage of Your Dreams, Arrives in Oregon
Intelligent Refreshment Now Available in Pacific Northwest
Who: Nutrisoda, the Good Soda packed with vitamins and minerals, debuts in Portland,
Good for you. Good for Portland. Good for the planet. The Good Soda.
What: Supporting reforestation projects around the world, Nutrisoda’s Good Life Tour is making its way through the Pacific Northwest.
Nutrisoda will be on route to the Salem area in its eco-friendly Highlander Hybrid, to promote their commitment to Trees for Future and introduce your community to Nutrisoda!
The Good Life Tour encourages people to take an active role in making the planet a better place by planting trees with Trees for the Future. The tour features an interactive sampling booth, where consumers can grow their own virtual tree in a 3D virtual forest AND sample good soda!
For everyone who participates in growing their own virtual tree, Nutrisoda will make a donation to Trees for the Future to plant trees in deforested areas of the world that continue to aid in offsetting their carbon footprint.
The Good Life Tour is a multifaceted opportunity for your community to not only sample the-zero sugar, aspartame, caffeine and few to zero calorie-sparkling beverage but also gives you a chance to ‘do good’ too!
Where: Salem Art Fair & Festival at Bush’s Pasture Park
Nutrisoda can be found at the Salem Art Association Tent
The Salem Art Association is located in the Bush Barn Art Center (near the North Food area):
600 Mission Street Southeast
Salem, OR 97302
When: July 18-20, 2008
Friday and Saturday, 10 am – 7 pm
Headliner Music Performances, 7:30 to 9 pm
Sunday, 10 am – 5 pm
More: About Nutrisoda
Nutrisoda is the flagship brand of the Ardea Beverage Company, a company dedicated to the development and marketing of safe and delicious nutrient-enhanced beverages. Anchoring the Nutrisodalline is Immune – literally a can packed with vitamins and minerals to help build up the body’s immune defenses, boost antigen response and keep you healthy. The Nutrisoda product line includes nine unique sparkling beverages – Immune, Renew, Radiant, Calm, Focus, Flex, Energize, Slender and Vision – each combining natural fruit flavors and specially formulated to deliver a unique wellness benefit. All varieties contain meaningful levels of key vitamins, minerals and amino acids to deliver functional benefits and crisp, effervescent refreshment. Call us the Good Soda.
About Airforce Nutrisoda / Fresh Air Tour
For more information on Nutrisoda please visit http://www.nutrisoda.com
For more information on Fresh Air Tour please visit The Fresh Air Tour.
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