Oregon State Fair Show

I was both surprised and happy to discover that good state fair tickets are available for Friday night's Pink Martini, "Oregon! Oregon!"   We've been fans for several years, but this sesquicentennial event is a chance to see a different side of the group.  Here's an excerpt  from the OSF website:

Happy Birthday Oregon!

Pink Martini present "Oregon! Oregon! 2009" featuring the 234^th Army Band-Oregon National Guard.  A Sesquicentennial Event, 8 pm, L.B. Day Comcast Amphitheatre (play/concert).

Buy Tickets (tickets on sale 10 am, Friday, June 26, 2009)

Pink Martini, featuring Oregon! Oregon! with The 234th Army Band. In honor of Oregon's 150th birthday the beaver state's own Pink Martini perform a very special concert featuring Oregon! Oregon!   In 1958, the Oregon Centennial Commission hired radio personality Stan Freberg to create a custom musical. The result was "Oregon! Oregon! A Centennial Fable in Three Acts."

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Pink Martini will perform an updated version of the musical, with an addition written by Pink Martini founder and pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale. Following intermission, they'll perform a set of their unique mix of sophisticated yet approachable music. Pink Martini draws from rhumba, neo-classical, Latin beats and more, and Lauderdale describes their music as,  "bringing melodies and rhythms from different parts of the world together to create something which is modern."

For more information, visit www.pinkmartini.com or www.oregon150.org.