Grace Notes Music Studio

Missa Gaia Earth Mass
2014-08-24 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | First Unitarian Church, 1211 SW Main St., Portland, OR, United States
Please join me for what is sure to be a moving event in support of The Friends of the Columbia Gorge. The music brings together the sounds of Nature (howling wolves, humpback whales and others) with the sounds of blended voices, soprano sax, cello, English horn and an exuberant rhythm section!
A local festival community chorus of 65 voices, directed by Susan Peck, will present Paul Winter’s Missa Gaia/Earth Mass on August 24, to benefit local non-profit Friends of the Columbia Gorge. The music celebrates the sacred beauty of Mother Earth and all her creatures with chorus, solo voices, chamber ensemble, pipe organ, rhythm section, world-beat percussion, and the voices of timber wolves, harp seals, humpback whales, thrushes and loons.
This project is partly supported by a community participation project grant from RACC (Regional Arts and Culture Council). Peck has assembled a community chorus with singers from several local churches and community choirs including Portland Gay Men’s Chorus, Portland Lesbian Chorus, Aurora Chorus, Satori, Portland Peace Choir, Sing Portland, and PDX Vox. Singers in the choir have explored the Gorge on a number of hikes, and were filmed by MetroEast Community Media as they serenaded Wahkeena Falls with excerpts from the concert. http://speckletone.com/missa_gaia_hikes
Vocal soloists are Lauri Jones (New Thought Center for Spiritual Living, Cabaret Chanteuse) and Dustin Hunley (First Unitarian Church). Ensemble includes Mary Ellen Grace (soprano saxophone), Liz Byrd (‘cello), Betty Booher (English horn), Joe O’Donnell (pipe organ), Mitchell Falconer (piano), Michael Mandrell (guitar), Chip Herbert (bass), Tim Rap and Dianna Hnatiw (percussion). Michael Mandrell will play an opening set.

Bureau of Standards @ Jimmy Mak's
2014-08-22 20:00 - 23:00 | Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Catch our debut show at premiere jazz club, Jimmy Mak’s.
The Bureau of Standards Big Band is a 17-member ensemble that, true to its name, recalls the halcyon days of Ellington at The Cotton Club, Ella at The Savoy, and the Rat Pack at The Sands. Featuring the best of the big band hits from the 1930s through the 1960s, the band shifts easily between your favorites from Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Benny Goodman and contemporary artists like Michael Buble, Natalie Cole and Harry Connick Jr.
With charismatic vocalists Kat Cogswell and Warren Black, energetic emcee, director and trumpeteer James M Gregg, and the sizzle and soul of 14 of the finest musicians in town, The Bureau of Standards seeks to entertain with swingin’ music, levity and laughs, stylish stage presence and audience participation. It’s a show you can’t see anywhere else in town!

Private Party
2014-07-11 20:00 - 21:00 | Private Venue, Portland, OR, United States
Small Rock Band playing for private party. Music of James Brown as well as selections from Hair.

Alternate Destination
2014-07-06 19:00 - 21:00 | The Waypost, 3120 N Williams Ave, Portland, OR, United States
With Michael Hagmeier back in town for a short visit, we got the trio back together and are playing some tunes at the Chamber Jam.
Alternate Destination is Mary Ellen Grace, saxes; Joel Kleinbaum, bassoon; and Michael Hagmeier, didjeridoo, guitar, hand percussion.
