Previous events

Aug1

Band show time, with short opening sets from my bandmates, followed by the condensed one-act version of RAA. Tickets will be "pay what you can and want to." More details to come, but this is a very cool event space operated by the very inclusive Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church and my first full-length public show on the east side of Portland in two and a half years! I can't wait!

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Jun20

Here we have part B of our script lab, where we do the 60-minute version of the solo show. You are welcome to compare and contrast these versions and any others you have seen. And if it's your first RAA experience...fantastic! Feedback is optional but helpful!

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Jun20

Can the full Clappy Monster story of RAA be told in 60 minutes or less, and still feel like a satisfying dramatic arc? Want to help me find out?

For this FREE event (as in, "leave your wallet at home because it's the library and we can't accept money there"), in which I will be test-driving two shorter potential Fringe Fest formats of the solo show with full Clappy Monster story arc: this is part A, the 45-minute version. Then, after a 15-minute break, we will do the 60-minute version (see below). Feel free to come for one of these, or both!

The full-length version with more songs will be back, pinky swear! In the meantime, though, this show wants to travel, and having a "pocket version" of it will help get it where it wants to go. Would love your help reducing the sauce!

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Nov29

Rhythm and Autism Sensory Friendly One-Act!

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Salem Public Library, Anderson Room B, 585 Liberty Street SE, Salem, OR

Flying solo again for this one! Free, of course. We won't have caption slides but we will have a script available to scan and a sensory program for those who want one. We will have stim toys and earplugs on hand, or bring your own. We start out nice and quiet, with silent audience participation, including flap-alongs, and build to a thunderously joyous finish! Be comfortable. Be you. Be there!

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Nov7

Super stoked about this show! It's going to be a sensory friendly hybrid program like the last time I played the Walters, and this time I will be accompanied by the amazing multi-instrumental wizard Ray Maras. There will be some other cool new features also! Tickets go on sale this month, I will post the link when it pops up.

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Jul20

La Strada dei Pastelli Chalk Art Festival (set 2 of 2)

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Hillsboro Civic Center Plaza, 150 E. Main St., Hillsboro, OR

This is my second set at La Strada dei Pastelli, a fabulous free event where you can watch chalk artists make their art on the street! As part of the troubadour entertainment, I will be doing a 90-minute RHYTHM AND AUTISM excerpts and outtakes set, with backing tracks, looping, the whole 9 yards!

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Jul19

La Strada Dei Pastelli Chalk Art Festival (set 1 of 2)

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Influence Music Hall Stage, SE 2nd and Washington, Hillsboro, OR

As part of the fabulous free outdoor event La Strada dei Pastelli Chalk Art Festival, where you can watch chalk artists make their art on the street, I will be doing two RHYTHM AND AUTISM excerpts and outtakes sets as part of the troubadour entertainment! This is a 30-minute acoustic set at the Influence Music Hall Stage (in front of the Knights of Pythias lodge) at SE 2nd and Washington Street.

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Dec29

This has been a watershed year for all things RAA, and to thank everyone for supporting me (past, present, or future!), we are putting on a supporter appreciation event, with Hanukkah-themed munchies and socializing beginning at 2 PM, and the show (in sensory friendly hybrid format) starting at 4 PM. Approximate run time of the show is 80 minutes. This event is completely, totally FREE (we aren't even allowed to accept money there, so you can leave your wallet at home!), and is open to the public. If you have been wanting to see the show for the first time, or bring new people around to see it, this is a great, no-risk way of doing it!

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Aug16

I will do some RHYTHM AND AUTISM material as the intermission act for this unique free outdoor show! As a tribute to how Shakespeare's plays were originally staged, actors will be reading their parts off scrolls, and there will be opportunities for audience interaction.

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Aug11

A 120-piece no-audition community choir with a first-rate live band, with a program of songs by the band Queen -- including "Somebody to Love," in which I have a solo! These are incredible arrangements and this show is going to be thrilling. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Ukrainian Foudation.

Tickets $10-20 (children 12 and under free)

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Aug6

This little parklet (a covered outdoor patio) is where the RHYTHM AND AUTISM journey began two years ago, with my first ever full reading! It will be great to return and do my thing there for First Tuesday Art Walk. My great friends Rob and Penny Cork will precede me at 5 PM with their infectious folk and country stylings, and my life partner Chris Mitchell will follow me at 7 PM with his unique take on spacey synthesizer sounds! It's all part of First Tuesday Art Walk, and there will be great music all over -- all free, of course.

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Jul20

RAA Plus at La Strada Chalk Art Festival!

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La Strada dei Pastelli Chalk Art Festival, Hillsboro, OR

I will be on a "troubadour" side stage next to Decadent Creations, on SE 3rd and Lincoln, doing excerpts and outtakes from RHYTHM AND AUTISM and a few other goodies! This is a completely free outdoor event; a four-block area of Main Street in downtown Hillsboro is blocked off, and you can watch the amazing chalk artists do their art right there on the street, with lots of live entertainment hidden away on the side streets and in the Plaza. RAA made its debut there two years ago, and now La Strada has become "tradition" (if three times is tradition)!

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Jun15

Due to forecast of rain and high wind, this show will be moved to the church basement. Two 50-minute sets with a 20-minute break in the middle. This show is not designated as sensory friendly, but there will be sensory warnings in the show program, and a full script will be available to scan. Come on down!

Suggested donation is $10, no one refused. No surcharge on advance tickets.

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Apr19

Rhythm and Autism Sensory Friendly Two-Act Show

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Walters Cultural Arts Center, 527 E. Main Street, Hillsboro, OR

Special sensory friendly program! The first half will be 100% free of common sensory triggers (e.g. flap-alongs and "flapplause" will be encouraged, and house lights will be up so I can see the flapping!). In the second half, following a 10-minute intermission, I will be bringing in the noises that I love, like clapping and tambourines, and the audience will receive a program detailing which sensory elements they can expect so that they can prepare for them (or step out if they need to). And for the first time, my background videos will be presented.

This will be the first SF show Walters has ever done, and I'm honored that they chose me to do it! This show will have full open captions. All seats will be general admission, there will be a variety of seating possibilities, and people can take sensory breaks and come back in afterwards if they want. We will also have stim toys and earplugs available, or bring your own!

This show is also part of the 2024 Fertile Ground Festival.

$10 advance (plus $1 ticketing fee), $12 day of show

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Feb26

This will be the second night of two putting on my full show with this great organization whose residency and group shows I was part of in 2023! This show is made possible by an Arts 3C grant from the Portland Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC).

All tickets general admission. $25 regular price, pay what you can option starting at $5.

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Feb25

This will be the first night of two putting on my full show with this great organization whose residency and group shows I was part of in 2023! This show is made possible by an Arts 3C grant from the Portland Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC).

All tickets general admission. $25 regular price, pay what you can option from $5.

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