The 1905's Upcoming Shows

TICKETS $25 | ALL AGES

Dan and his all star band will be playing music from his recent CD When The Night which Ashley Kahn of the New York Times described as, "One of the best albums of 2023".

From coffee house gigs at fifteen to chart-topping success with the Tom Grant Band in the 90s, world tours with two-time Grammy Award winner Diane Schuur and contemporary jam-bands, Dan Balmer brings fire and heart every time he plays the guitar. His playing spans nearly one hundred CDs including twelve as a leader from which his original works have appeared internationally in television, film and radio.

An in-demand educator, Dan maintains a busy schedule of private lessons, group clinics and master classes throughout the US and abroad. He adjudicates student jazz band competitions at events such as the Monterey Next Generation Festival and Reno Jazz Festival along with being a long-term teacher at the Centrum Jazz Workshop. He is the director of jazz combos at Lewis And Clark College while also on faculty at virtually every other college in the greater Portland, Oregon area.

Dan has performed or toured with Joey DeFrancesco, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Les McCann, Javon Jackson and Karrin Allyson, Benny Golson, Jeff Hamilton, Gerald Clayton, John Clayton, Terell Stafford, Ingrid Jensen, Duduka da Fonseca, Kendrick Scott, Taylor Eigsti, Buddy De Franco, Bruce Forman and countless others.

Dan’s love of guitar and making music combined with discipline, technique and restless curiosity provide an ever-deepening experience for himself and his listeners. In every performance he finds himself in the middle of the path, amidst a continuous and compelling process of discovery.

TICKETS $25 | ALL AGES

Integer Trio began in 2018, led by award-winning composer/pianist Todd Marston, featuring Andrew Jones (Teton, And/Or You) on bass, and Micah Hummel (Anna Tivel, Quickly Quickly) on drums. Marston’s compositional influences range from post rock to classical music, and his emotive compositions share a strong sense of melody and rhythm. Ranging from groove-based tunes to more straight ahead modern jazz, integer’s music will bring the listener on a unique & inspiring adventure.

TICKETS $30 | ALL AGES

Drummer/bandleader Michael Raynor moved to Portland from Chicago, where he spent twenty-two years playing with tenor sax icon and NEA Jazz Master, Von Freeman. That immersion, at age 22, in the hard swinging Chicago scene, with a musician who had played alongside Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday, was an incomparable education and led to gigs with Freddie Hubbard, Johnny Griffin, Sam Rivers, Eric Alexander, Steve Coleman, Jon Faddis, Arturo Sandoval, and Fareed Haque. Raynor also toured extensively with vocalist Kurt Elling and can be heard on two of his Grammy nominated recordings, including Live in Chicago with guest vocalist, Jon Hendricks. (They also recorded “Cool Yule” which you’ve heard if you’ve ever been to a Starbucks around Christmas time.) More recently Raynor has worked with Bobby Broom, Gary Bartz, Tia Fuller, Howard Levy, and a host of world class Portland stalwarts including Nancy King, Chuck Israels, George Colligan, Dan Balmer and Dan Faehnle.

Skerik's world is one where dialogue flows freely between wildly disparate strains of musical thought... where no borders exist between jazz & sludge metal, where elements of Congolese soukous dialect might find their way onto the million-selling records of an alternative rock band, where an avant-garde electronic translation of Ornette Coleman's deepest & darkest fantasies (shared with a select few listeners in a small club) easily attains the same level of satisfaction & meaning as an exuberant explosion of jazz/funk catharsis (shared with hordes of sweaty festival crowds all over the world). It is a world where all sounds may communicate freely with each other, so long as they all originate from true inspiration & good faith.

SKERIK has performed with/and or recorded with: Medeski Martin and Wood, REM, Jeff Parker, John Scofield, Fred Wesley, Mike Clark, Charlie Hunter, Bernard Purdie, Zigaboo Modeliste, Clyde Stubblefield, Stewart Copeland, George Porter Jr, The Meters, Trombone Shorty, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Om Johari, Stone Gossard, Pearl Jam, Eric Harland, Reggie Watts, Maceo Parker, Donald Harrison, Leo Nocentelli, Pee Wee Ellis, MonoNeon, Marco Benevento, David Torkanowsky, Andrew Bird, Ani Difranco, Green Sky Bluegrass, Leftover Salmon, Nth Power, Jennifer Hartswick, Cory Henry, Marc Ribot, Larry Coryell, Screaming Trees, Squirell Nut Zippers, Sex Mob, DJ Logic, Bonnie Raitt, Ruth Brown, Howard Tate, Maxi Priest, Steve Berlin, Soulive, Dave Mathews Band, and many more…