Musician, actor and voice artist Finn Mac Ginty comes from Coole in county Westmeath. After moving from Japan, Finn and his wife, Tamara, lived in Seattle from the late 1980s until 2007, when he moved back to Ireland. While in the Northwest, he played with many local musicians, and in the bands The Suffering Gaels and Setanta.

On December 18th of last year, Finn suffered a fall at his new home in Cloughjordan, county Tipperary, resulting in a severe brain injury. After a couple of weeks at Beaumont hospital in Dublin, where he underwent surgeries and was treated for his injury, Finn is now being cared for at the hospital in Tullamore. He has not regained consciousness since the accident.

In an effort to provide support as well as financial assistance for Finn and Tamara, a benefit concert is
being held at the Tractor Tavern on Sunday January 29th starting at 5.00 PM. Music will be provided
by local musicians and friends of Finn’s including Leo MacNamara and Aurora Burd, Ray Carney (The
RayBone Experience), and Paul Mooney and Laura Ploudre.

The Jeremy Wilson Foundation 501(c)3 non-profit – www.thejwf.org – an organization based in Portland
Oregon that assists uninsured and under-insured musicians and their families in times of medical crisis is
accepting on-line donations for Finn and Tamera at http://thejwf.org/donate

Finn Mac Ginty Facebook = http://www.facebook.com/events/307983879243633/?ref=nf

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Preview of The Next Waltz – KINK.FM
http://www.kink.fm/11/21/11/Preview-of-The-Next-Waltz/landing_bing_schedule.html?blockID=568068&feedID=8834

Jeremy Wilson and The NEXT Waltz – KINK.FM Live Video of Preview in The Bing Lounge
http://www.kink.fm/11/20/11/Jeremy-Wilson-and-The-NEXT-Waltz/landing_music_discovery.html?blockID=543730&feedID=9769

Tonight in Music: The Next Waltz, Ancient Heat, & Wale – Portland Mercury
http://endhits.portlandmercury.com/endhits/archives/2011/11/26/tonight-in-music-the-next-waltz-ancient-heat-and-wale

Headout: Waltz No. 02
The Next Waltz finds Portlanders re-creating The Band’s last gig. – Willamette Week
http://wweek.com/portland/article-18223-headout_waltz_no_02.html

The Next Waltz Preview – Dry Your Eyes – Live Video at Music Millenium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-mMPPKfQ1w&feature=related

Take a Load Off – The Portland Tribune
http://www.portlandtribune.com/features/story.php?story_id=132208675514347600

This Thanksgiving weekend, more than three dozen of Portland’s finest musicians will join together at the historic Alberta Rose Theatre to celebrate one of the most legendary rock concerts of all time: The Last Waltz, the 1976 farewell concert by “The Band”, which featured such superstar guests as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and Eric Clapton, and was made into Martin Scorcese’s famous “rockumentary” of the same name. The tribute concert, dubbed The Next Waltz, takes place Saturday, November 26 — 35 years and a day after the original event. The event will benefit worthy causes The Jeremy Wilson Foundation, which helps fund and secure health care for Northwest musicians — an often underserved group when it comes to medical coverage — and, appropriate to the holiday season, the Oregon Food Bank.

Tickets are $17.00 in advance and $20.00 day of show. Concertgoers are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to donate to the Oregon Food Bank. Minors are admitted if accompanied by a parent or guardian. Doors open at 7 PM; the show begins at 8 PM. Advance tickets can be purchased online at AlbertaRoseTheatre.com, by phone at (503) 764-4131, or in person at the Alberta Rose Theatre box office, 3000 NE Alberta Street.

Performers at The Next Waltz include Eric Earley, leader of the internationally acclaimed, Portland-based Blitzen Trapper, performing Bob Dylan’s songs in the evening’s climactic set; celebrated singer-songwriter and performance artist Holcombe Waller, singing Neil Young’s classic “Helpless”; local favorites the Parson Red Heads, recreating the Staples Singers’ thrilling harmonies on The Band’s “The Weight”; and 2011 Oregon Music Hall of Fame inductee Jeremy Wilson, formerly of the Dharma Bums, whose own struggle with illness inspired him to create his eponymous Foundation in 2010. Also appearing are Casey Neill, Little Sue, Joe McMurrian, and many others. Three different house bands and a horn section will support the featured performers. (See attached full roster for details.)

The Next Waltz is the brainchild of Jeff Rosenberg, longtime Portland music journalist (Willamette Week), broadcaster (KBOO-FM) and performer, and is produced in partnership with the Alberta Rose Theatre.

The Jeremy Wilson Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to helping uninsured and underinsured NW area musicians and their families in times of medical crisis. The Foundation also aims to aid musicians and their families in obtaining day-to-day health care through education and referrals to assist them in acquiring adequate
healthcare and insurance.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: Jeff Rosenberg, 503-230-0585 or sensofwndr@aol.com.

http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/portland/2011/11/relive-the-last-waltz-in-portland/

http://www.opb.org/artsandlife/calendar/detail/next-waltz/

http://www.oregonlive.com/music/index.ssf/2011/10/portland_musicians_to_recreate.html

http://www.musicmillennium.com/Event/39539

http://www.kink.fm/pages/wgo#/?i=2

http://jimsmusicnotes.blogspot.com/2011/11/two-benefit-events-you-should-know.html

Performers at the next Waltz

Zak Borden (Brazillionaires)
Jim Brunberg (LiveWire!, Mississippi Studios)
Emily Butler (Music Arcade)
Darrin Craig (Jackstraw)
Michael Dean Damron (I Can Lick Any SOB in the House)
Kris Deelane (SweetJuice)
The Don of Division Street
Eric Earley (Blitzen Trapper)
Adam East (Adam + Kris, Celilo)
Morgan Geer (Drunken Prayer)
Mir German (Miriams Well)
Dan Haley (Ed & The Boats)
Susan Harris (Flash Choir, Children’s Games)
Matthew Hayward-Macdonald (Circled by Hounds)
Miss Michael Jodell
Steve Kerin (Atomic Gumbo)
David Lipkind (Woodbrain, I Can Lick Any SOB in the House)
Little Sue
James Low
Joe McMurrian (Woodbrain)
Casey Neill
The Parson Red Heads
JR Pella (Black Angel, Fatman)
Jeff Rosenberg
Eric Schweiterman (Sugarcane, Ashbury Park)
Holcombe Waller
Jeremy Wilson (Dharma Bums)
Jesse Young (Brethren Thread)

House Bands:
Miriams Well [sic]
Berthaline
Lewi Longmire and the Crackers
and
The Paul Brainard Horns

Here’s the line-up: Casey Neill, Matt Cadenelli (The Don of Division Street), Michael Berly (Old Yellers), Miss Michael Jodell, Matt Brown, Marilee Hord, Lone Madrone, Ezra Holbrook, Alexandra Smith, Lara Michell, Mike Midlo (Pancake Breakfast), Mike Danner, Jeremy Wilson, Bill Leeds, Dan Coble (Counterfeit Cash)with Virginia Jones, Rebecca Rasmussen (Duover), Darka and Miri, Little Sue, Colleen Raney.

A MESSAGE FROM LITTLE SUE ABOUT THE SHOW

Hello!

Well, it seems like perfect timing, since Tom Waits is just releasing a new record, to have our Third Annual Tom Waits For No One Tribute and Benefit!

We have a great line-up this year, too; lots of lovely faces from the years past, and some new ones too! Tom Waits has such an incredible and lengthy catalogue of songs to choose from. Everyone does such a great job every year, and every year there are very surprising and interesting interpretations of these songs. It’s a pleasure and honor to put this show together.

This year the proceeds will go to the Jeremy Wilson Foundation.

We hope you can come to our show!

Thanks!
Love, Sue

Christina Weber, Photographer
Christina Weber is Portland-based, candid photographer with an instinct for artistic snapshots and freestyle portraits. Believing that everyone and everything has something to say, she embraces the task of capturing and conveying their stories with the depth and range of color and black & white film.

Donations to The Jeremy Wilson Foundation can be made online at www.thejwf.org.

(View on Kink.fm)

It’s been almost a year since Jeremy Wilson launched a charitable foundation aimed at assisting uninsured musicians who find themselves facing medical emergencies. And it’s been a really good year.

He overhauled his recording studio, launched Blue Room Music Lessons, started writing new music and, most important, had a third surgery that should finally fix the heart condition he’s dealt with for much of his life.

“I’ve been feeling great,” he said. (read more…)

WHERE: The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont Portland, OR

WHO: Renee Muzquiz of Chica y Los Gatos, Jeremy Wilson Band, and DJ
Highway 7 will spin classic vintage blues and smoky R&B from seven-inch records between sets.

First Anniversary Celebration Benefit Concert for the Jeremy Wilson Foundation
Portland, OR, August 20th, 2011

For Jeremy Wilson, 2011 has been both daunting and empowering. Many fans might have expected the
leader of the 2011 Oregon Music Hall of Famers The Dharma Bums to take it easy after his third (and
finally successful) heart surgery this past April. Instead, Wilson began composing and rehearsing for
the Jeremy Wilson Band, overhauled MastanMusic (his Water Avenue recording studio), launched Blue
Room Music Lessons, and tends to his rapidly-growing nonprofit, The Jeremy Wilson Foundation.

The Jeremy Wilson Foundation (JWF) provides financial aid to uninsured and underinsured Northwest
area musicians in times of medical crisis. Like many organizations, the JWF has staged benefit concerts
as its main form of fundraising. But Wilson is eager to unveil what he believes will be a long-term and
continuous money stream for the JWF: the “One-Song Record Contract.” Each month, the JWF plans to
release a digital compilation of artist-donated songs for a music licensing library, the royalties from which
will be equally split between the artists and the Foundation. “It was important to us that everybody win,”
says Wilson.

The Jeremy Wilson Band will headline the JWF’s first anniversary benefit concert August 20th at The Blue
Monk, where they will debut a new album of original Americana roots music. With Dylan-Thomas Vance
on lap slide guitar and Matthew Rotchford on upright bass, the band’s sparse instrumentation provides a
fierce backdrop to his deeply personal songs. The band has already begun recording these songs, which
will also feature local favorite Ezra Holbrook on drums as well as other surprise guests.

Jazzy folk-pop singer-songwriter, Renee Muzquiz of Chica y Los Gatos, will open the night, and DJ
Highway 7 will spin classic vintage blues and smoky R&B from seven-inch records between sets. Music
starts at 8pm. The Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont, Portland, OR. Sliding scale $5 – $10 donation. All
proceeds benefit The Jeremy Wilson Foundation.

Donations to The Jeremy Wilson Foundation can be made online at www.thejwf.org.

http://www.omhof.org/partners

The fifth annual Nuggets Night is a garage-rock tribute night
featuring Portland bands performing songs of the seminal ‘60s garage
compilation Nuggets and beyond.

WHEN: Saturday, May 21, 2011
Doors at 8
Music begins promptly at 9pm
$10.00

WHERE: Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Avenue
Portland, Oregon, 97209

WHO: The Dharma Bums
Blue Skies for Black Hearts
Welcome Home Walker
The Satin Chaps
Brownish Black
Beyond Veronica
The Wolfman Fairies
The Jim Jams
The Welfare State
Mr. Howel
The Deep Joy
And many, many more!