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Wine
Bar on Oregon Coast Buzzes with Live Music
(Newport, Oregon) –
Newport’s Blu Cork Wine Bar has a full plate of serious live
music fun lined up for the following weeks, with a particularly
high point happening at the Jazz at Newport Festival on Sept. 7
– 10. There’s also the wild weekend of Labor Day Weekend,
with a guaranteed party all weekend.
All shows begin at 7
p.m.
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Halie Loren at Blu Cork |
Thursday, August
24 brings vocalist Annie Averre and Tall Jazz member Mike Horsfall
performing varied forms of jazz.
Friday, August 25 features
David Hutson and the Jazz All Stars.
Saturday, August 26 brings
the folksy, Jimmy Buffet-like sounds of locals Sons of Beaches.
David Hutson and Jazz All Stars returns on Friday, September 1.
September 7 begins the
frenzy of the Jazz at Newport Festival, with happenings all over
town. But at Blu Cork, Portland wonder Darrell Grant sizzles on
the keys for the evening. On September 8, Tall Jazz fills the rooms
to the rafters. September 9 sees the searing vocals of Eugene’s
Halie Loren, with her mix of standards and modern pop with some
truly innovative twists. September 10 means the Gregory Ernst Duo
performs outside on the patio in the afternoon, weather permitting.
All of the Jazz
at Newport performances - except the afternoon show - start at 7:30
p.m. and cost $8 per ticket.
September 9 features the return of David Hutson and Jazz All Stars.
Blu Cork Wine
Bar is at SW 3rd and Beach in the historic Nye Beach District. 541-265-2257.
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LINCOLN
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DEPOE
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NEWPORT
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