Tag: Oregon Road Sessions

OPB Music’s Latest Road Session – Mimicking Birds – Play At Thompson Mill’s Oregon State Heritage Site

The beautiful and interesting Thompson Mill’s Oregon State Heritage Site played host to the band, Mimicking Birds, in the latest OPB Music’s “Road Sessions” series.

“Thompson’s Mills is a Oregon State Heritage Site in Linn County near the town of Shedd. More than 150 years old, it’s the oldest water-powered grain mill in Oregon, where the waters of Calapooia River drive turbines you can still see running today for demonstrations.

Known for their hushed, ethereal music, Portland band Mimicking Birds play their song “Water Under Burned Bridges” at the mill, for the final video in our Road Sessions series. Continue reading... “OPB Music’s Latest Road Session – Mimicking Birds – Play At Thompson Mill’s Oregon State Heritage Site”

Oregon Road Sessions: The Weather Machine – Debuts Music In Five State Parks

Above Slater Smith and The Weather Machine play “Wild West Coast” at Peter Skene Ogden State Park .  Four more bands will be featured at four other state park locations.  (To learn more about this project, listen to OPB’s State of Wonder this Saturday at noon.)  You can read more about Slater Smith, and Oregon State parks’ quest to bring music to the outdoors at OPBMUSIC.

Last year Slater traveled to every Oregon state park and featured a shot in each for the band’s creative music video, “Back O’er Oregon“. Continue reading... “Oregon Road Sessions: The Weather Machine – Debuts Music In Five State Parks”