Ponderosa
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Tuesday, Dec 5 › 9pm › $5-$15
PORTLAND FREESKOOL BENEFIT: Featuring PONDEROSA, NECK TIES MAKE ME NERVOUS, juggler DAVID CLAY, KAZUM, HERE COMES A BIG BLACK CLOUD, and DJ HERBAL TEA
Founded in 1998 by a group of activist youths working to "change the way that youth are treated and to reclaim kid pride," Portland Freeskool is a grassroots community education project that challenges the entire conceptual underpinning of the school system. Without standardized tests, age segregation, an authoritarian staff, or any form of tuition; knowledge is shared by people who want to share it, with people who want to learn, period. Unsurprisingly, they have their work cut out for them just to stay open.
The acrobalance quartet Kazum, late of Societas Insomnia and Circo Mutante; costumed anarchist shout-along posse Here Comes A Big Black Cloud; and heart-smart party-starter DJ Herbal Tea come bearing their own skills to spread around the class. I'm sure they brought enough for everybody.
About the artist
Ponderosa is forward-thinking instrumental music based out of Portland, OR. The beef of what we do is duo work: cello (Bill Nichols) and banjo (Stephen Kierniesky). You will also hear guitar/banjo and keyboard/cello combinations. Sometimes we add drums (Andy Parker) and the resulting sound is quite different. Whichever the combo, we play original compositions almost exclusively. We've been playing music together for years in a wide variety of settings, but Ponderosa was born in the spring of 2006. We are named after the stately western tree, the Ponderosa Pine, not the steakhouse.
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