Pink Martini Presents Oregon! Oregon!

Sunday, August 30, 2009 • 7 p.m.

Photo by Sherri Diteman

Oregon's own Pink Martini returns to Britt in a performance honoring Oregon's 150th birthday. In 1958, the Oregon Centennial Commission hired radio personality Stan Freberg to create a custom musical. The result was "Oregon! Oregon! A Centennial Fable in Three Acts." Pink Martini and the Oregon National Guard 234th Army Band will perform an updated version of the musical, with an addition written by Pink Martini founder and pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale. Following intermission, they'll perform a set of their unique mix of sophisticated yet approachable music. Pink Martini draws from rhumba, neo-classical, Latin beats and more, and Lauderdale describes their music as, "bringing melodies and rhythms from different parts of the world together to create something which is modern."

For more information, visit www.pinkmartini.com.

For more information on Oregon! Oregon! visit http://www.shellac.org/radio/oregon.html.