Portland Cello Project - CD Release + shows

These guys are reinventing the cello. There will be over 20 cellos on stage doing everything from classical/jazz/rock and pop. It could be one of the best shows of the year at the Aladdin. If you are near the Portland or Seattle area I would highly recommend going to a show. If not, then pick up a CD from their web site. I bought the limited edition CD with 4 songs and it is great. Their shows have been selling out, so get your tickets early.

http://portlandcelloproject.com/

PCP e-mail:

The day we've been waiting for since last January when we finished up this record is finally happening! Our CD of mostly collaborations with Portland musicians is finally going to be released! And if you're in Portland on Friday, 08/08/08, you'll be able to get a copy 4 days before it's out nationally *and* get to see what will be our largest show ever (by far) at the Aladdin Theater. The show will feature a bunch of our old friends who played with us on the record, many of whom will be doing brand new songs with us: Laura Gibson, Weinland, Loch Lomond, Hurtbird, Heather Broderick, Musee Mecanique, 3 Leg Torso -- and for those of you who saw us at the PDX Pop Now! Festival, John Brophy will be performing what future scholars will one day call "The Brophy 'Toxic'" with us and what Ritchie Young yesterday called "one of the most important songs of our time."

We've been rehearsing for this show 6 times/week to make sure we can pull it off. And this show is likely to be our last large-format show in Portland until December.
We are also playing 8/10 in Seattle at The Triple Door, which I will send an email about later in the week (it will be a different program and feature some collaboration with Seattle and well as Portland musicians). If anyone is planning on going to both shows, I'll totally give you a Tee-Shirt and buy you a drink. (PCP cellists, Adam Shearer, John Brophy and Ritchie Young, this doesn't include you...)

These are special "Preview for the Northwest" performances, since at each, we'll be selling copies of our CD (at a reduced cost!) a few days before the album appears in national (or local) record stores.

You might want to get advance tickets for this show. If you go in person to the Aladdin Theater Ticket office, the service charge is only $1. And while there, you can go for a walk in Ladd's Addition! The roses are gorgeous right now! (You can also buy tickets online, but no fragrant roses or confusing vortex-y streets that way.)

8/8 will be our last large-format headlining performance in Portland until winter. Our shows in October will be awesome, but will consist of: one show shared with a bunch of other extremely talented cello acts from around the country; and one show that is entirely collaborative with only one band. (Both will be amazing, but definitely different -- more to come on that later.) Our next big show will be in December... and will have a slightly different format that what we've become used to... (we're movin' forward...!) So, come celebrate this birth of a CD and end of an era with us!
Thanks again for your support of this project. This record, and everything we do, would not happen without every one of you.
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August 8, Aladdin Theater (CD Release) with... everyone.
August 10, Triple Door, Seattle with The Friday Mile, Loch Lomond, Weinland and John Brophy
August 16, Cozmic Pizza, Eugene with Loch Lomond and Y La Bamba
August 23, Livewire! Radio
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"To say that this is not your father's cello ensemble is a vast understatement" -Barbara Mitchell, The Portland Tribune.

"Highly talented, highly collaborative and highly experimental, the Portland Cello Project is a dream team of instrumentalists." Anika Sabin, Willamette Week, Portland.