Live Music/Performances

We bring the community together by hosting a wide variety of live music events that celebrate our heritage and expose us to new perspectives. You can view a list of past performers below. From Celtic and bluegrass to jazz, blues, world music, and rock & roll, the Pendleton Center for the Arts is a great spot to experience the power of live music. You can keep up with all our Facebook events HERE.

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Next Up:

Filippo Gorini

Saturday, March 14, 2026
4:00 p.m., Doors open at 3:30 p.m.

Our reserved seating for this event has been filled. We may have overflow seating available, stop by and we will do our best to find a spot for you. If you reserved a seat and find that you won’t be able to attend, please call 541-278-9201 or email director (at) pendletonarts (dot) org to release it for another community member. Thank you!

Thanks to a partnership with Portland Piano International, world-class pianist Filippo Gorini will perform a recital at the Pendleton Center for the Arts on Saturday, March 14^th at 4:00 PM. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited to 100 guests, so reservations are recommended.

Filippo Gorini graduated with honors from the Donizetti Conservatory in Bergamo and the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He received the “Premio Abbiati”, the most prestigious musical recognition in Italy, in 2022, as well as the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award 2020 and First Prize at the Telekom-Beethoven Competition 2015. His three albums featuring Beethoven and Bach late works, released on Alpha Classics, have garnered critical acclaim, including a Diapason d’Or Award and 5-star reviews on The Guardian, BBC Music Magazine, Le Monde.

Gorini’s “Sonata for 7 Cities”, set to end in 2027, aims to show a new, responsible and ethical approach to concert life with monthly residencies in Vienna, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Portland, Medellín, Milan and more, centered around performances, outreach, teaching, and philanthropy. The Pendleton performance is an outreach project of the Portland residency. During this project he will also perform seven newly commissioned piano pieces by composers Stefano Gervasoni, Federico Gardella, Beat Furrer, Michelle Agnes Magalhaes, Yukiko Watanabe, Oscar Jockel, Ondrej Adamek.

Filippo Gorini’s musicianship has drawn acclaim in recitals in the major venues in Europe and abroad, ranging from Milan’s Teatro alla Scala to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Konzerthaus, and Louis Vuitton Foundation Paris, as well as with orchestras such as the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchester, the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, the Gyeonggi Philharmonic in Seoul, the Opera Nacional de Chile.

Save the Dates

Photo Credit: Max Gerber

Monday, June 15, 2026 – Eleni Mandell

Friday, July 17, 2026 – Brass Fire Tribute to Chicago

Thursday, September 17, 2026 – The EOCenes

Photo Credit Brude deBoer

Wednesday, October 21, 2026 – Joe Newberry and April Verch

Select Past Events

True Blues with Corey Harris & Cedric Watson
Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024
SOLD OUT! 

Hosted by Corey Harris, a powerful singer, accomplished guitarist and MacArthur Grant recipient, True Blues chronicles the extraordinary living culture of the blues in an evening of music and conversation. Harris will be joined on stage by four-time Grammy-nominated fiddler, singer, accordionist & songwriter Cedric Watson, considered to be one of the brightest young talents to emerge in Cajun, Creole and Zydeco (Louisiana French) music over the last decade.

Seffarine

The musicians of Seffarine, soulful Moroccan singer Lamiae Naki and flamenco guitarist Nat Hulskamp, supported by master musicians of diverse cultures, embrace and extend this rich legacy. Their exciting performances masterfully combine explosive flamenco footwork, exotic instrumentation and grooving basslines. These diverse backgrounds meld, creating what SoundRoots describes as “an ear-caressing blend of sounds from Spain and North Africa, spiced with a bit of fiery instrumentation and percussion.”

“Seffarine’s music can melt the coldest hearts”
-Chicago Reader

Past Performers