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. 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:
Luke Bulla
Thursday, August 22, 2024
7:00 p.m., Doors open 6:30 p.m.
Tickets $20
Luke Bulla started performing at 4, became the youngest person to finish in the top ten of Nashville’s Grand Master Fiddle Championship at age 10, and in the spring of 1999, moved to Nashville to establish himself as a full time musician. He spent his early years in Tennessee playing fiddle in Ricky Skaggs’ band, Kentucky Thunder, which earned him his first Grammy Award.
Following the Skaggs stint, he became a member of the John Cowan Band. More recently Luke has performed and/or recorded with Brandi Carlile, Jim Lauderdale, Darrell Scott, Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, Bryan Sutton, Kevin Costner & Modern West, Russ Barenberg Trio, Shawn Colvin, Tony Rice, Chris Thile, Peter Rowan, Patty Griffin, Glen Phillips, Rodney Crowell, and Earl Scruggs, to name a few. He is currently touring as part of Lyle Lovett’s Large Band.
This show is made possible only through the generous support of Thompson RV of Pendleton. Thank you!
Save the Date:
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Bonny Wood Green (formerly the Nuala Kennedy Trio)
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.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Okaidja Afroso is a multi-instrumentalist, Afro-Jazz, Afro-Classical, Ambient music, Singer-Songwriter and Traditional Dancer from Ghana, West Africa. He continues to break new ground, as evidenced in his latest classical African music album, titled – Jaku Mumor (Jàkú Mũmɔ – which means Ancestral Spirit in the Gãdangmé language) – inspired by ancient African wisdom.
The new album dives deeper into Okaidja’s cultural roots by collaborating directly with the Gãdangmé Fishermen to share the full artistry of their a cappella singing and chants that awakes the spirit of the human soul.