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Drury & Stowell, One Jazz/Two Guitars

KALA stage welcomes a natural pairing of two northwest guitar gems coming up. The coasts beloved Dave Drury and Portland-based guitaristJohn Stowell.
Dave Drury is a musical mainstay in the Columbia Pacific Region. Hes been bringing jazz as a soloist, composer and collaborator for over 30 years. Hes also been responsible for turning students on to theory and composition as a guitar teacher at Clatsop College for some 30 years, now retired.

Drury has been a regular at Bridgewater Bistro for many moon, a great spot to recognize and enjoy his fine playing. But to key in to his original compositions, taking it in in concert is a worthy musical adventure. Guitar, as piano, is capable of of creating an entire soundscape, a harmonic story, an emotional and memorable journey. Its also the instrument that shapes the rhythm in a band or the lead that takes you higher. Drury can do all these things, but we can be thankful that hes chosen the instrument as a path of whole expression.

Drurys last album Where Do We Go From Here came out in 2019. Since then hes been working on new tunes of which will be heard on this eve, when Drury and Stowell combine their guitar wizardry.

John Stowell has performed and taught in over 20 countries in his 45 year career. An intrepid interpreter on guitar, no standard goes unturned, or tangled in the magic fingerings of Stowell. If youre a guitar enthusiast youll be getting into modern jazz theory that can take you to an other-worldly system. If you're a listener you can just catch a ride on a beautiful webspun delicate, intricate, coaxing a deep and personal music spirit from within.

This will be a first billing for the two guitar masters as a duo. Theyll be playing on each others original compositions and standards. Guest vocalist Dinah Urell steps in for tune or two. Youre invited of course to add to the ingredients of what makes music sublime, the sharing of it.

Saturday, Sept 24. 7:30pm. Doors open at 7. Full Bar. Tickets $20. Online at www.brownpapertickets.com. KALA is located at 1017 Marine Dr. in Astoria. 503.338.4878.