The Oregon Music Hall of Fame announced its 2015 inductees last week. The induction ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Aladdin Theater, 3017 S.E. Milwaukie Ave. It will feature performances by Storm Large, The Delines, and The Kingsmen and friends in a tribute to late Louie Louie singer Jack Ely.
The ninth annual OMHOF induction will feature:
Performers Heatmiser, an Elliott Smith-led band in the 1990s; Jerry Joseph, of Widespread Panic; Neo Boys, an all-female punk band; Bill Rhoades, blues harmonica player; Ellen Whyte, blues/rock/jazz singer.
Side players Dave Captein, bass player; Brian Foxworth, drummer.
Industry people Marc Baker, Crazy 8s manager; John Chassaing, Showcase Music store.
Artist of the year Storm Large.
Album of the year Colfax by The Delines.
Tony Starlight again will preside as master of ceremonies. Fifteen autographed guitars will be auctioned. Tickets are on sale, $25 in advance, available at ticketfly.com and at the Aladdin box office.
For more: www.omhof.org.
Great Oregon Steam Up
The 45th annual event attracts the county folk and fans of everything agricultural and mechanical. Its put on by Antique Powerland, a museum complex in Brooks, and it takes place the weekends of July 25-26 and Aug. 1-2.
Demonstrations and activities include trolley and 1/8-scale train rides, a steam-powered sawmill, ice cream making from steam, blacksmithing, old-time threshing, tractor pull, garden tractor pull and kids pedal-tractor pull, a bucket brigade, a firefighters challenge and vintage tractors (including the Minneapolis Moline).
Streetcar and trolley trams and a massive assembled engine are new to Powerland. On the second weekend, the Oregon National Guard Appreciation Days will feature blank-firing from a 1941 M13A Stuart Tank that will start the parade. There will be more than 15 military vehicles, including a 1906 Liberty Truck.
The fun goes from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily admission is $12 or $20 for a weekend pass at Antique Powerland, a campus of 12 heritage power museums. For info:
Gaming museum
The Interactive Museum of Gaming and Puzzlery (IMOGAP), 8231 S.W. Cirrus Drive in Beaverton, has started a Green Gaming Initiative to find incomplete, broken, old and unused board games for use in new and unexpected ways by young game designers.
Josh Palshikar, an aspiring Eagle Scout and devoted gamer who has teamed with IMOGAP on the project, says game boards, boxes, pieces, dice, tokens, timers and spinners are useful for designers.
For more, call IMOGAP at 503-469-9998 or go online at www.imogap.org.
Portland2016
Disjecta and the Portland2016 Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Michelle Grabner, has put out a call to visual artists to apply for the event, which will be held July 9 through Sept. 18, 2016.
Disjecta, 8371 N. Interstate Ave., plays host to the event, but the exhibition will be expanded to other partner spaces. The biennial platform may include visual arts and new media, as well as performance-based works. The deadline to apply is Aug. 21 (submissions taken at callfor
entry.org). For more: www.disjecta.org.
Portland Geek Olympathon
The Portland Geek Council puts on the fifth annual, family-friendly event with contests, costumes and prizes. Teams of five individuals will compete in events and display knowledge of comics, video games, television, movies and pop culture. The details: 10 a.m. Saturday, July 25, Guardian Games, 345 S.E. Taylor St., www.portlandgeekcouncil.com/olympathon (for info and team registration).
OBT2
Oregon Ballet Theatre announced it would form its version of a farm team, the junior company OBT2 led by program director Lisa Sundstrom, a former American Ballet Theatre and Pennsylvania Ballet principal dancer.
The company was formed with the support of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. For more: www.obt.org.
