The Portland Cello Project will be playing the PCPA’s Music on Mainstreet Series July 22. We’ll be doing two different sets (so, a normal performance for us) at 5pm and 6pm. We’ll be doing some songs we’ve never performed in Portland before with Mirah, Adam Shearer (Weinland) and Justin Power.

“Celebrating their fourth year, Music on Main Street blocks off Main—between SW Broadway and Park—for an early evening (5pm) of free local music.”

Here’s a picture of The Dirty Mittens playing Music on Main Street. Looks pretty cool, doesn’t it?

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Directed by the inimitable Clyde Petersen up in Seattle! Our collaboration with Thao on Tallymarks off of our new record!

Thanks to all who came out to Sellwood last night for the opening of what promises to be one of the most beautiful listening rooms in Portland.

Our Set List was:

Man in the Mirror, by Michael Jackson. With Dave Depper, Nick Jaina, Tahoe Jackson and of course THE FLASH CHOIR.
Denmark, by Gideon Freudmann
Turkish Wine, by Norfolk and Western
Mouth for War, by Pantera
Seeds May Fall with Justin Power, Alia Farrah and John Vechiarelli
Travel with Justin Power, Alia Farrah and John Vechiarelli

And special thanks to all who stayed for the Michael Jackson Dance Party afterwards! A more fun evening could not have been asked for!

Thanks to everyone who came out to support us in Eugene tonight!

Our set was:

Collaborations with Emily Wells

The Batman Theme Song (by Danny Elfman)
Turkish Wine (by Norfolk and Western)
Denmark by Gideon Freudmann
Mouth for War by Pantera
Take 5
A piece by Ashia
Ashia and Justin Power playing Hungry Liars
Two more Justin Power pieces!
Toxic in the style of Britney Spears featuring John Brophy
What Goes Around…/…Comes back around by Justin Timberlake, featuring John Brophy
Push-it by Salt N Pepa featuring John Brophy and Emily Wells
3 pieces collaborating with Run-On Sentence

Encore: “Transformation” from The Dream: A Three Movement Suite for Cellos, Mallet Percussion, and Drum Set, by Rachel Blumberg

Our Set List Tonight at the Aladdin Theater in Portland was:

Turkish Wine
Untitled by Douglas Jenkins
Lovestoned (Featuring Melanie Valera and the Flash Choir)
Cry Me A River (Featuring Dave Depper and the Flash Choir)
Bachianas Brasileiras #5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (Featuring Jessyka Luzzi, Soprano)
Collaborations with Run-On Sentence — 3 songs.

10 minute INTERMISSION

Denmark, by Gideon Freudman
Dream by Rachel Blumberg
Collaborations with Justin Power (Hungry Liars, Travel and Seeds)
Batman Theme
My Love (Featuring Tahoe Jackson, JR, and Douglas Jenkins and the Flash Choir)
What Goes (Featuring John Brophy and the Flash Choir)
Collaborations with Thao (Geography, Tallymarks, Violet, Beat)

Thanks to everyone who made it out in Seattle tonight!

Our set list tonight at the Triple Door in Seattle was:

Collaborations with opener, Emily Wells.

Turkish Wine (Instr. by Norfolk and Western)
Untitled by Douglas Jenkins
What Goes Around…/…Comes Back Around (Feat. John Brophy of The Gingerbread Patriots and the Flash Choir)
My Love (Feat. Tahoe Jackson and the Flash Choir)
Bachianas Brasileiras #5 1st mvmt (Feat. Jessyka Luzzi, soprano) by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Run-On Sentence (3 songs)
Batman Theme by Danny Elfman
Justin Power collaborations (Seeds May Fall and Travel)
Thao collaborations (Geography, Tallymarks, Violet, Beat)

Encore:
Mouth For War by Pantera

Entertainment Weekly Hearts the Portland Cello Project!

Greetings Cello Universe,

We are proud to announce that our new CD, The Portland Cello Project: The Thao and Justin Power Sessions is available NOW in record stores, online at the KRS Site and in our very own official PCP online store, on iTunes, and etc., etc.

And we’re announcing an National Tour in the Fall with Thao with the Get Down Stay Down — October 15-November 21. Stay tuned for more details!

Also in the online shop immediately are all of our tee-shirts — a fresh supply of “I Heart PCP” shirts, now printed on American Apparel shirts in both Women’s and Men’s styles; and a new design by Catherine Odell featuring a horde of stick figures metaphorically hoisting a cello to it’s rightful place of human-made eminence.

Our friends on the other coast, CMJ, writing about our CD due out next Tuesday, June 9.

We’re honored to be opening for pretty much my favorite violinist in the entire universe on July 16 @ the Britt Festival in beautiful Southern Oregon. And I do believe tickets are on sale now…