Casey Neill and the Norway Rats

Sprung from the folk-grunge of the Portland Underground, in performance at Sam Bond's Garage in Eugene, Oregon singing "Riffraff" from their 1996 album of the same name.

Go to link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPI8GI2gkmo 

Fleet Foxes

Title track from the 2011 CD Homelessness Blues, just one fine composition among many in this impressive collection of songs by the Seattle-based band. All magical somersaults high in the mountains, in and out of the clouds yet curiously earthbound, which is just another way of saying that the music seems to defy description while celebrating its roots. You Tube video upload: Joseph Tomatoes.

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqBrMo2NLws&feature=feedf

Baby Gramps and Buskers Galore

Armed with National steel guitar, Baby Gramps began busking the streets of Seattle in the 1960s and continues to reign as the Crown Prince of Musical Hobohemia both at home in Cascadia and for audiences around the world. Here performing "Cape Cod Girls" with the Black Swamp Potioners at The Bite of Oregon festival in 2007. You Tube video by Bob Nisbet.

Wheedle's Groove

For decades, the speakeasies and night clubs of Jackson Street, Seattle served as West Coast showcase or portal to fame for the likes of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, and Ernestine Anderson. In the 1960s, soul and funk began to dominate the scene with musicians like Ron Buford and Ural Thomas leading the charge. This vibrant, illustrious past is kept alive by the Jackson Street Music History Project and recounted in this 10-minute trailer of a film documentary by Jennifer Maas.

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pmft7fG1z4

Cascadian Hip Hop

Gabriel Teodros       Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Vi46H7M-c

Common Market      Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t_LT2qqhRk&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL3BFD4552075863CE

Blue Scholars______Go to link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIqMIrmpUjc 

Rona Yellow Robe-Walsh

Of Cree-Chippewa and African-American heritage, Rona Walsh has gained much acclaim for enhancing the reach of Native American music and growing new audiences, not least of all among North American tribes that traditionally reserved flute-playing for men. Performing here with guitarist Bruce Witham.

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ86XmfoVek

Veda Hille: Precious Heart

The eclectic, probing, musical journeys of this Vancouver singer-songwriter never fail to entrance the listener with their lyrical takes on life, love, and a looming sense of loss to come. Revealing, fragile, and haunting for their enduring magic. From her debut 1994 CD, Path of the Body.

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7I7EjWY2RU&feature=related

Faerieworlds Festival

Woodlands performs "Jump at the Sun" in 2010

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLCfikoD7Zc

Faun performs "Rhiannon" in 2011

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lqqf_9XcqU&feature=g-all-u&context=G21e81a8FAAAAAAAACAA

Below: SJ Tucker performs "Beets In My Salad" in 2012

Wolves in the Throne Room

Performing "Queen of the Borrowed Light" at the 2005 Out of the Darkness Festival at Manium, local indie music venue and eventual casualty of downtown gentrification, Olympia WA. Video by The Haven Films.

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU8kHuOvwgY

World Music on the Willamette

Three musical traditions from distant parts of the globe growing enthusiasm among audiences in Portland OR.

Obo Addy and Okropong

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcUUMyNjyxs&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL7847957CEE0ACDA9

Kafana Club

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AazqBJq3kCI

Boka Marimba

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cKbJXsiKbI

Death Cab for Cutie

In concert. Ben Gibbard and company fill the void between post-modern grunge and New Age consciousness with a grounded, confident folk-rock style that never shrinks from mixing angst with pointed sentimentality.

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogqi7qMmxuY&feature=related

Brandi Carlile

Singing "Dying Day". With roots in Ravensdale WA, rife with personified longing for the homeland.

Go to link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI0ekIPIdp8 

Pearl Jam

In concert. No matter whether Eddie Vedder sings in Esperanto or Chinook Jargon, the acclaimed Seattle-based rock band has worldwide reach and instant recognition with numbers like "Yellow Ledbetter".

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUyJoojCLnc&feature=related

"Come As You Are" Nirvana 1993

Music born and bred in Aberdeen WA. Live and Unplugged in New York City on MTV.