Greetings all.  Thanks to everyone who came out for Catalyst this past weekend!  We had an awesome time!

Few happenings to tell you about ...  first up ... we're very proud to welcome back to Bend ... BLUE TURTLE SEDUCTION live this Friday night at Silver Moon Brewing.  www.blueturtlemusic.com    Tahoe's favorite groovers at our favorite spot in town for live music!  Sound by Sonic Solutions Pro Audio.  Super stoked for this one.  Soulful grass inspired party rockin'!  21+ only, and tickets are $10 at the door.  And it'll be a block party cuz there's some late night bollywood, tamil and bhangra going on at the Tulen Center with their Bend it Like Bhangra night with Portland's THE INCREDIBLE KID (of Atlas fame), playing all your South Asian 5th world party jams.

In other news ... the new spot downtown ... VELVET ... is finally opening, congrats congrats!  Wall Street near Pizza Mondo.  Moksha and I will be dropping some tunes there on Thursday night this week and you'll recognize former Grove bar-whizzes Cori and Nolen behind the bar.  And Thursday is also the CREATE Clothing trunk show at the Martini Bar ... check Chris' new ish ... exclusive artwear artist direct!  Rada and Wu will be dropping beats.

Also this weekend ... Jeff Hunt and Erica and I will be down at the BITE OF BEND (downtown, Bond+Minnesota) in our new streetfood enterprise ... SPORK!  We're working on putting together an awesome little mobile streetfood trailer that will be debuting this summer.  We'll be cookin' up a storm at the Bite with some excellent globally inspired grub ... we're doing a charcoal chicken dish (Indian style), some makka poa corn fritters ... Korean BBQ tacos ... a vegan organic West African curry and maybe even some pork belly skewers!  Aw yeah!  Come say hello and try out some tasty vittles!  11am-10pm Saturday and 11am to 7pm Sunday.

Also on Saturday the 20th is the Bend Community Bazaar ... the cool little swap meet, chill session, Saturday market that's been taking shape every couple weeks at Troy Field downtown (just south of McMinneman's) ... some cool vendors there as well as music and plenty of grass to stretch out on.  Check it out if you're out on Saturday.  9-5PM I think on that.  Big ups to Kevin and Dar for putting tons of good love into creating that space.  More info:  http://www.myspace.com/bendcommunitybazaar

Next weekend we're working with HDC a bit on the Pride celebration ... and we're helping with the PERSON PEOPLE show on Saturday the 27th at the Tulen Center.  Lookin' forward to that one for sure!

Summer!  Yes!

cheers
C.


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