YOU MAY NOT KNOW the face, but if you listen to local radio you definitely know the voice. You’ve been listening to it for 38 years. Brian O’Connor has been a mainstay of local radio since KTMT gave him a weekend slot, in 1988, when he […]
I’M PART OF a very loose coalition of people who take daily walks in Jacksonville. You might have seen me; I’m the guy with the big headphones. Until recently, the best part of any walk was running into Belita Palu-ay, the “coolest person in town,” per my wife and […]
IF YOU’VE SEEN Nick Garrett-Powell this year—chances are you have, since he plays more than 200 shows per year—you’ve probably assumed that what you’re seeing, either as half (with Andy Casad) of the Fret Drifters, with Shae Celine as Nick & Shae, doing his mesmerizing solo […]
TO SEE John and Jean Mazzei play music is to experience pure joy—wrapped in a whirlwind of jazzy numbers, torch songs, pop tunes, witty banter, boas, faux fur, soul patches, and blazing red sport coats. It’s the embodiment of a good time, Jean out front commanding […]
JEFF KLOETZEL’S CROSSROADS came in 2009. After two decades in Hawaii, where he’d worked in real estate and established himself as a go-to guitar player in the tight-knit island’s music scene, he’d chucked it all—“I packed everything up, gave notice at my job, gave notice to […]
ODDS ARE GOOD that you saw Bryan Oliver play music in 2025. After all, if you add up solo performances, gigs with his “Bryan Oliver Trio” and the weekly open mic he hosts, Oliver played 127 times last year—none of which would’ve been possible, he says, […]
“IT’S ALWAYS BEEN in my personality that I’m super entrepreneurial and motivated,” says Sharaya Summers. This is apparent to anyone who’s watched her bring life into the old wine shop at the Jacksonville Inn, but also to anyone who’s followed her path in music.
A sixth-generation native of the Rogue […]
THE STORY is familiar: an up-and-coming singer and songwriter wins a regional songwriting award, earns some studio time and is poised on the brink of success. But then life gets in the way—school, marriage and eventually kids. You blink and the opportunity passes and becomes a story from your […]
A FEW YEARS AGO, singer-songwriter Adam Gabriel made a decision. Already well-known on the Rogue Valley circuit as a soulful singer whose vast catalogue of cover songs made him one of the most popular local options for live music, Gabriel decided that he’d come to a point in his […]