You can contact Oregon Music News at contact@oregonmusicnews.com
Please note that OMN’s physical mailing address is:
P.O. Box 5494
Portland, OR 97228
Ana is a business consultant, published music journalist and advocate of women in the arts. With over 20 years of experience working with both new and established organizations in the areas of organizational development, community relations, marketing, technology development and leadership, she is responsible for growing OMN’s presence in the music community, establishing a “future proof” business infrastructure and ensuring that OMN continues to be THE source of information on all things related to music in Portland and throughout Oregon.
One of the original founding directors of Portland’s Rock & Roll Camp for Girls, today Ammann serves on the board of several arts focused non-profit organizations including Siren Nation Women’s Arts Festival, POW Fest and SWAN Day PDX.
Email her at ana@oregonmusicnews.com, and be sure to say hello if you see her out at a show!
With a career which includes network TV, newspapers, national magazines, network radio, and internet, Tom brings the experience of having interviewed thousands of musicians with him. Oregonians know him from his years as a Producer/Reporter on OPB’s Oregon Art Beat show. He wrote for the Oregonian newspaper from 1997 to 2009 and is a DJ on KMHD.
“There’s nothing else in the world I’d rather do with my life,” he said, “than bring the story of our musicians to the people who live and die by the music.”
Contact Tom at tomd@oregonmusicnews.com
Chris Young is always finding ways to surround himself with beautiful noise. As a story-teller in a digital world, his work has appeared in Spinner, About Face Magazine, CWG Magazine, The Deli Magazine, and on his blog, PDX Noise. He also dabbles in design, photography and copywriting. Follow him @pdxnoise or contact Chris at chris@oregonmusicnews.com
Alaya Wyndham-Price is a Portland native and a freelance writer. In addition she enjoys the challenge of helping Oregon Music News thrive as their Director of Business Development. She works with a small sales team in Portland, OR. Besides working on local ad sales and partnership strategy, she focuses on networking and business growth and development at a larger scale, with the aim of establishing sustainable funding for our rapidly growing small business. She likes live music, live nature and live humans, especially artist interviews. Want to advertise on OMN? Heck, want to underwrite us? We are super cool! Alaya is here to help, so go ahead and reach out! alaya@oregonmusicnews.com
Writer, musician, and Portlander Brandon Ellison has been involved with Oregon Music News since the magazine’s early days. He studied Communications and Jazz at Portland State University, and along with writing, he’s assisted OMN with editing, online marketing, digital strategy and web development. He loves constantly discovering new music of all stripes, and is a fiend for marathon festival coverage.
James has written for national magazines and newspapers world-wide including Opera America The San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Oregonian. He was a fellow to the 2008 NEA Journalism Institute for Classical Music and Opera. He is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America.
His musical tastes vary, but he focuses mainly on Indie Rock, Electronic/DJ, Hip-Hop, and Funk/Soul. Never afraid to try something new. While the search for great music is a daily habit, he also has a passion for understanding the process behind music; its inspiration and creation.
Jack Berry began writing about jazz in the 1960’s, while employed by the Modesto Bee. This activity coincided with the early years of the Monterey Jazz Festival and a very rich jazz scene in the Bay Area: e.g., the Blackhawk, Jazz Workshop, and Both/And Clubs.
Moving to Portland and employment with The Oregonian, he covered music, theater, and film during brief tenure as that newspaper’s entertainment editor.
As a television news reporter, he produced numerous music stories and produced a documentary about music for KATU and is currently an archivist at Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Robert Ham has been obsessing over music since he picked up a copy of The Smiths’ “The Queen Is Dead” in a mall record store almost 25 years ago, and has been writing about music for the past six years. When he’s not editing the Indie section of Oregon Music News, you can find his work in The Oregonian, Willamette Week, Relevant, Christianity Today, and Pampelmoose.
Dot Rust has enjoyed a career in music spanning a few decades. An accomplished classical and jazz musician, Dot has performed and recorded throughout the US on horn as well as bass.
It was her gigs in the recording studios, though, that caught her imagination so she set off for LA to supplement her degrees in music with more training in recording engineering. After a few years in a recording studio and production facility engineering, mastering and doing administrative work, she landed a job with a leading independent media distributor where she ultimately wound up as a product manager for a division that specialized in family music.
This gave her instant access to artists and labels all over the US, on major labels and indies, and it was this interaction with the artists that opened her eyes to the burgeoning segment that is so often just an afterthought for most people.
Family music is currently the only genre enjoying real growth in the music industry, and Dot hopes to bring even more awareness to Oregon and the northwest.
Holly Johnson has been writing about theater, including musicals, since 1977. She has also covered all the arts for newspapers in California, New York and Oregon, has written about travel and other subjects, and has free-lanced for Travel Oregon, the Oregonian, Sacramento Bee, Plaisirs de Vivre magazine and other publications.
Kevin Tomanka is a native Oregonian, bass player, and photographer who has participated in the Portland music scene for more than a decade. Now he enjoys the challenge of standing behind the lens and being lucky enough to freeze moments in time and share them with other music lovers.
December Carson has been a writer, publicist and booking agent in Portland, Oregon for 15 years. She is currently the artistic director for the Siren Nation Women’s Music and Arts Festival. She loves Burgerville, square dancing and the town she grew up in – Portland, Oregon.
Staff Writer for Expose Magazine since 1995. Member of gnosis ranking group: www.gnosis2000.net Contributor to Prog Bazaar and All About Jazz
Andrew Paul Woodworth is a musician, a writer, a shepherd and a devoted Cilvil War reenactor. He wrote this short bio about himself as well.
Deena Anreise writes both fiction and nonfiction, and is a frequent contributor to Oregon Music News. Keep up with her on Twitter, Facebook, and her blog ‘Mile In Mine.’ Now get out there and support your local music scene!!! Your ears and ass will love you for it.
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Stephen Murray lurks in the rain-soaked shadows of the Portland netherworld. He traffics in the black arts of radio, music production, and the written word. He enjoys coffee and beer– yet, oddly, possesses no tattoos.
Angela Allen, a Portland journalist, poet and photographer, writes about music, art, architecture, wine, food and style. She received a grant to study music from the National Endowment of the Arts and Columbia University School of Journalism. Find her work at AngelaAllenWrites.com.
My name is Jon T. Cruz. Some of you may know me as Passionwulf or Wulfzombie on Myspace.
Ever since I can remember I’ve been a big fan of and have always been into music. I feel fortunate, with not being a scenester, name dropper, hipster or what some may call the in crowd I feel lucky enough to have met and hung out with some of my favorite musicians.
Bands like Motorhead, The Hangmen, Nashville Pussy, The Hellacopters, Backyard Babies, Turbonegro and My Life with Thrill Kill Kult.
As you can see my style is to capture the rawness of a band, musician or person without using Photoshop as a crutch. 1369 Photos captures life in which we see it. Capturing music and motion giving each picture life for years to come.
A fan of Rock & Roll, Metal & Blues…
Matthew Bernstein is a native Oregonian, classical and jazz musician, and music lover of all genres. Matthew has been performing music throughout Portland for most of his life and his articles have been published by many different business organizations, magazines and blogs. He is a student in the Portland area.
This fourth generation Portlander has been a business player in the Oregon music scene since the early nineties when she owned a live music club near the downtown waterfront. Industry gigs include days as a music journalist, publicist, concert promoter, record label gal and indie band manager. Ticket stubs and phone pole poster art from Cascade rock and country shows testify to her years of swimming through the area’s live music world. Weekdays are for a rural county legal writing gig. Nights are spent at a flat in NW Portland or out in two-tone Tony Lamas, chasing live music as an insider and fan. “Cascade Country Music comes from that area under the thumb-tip when placed over the Cascade mountain range on a table-top globe.”
Popeye said: “I y’am what I y’am, and that’s all that I y’am.” Kilgore Trout said: “Ting-a-ling.” I say: “The glass isn’t half-full or half-empty, it’s time for another beer.” If you can’t have that, at least turn up the music. http://keysmelt.wordpress.com/
Elias Foley is a audio recordist, sound designer, electronic music producer, writer and principle of Tamarack Music located in Portland, Oregon. He has participated in the performing and audio/visual arts in Portland since 2002. Tamarack Music was launched as a music label in late 2008. His current projects and obsessions are battery powered music, electronic music & video production, performance collaboration & structured improvisation.
Aaron has lived in Bend since 1997 and has watched the Central Oregon music scene evolve and gather force. Being a musician, voice actor, writer, real estate broker, avid cyclist, and father of two, he’s rarely bored. Aaron’s passion for music and sense of humor give him a unique and entertaining perspective on all things “music,” global to local.
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