Current Listing

Thursday, May 12th at 7:00pm

Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts (the PAC)

588 16th St (16 & Franklin) in Astoria OR

Tickets at www.PartnersForThePac.org or 503-338-9132

Mask and proof of vaccination are required.

Please join us for a very special performance at the Larsen Center – Astoria PAC with the marvelous JOHN GORKA May 12th. Come spend an evening with “the preeminent male singer-songwriter of the New Folk Movement” (Rolling Stone); known for his stunning and emotional baritone, dry wit, and introspective lyrics. The intimate setting assures a delightful, engaging and interactive evening!

Gorka’s last Astoria show sold out – so get your tickets today.

This concert is a fundraiser for our community radio station – KMUN.

The modern renaissance of folk music began when John Gorka won the Kerrville Folk Festival’s New Folk award in 1984, and it grew to maturity when he released his debut album “I Know” three years later.

Here was a singer-songwriter with a striking baritone voice that made you feel like you’d been hearing it all your life, with the songwriting chops to take on and see into nearly every type of song—from personal pieces about love and sadness, to bemused observations about daily life, political thinking-aloud, and sheer unmitigated whimsy.

Nearly four decades later, John still calls himself an aspiring folksinger, and his music has just kept getting deeper and better over his more than 15 critically acclaimed albums. John isn’t on the road as much as he used to be, so don’t miss this chance to catch a folk classic. You’ll leave the theater smiling.

Location of the sale is 43080 Northfork Rd, Nehalem at the junction of Hwy 53 and Northfork Rd. Look for the horse sculpture! (5 miles from the blinking light in Nehalem, straight out N Fork Rd till you come to Hwy 53. It’s on the left right before Hwy 53.)

Get your raffle tickets for a iRobot Vacuum Model 805 Roomba, complete with all the paperwork in the cardboard tray it came in. Tickets are $5 each or 6 for $20.

We even still have some TOMATOES as well as Mother’s Day gifts, perennials, veggies, herbs, annuals, succulents, ground covers, trees, shrubs and house plants.

Thanks to all who braved the weather on Saturday to come out to the sale. Your purchases have helped our community! Nehalem Bay Garden Club donates proceeds from the sale to local organizations that share the Club’s mission. Recently the focus for these grants has been on food security. Past recipients include North County Food Bank, Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church for their food programs, Food Roots, Hoffman Gardens, Alder Creek Farm, Nehalem Elementary Garden Program, and the mural at Nehalem City Park.

Club members also want to share their appreciation to the folks at the Lower Nehalem Community Trust. Since Alder Creek Farm is not having a plant sale this year, due to a gap in garden management resources, they graciously made their hoop house available for the Club’s use. It is currently stocked with the tomatoes growing big and lush in the heat and light of the hoop house.