March is Women’s History Month, so the March 4 Pastures of Plenty show on KBOO features songs of women’s struggles and stories as sung by some great women artists.
We’ll hear from the pioneering women blues artists from the dawn of the recorded music era and their descendants, women who were part of the Greenwich Village folk music scene in New York City in the 1960s, women singing songs about women’s struggles in the workplace, and some local Portland women’s voices.
To get you in the mood for International Women’s Day March 8 we’ll hear women’s voices from Africa, Morocco, Scotland, and Ecuador.
Featured women blues artists include pioneering Mother of the Blues Ma Rainey, Empress of the Blues Bessie Smith, the Uncrowned Queen of the Blues Ida Cox, Sippie Wallace, and contemporary blues greats Bonnie Raitt, Rory Block, and Portland’s own Mary Flower.
Women from the 1960s Greenwich Village scene we’ll hear from are Karen Dalton, Judee Sill, Carolyn Hester, Joan Baez, and Mimi Farina.
International women’s voices are Oumou Sangare from Africa, Scotland’s Karen Mathieson with Capercaillie joined by African singers Sibeba, Yurak Pacha and Yanna Guillan from Ecuador, and Moroccan singer Lamiae Naki from Portland band Seffarine.
Portland artists Avery Hill, Lauren Sheehan, and former Portlander Tracy Grammer round out the artists heard on the program.
- KBOO
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March 2026 KBOO Folk Music Concert Calendar
MARCH 2026 FOLK CALENDAR
EVERY MONDAY AT 8PM IS BLUE MONDAY WITH LLOYD JONES AT THE MUDDY RUDDER PUB IN SE PORTLAND
Friday March 6th
Lloyd Jones with Elson Etta (Arietta Ward and Michael Elson)
Artichoke Community Music SE Portland 7:00 PM
Sunday March 8th
International Women's Day with AuntMama + Avery Hill
Artichoke Community Music SE Portland 7:00 PM
Thursday March 12th
Seffarine
Alberta Rose Theater NE Portland 730 pm
Friday March 13th
An Evening of Celtic Music with the Gothard Sisters
The Old Church downtown Portland 730 pm
Saturday March 14th
Portland Folkmusic Society presents Rio Con Brio
Southminster Presbyterian Church Beaverton Doors 7 pm show 730 pm
Tuesday March 17th
Celtic Light Orchestra St Patrick’s Day Party
Alberta Rose Theater NE Portland 730 pm
Saturday March 21st
Portland Folkmusic Society presents Hubby Jenkins
Reedwood Friends Church SE Portland Doors 7 pm show 730 pm
Sunday March 22nd
Eliza Jane's Freedom of Speech Podcast LIVE Taping
Artichoke Community Music SE Portland 7:00 PM
Friday March 27th
The Songtenders and Loose Flagstone
Best Cellar Coffeehouse in Corvallis at First United Methodist Church 730 pm
Friday & Saturday March 27th & 28th
Craig Carothers
Artichoke Community Music SE Portland 7:00 PM
Dan Shramek's Cascadia Coffeehouse Folk Music Concert Calendar
Folk Calendar – 3/1/26
Before heading out to any event, be sure to check the venue and/or musician’s website for show status.
Friday, March 6th
David Wilcox
The Alberta Rose Theatre, NE Portland; 8pm
Paper Wings (Wila Frank & Emily Mann)
The Showdown, SE Portland; 8pm
Saturday, March 7th
An event called “She’s Speaking Live” – a concert celebrating female songwriters
Feat. Kristen Grainger, Beth Wood, Ashleigh Flynn & others
The Alberta Rose Theatre, NE Portland; 8pm
Sunday, March 8th
The How Long Jug Band
Oakshire Brewing, NE Portland; 5pm
Thursday, March 12th
House concert w/ Cameron DeWitt & Morgan Harris
Abbie Weisenbloom’s concert series, SE Portland; 7:30pm
www.froggie.com
Saturday, March 14th
Ordinary Elephant (Crystal & Pete Damore)
Artichoke Music, SE Portland; 7pm
2nd Saturday Community concert in Tualatin w/ Irish fiddler Gerry O’Connor
Winona Grange, Tualatin; 7:30pm
www.irishpdx.com
Tuesday, March 17th
St. Patrick’s Day celebration at TC O’Leary’s in NE Portland
w/ live music and dancing throughout the day and evening, feat.
Whiskey Deaf (5pm), Kate & the Lads (8pm) + others
TC O’Leary’s, NE Portland; music starts at 11am
Tuesday, March 17th
St. Patrick’s Day celebration at McMenamin’s Edgefield in Troutdale
w/ music and dancing at multiple venues, feat.
Two Rivers Ceili Band, Clan MacLeay Pipe Band, Hardly Strictly Irish (Lauren Sheehan) + others
McMenamin’s Edgefield, Troutdale; 12pm - ?
Cape Breton fiddlers Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy w/ the Celtic All-Stars
feat. Scottish vocalist Karen Matheson
The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, downtown Portland; 7:30pm
Friday, March 20th
AJ Lee & Blue Summit
Mississippi Studios, NE Portland; 9pm
Saturday, March 21st
The Portland Folk Music Society presents Hubby Jenkins
Reedwood Friends Church, SE Portland; 7:30pm
www.portlandfolkmusic.org
Monday, March 23rd
The Irish supergroup Lunasa
The Alberta Rose Theatre, NE Portland; 8pm
Sunday, March 29th
Solas feat. Seamus Egan, Winifred Horan & Nuala Kennedy
The Alberta Rose Theatre, NE Portland; 8pm
Saturday, April 4th
Dar Williams
The Aladdin Theatre, SE Portland; 8pm
Saturday, April 11th
The Portland Folk Music Society presents the Katie Jane Band
Southminster Presbyterian Church, Beaverton; 7:30pm
www.portlandfolkmusic.org
Tuesday, April 14th
Richard Thompson
Revolution Hall, SE Portland; 8pm
Thursday, April 23rd
Sierra Hull
The Elsinore Theatre, Salem; 7:30pm
Friday, April 24th
Iris DeMent
The Aladdin Theatre, SE Portland; 8pm
Tony Furtado
Polaris Hall, NE Portland; 8pm
Wednesday, April 29th
Dervish
The Alberta Rose Theatre, NE Portland; 7:30pm