Join PJCE at Wilf’s for Happy-Hour Jazz on Thursday nights
Engaging! Entertaining! Uplifting!
Each week features a PJCE Records artist for two early evening sets highlighting a mix of orginal music and well known standards.
Wilf’s lively lounge is known for fresh, local ingredients, extraordinary service, and modern takes on classic cocktails.The high copper-colored ceilings, bronze chandeliers, and cozy red wingback chairs provide guests with an intimate escape from the world. Pre-purchase your tickets and meet us under the clock tower at Union Station for a fun happy hour hang. *Your ticket purchase ensures a reservation at Wilf’s.
Thursday, April 10th
Dan Balmer Group
5:00-7:00 PM
$15 cover + $15 food/drink minimum
*PJCE Sustainers receive one half-price ticket and 40% off every ticket after that
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From chart-topping success with the Tom Grant Band in the 90s, to world tours with two-time Grammy Award winner Diane Schuur and contemporary jam bands, Dan Balmer brings fire and heart every time he plays the guitar. His playing spans nearly one hundred CDs including twelve as a leader, from which his original works have appeared internationally in television, film, and radio. Dan has performed or toured with Joey DeFrancesco, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Les McCann, Javon Jackson and Karrin Allyson, Benny Golson, Jeff Hamilton, Gerald Clayton, John Clayton, Terell Stafford, Ingrid Jensen, Duduka da Fonseca, Kendrick Scott, Taylor Eigsti, Buddy De Franco, Bruce Forman and countless others. An in-demand educator, Dan maintains a private studio and teaches group clinics and master classes throughout the US and abroad. He adjudicates student jazz band competitions at events such as the Monterey Next Generation Festival and Reno Jazz Festival along with being a long-term teacher at the Centrum Jazz Workshop. He is the director of jazz combos at Lewis And Clark College and on faculty at several other institutions in the greater Portland, Oregon area.
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to create original jazz music that engages and supports our community’s diverse artists, cultures and place. In operation since 2008, PJCE is the only organization dedicated to commissioning and performing original music by Portland musicians, building a broad audience through unique, collaborative and community-oriented programming that builds bridges between communities in this vibrant city.
