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7th Annual Birding & Blues Festival - April 9, 10 & 11, 2010

Come Celebrate Nature with Your Head, Heart and Soul

Complete Schedule of Events

Pre-registration now available

Click here for printable registration form.

Click here for a complete program.

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2010 Featured Speaker - Paul Bannick

Award winning photographer, Paul Bannick specializes in the natural history of North America, with a special focus on his beloved Pacific Northwest . Paul has coupled his love of the outdoors with his skill as a photographer to create images intended to foster intimacy between the viewer and subject in order to inspire education and conservation.

http://paulbannick.com/imgs/paulbannick.jpgAn experienced naturalist and outdoor educator, Paul creates most of his images while kayaking, hiking or snowshoeing in the Pacific Northwest . After graduation from the University of Washington, Paul worked successfully for 15 years in the computer software industry beginning as one of the original 75 employees of the Aldus Corporation, and then for Adobe Systems, and Microsoft. Paul, wishing to combine his passion for wilderness conservation with his career, focused his attention to non-profit work and currently serves as the Director of Development for Conservation Northwest (www.ConservationNW.org).

His work has appeared in Audubon magazine, Sunset magazine, Pacific Northwest magazine, the National Wildlife Federation Guide to North American Birds, Smithsonian Guide to North American Birds and in many other books, magazines, parks, refuges and other places in North America and Europe .

Paul works full-time as a director for Conservation Northwest, a conservation organization dedicated to protecting and connecting wild areas from the Pacific Coast to the Canadian Rockies. www.PaulBannick.com

Paul's first book The Owl and the Woodpecker, published by The Mountaineers Books in October of 2008 continues to be one of the best selling bird books in North America and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award for general non-fiction. The book features Paul's photographs and writing as well as a foreword by Tony Angell and audio by Martyn Stewart.

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Saturday Headliner Concert: Kolvane

http://paulbannick.com/imgs/paulbannick.jpgKOLVANE is well known for its entertaining, take-no-prisoners live performances.  One of the top NW bands, Portland-based KOLVANE tours the West Coast, creating an original sound that energizes fans to get up and dance.  This award-winning band gives audiences a fresh, dynamic approach to the classic Blues traditions.  Its well-honed songs propel the heart of traditional Delta and Chicago Blues forward into a unique Powerhouse sound.  Combining hard-driving rhythms, soulful vocals, and rollicking piano, KOLVANE pleases general audiences and Blues enthusiasts alike.  Dan “Kolvane” Berkery was the creator and driving force behind the two-time Muddy Award winning Rose City Kings.  He took the band from obscurity to notoriety, then morphed into "KOLVANE," playing a rollicking style of rock with the crash-energy Kolvane blasting around the stage and Louisiana keyboard monster Steve Kerin rattling the room with his boogie-woogie style.  

The single "Cool Baby" from their 2008 release Kill These Blues was #1 ~ two months straight ~ on Cashbox's Blues singles chart and continued to hold a top position thru spring 2009 - no small achievement for an independent band from Portland, its name right there next to Elvin Bishop, The Mannish Boys and Tab Benoit.

Top Roadhouse Blues and Boogie Singles Best West Coast Blues/Rock Band -
Real Blues Magazine

CBA Muddy Award winners  

"Portland's blues-rock stalwarts" CDBaby

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Get ready for another fun and fulfilling BIRDING AND BLUES FESTIVAL at the Oregon coast’s “nature central”, Pacific City.  Mark your calendars for April 9, 10 & 11, 2010.
Once again headquartered at the Kiawanda Community Center on Cape Kiwanda Drive, the festival offers:

Learn secrets about local nature from highly credentialed naturalists and birders.  Meet like-minded nature-lovers as you take field trips at some of our area’s best birding sites.  In the evenings kick it up and enjoy dancing with some of the Northwest’s best blues performers.

Register for your passes early as tickets go fast. Limited spaces will be available for walk-ins during the events, so pre-registration is strongly recommended!  Phone in, fax in or mail in your registration forms now.

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The 2010 Pacific City
Birding and Blues Festival:

Where rhythms of nature meet rhythms of the blues.

    Nature Lovers Know

Pacific City has some of Oregon's most spectacular estuaries,  rivers, bays and ocean shores.
 Be introduced to the abundant wildlife in
Oregon's Three-Capes region.
 Learn firsthand the secrets about our coast's fascinating
animals and the special places to see them – up close and personal.
 

  
Then after sunset, relax, feast, tap your feet, dance and celebrate life.
 
  

    Proceeds from this annual event will be used to produce
    wildlife viewing literature, maps, trails, naturalist
    education and signage in South Tillamook County.

    Check out the two wildlife panels erected on our Cape Kiwanda kiosk near the Pelican Pub & Brewery!
    (A gift to the community from the Birding and Blues Foundation, the Tillamook PUD, and with the cooperation of
     the Pacific City/Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce.)

The Pacific City Birding and Blues Festival is presented by
The Pacific City Birding and Blues Foundation
The Pacific City/Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce

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