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etown in Portland with Sarah McLachlan, Darrell Scott and Griffin House, presented by OPB
Air Dates: Jan 13-Jan 19 eTown and hosts Nick & Helen Forster travel to Portland, Oregon for the first time to record a show at the charming Newmark Theater in this repeat 'back by-popular-demand' airing. Sarah McLachlan is back with us, this time solo, selecting songs from her amazing catalog of new and classic material presented sparsely and in solid style with Nick & Helen and the ETones backing her up on a few as well. Phenomenal multi-instrumentalist and Grammy-nominated hit songwriter, Darrell Scott joins us, too, with a powerful set of songs supported by Nick & Helen and the ETones and old pals Darol Anger & Gary Ogan. Plus, talented newcomer, singer-songwriter Griffin House, is in eTown for his first visit as well. You'll be moved by a special 'in-person' Portland-centric E-Chievement Award story, too, right here in eTown.
Sarah McLachlan
 Darrell Scott Darrell Scott is a Grammy-nominated artist, ASCAP's Songwriter of the Year, and writer of the 2007 Americana Song of the Year - living and working on the fringes of Nashville's Music Row, Scott stands out as a a refreshingly mischievous artist. He has had over 75 songs recorded by artists such as Keb Mo, The Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill and Guy Clark for whom Darrell co-produced several albums. In addition to his own 7 albums, Darrell has played on scores of albums, and performed with an amazing variety of artists including Bill Frisell, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, The Nashville Ballet, Joan Baez, Paul Brady, Orchestra Nashville and Steve Earle's Bluegrass Dukes, of which he is an active member. Darrell owns his own record label Full Light Records. He spends his time in Nashville with family, biking, cooking and recording. Griffin House Born and raised in Springfield, Ohio, the athletically gifted Griffin House discovered in a high school drama class that he enjoyed being in front of people and making them laugh. He got totally swept up in performing after playing the lead role in a musical; it was the first time he'd ever sung, in public or otherwise. "It was like a 'holy shit!' moment, finding out I could actually do this," he says. Two years later, House shocked his family by turning down a golf scholarship to Ohio U. "Sports were really a big part of me and how I grew up," he says. "So deciding not to take that scholarship was a turning point for me in choosing a new path for myself, a new life making music." There were some issues to deal with first, however — he couldn't play the acoustic guitar he'd bought from a friend for $100 at 16, nor had he yet written a song. "I took a couple of guitar lessons and got so frustrated that one day I kicked the strings off my guitar," he recalls with a laugh. "It sat there for about a year, but I took it to school [at Miami of Ohio] with me and made up my mind I was gonna learn how to play. One night I picked up my guitar and wandered around campus till I could barely keep my eyes open, trying to play this one chord over and over. Finally, around 4 a.m., my hand got used to it and I formed my first G chord." Not long afterward, he wrote his first song for the high school sweetheart with whom he'd parted ways after graduation. When she came for a visit, House played it for her, and it brought her to tears. "Then I was hooked," he says, "I thought, 'Oh, man, if I can make people cry, I'm gonna keep doing this. I'm gonna make as many people cry as I can!'" After laughing at the memory, he puts the experience in perspective: "What I was drawn to was the power of the song, how it could affect people emotionally." That epiphany caused the neophyte's creative juices to bubble over, and he got really good really fast. After graduating, he joined some of his buddies who'd moved to Nashville, and started doing solo gigs at the bottoms of bills in local clubs. Within months, he was headlining, surprising himself at his rapid development. House signed with Nettwerk in 2004 and banged out Lost & Found with his band in five days, before moving from Nashville to Cincinnati. He fell in love and got engaged, only to realize at the eleventh hour that he'd made a huge mistake. Inevitably, that wrenching experience led to the writing of several of the most gripping songs on the new release 'Flying Upside Down'. e-chievement award: Ed Kerns, Lents Springwater Habitat Restoration Project Ed is the driving force behind this long running volunteer based tree-planting and clean-up effort in one of the most economically depressed neighborhoods in Portland. The Corridor is part of a 35 mile "Rails to Trails" Park leading from downtown Portland to foothills of the Cascade Mountains. Ed and his volunteers, many of which are kids from the neighborhood itself, have planted tens of thousands of trees and removed tons of debris in restoring this area. Website: http://www.lentsspringwaterproject.org Email: edkerns@aracnet.com Address: 2335 SE Pine St., Portland, OR 97214 Phone: 503-234-4947 - main office; 971-570-4719 - cell |
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