Entertainment after the Symposium

JUNE 4TH, 2008

Guided kayaking down the White Salmon
Middle White Salmon (Class III/III+) with Tim Hardin/Kayak Shed
Lower White Salmon (Class II) with Heather Herbeck/Wet Planet

Playboating Clinics on the White Salmon
Rattlesnake - Intermediate/Advanced playboating maneuvers (River level dependant) with Andy Round/Wet Planet
Cave Wave - Beginner/Intermediate playboating maneuvers

Dinner at Solstice in Bingen, WA
Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m.

Film Showing
7:00 p.m. - "Toxic Waters" by local BZ Corners Nate Herbeck (www.liquidkayak.com)
7:45 p.m. - "Raft Carnage" and others

Music
8:00 p.m. - Richard Tillinghast and the OneHum Band

Richard Tillinghast and his OneHum Band’s 2008 release, “Sweet By & By,” is stacked with well-played, emotionally melodic songs that take listeners on a journey from minor-key oblivion to soothing, front-porch sundown joy.
Cello, guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo, bass, and harmonies create “unique, American folk-pop” that “celebrates life in the Columbia River Gorge.” (White Salmon Enterprise, White Salmon, WA).
Chief among the players in the OneHum Band is Tova Cochrane on cello. “Pairing a guitar and banjo-playing singer-songwriter with a classically-trained cellist is not an obvious choice, but it’s a musical marriage that works beautifully,” writes Rodger Nichols of The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, OR, in his review of “Sweet By & By.”
Mr. Nichols goes on to write, “Tillinghast is blessed with a unique voice. He’s been compared to everybody from Eddie Vedder to James Taylor. For us, it’s a blend of John Prine and John Stewart, with echoes of Pete Seeger in the phrasing, but none of those do it justice; in the end, he’s an individual.
Tillinghast also has a poet’s ear and economy of expression, with a sweet spot for the telling phrase.”

From his first gig in London at age 19, Richard Tillinghast has played hundreds of shows nationwide. Recordings include “Blue Tattoo,” (1995), “Men and Their Machines,” (1996), “Onehum,” (2005), and “Sweet By & By” (2008). He has performed up and down the Columbia River Gorge and been invited to festivals from Arkansas (Ozark Folk), to North Carolina (Black Mountain Music), to Colorado (Telluride Mountain Film). “Soulful porch side rhythms.” (Hood River News). “His music is a deep, healing well.” (Edge Magazine, SC).
Kayaking is also a major passion in his life. He has been sponsored by Whetstone Paddles and Kayakstore.com, and the AT Paddles Promotional DVD is set to a soundtrack of his music.
Tillinghast is “reminiscent of folk innovators from Greg Brown to Iron and Wine”, and “shows great promise for what may come next.” (Annie Bloom's Books and Music Review, Portland, OR).

Hope to see you all there . . . more blog postings to come in a couple of days . . . check back!

Heather Herbeck