Friends After Good Sound will be premiering three new works by Kennedy Verrett, Ted Laderas, and Jazel Morfin for an evening of Portland’s newest of new.
September 12th, 2026
Doors 7 pm, show 7:30 pm
$10-30 dollars sliding scale
Tickets sold at the door—cash or Venmo accepted
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Friends After Good Sound is a queer new music collective focused exclusively on bringing new works by local PDX composers to life. We seek to be a vehicle that overcomes the many trepidations posed to artists when it comes to creating new work. New work is the pulse of any good music scene, it’s exciting, it’s overrated, it doesn’t work, it changes things and people. Without new work concerts can be boring, predictable and prescribable. (F)-(A)-(G)-(S) isn’t that.
Our ensemble seeks to bring three concerts a year to our community, each concert premiering two to three new works by two to three different composers. Currently, we are composed of four core members, James T. Hickey, Chanchito Loko, and Michael Anderson. All of our core members are multi-instrumentalist that come from a wide variety of musical backgrounds. We believe our multi genre/stylistic backgrounds are an asset in making more inclusive vibrant work for our local community.
Photo credit: Violet Heger
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