Live Music at Farina Bakery!!
Join us every Friday and Saturday night for amazing live performances from talented local musicians. See our full schedule below, or view & download calendar here!
Interested in performing? Contact Andrew Gewecke, our Music Director
This Week
Thursday, June 12th - OPEN JAM, led by Christian San Nicolas
The vibes will be stellar with some masters of both straight-ahead bop and unpredictable free jazz. Christian San Nicolas on saxophone, Xylyn Hathaway on bass, Jack Maiolo on guitar and Conrad Garrison on drums. Bring your friends, your musicians, and your musicians who happen to be friends - THIS JAM IS OPEN!
Friday, June 13th - Naked Moon
Mike Ewers on bass, Daniel Suprenant on drums and Troll Hart on piano.
Naked Moon is a Portland-based jazz trio. They explore compositions inspired by neo-soul, bebop, classical, and funk rock styles with eclectic and spontaneous improvisations. Each member is a force in their own right and together they deliver a sound as powerful as it is unpredictable.
Saturday, June 14th - Della Simone
THIS EVENT IS FROM 7-9 P.M.
Della Simone is a graduating senior vocalist, guitarist, and pianist in Portland state’s Jazz Voice program and has been singing as long as she can remember and comes from a musical family. Some notable favorites of hers are Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nina Simone (her namesake). Della is a student of Sherry Alves, Kerry Politzer, and George Colligan. She has an extensive gig book covering popular jazz standards, Broadway and pop crossover music, and even dabbles in classical voice. She also studies jazz piano and guitar and self-accompanies.
You can find her at local jazz jams and on the bandstand leading at venues like Corkscrew Wine Bar, Keys Lounge, Mendelssohn’s, Radio Room, and TOC Concert Hall (formerly, The Old Church). She is also co-president of PSU’s internationally-renowned Chamber Choir, who tour annually under the direction of Ethan Sperry, and has performed at St. Mark’s Basilica and the Hollywood Bowl. She’s performed background vocals with Pink Martini (as well as other projects under Thomas Lauderdale) and is featured as a background vocalist on Storm Large’s most recent album “A Joyful Noise.” Della does choral work in the area as an alto section leader working in various churches and community choruses. Soon, she hopes to release a record of jazz and pop standards, keep your eyes peeled!
Coming Weeks
Friday, June 20th - Wyatt Button
A night of straight-ahead standards and classics from the Great American Songbook, with an intimate blend of improvisation, harmony, and soulful vocals. Wonderful lounge-singer atmosphere from a genuine old-school crooner.
Saturday, June 21st - Overbridge
Tyler Waltner on saxophone, Davasaté Phelps on piano, Luke Hendrickson on bass and Anderson Donley on drums.
Overbridge was a result of saxophonist Tyler Waltner’s ambition to unite the premier high school jazz musicians of Portland, Oregon. Formed in the summer of 2022, the group began to rehearse and perform at a variety of venues in the area, and would go on to write, arrange, and record music together. Though the members have since gone on to pursue college studies at different universities, they have been reuniting each summer to continue their collaboration. Now back for the summer of 2025, Overbridge returns to the stage at Farina Bakery, featuring original compositions, jazz standards, and more! For this performance, the group is joined by guest pianist Davasaté Phelps, filling in for their main pianist, Riley Harris.
Thursday, June 26th - Swingin’ Sounds Open Jam
THIS EVENT IS FROM 7-9 P.M.
Hosted by a powerhouse core band - Neil Teller on tenor saxophone, Rudy Lopez on bass, AJ Allida on piano and Karina Foster on drums. The Sounds will indeed be Swingin’. This is an open jam with a particular emphasis on young musicians who want to play in the community. Bring your friends, your musicians, and your musicians who happen to be friends - THIS JAM IS OPEN!
Friday, June 27th - No Soap, Radio
Jeremiah Edmiston on soprano sax, Erik Lazo on alto sax, Michael Tran on tenor sax, Orion White on bari sax, Bobby Meador on bass guitar, Brantley Bacon on keys, and Quinton Kamara on drums.
High-energy, infectious grooves played by an ensemble consisting of bass, keys, drums, bari sax, tenor sax, alto sax, and soprano sax (think rock trio with a saxophone quartet). All our music is composed by members of the band, pulling from a wide array of genres and influences including jazz, funk, rock, metal, and EDM. (This one might get a little loud!)
Saturday, June 28th - Two Against None
Two Against None is a musical project that strives to redefine what a jazz duo is. Consisting of Brantley Bacon on keyboards and Bobby Meador on bass, this group pulls influences from metal, funk, hip-hop, electronic music, and more, molded around traditional jazz song structures and idioms. Rhythmically drive and always curious, Two Against None will take your favorite songs and standards, turning them upside down and inside out for a novel experience unlike any other.
Past Performances
January 4, 2025 — The Hawthorne Bridge Jazz Collective
Andrew Gewecke on alto saxophone, Zack Thomas on keyboards, Gabriel Porter on bass and Anderson Donley on drums
January 11, 2025 — The Hawthorne Bridge Jazz Collective
Andrew Gewecke on alto saxophone, Zack Thomas on keyboards, Gabriel Porter on bass and Alec Donn on drums
January 25, 2025 — The Hawthorne Bridge Jazz Collective
AJ Moore on trumpet, Andrew Gewecke on alto saxophone, Gabriel Porter on bass, Isaac Hoffman on keyboards and Nolan Lewis on drums
February 1, 2025 — The Hawthorne Bridge Jazz Collective
Andrew Gewecke on alto saxophone, Gabriel Porter on drums, Sophia Suhler on bass and Weston Stuart on keyboards
February 8, 2025 —The Hawthorne Bridge Jazz Collective
Randy Porter on keyboards, Gabriel Porter on bass, Hunter Crawford on drums and Andrew Gewecke on alto saxophone
February 15, 2025 — The Hawthorne Bridge Jazz Collective
Andrew Gewecke on alto saxophone, Gabriel Porter on bass, Weston Stuart on keyboards and Hunter Crawford on drums
February 22, 2025 — The Hawthorne Bridge Jazz Collective
Andrew Gewecke on alto saxophone, Gabriel Porter on bass, Isaac Hoffman on keyboards and Henry O’Brien on drums
Saturday, March 1st — Pablo Rivarola and Jack Radsliff
Pablo Rivarola and Jack Radsliff are two local artists who since 2018 have established themselves as some of the most prominent stalwarts in Portland's creative music scene. We’re incredibly excited to host them at Farina!
Friday, March 7th, 2025 — Anandi Gefroh with Maiden Oregon
Original acoustic music with a smattering of choice covers in rich four part vocal harmonies, powered by guitar, mandolin and base. Songs run the gamut from Joni-esque melodies and gospel-tinged folk to power pop ballads and contemporary country.
Saturday, March 8th, 2025 — The Hawthorne Bridge Jazz Collective
Andrew Gewecke on alto saxophone, Gabriel Porter on bass, Weston Stuart on keyboards and Anthony Martinez on drums
Friday, March 14th, 2025 — Scott Allen Cello
Scott Allen is an innovative cellist and session artist. He performs in multiple bands, and as a solo artist under the brands ScottAllenCello and Cellographic. He is renowned for his unique fusion of electric cello, looping, and effects to create thematic multi-genre musical dreamscapes.
Saturday, March 15th, 2025 — The Hawthorne Bridge Jazz Collective
Andrew Gewecke on alto saxophone, Gabriel Porter on bass, Weston Stuart on keyboards and Alec Donn on drums
Friday, March 21st, 2025 — Alec Donn, Davasaté Phelps, and Phillip Grazhdan
An up-and-coming trio playing straight-ahead standards with a rotating cast of musicians. Alec Donn on drums, Davasaté Phelps on keyboards and Phillip Grazhdan on bass
Saturday, March 22nd, 2025 — The Hawthorne Bridge Jazz Collective
Andrew Gewecke on alto saxophone, Gabriel Porter on bass, Weston Stuart on keyboards and Alec Donn on drums
Friday, March 28th, 2025 — Christian San Nicolas, Xylyn Hathaway, and Brantley Bacon
Christian San Nicolas on alto saxophone, Xylyn Hathaway on bass and Brantley Bacon on keyboards
Saturday, March 29th, 2025 — Big Bossa + Nova
Big Bossa + Nova specializes in light-hearted, latin-flavored jazz and bossa nova standards. They blend vocal and instrumental harmonies to create a smooth, rich sound that pays homage to the best of latin jazz performance.
Friday, April 4th, 2025 — Justin Mandell
Justin Mandell started playing guitar when he was 9 years old. He attended the University of North Florida and studied Jazz with world renown professor Dennis Marks (Maynard Ferguson, Arturo Sandoval). In 2009 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Jazz Studies. Justin went on to perform with many internationally acclaimed artists including Wycliffe Gordon (Jazz at Lincoln Center), John Lumpkin (founder of Jazz Discovery Series), and Lisa McClendon (Billboard chart at NO.20 Album). He has performed at numerous international music festivals and also opened for acts such as Maria Schneider, Oteil Burbridge, and Kurt Elling. In 2015, he established residency in Lima, Peru performing in local clubs and venues. Justin is now located in Portland Oregon where he is pursuing his passion of improvisational music in the jazz setting.
Saturday, April 5th, 2025 — The Bryan Smith Group
Saxophonist, composer and educator Bryan Smith has been an active member of the jazz and improvised music scene in the Northwest. Having been a musician in both Seattle and Portland, Smith has been able to develop a unique and individualistic voice that is synonymous with West Coast jazz. Influenced by West Coast bebop with players such as Warne Marsh, Lee Konitz, and Lennie Tristano, mixed with the alternative rock of the 90’s that was popularized in the Northwest, Smith has found a way to incorporate history and regional identity in his music.
Friday, April 11th, 2025 — Wyatt Button and Eden Holland
Wyatt Button on keyboards and vocals, Eden Holland on bass. A night of straight-ahead standards and classics from the Great American Songbook, with an intimate blend of improvisation, harmony, and soulful vocals.
Saturday, April 12th, 2025 — Machado Mijiga w/ Neighbors
Neighbors is a “garage band,” whose garage happens to be The Center For Sound, Light, and Color AKA Color Therapy Studios in the historic Alberta Arts District of Portland, OR. Guitarist Mike Gamble, bassist Garrett Baxter, and drummer Machado Mijiga formed the band because, well, they’re neighbors. Neighbors explores indie rock, pop, and folk through the lens of jazz improvisation, playing everything from through-composed compositions, to simple riffs, to co-written songs that span multiple genres and aesthetics. Neighbors writes and records new music every month - one month, the band performed 32 freshly written songs at a show in the span of two hours. Neighbors seems to bring neighborly music to neighborhoods around the world, one song at a time. Catch them on instagram at @instaneighbors; @machadomijiga; @instagambz; @instagarrett
Friday, April 18th, 2025 — No Soap, Radio
High-energy, infectious grooves played by an ensemble consisting of bass, keys, drums, bari sax, tenor sax, alto sax, and soprano sax (think rock trio with a saxophone quartet). All our music is composed by members of the band, pulling from a wide array of genres and influences including jazz, funk, rock, metal, and EDM. (This one might get a little loud!)
Jeremiah Edmiston on soprano sax, Erik Lazo on alto sax, Michael Tran on tenor sax, Orion White on bari sax, Bobby Meador on bass guitar, Brantley Bacon on keys, and Quinton Kamara on drums.
Saturday, April 19th, 2025 — The Hawthorne Bridge Jazz Collective
Andrew Gewecke on alto sax, Gabriel Porter on bass, Weston Stuart on piano, Alec Donn on drums. (Photo creds to Michael Steszyn, where watermarked!)
Friday, April 25th, 2025 — Donna Jones
Donna Jones was born and raised in Portland, Oregon and her voice is as right as rain. Her singing roots began at a young age in gospel church choirs. She brings unique, sultry, and soulful renditions of jazz classics, new jazz tunes, soul, and some powerful blues. She is now living her dream.
At Farina with Joshua Hegg on keyboards, Paul Stewart on bass, and Madison DeSantis on drums.
Saturday, April 26th, 2025 — The Hawthorne Bridge Jazz Collective
Andrew Gewecke on alto sax, Gabriel Porter on bass, Weston Stuart on piano, Alex Smith on drums. (Photo creds to Michael Steszyn, where watermarked!)
Friday, May 2nd, 2025 — Scott Allen Cello, AKA Cellographic
Scott Allen is an innovative cellist and session artist. He performs in multiple bands, and as a solo artist under the brands ScottAllenCello and Cellographic. He is renowned for his unique fusion of electric cello, looping, and effects to create thematic multi-genre musical dreamscapes.
Saturday, May 3rd - The Hawthorne Bridge Jazz Collective
Andrew Gewecke on alto sax, Gabriel Porter on bass, Weston Stuart on piano, Alex Smith on drums. (Photo creds to Michael Steszyn, where watermarked!)
Thursday, May 8th - Underzealous
Weston Stuart on piano, Cash Shepski on trumpet, Ben O’Brien on bass and Henry O’Brien on drums.
Friday, May 9th - Zsofia Tardy and Paul K. Ward
Zsofia is a Portland-based jazz singer, music educator, Professor of Jazz Voice at Lewis & Clark College, former substitute Professor at Western Oregon University (WOU) in 2015, guest Professor in Nanning, China in 2017 & 2018. She holds BMus & MMus Degrees from the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. Veteran recording artist, actively participating in over ten CDs as lead and background vocalist, songwriter, vocal coach, with 30+ years performing experience in various styles: jazz, pop, rock, gospel, musical and classical. Her lifetime musical partner is her husband, guitarist Attila Csikos.
Paul is a jazz pianist and arranger, working often with vocalists such as Shelly Rudolph, Anandi, Billie Eidson, Calysta Cheyenne, Brigitta Teuscher, Sherry Alves, and many more. Tribute bands include Amy Winehouse, Nancy Wilson, and Tom Waits. He has a busy recording studio and produces songs and videos to help promote the regional music scene. Paul studied at the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, and has performed in China, Europe, and throughout the United States.
Saturday, May 10th - Shelly Rudolph
Playing with Joe Bagg on piano.
Proclaimed a “robust and captivating vocalist” by Jazz Times with “a honey-glazed throat to send chills up and down your spine” (LA Weekly), Soul Siren Shelly Rudolph has long been a favored voice around her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Musical tours have taken her throughout the United states, to the West Indies, Japan, Korea, Indonesia and beyond.
Ms. Rudolph is well-established as an organically-gifted and sultry fine purveyor of jazz, soul, pop & blues. Expert at interpreting songs of others, from the Great American Songbook + R&B classics, she is also gifted in the art of original songwriting, as heard on her debut album Water in My Hand, called “a stunning album, intoxicating and stimulating: a mature work from an old soul artist” by the Montecito Journal.
Her “fresh and powerfully romantic songwriting” shines on her 2020 release, the ambitious, enchanting and atmospheric The Way We Love (Origin), featuring GRAMMY-winning, ECM Records “maverick” cellist David Darling.
Further writing, recording and performing collaborations have included: Zach Gill (Jack Johnson), David Piltch (kd lang) Ken Strange (Joe Cocker), David Mathews (Etta James), Tom Lackner (Airto and Flora Purim), Pink Martini’s Phil Baker, smooth jazz innovator Tom Grant, Neo-soul troubadours RedRay Frazier and Chris Pierce and most recently groove genius guitarist, Charlie Hunter, currently touring with GRAMMY-winning jazz vocalist Kurt Elling.
Her newest swank soul recording & performance project is a sultry tumble of rise-up sassy struts, bluesy boleros, and hip-sway ballads that beckon with charm deluxe. Infusing jazz, blues, and her own compositions with sultry sweetness + soul-filled revelation, Shelly’s brand of tenderness, power and pure joy reaches new heights.
Friday, May 16th - Christian San Nicolas
Christian San Nicolas on saxophone, Brantley Bacon on piano, Rudy Lopez on bass and Conrad on drums.
Christian San Nicolas is bringing his signature brand of burning-hot jazz to Farina! With a mix of genres and styles, masterful harmonic and improvisational ideas, and one of the swinging-est rhythm sections this side of anywhere, this act is not to be missed.
Saturday, May 17th - Open Jam, led by Alec Donn
An up-and-coming trio playing straight-ahead standards with a rotating cast of musicians. Alec Donn on drums, Davasaté Phelps on keyboards, Jack Beymer on saxophone and Phillip Grazhdan on bass. Bring your friends, your musicians, and your musicians who happen to be friends - THIS JAM IS OPEN!
Thursday, May 22nd - Two Bass Hit
Ed Bennett on bass and Shao Way Wu on bass.
One of the most innovative acts in Portland, Two Bass Hit will be lighting up Farina! No drums, no piano, no messing around! No other act like this exists in the city, and no other act can compete. Come see two bassists try relentlessly to one-up each other over an evening of smooth, sultry, surprisingly quiet jazz genius.
Friday, May 23rd - Edad del Pavo
edad del pavo is an acoustic instrumental project blending the intricate sounds of Spanish guitar with the rhythmic energy of Latin American percussion, all filtered through the introspective lens of Pacific Northwest indie rock and folk. Founded in Barcelona in 2016, the project has since moved to Gresham, OR, where it continues to craft dynamic, atmospheric compositions that transport listeners across borders and genres. Find out more at linktr.ee/edaddelpavo.
Saturday, May 24th - The Hawthorne Bridge Jazz Collective
Andrew Gewecke on alto sax, Gabriel Porter on bass, Weston Stuart on piano, Michael Rodenkirch on drums. (Photo creds to Michael Steszyn, where watermarked!)
Thursday, May 29th - Justin Mandell
Friday, May 30th - Anandi Gefroh and Maiden Oregon
Saturday, May 31st - Xylyn Hathaway
Xylyn Hathaway on bass, Brian Myers on saxophone, and Tim DuRoche on drums.
One of Portland’s most innovative and talented bandleaders dishing out a night of straight-ahead trio goodness. Come ready to be wowed.
Thursday, June 5th - Luis Nava Trio
THIS EVENT IS FROM 7-9 P.M.
Luis Nava on drums, AJ Allida on piano and Robert Rodriguez on bass.
These three powerhouses are or were students of Portland State University’s School of Music Jazz program. They’ve had the pleasure of working with musicians/educators such as George Colligan, Darrell Grant, Sherry Alves, Christopher Brown, as well as others. Each member brings a unique perspective to this trio with many influences colliding, creating sounds like no other. Today, AJ, Robert, and Luis can be seen performing throughout Portland with many other musicians. Come see the trio perform arrangements of standards, and some original compositions too!
Friday, June 6th - Jack Maiolo
Jack Maiolo on guitar, Marcus Rudolph on drums, Cori Arnold on bass and Thomas Tuerff on saxophone.
Saturday, June 7th - Jazz Interlude
Steve Morgan on bass, Kathy James on piano, Eric Austin on saxophone and Fred Ingram on drums.
Jazz Interlude is a 4-piece instrumental band that has been in the Portland scene since 2012. We specialize in diverse swing standards from the 1920s to the 1970s as well as an array of original compositions written by band members Kathy James and Steve Morgan.
