Rock, blues and jazz guitarist Willy Porter is a singer and songwriter with a seering finger-picking guitar style, a 13-album portfolio, and 30-year music career. Along the way, he has performed alongside artists such as Tori Amos, Paul Simon, Jethro Tull, Sting, and Jeff Beck. His work with Guild & Fender guitars led to the manufacture of the “Willy Porter Signature” acoustic guitar.

Some folks are lucky to find what they love to do at an early age and quietly settle in for the long haul expanding and developing their work over the arc of a lifetime. Willy Porter is one of those artists. Porter released his most recent album, “The Ravine,” in 2023. And, in his home state of Wisconsin, The Wisconsin Area Music Industry inducted Porter into WAMI Hall of Fame.

Tickets

General admission to the concert is $35. Tickets are available in advance on Eventbrite and at the door the evening of the show. The box office opens at 6:30 p.m., and seating begins at 7 p.m. Find ticket links at BandonShowcase.org.

Haley Johnsen is a Portland, Oregon-born musician with a knack for genre-bending pop, rock and folk music. Her bona fide songwriting, combined with her performance style, is bound to evoke an emotional response.

Bandon Showcase is offering this event as a gift, free to the community. The concert is an opportunity for Bandon Showcase to say thank you to our community for more than 20 years of support. It’s also our invitation for new audience members to experience how Bandon Showcase brings performing arts fans and performers together at the Sprague Community Theater in Bandon, Oregon.

Tickets for this general admission seating FREE event are available on Eventbrite, or obtain your free ticket at the door. (Note, tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis.) Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Unlike previous Showcase events, specific seats cannot be reserved.

Visit BandonShowcase.org to learn more and reserve your seat. For more information, call 541-290-9989.

Bandon Showcase will reschedule this event at a later date. Thank you for your support!

Bandon Showcase is pleased to present Haley Johnsen in concert on Friday, October 20, 7:30 p.m. at the Sprague Community Theater.

Haley Johnsen is a Portland, Oregon-born musician with a knack for genre-bending pop, rock and folk music. Her bona fide songwriting, combined with her performance style, is bound to evoke an emotional response.

Bandon Showcase is offering this event as a gift, free to the community. The concert is an opportunity for Bandon Showcase to say thank you to our community for more than 20 years of support. It’s also our invitation for new audience members to experience how Bandon Showcase brings performing arts fans and performers together at the Sprague Community Theater in Bandon, Oregon.

General admission seating for this free event is on a first-come, first-served basis, so audience members are encouraged to arrive early. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Unlike previous Showcase events, specific seats cannot be reserved in advance and tickets will not be issued for this concert. For more information, call 541-290-9989.

Haley Johnsen says, “I want my music to encourage people to push through their challenges and continue to have hope and believe in themselves and their authenticity.”

Haley’s showmanship is electric, earnest, and wholeheartedly endearing. Audiences can be sure to leave Haley’s shows with smiles on their faces while wiping tears from their eyes.

After reaching the top 24 in American Idol televised season 11 in 2012, Haley committed herself to songwriting and released her first EP in 2015. Since then, she has toured with Big Wild and KT Tunstall, including and opening performance for Brandi Carlilie at Portland’s Moda Center.

Her latest 2022 full length 12 track album, “Goner,” was written and recorded during the peak of the pandemic. An American Songwriter review describes the album as “(cascading) over loss and grief and mending one’s soul in nostalgic drips of time, all carried by ’80s-tipped synth-pop and brushes of reflective ballads. Her entire catalog of music as well as her showmanship promises to be quirky, dramatic, soft, inspirational, eclectic, and fun.” Kinda like Haley Johnsen herself.

Learn more about Haley at HaleyJohnsenMusic.com.

This program is offered with local support from Bandon Inn. Complimentary refreshments during intermission are sponsored by Coastal Mist Fine Chocolates & Desserts and by Edgewaters Restaurant. Visit BandonShowcase.org to learn more about our programs and concerts and to subscribe to email updates.