Trying to stand out as a musician in the 1980s was like trying to be the weirdest clown at clown school. And we mean that in the best of ways! The decade was full of strange and wonderful stuff. So, ...

Local players of stringed instruments are looking forward to the arrival in Tualatin of Bob Culbertson, a renowned musician who plays an unusual stringed instrument called the Chapman Stick.

Haymes calls himself a “utility infielder” in Ramblin Jug Stompers, responsible for many of the unusual sounds that don’t come from the typical stringed instruments in acoustic bands. At the band’s ...