Live Music @ Purple Cow Vineyards.com

Mike Burdette

Mike Burdette has been performing Brazilia n choro and gypsy jazz guitar for the past seven years with many of Port land’s best, including Tim Connell, Jason Okamoto, David Stassens, a nd Eddie Parente. His pursuit of excellence in these styles has led him to study with many of today’s leading players, including Mike Marshall and Choro Famoso, Dudu Maia, Douglas Lora, and Don Stiernberg. He als o builds and repairs instruments for many of Portland’s finest players a t Portland Fretworks, and pickers throughout the Northwest enjoy playin g on frets he has installed. He lives in rural Newberg, Oregon, with h is beautiful wife, Katherine, his cat Elwood, his chickens, and his honeybees.



Tim Connell

A graduate of the prestigious New Engla nd Conservatory of Music and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist with over twenty years professional performing experience, Tim Connell is a risin g star in the acoustic music world, performing in Mike Marshall’s Ger M andolin Orchestra, and forging a unique and sophisticated new voice for the mandolin in his recordings and tours with renowned jazz guitarist E ric Skye, Portuguese fado diva Alexandra Coutinho, and the Brazilian c horo group Rio Con Brio.

Tim is a veteran teacher and workshop presen ter, teaching alongside of David Grisman, Mike Marshall, and Mike Com pton at the annual Mandolin Symposium in Santa Cruz, CA; with Brian Ob erlin, Don Stiernberg, and Radim Zenkl at the River of the West Mandol in Camp; at the annual Wintergrass Bluegrass Festival; and as an Adjun ct Professor of Music at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR.

As a prolific session musician, Tim’s mandolin (and Irish tin whistle, g uitar, and bass) are featured on dozens of CDs, including the latest r elease in the wildly popular “Oy, Baby!” series of Jewish children’s mu sic.

Tim’s in-depth study of both Brazilian and Irish music, combine d with his earlier years as a professional bassist and pianist, have he lped him synthesize a personal style on the mandolin which is harmonical ly advanced, rhythmically diverse, and brimming over with sparkling or namentation and intensity.



Tickets are $12 General Admission and $8 for Members and Industry.

Free Wi-Fi is available for the conven ience of our guests.

Purple Cow Vineyards Tasting Room and Loft is lo cated in the heart of Downtown Newberg, next door to Art Elements Galle ry, and neighboring such establishments as the City Hall, Chapters Boo ks & Coffee, Wells Fargo Bank, and Critter Cabana’s.

Address: 606 E 1st Street; Newberg, OR 97132 | Phone: (971) 259-8269

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