2nd Saturday Community Concert

Sam Keator 503-691-2078 sam.keator@frontier.com COLLEEN RANEY, CD Release – ''Here This is Home'', www.colleenraney.com will be in Tualatin for the start of the 4th Season of the monthly 2nd Saturday Community Concerts with Johnny B Connolly and Sean Earnest! Colleen Raney – ‘An extraordinary voice in the Irish tradition', ‘Brilliant, cultural and witty!' Second Saturday, Community Concerts off the Commons When: Saturday, October 12, 2013, 7:30pm, doors 6:45. Where: Winona Grange, 8340 SW Seneca Street, Tualatin Notes: All community. Cost: $17, $12 Veterans and students available only through http://www.brownpapertickets.com. Door is $20 cash or check for all. Portland Irish singer Colleen Raney has spent more of the last year on the road than in the place that she calls home, a circumstance about which she doesn't actually have complaint. ''The last year of touring in various combinations has been both a challenge and a great joy, '' she says with a cup of tea on the couch on a brief stop at her actual address. ''It has given me an enormous amount of perspective on my career, on family, on music, and on the concept of home. In the manner of the great traveling musicians of earlier eras, you learn that home is less a physical place than a feeling.'' This idea unintentionally became the golden thread that weaves together her newest album, ''Here This is Home'' which is set for release on October 1, 2013. Over five weeks in the summer of 2013 Colleen traveled to Dublin, Ireland to collect songs and record them with some of Irish music's finest players. ''Here This is Home'' is as much about the time in Ireland as it is about time on the road. More importantly, though, it is about the integral part that this music has played in her life. Rather than a location, the sense of home comes from the songs and stories of the people of Ireland - and of the people who left Ireland, as her family did several generations before. ''I can be anywhere, in a