Phame Folks Ben Landsverk and Stephen Marc Beaudoin

ALMOST PHAME-OUS: The ever-busy Stephen Marc Beaudoin has written the following and asked me to post this to my site. I was more than happy to oblige:

Hey Portland party people!

It’s the Gala season, as we all know. And as we speed ahead to the holidays, it seems there’s a swanky affair basically seven nights a week.

But I wanted to let you know about something really special this weekend, featuring some of the most inspiring artists you’ve ever seen or heard, from a small nonprofit organization just coming into its own in Portland.

The nonprofit is called PHAME Academy. We serve about 100 students, adults with developmental disabilities, through innovative arts programming and education. We’re small: our annual budget is less than $150,000. All of our staff is part-time.

But PHAME’s talent is huge. I joined the organization’s board last spring, after they blow my socks off at the “Songs for Haiti” benefit concert I produced at the Aladdin Theater starring Storm Large, Thomas Lauderdale, Portland Cello Project and lots of other amazing folks. The PHAME Choir, conducted by indie music master Ben Landsverk, gave a hugely heartfelt, joyful performance at that event. I was hooked.

Which brings me back to this weekend. Recently I began working for PHAME (that stands for Pacific Honored Artists, Musicians and Entertainers) as their interim managing director, and this weekend is PHAME’s 13th annual Winter Gala, Sunday November 21, 4 to 7 pm at the Acadian Ballroom, 1829 NE Alberta.

Margie Boule is our amazing emcee and Honorary Chair for the night, and the entertainment features the PHAME Choir and guest Broadway veterans, petite tap diva Amy Beth Frankel and Broadway baritone Douglas Webster, belting out Broadway’s best show tunes. Tickets are $65 a piece – and there’s exactly 18 left right now, at phameacademy.org

There are lots of amazing nonprofits to support in this season of giving – Basic Rights Oregon, Live Wire Radio, p:ear, all of them our colleagues in the WW Give! Guide – but there’s nothing else like PHAME around.  I’m honored that some of my best friends in town are coming to support PHAME this weekend – people like Karol Collymore, Josh Goldberg-Sussman, Daniel Borgen and many more. And I hope you’ll join us, too.

Here’s a video of the PHAME Choir singing “The Rainbow Connection”:

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