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Save the Date: Read to the dog, slide on into the New Year with music

Top picks for upcoming weeks.

By , Columbian staff writer
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Read to a dog at Camas Public Library on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Read to a dog at Camas Public Library on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Ariane Kunze/The Columbian Photo Gallery

Since dogs can’t read, do it for them.

Help Cooper, a Bernese mountain dog, satisfy his curiosity in 15-minute reading sessions at Read to the Dog every Tuesday and Thursday from 4 to 5 p.m. at Camas Public Library, 625 N.E. Fourth Ave., Camas. Readers need to sign up in advance. Read to the Dog will last at least through March 1. 360-834-4692 or www.ci.camas.wa.us/library-events/events.

This isn’t a music festival, but you’ll hear about every instrument onstage in one concert. Festival Brass will make their Battle Ground debut from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 20 at Northwood Public House and Brewery, 1401 N.E. Rasmussen Blvd., Battle Ground. The seven-piece band, which has become a staple of Northwest holiday music, will perform everything from seasonal classics to popular, modern tunes. The band features two trumpets, a French Horn, two trombones, a euphonium and a tuba. 360-723-0937 or www.northwoodpublichouse.com/events.

After five years running, this recent Portland Christmas tradition will close the curtain with a final performance. Multi Grammy and CMA Award-winning violinist Mark O’Connor with the Grammy Award-winning O’Connor Band will perform An Appalachian Christmas at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 22 at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 S.W. Broadway Portland; $18 to $105. Mark O’Connor and his band are known for combining folk, bluegrass and classical music to create unique slants on Christmas classics. The band snagged a Grammy this year for Best Bluegrass Album, and the O’Connor Band is a family affair, consisting of Mark, his wife, who plays violin and sings vocals, their son Forrest on mandolin and vocals, and Forrest’s fianc?e Kate on violin and vocals. Two family friends, Geoff Smart (bass) and National Flatpick Guitar Champ Joe Smart, round out the band. 503-248-4335 or www.portland5.com/arlene-schnitzer-concert-hall/events/mark-oconnor-oconnor-band-appalachian-christmas.

When’s the last time you had your funny bone tickled? Don’t wait any longer for hilarity to happen, and instead just watch Portland comedian Alex Avery perform at the Loowit Brewery Stand-Up Comedy Showcase at 8:30 p.m. Dec. 28 at Loowit Brewing Co., 507 Columbia St. Vancouver; free admission. Avery, a native of Vancouver, deploys a signature style based in dark comedy and non-sequitur one-liners. He started performing stand-up comedy during his senior year at Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, and appeared in Portland’s Most Funniest Person earlier this year. 360-566-2323 or www.loowitbrewing.com.

Get up to get down. Find some friends, dancing shoes and head to the Pearson Air Museum Historic Hangar, 1115 E. 5th St., Vancouver, from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Dec. 30 for New Year’s Eve Eve Dance with Norman Sylvester. That’s right. This music and dance shindig is a celebration on the eve of New Year’s Eve, taking place one night before the stroke of midnight signals a new year. Sylvester was inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame in 2011, and his band, The Norman Sylvester Band, won Best R&B Band in 2015 and ’17. Tickets are $25 per person for Vancouver residents, $30 per person for non-city residents, 21 and older. Register online at the website address linked below. 360-487-7055 or www.cityofvancouver.us/community/new-years-eve-eve-dance-norman-sylvester.

Walk in a circle, and learn a little something about life. It’s likely pacing will be never be more productive than when you navigate the maze at New Years Day Labyrinth Walk from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 1 at First Presbyterian Church, 4300 Main St., Vancouver; free will offerings accepted. A labyrinth is supposed to be centering and a metaphor for the paths life takes you on. Some find the process meditative, spiritual, reflective and rejuvenating. 360-695-4965 or sacredjourneyministries.com/wp.

When the highly acclaimed musical, “Book of Mormon,” arrives at Keller Auditorium, 222 S.W. Clay St., Portland, in January, it’ll probably be too late to land tickets, so hurry up and grab some now. The winner of nine Tony Awards, and penned by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, plus “Avenue Q” creator Robert Lopez, The Book of Mormon has now been running for nearly eight years, and set ticket sales records at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in New York City. The musical will run at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27; 2 p.m. Jan. 27; 1 p.m. Jan. 28; 6:30 p.m. Jan. 28. Tickets range from $40 to $165. 503-248-4335 or www.portland5.com/keller-auditorium/events/book-mormon.

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