{"id":2324007,"date":"2026-03-12T00:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2324007"},"modified":"2026-03-12T00:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:33:29","slug":"bend-live-shows-mari-the-dream-lespecial-tony-smiley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bend-live-shows-mari-the-dream-lespecial-tony-smiley\/","title":{"rendered":"Bend live shows: Mari &#038; the Dream, Lespecial, Tony Smiley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_info\">\n<h2 class=\"headline\">Bend live shows: Mari &amp; the Dream, Lespecial, Tony Smiley<\/h2>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 11:30 am Wednesday, March 11, 2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">\n<p class=\"author\">\n                    <strong>By BEN SALMON\/For The Bulletin<\/strong>\n                                      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- END BYLINE -->\n                          <\/div>\n<div id=\"article_content\">\n<p>Over the past couple of years, Mari &amp; the Dream have been a regular presence on the local music scene, playing their boundary-busting blend of folk, funk, rock and blues at venues all over town. Now, they\u2019re releasing a new EP, \u201cOne,\u201d and celebrating with a show on Friday night, and local pals Mougli &amp; The Blues and Vanderwalls are opening. Get there on time and support local music! <em>7 p.m. Friday, $12.24 in advance, $15 at the door, Silver Moon Brewing, 24 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend, silvermoonbrewing.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more than one way to jam, as a double-bill this weekend at Volcanic Theatre Pub will prove. Lespecial is a power trio from the East Coast that stretches out its proggy hard-math-rock jams to five, six, seven minutes and beyond. Portland\u2019s Yak Attack, on the other hand, construct their extended jams out of funky, jazzy rock \u2018n\u2019 electronica. Together, they\u2019ll add up to a full night of dance-floor shenanigans.<em> 8 p.m. Sunday, March 15, $32.43, Volcanic Theatre Pub, 70 SW Century Drive, Bend, volcanictheatre.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There was a time when it felt like Portland-based one-man band Tony Smiley was playing in Central Oregon every week. Perhaps I\u2019ve missed some gigs, but he seems to have been more scarce recently. Fans of the man\u2019s funky, party-friendly hip-hop \u2018n\u2019 rock \u2014 built piece by piece with looping technology \u2014 should know, then, that he\u2019ll be at McMenamins Old St. Francis School (700 NW Bond Street, Bend) twice in the next couple of weeks: <em>Wednesday, March 18 and Monday, March 23. Both at 7 p.m. Both free. Learn more at mcmenamins.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source bendbulletin.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bend live shows: Mari &amp; the Dream, Lespecial, Tony Smiley Published 11:30 am Wednesday, March 11, 2026 By BEN SALMON\/For The Bulletin Over the past couple of years, Mari &amp; the Dream have been a regular presence on the local music scene, playing their boundary-busting blend of folk, funk, rock and blues at venues all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2324008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2324007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Bend-live-shows-Mari-the-Dream-Lespecial-Tony-Smiley.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324009,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324007\/revisions\/2324009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}