News

  • 09/23/08 — Keeping the Beat has announced the headline performers for the 7th annual American Roots Music Festival, happening on Saturday, October 11th.  This event is a funderaiser for local school music programs and has distributed $24,500 in support of various programs since 2004. This year’s headliners at the 7:00pm show are the Black Swan Classic Jazz Band, an audience favorite from last year’s Festival, and True North, a Salem-area bluegrass band. For complete details, see the press release.
  • 09/09/08 — The Portland Creative Conference, a project of Keeping the Beat, took place on Saturday, September 6th at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts.   The event featured eight keynote presenters from a variety of creative disciplines, including creatives from Nike, animation studio LAIKA, Dark Horse Comics, Michael Curry Design and ad agency Wieden+Kennedy.  Based on audience response and feedback, the event was a success!
  • 06/13/08 — Today the Keeping the Beat Board of Directors voted to support the Portland Creative Conference as a fiscally-sponsored nonprofit project of Keeping the Beat.  The Creative Conference planning committee and KTB leadership see strong alignment around supporting and celebrating creativity and the arts in a variety of forms.
  • 03/18/08 — A recent music program performed at the Sublimity School was made possible only by funds raised by the American Roots Music Festival and distributd by Keeping the Beat, according to music teacher Patty Keeton in an article in the Stayton Mail newspaper.
  • 02/01/08 — Keeping the Beat distributes a total of $10,000 to school music programs in the North Santiam, Cascade, Jefferson and Salem/Keizer School Districts with proceeds from the 2007 American Roots Music Festival, an event that has raised over $24,000 for rural Oregon school music programs so far.
  • 01/31/08 — The KTB Board of Directors has unanimously approved the appointment of John Carter Cash and his wife Laura Cash to the KTB Board of Directors.  For a complete list, see About / Board of Directors.
  • 01/19/08 — Keeping the Beat will be at the Florence Winter Folk Festival, a new Festival partner.
  • 01/03/08 — Oregon Art Beat airs video segment on the Carter Family show at the American Roots Music Festival where Keeping the Beat was launched.
  • 10/13/07 — Keeping the Beat launches at the American Roots Music Festival.
  • 10/10/07 — Listen to the KRKT radio interview with John Carter Cash & Laura Cash about Keeping the Beat and the American Roots Music Festival.
  • 09/27/07 — Keeping the Beat, a new nonprofit organization, announces its launch at the 6th annual American Roots Music Festival with the newly produced show Roots & Branches: a Multimedia Celebration of the Carter Family Tree  on October 13th in Turner, OR - Download Press Release (PDF)