Submitted photoPortland band Pink Martini will play a sold-out show at 7 p.m. Monday at the Tower Theatre.

Bend music fans can count on Pink Martini, Portland’s “little orchestra,” to return to the Les Schwab Amphitheater, like clockwork, every couple years. The group was there for the venue’s inaugural full season in 2003, and has come back every other year since.

The band’s multi-genre, multilingual songs have been featured on “The Sopranos,” “The West Wing” and “Sherlock,” to name a few, and the 12-piece group has performed with full orchestras around the world. Led by politician-turned-pianist Thomas Lauderdale and vocalist China Forbes, Pink Martini has soldiered on for more than 20 years, blending pop hooks with jazz, classical and Latin elements and earning accolades from as far away as France and Japan.

Much has happened since Pink Martini’s last visit to Bend in 2013, and not all of it good. Last year, percussionist Derek Rieth was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, after a long struggle with bipolar disorder.

But the music goes on. Last year, the group also released its seventh studio album, “Dream a Little Dream,” a collaboration with the Portland-based von Trapps (descendents of the von Trapp family, of “The Sound of Music” fame). The album features Pink Martini’s usual wide-ranging palette, combined with the von Trapps’ inimitable harmonies.

Pink Martini returns to Les Schwab Amphitheater on Saturday.

Pink Martini; 6:30 p.m. Saturday; $35-$65 plus fees; Les Schwab Amphitheater, 322 SW Shevlin Hixon Drive, Bend; www.bendconcerts.com or 541-312-8510. — Brian McElhiney