House music giant Mark Farina visits Silver Moon
Published 2:15 pm Wednesday, November 8, 2023
- Mark Farina
Friday night dance party alert! Insert your police siren and airhorn emojis here!
DJ Mark Farina is a bona fide legend in the world of dance music, thanks to his dope taste in beats, his forward-looking approach to creative exploration and pioneering role in not one but two genres: house music and mushroom jazz.
Farina is originally from Chicago, where he was an important part of that city’s vaunted house music scene in the 1980s and ’90s. Later, he turned his attention to developing the more mellow, psychedelic style of mushroom jazz, mixing left-of-center hip-hop, disco classics and acid jazz. And cool head-nodding dudes everywhere rejoiced.
And on Friday, Marina himself will descend upon Silver Moon Brewing in Bend to play what is certain to be a pretty sweet gig. Dig out your dancing shoes and warm up those dancing parts, friends!
Mark Farina, with Mr. Koolaid, Soul Glow, Mark Brody and Casey Capps: 8 p.m. Friday, $30, Silver Moon Brewing, 24 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend, silvermoonbrewing.com.