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OTO Arts & Music

OTO Arts & Music fosters community through accessible live music and arts experiences. We spotlight local artists, encouraging creative connections and ensuring that arts and music are available to everyone, regardless of background.

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1790637513/wysiwyg/vinfeizkfroxvcxiysgp.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Join us for the October Music Series 🎶, a month of live music and creative connection hosted by OTO Arts &amp; Music. Each gathering spotlights local artists and invites you to experience sound, story, and community up close. By registering, you help us keep arts and music accessible for people of all ages and backgrounds. Come listen, explore new sounds, and support a welcoming space where creativity belongs to everyone. 🎨

October 24th

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1791417790/wysiwyg/v03fae5hxziq63hludvn.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> Music &amp; Butoh brings live sound and experimental movement into the same room, up close and a little strange &mdash; just how we like it at OTO Arts &amp; Music. 🎵 Join local performers as they lean into risk, slowness, and surprise. This is a shared space for listening, watching, and wondering together &mdash; part concert, part performance, fully present. 🌀

Music & Butoh

Join us for the October Music Series 🎶, a month of live music and creative connection hosted by OTO Arts &amp; Music. Each gathering spotlights local artists and invites you to experience sound, story, and community up close. By registering, you help us keep arts and music accessible for people of all ages and backgrounds. Come listen, explore new sounds, and support a welcoming space where creativity belongs to everyone. 🎨

October 16th

Rent OTO&rsquo;s rehearsal space for your next sound experiment. Our rooms are built for bands, theater groups, solo projects, noisy ideas, and everything in between. Your booking helps keep Old Town a home for art, music, and weird things. Set up, plug in, and use the space to rehearse, create, or try something new. 🎸🧪

Rent OTO’s rehearsal space for your next sound experiment. Our rooms are built for bands, theater groups, solo projects, noisy ideas, and everything in between.Your booking helps keep Old Town a home for art, music, and weird things. Set up, plug in, and use the space to rehearse, create, or try something new. 🎸🧪

OTO Rehearsal Space Rentals

Enter for a chance to win a vintage guitar while supporting OTO Arts &amp; Music. Tickets are $5 each. Each ticket provides one raffle entry. Ticket sales close at midnight Pacific at the end of the October 24 event.

Enter for a chance to win a vintage guitar while supporting OTO Arts & Music.Tickets are $5 each. Each ticket provides one raffle entry.Ticket sales close at midnight Pacific at the end of the October 24 event.

Vintage Guitar Raffle

Admission: Pay what you can &mdash; suggested ticket price $10&ndash;$20. BFTUM presents Portland&rsquo;s Got Talent at OTO Arts &amp; Music. Join us for a night of local performances and community in Old Town Portland. Thursday, October 29, 2026 &bull; 7&ndash;11 PMOTO Arts &amp; Music &bull; 435 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97209 HOSTSNolo, Afuafima, Raya Rackz, CityDGreat &amp; BigBurr ARTISTSHell Kell, Tai$hoku, Kazi, Casino Games, Julian Mizrahi, King, Iru the Gypsy, Lil Jerzey, and more! Who is the next biggest star? Culture is infrastructure.

Portland’s Got Talent

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1790876698/wysiwyg/gkr96egsvwjg8t7exwzk.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> Join us for the October Music Series 🎶, a month of live music and creative connection hosted by OTO Arts &amp; Music. Each gathering spotlights local artists and invites you to experience sound, story, and community up close. By registering, you help us keep arts and music accessible for people of all ages and backgrounds. Come listen, explore new sounds, and support a welcoming space where creativity belongs to everyone. 🎨

October 30th

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1790876524/wysiwyg/i44css3mx0xvlfdqte84.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Join us for the October Music Series 🎶, a month of live music and creative connection hosted by OTO Arts &amp; Music. Each gathering spotlights local artists and invites you to experience sound, story, and community up close. By registering, you help us keep arts and music accessible for people of all ages and backgrounds. Come listen, explore new sounds, and support a welcoming space where creativity belongs to everyone. 🎨

October 31st

Celebrate Geo&rsquo;s Groovy Birthday at OTO Arts &amp; Music with live music from Marin and Rare Company, Moon Shoes, and Swallow the Moon! Sunday, November 1, 2026 &middot; 7&ndash;11 PMOTO Arts &amp; Music &middot; 435 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97209 Admission: $10&ndash;$15 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Come celebrate with an evening of live music in Portland&rsquo;s Old Town.

Geo’s Groovy Birthday

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1793291861/wysiwyg/bior5tqb7apjuui3d5ps.jpg" style="width: 550px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 550px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> BLOOD TYPES w/ SPECIAL GUESTS land at OTO Arts &amp; Music for a night of loud, off‑center sounds and strange joy. Three bands, zero pretense&mdash;just raw performance in a room built for weird things. Your ticket keeps experimental art and music alive in Old Town Portland. Show up, get loud, support local noise. 🎸🩸

BLOOD TYPES / SPECIAL GUESTS

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1793227607/wysiwyg/sht8wtvgpmhr0jq2u1zq.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> UTILITY / CAVING WITH COBRAS / THE FOOD brings three bands into one night of sound, volume, and sharp left turns. Noise, riffs, and rhythm, all up close. By showing up, you keep OTO going as Old Town Portland&rsquo;s home for art, music, and weird things. Grab a ticket, bring a friend, and lean into the loud. 🐍🎶

OTO Arts & Music

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Portland’s Got Talent

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October 30th

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October 31st

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Geo’s Groovy Birthday

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BLOOD TYPES / SPECIAL GUESTS

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UTILITY / CAVING WITH COBRAS / THE FOOD

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Vintage Guitar Raffle

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Upcoming events

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Portland’s Got Talent

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October 30th

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October 31st

Get your tickets

Geo’s Groovy Birthday

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BLOOD TYPES / SPECIAL GUESTS

Get your tickets

UTILITY / CAVING WITH COBRAS / THE FOOD

More ways to support us

Shop now

OTO Rehearsal Space Rentals

Get your tickets

Vintage Guitar Raffle

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