It's not during Rapaire's visit, but I'd encourage any Portlandians to go hear Joe Hickerson's concert for the Portland Folklore Society on Friday, October 22. Joe's a wonderful performer of traditional songs, with loads of choruses to sing along on. Go to their website at Portland Folklore Society
to get the details. Joe is also doing a workshop at Artichoke Music at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday the 23rd. It's likely to be a rather entertaining and definitely informative romp through the annals of folksong collecting and archiving from the guy who spent 30 years as head of the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress.