Acoustic guitar duo to perform in Long Beach
Published 7:38 pm Tuesday, March 24, 2026
LONG BEACH — Two of Portland’s celebrated acoustic guitarists, Terry Robb and Adam Scramstad, will perform at the Peninsula Arts Center, 504 Pacific Ave., in Long Beach 7 p.m. March 27.
Robb, a Vancouver-born, Portland-based bluesman, took home the Muddy Award for Best Acoustic Guitar so many times that the Cascade Blues Association attached his name to the trophy.
Robb is a member of the Oregon Music Hall of Fame and has released 15 albums. He has toured with Buddy Guy, Steve Miller, Robin Trowrer and John Fahey and appeared on Late Night With Conan O’Brien. He has performed at the Rose Garden during Portland Trail Blazers games and collaborated with the Oregon Symphony.
Robb has just released an album, “Howlin’ Waters.” It reflects a range of moods and styles including ragtime, jazz, folk/Americana and even rock and roll.
“The people I heard were Delta blues guys who were fingerpickers,” Robb noted. “In the ‘60s, there was a big guitar thing coming around and there was also a big blues revival. A lot of the old recordings were reissued and rediscovered by a new generation. Even the electric guys like Hubert Sumlin and John Lee Hooker were fingerpickers. I was never really comfortable with a flat pick.”
He said his solo playing is influenced by Blind Blake and Reverend Gary Davis and from what he learned working with and producing John Fahey. “Whether I’m playing bossa or ragtime, it still comes out as blues.” Robb said.
Scramstad’s repertoire covers a range of early American Folk/Blues artists’ works such as Fahey, Son House, Bukka White, Mississippi John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis, Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Lightning Hopkins, Blind Blake and Elizabeth Cotton.
His 2006 debut solo album “No Sun Around Blues” reached No. 33 on the Roots Music Radio Blues Chart. His music has been featured on the nationally syndicated “Blues Deluxe Show.”
Tickets are $25, available online at https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Terry-Robb-returns-to-the-Arts-Center
For more details of the performers, log on to http://terryrobb.com and www.adamscramstad.com.
• Robb will perform solo 7:30 p.m. March 28 at the North County Recreation District Performing Arts Center at 36155 Ninth St., in Nehalem. Tickets are $15 or $20, online at https://www.ncrd.org/performing-arts-center.