UPCOMING SHOWS

BACKFENCE Unhinged: Your 29 min comfort listen. 
Wed’s 7:15am on XRAY.fm & all major podcast platforms. 

With your hosts Andrew Dickson & Frayn Masters

GET NOV 20 FALL #2 Next Level Tickets
GET NOV 15 Mixed Media Tickets
  • Presented by XRAY.fm, Portland Mercury & Powell's Books

    SAT NOV 15 / POWELL’S BOOKS / DOORS 6:00 — SHOW 7:00 — 17+

    Every ticket holder will receive 15% off books for the night!!

    We’re closing down the Pearl Room to bring you a private mixed media storytelling show featuring stellar people telling true stories based on the theme ‘SNAP OUT OF IT!’

    Stories will be shared in all kinds of forms: the OG straight up way, choral story format, through visuals, musical accompaniment, and video shorts.

    Hosted by FRAYN MASTERS
    Music by CHAACH!!!

    With STORYTELLERS…

    Host of the Moth Podcast, Numerous McSweeney’s pieces, Author of Rock On, American Spirit
    DAN KENNEDY

    Tattoo Artist, Scorpio
    CIARA LYNSEY
    World renowned storyteller, 7 X Just for Laughs award nominee
    JON BENNETT
    Therapist, Actor, Mom of two
    ZOË MARTININI
    Chef, Food Consultant, Podcaster
    MIKEY SHETHAR
    Award winning poet, BACKFENCE producer
    BRIAN S. ELLIS
    High school Science teacher, Baker
    DARSHANPREET GILL

  • Come see the exciting Showcase from our FALL #2 Workshop!

    THURS NOV 20 / ADX / DOORS 6:30 — SHOW 7:00 — 16+

    A showcase of five 8-10 min true stories from the FALL #2 Next Level workshop! 

    You'll laugh, you'll nudge your neighbor, you'll have a real good time.

    Hosted by instructor, FRAYN MASTERS

    TELLING STORIES:

    GINA ANZALDO
    TANYA AWABDY
    DAWN BONDER

    KAE HIXSON
    RACHEL LEHMAN
    KARMEN OLSON

    Email frayn@backfencepdx.com for Arts for All tickets or to reserve ADA space.

TRUST ME… IT’S A GODDAMN HOOT!”

— Wm. Stephen Humphrey, Portland Mercury